Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Welcome to every business... everywhere.

You have to persevere. You have to push. It's always going to be 2 steps forward, one step back. The first time you have 4 steps forward, it will be 3 back. This is how it is.

What separates people in not intelligence, or family, or luck, or connections or anything else... its simply the answer to the question "how bad do I want it?".

You have to want it. You have to believe in yourself. You have to be willing to give up everything, sacrifice almost everything and never stop pushing no matter how tough it gets. Along the way, you'll be learning the lessons, the tricks, the shortcuts and gaining the insights that help you start correcting problems and helping you closer toward your goals.

Soon, you'll make your first 10.00 a day, or 20.00 or 50.00 and it will feel like 1,000,000.00. Then you'll have more setbacks. Thats the name of the game. Thats exactly how it works. It will be the most demoralizing thing ever but again ... "how bad do you want it". Most don't want it bad enough to keep pushing. Do you?

After you keep pushing, that 10.00 a day will become 50.00, then 100.00, then 150.00 and so on. You'll look back at how hard you had to work to make that 10.00 a day and laugh. You'll look back at all the times you wanted to just quit and think it was stupid and be grateful you didn't. You will keep pushing until 150.00 a day becomes 10k a month, then more and more and more. Always asking yourself "how bad do you want it" and being willing to accept that your current level of success is ALWAYS the answer to that simple question.

Once you work hard enough. After a couple years of risking everything and working 80hr or more a week, it will start to seem easy. It will be second nature. It will all just seem like common sense. You have to keep pushing. You have to keep sacrificing and risking it all. Eventually hiring people to increase your productivity, then multiply your productivity exponentially. You'll hire a lot of assholes that you'll have to fire just as quickly... .keep hiring and firing until you have the right team. It will never be easy.

Then... when you finally fuck up in a moment of well earned excitement and pride and post a pic of the new Ferrari you bought after 2-3 years of 80 hr work weeks and no time off... no vacations and no fun, you'll get to see the true fun of success. Every other asshole on this forum ... almost all of whom have never built anything or hired a single person and genuinely have no clue whatsoever what it takes to reach any level of real success, will not hesitate to let you know you're just greedy, you're an asshole, probably a scammer and if you have any success at all, its only because your daddy gave it to you. They'll tell you that you aren't the reason for your own success and most will call it "luck". They'll all demand you "pay your fair share" in taxes, even though you'll be paying more than all of them combined. They'll tell you have rich people don't create jobs which will seem comical as you survey your own office and all the people you employ that have become extensions of your own family. They'll tell you that you are the reason the economy has so many problems and demand your money because "its fair" that you have so much more than they do.

....and that, will be how you know you've finally became successful in life.