Excuse Makers Are NOT Money Makers - Part 2

... You were just spat in the face.

With that one statement, she might as well have slapped you and spat in your face as that self-centered comment just disregarded all of the hours of hard work and very dedicated study and thousands of pounds, euros or dollars invested… and your inner battles where you fought another day just to "keep going" … and instead implied that "you’ve had it easy".

THAT is disrespectful. And I hear it all the time in the business circles.

With millions wishfully thinking about building an income online, yet only a very small fraction actually working towards it… these excuse makers are found everywhere.

I recently visited an established blog and was reading the comments from whinny excuse makers who were saying...

Quote:"Sure, you’ve got all these great opportunities and this ability to make money with anything, but for someone like me, it could never work."

I was in a discussion forum where dozens were talking about the fast growth of a particular marketer in an affiliate program… and the group’s discussion quickly took a turn to:

Quote:"Well sure he was able to make a lot of money with that program, but for someone like you or me, it could never work."

It’s like common sense jumped out the window for these people!

Where do you think that particular entrepreneur, the "money maker", got their asset (high traffic website, popular blog, large subscriber list, fast growing down line, large client list, credibility and experience) from?

Everyone starts at zero.

Someone with a large rolodex of joint venture contacts, a responsive subscriber list, a large client database, a high traffic website, and a lot of advertising dollars will, of course, out-pace the sales and success of someone just getting started. But at one point, maybe last year or maybe 5 years ago, that same person had zero contacts, zero skills, likely had no extra advertising dollars and zero website visitors.

Someone with a loyal down line of thousands of associates will logically become one of the top earners in a new network marketing venture practically overnight.

But at one point, that networker was absolutely clueless about what they were doing and had zero sponsorships and zero sales. Maybe that was 9 months ago or nearly a decade ago… but they started at zero.

Everyone who currently has the popular website, the well established name, the so-called "guru" status, their large subscriber list… each of them started with zero sales, zero subscribers and zero visitors.

There’s at least one critical difference between these "money makers" versus the excuse makers…

At one point, they looked upon somebody else’s ability to create more and more opportunity (and therefore, more and more income) for themselves because of their established assets and instead of saying "well, sure it’s easy for him…", the money makers said "I want to make sure that it becomes just as easy for me… so I’m going to get to work and build these assets for myself.”"

Many months (or most likely years) of hard work and struggle and making mistakes and self doubts, and time wasted on ineffective ideas and money wasted on ineffective techniques and restless nights and un-supportive friends and more work followed by even more work… eventually it all led to them having increasingly more credibility, which led to an increasingly more popular website, which led to an increasingly larger client base, which then helped build an increasingly popular blog … etc, etc.

And after all this time and money and work invested, they had built themselves an asset that would, in fact, ensure that they could capitalize on all sorts of opportunities that would never have been possible without those investments and short-term sacrifices.

I promise you that none of the Olympic champions just woke up as a household name and super star athlete… they worked for it. They worked for it when others would have just said "wow, those guys are good… I could never compete at that level."

You, excuse makers, have no right to take that away from them. You have no right to spit them in the face with a statement that implies that they just "had it easy"

To everyone who would normally look upon somebody else’s success and say:

- "Wow, I sure wish I had a 20,000 member downline. It’s so easy for them to make money."

- "It’s oh so easy for him to make money, he has a subscriber list of 50,000… I only have 50."

- "Of course she can make money with that affiliate program… she gets 10,000 visits to her web pages per day. But someone like me could never make that kind of money."

... all I can say to you is, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I mean it.

Because if your child worked hard and put in an impressive effort to win a competition, you would congratulate him even if he lost … as you should!.

Above average effort should be congratulated.

Yet, instead, these comments of "well it’s easy for you" completely negate all of the invested time and sacrifices that this individual has made. THAT is selfish and disrespectful. (I don’t sugar coat my words too well.)

But now also turn my point around…

If you’re tired of being the one always looking upon somebody else’s successes and seeing how they are enjoying the domino effect that they have built for themselves, where every single project they touch quickly turns into a very healthy new income stream… then join them! Become that success yourself.

"Success" isn’t defined by a financial sum; It’s whatever you make it out to be for yourself. But if you are constantly looking on as somebody is able to create more and more income for themselves at an almost unstoppable pace… please, be fair and realize that they are simply reaping what they sowed… and they likely worked hard and sowed a lot to be able to enjoy these benefits.

And you can do the same… and then some.

If you even do just a little productive work (not just "busy work" and "paper shuffling"), you’ll quickly get ahead because the majority are procrastinators and wishful thinkers. And I promise you, that’s not going to change.

That’s a choice each individual makes for him or herself.

No man or woman is "better" or "above" another… but the choices he or she makes can produce better results.

If you want these better results for yourself and your family, simply start making better choices. One of the first should be to make a decision and then take action to learn the necessary skills, take the necessary steps, make the necessary investments (time, money, energy) and get in gear.

You’re going to have a tough time making money if you’re constantly making nonsense excuses.

As an alternative: work to develop the right skills, develop an effective plan and then work at it for the months or years that it takes to build your own asset(s) which can set you up to become the one that majority will look at and say “well, sure for someone like you it’s so easy.”

It won’t happen tomorrow!

You won’t become "that guy" (or girl) tomorrow… but the fact is, time will pass either way. You will be somewhere 12 months – 5 years from now. The choices you make today can create a lot better results and a lot more options for you.

Make the smart choice: become a  "Money Maker".