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Once you part with some cash and realize that
miracle product you just downloaded isn't that miraculous, your exuberance ends abruptly and you realize that you have to weed out Internet hype to clear your way to real thing.
This is what happens on second day of trek up mountain. The rain forest ends just as abruptly and you realize that this piece of cake might not be as palatable as you originally envisaged. With subdued spirits you negotiate mild slopes covered by low shrub. Your optimism is still reasonably high.
The trouble starts when you approach top. Low shrub changes to semi-desert and then desert. The lack of oxygen makes journey an arduous one. By time you drag yourself into Kibo Hut, last stop before summit, you seriously contemplate giving up.
Huddled behind a rock or hut wall to shield themselves from icy wind and gasping for air, seasoned Web marketers would probably reflect on early Internet days when disappointment after disappointment sapped their energy and enthusiasm.
After a few hours of restless sleep, you set off for summit at midnight. The scintillating dome of unpolluted African sky seems within easier reach than out-of-sight top of mountain.
Your breath is short and your step even shorter. The further you go, shorter you breath and slower your step. The urge to turn back ingrains itself in your mind.
You have to fight your mind and your body to make one more step. Those that cannot see their objective in their mind's eye don't make it.
Starved of oxygen, your brain struggles to rationalize logic that with each laborious pace you are a step closer to summit. If it succeeds you reach top just before sunrise.
The kaleidoscope of color on horizon of magnificent African plain and knowledge that you didn't give up recharges your soul. Even lack of oxygen cannot dampen incredible feeling of triumph that standing on top of highest mountain in Africa produces.
You don't even contemplate consequences of failure to reach top. You don't think of barrier that loss of confidence in yourself would have created on your road to success.
The climb to top of Internet gets tough and at times you will want to give up. Don't. If you do you will never experience triumph. Your dreams will always remain just that - dreams.
Remember, you will only turn them into reality if you persevere. The kaleidoscope of your life will be as magnificent as sky over Kilimanjaro, decorated by rays of rising sun.
Do not give it up!!!
Ante Miljak ante@clickandgrowrich.biz
Author of Click & Grow Rich, the business that integrates products, traffic-generation programs and marketing strategy. http://www.clickandgrowrich.biz. He has also written the philosophical survival novel, Eyes of the Owl. It is serialized weekly at http://www.clickandgrowrich.biz/eyes/main.htm
