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One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’ll become. It’s not entirely because of what they think or will say about you, but because you’ll start to question yourself. Am I really this guy? Can I actually pull this off? Am I really destined for greatness? The answer is yes but you have to believe in yourself despite having minimal successes to back it up as you work towards the big breakthrough that will inevitably come.
A video for when you doubt yourself
youtu.beThe first couple of years in the business world you sweat bullets. You have to believe in your vision for a long time.
Edward Hess • Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses
not all results are immediate, and to focus on doing what it takes to earn them eventually.
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
We earn our success by toiling without recognition, accolades, or even any certainty that it’s going to come to fruition. We have to take it on faith and do it anyway. That’s strategic patience. You have to surround yourself with people you admire and trust, and learn from their example. You have to study what’s worked before and what you wish to e
... See moreDorie Clark • The Long Game
But there’s one big reason I don’t envy the people getting started in their online-solopreneur-creating-things journey today:
Expectations.
I’ve been doing this for about a decade, and when I started, it was significantly harder to build an audience.
There were no highly optimized entertain... See more