Work is the keyWritten by Leon van der Walt
"Cursed is ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat plants of field. By sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:17-19And this is just our curse for life. Work is not meant to be fun. Work is not meant to be enjoyed. Just look at ants, those busybodies. We are supposed to work like them. There has to be an easier way. I have inside me this paradox. I want to become successful, but not with too much work. My struggle is with laziness and with not following through with things I have started. Sub-consciously I have had mentality: "Nobody really likes work. Why would I be different?" I want to take easy road to success. I have even set goals to achieve what I perceive as success, only to come short of one ingredient - action. I want to be like Robert Frost and say that I took path less travelled, yet path of least resistance, of laziness, is much easier. I have come to realise for things to change I must change. But where does one begin? I went back to books I have read and people whom I respect. I studied likes of Tiger Woods and Bill Gates. Of all successful people I have studied, to last one, they are hard workers. We often dream of living a life like Tiger Woods must surely lead. But Tiger's work on golf started when he was just three years old. Would you want to work for seventeen years at one thing until you make a success of it and continue to work on it day in and day out? Bill Gates would often work throughout night and his co-workers would go home and when they would come back next day, he would still be there. Eighteen-hour days, seven days per week. Do you want to work that hard? Work, noun, means "expenditure of energy, striving, application of effort to some purpose" (Oxford dictionary) or "the exertion of strength; effort directed to an end" (President New English Dictionary). Often we want purpose or end, but are not willing to expend energy. They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but what they often neglect to say is that you have about two million steps to go. Yes, success is hard work and if you are not a hard worker, success will remain but a distant dream.
| | Taking ActionWritten by John Calder
© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.netThe single most common cause of failure for Internet marketers, no matter how long they've been around, is inaction. It's that simple. Most fail because they never do anything. They buy ebooks, subscribe to ezines, join membership sites, post on all forums, and buy all new software. They study, think, research, dream, plan, and analyze, but never do. We know they have best of intentions, and certainly have desire to improve their situation in some way. Whether they want to earn extra income from an online business, earn a full-time income from home, or have a shot at earning more money than they ever could from a job, their motivations are certainly true. That's what led them to take a look at Internet marketing as a way of fulfilling their goals in first place. But why don't they follow through? Professionals who study mind have a couple of answers. Some will say this is all psychological mumbo-jumbo, but hear them out. One simple reason given is inertia. It's easier to do nothing instead of something. Even if we're highly motivated, it can be difficult to get started.
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