Part 2: How to keep pushing on when you don’t see any results Success is broken down into phases. The hardest phase is the beginning. This is where you will be put to the test. I like to call this phase the foundation phase because during this phase you won’t be seeing any results. Instead you’ll be expected to work non stop and remain motivated while not seeing any of the outcomes you desire. Hence this phase is also a huge test that determines if you have what it takes to succeed. In order to illustrate this concept, I will be using the example of constructing a building. If you look at any skyscraper, you’ll notice that it’s very high in length and is one dominating building. Lets label this success. This is what we want. This is what we desire. However the skyscraper doesn’t reach this status overnight. Just like Rome wasn’t built in a day, the skyscraper also isn’t going to be built in a day. Before the results manifest, the ground work has to be performed and the foundation has to be set which in return will support this massive building. If the foundation is not set, the ground will not be able to support the building. Hence the first thing that those that go about building a sky scraper do is they begin with the ground work. They dig underground, they work on this for months and months. However you’ll never notice this when you’re looking at a skyscraper. The same occurs when you are trying to create your dreams. Before you achieve success, you have to get the ground work right. This foundation phase is characterized with hard work and dedication, however the most important thing to remember is during this phase you won’t be seeing any positive results. Results will be very rare. Hence this period is usually the toughest because you’re doing all this work, but you’re not seeing any of it pay off. However in order to overcome this you have to possess faith. You have to believe that eventually the results will come if you keep at it. Alluding back to our skyscraper example, after the framework is done, the building is built. The building is the end result. Hence your job is to be consistent and to keep at it and eventually the results will manifest. This is true for any endeavor. Take this blog for example. It took a very long time before I started to see the results that I wanted. It seemed as if I was my only reader. I was writing for myself because in the early days, I had no readers. Nada. Not a single one. It stayed like this for quite awhile. However, I realized that this was the foundation phase and I would have to work without results. Hence I continued to pump out one article each day and eventually after the foundation was set, I began to attract readers. From then on the results continued to come. However, if I had stopped in the early days when I felt discouraged because I didn’t see any results for months on end, you wouldn’t be reading this article right now. So the moral of the story is you have to stick to it. Keep at it. Keep clawing away. Accept the foundation phase and put your nose to the grindstone so you can fully build the foundation which in return will support your success. The foundation phases length is different for every endeavor, however it will eventually pass if you just keep working. Seeing no results can be tough, but if you realize that it’s only temporary, you should be able to muster up the strength to continue. If you continue, you will eventually get pass this phase and you’ll eventually be granted with the gift of success. Consistency is key. On a side note sometimes we become unmotivated because what we’re trying to accomplish is too big of a mountain to climb. Hence it appears to be very difficult. So what you should do is break that dream into bite sized chunks. This will make it much easier to accomplish. Well there you have it. Those are my two cents on the matter. I hope you can take this information and use it to change your current circumstances/to stay motivated when the going gets tough.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:14:39 +0000
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