
I remember it like it was yesterday, it was a Monday morning, I was broke, just been laid off from work, rent was building up, my girlfriend left me and took everything even the dog. I was sitting on a cardboard box looking at the space where my TV used to be.
I had nothing left except for my outdated laptop and my dial up internet connection, so I fired up my laptop, connected to the internet and BANG! Tuesday morning arrives and I am a Zillionaire!!!
How many times have you heard that! If you have ever read a sales letter or done a search about how to make money on the internet no doubt you have read and heard similar stories where some kid barely out of college goes from nothing to hero over night – dubbed the “Overnight Success”.
These stories are great; they inspire people, and even allow people to think bigger thoughts and see possibilities that may have only been a fantasy before and not to mention these kinds of stories make a great marketing hook.
What 99% of these success stories fail to mention is all the hard work, practice and dark hours it took for these people to become that “Overnight Success”.
I don’t care who you admire or look up to but what I can tell you is that they didn’t get to where they are simply by striking it luck overnight.
There are months and years or blood, sweat and tears these people have to go though just to make their success look easy or like they have some kind of special talent that the average person cannot obtain. The old saying “When there is a will there is a way” is the underlining motto of almost every success ever told.
As an internet marketer there are many times when it gets tough, I know for myself most of my friends simply don’t understand what I am doing and think it is some kind of scam. It can be tough when you spend all the money you have on a project only for it to fail and not make a dime and it is a dark time when your family tell you are wasting your time and to grow up!
At the end of the day this adversary is what drives many of these success stories to find a way that is what I love about this Michael Jordan commercial. Most look at him on the court and think wow, he truly is talented and gifted…if only we knew the truth.