I would be willing to bet that if I asked you the question “Do you like to lose?”, that the answer would be an astounding “No!” Yet if I were to ask you the question “Are you doing what it takes to win?” or even better, “Are you even in the game?”, that the answer may not be as astounding.
What I’m referring to here is business, obviously an online Internet Marketing business, but the principles I will discuss can be applied to every endeavor we face in life. Obviously life and business are not games, but just like a game they both present challenges.
Facing these challenges we are presented with steps or tasks that are needed to be accomplished, it is these steps and tasks that I consider to be the games.
These games are the essential elements needed to face any challenge, especially Internet Marketing. It is my philosophy that winning these 3 games is absolutely required for losing is not an option. The good news is that winning them is not that hard to do.
So what are the 3 games?
- Game #1 – Goals; Just like a real game, say basketball, without goals it is just a bunch of people running around with no place to go. Do you have goals for your business? Are they written down? Do you see them every day? If you cannot answer ‘Yes’ to all 3 of these then you are putting yourself in jeopardy to lose this game.
Goals need to be both long term and short term. They also need to be achievable and set at reasonable dates to be accomplished. Remember, a goal is nothing more than a dream with a date put on it. - Game #2 – Action; You can have the easiest goal in the world yet if you do nothing you can expect just that, nothing. Far too often people fail to take action towards their goals and dreams and then make excuses as to why. I don’t care what the excuse is, it simply means that the dream is not important enough to begin with. Are you in the game or not?
Do not wait a single day more to take action regardless of your situation. Start something now and learn along the way. Take small steps daily towards your goal, anything less is another cause to rack up a loss. - Game #3 – Consistency; This is what separates the winners from the losers most of the time. It is nothing more than games 1 & 2 over and over again. Yes it can be trying at times, especially when you are not seeing any results, but in time with consistent efforts you will succeed.
Success can be considered as the willingness to consistently fail. Think about that for a second…the willingness to consistently fail. If you are not willing to fail you cannot expect to succeed. And also know for a fact that you are going to fail far more times then you succeed.
Yes we may come up short in the overall challenges we face and if that is the case so long as we won each of these 3 games, there are no losers. It is up to nobody but you to insure that these 3 games are won, the ball is in your court now pick it up and go win!
Here’s to your Success!
Scott Henderson
Internet Marketing Consultant/Coach
