Instant Success or Gradual Improvement?
We live in a culture of instant success.
This is especially so on the Internet. Everyone wants to become
an 'Overnight Millionaire', 'Retire Quickly', 'Get Rich Quick',
and so on.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work - except in rare cases.
But here's a system that does work - it's called evolution or
Gradual Improvement and Nature has been doing it for millions of
years.
Nature operates through trial and error. It's constantly
experimenting, testing. Each generation produces new mutations.
Some succeed, some don't. Those that succeed become the basis
for the next advance, and so on.
And that's also the secret of successful web marketers - trial
and error. They constantly test. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. When they find something that works, they improve on
it. Each tiny success becomes the platform for the next success,
and so on.
In fact, people who succeed in any walk of life do so not
because they discover a 'formula for success', but because they
learn how to deal with failure.
Thomas Edison, when asked if he felt discouraged by the 1,073
failures he had before inventing the electric light bulb,
replied "I did not fail 1,073 times, I found 1,073 ways not to
do it"
Remember, there's no failing, just learning.