A while back, I paid someone to teach me a skill that I can monetize. So this person is highly successful and makes five figures in dollars every month, so I tried to learn the craft from them, and so far I haven't been happy with my progress.
So far, I've analyzed my progress and I honestly don't like how far it's coming, I felt like in almost 2 months, I've not grown the way I want to, then I go on Twitter and I see people who have better milestones.
The person I paid says, it's a marathon and not a race, says it took her four years to start earning 5 figures monthly, but I felt at the race I was moving I might it even do 3 figures in one year. Then I get frustrated with my progress, get angry at how slowly it's been, get mad at how much money I've sacrificed along the way, the sleepless nights.
Going to bed late at night, trying things for weeks that ends up failing and all that. It was genuinely becoming tiring. Generally I wouldn't be in such a rush, I'm the guy who doesn't mind the process, I just want constant progress even if I can't see result .
I love milestones and progress, but for most part of it, it just feels like I put 14 to 18 hours daily and I just feel like I've hard done anything. However after careful scrutiny and consideration, I realized there is progress, but I just don't see it. Is it there? Yes, so why didn't I see it?
It's simple: I am at a testing phase of my life where terrible decisions have led to multiple losses, and I discovered that I've been trying to use the smaller reserves I have to build something that could yield some profit, and it hasn't worked as much as I wanted.
A lot of people don't know that there's this level of cowardice and fear that comes with making money mistakes, and on the flip side, the opposite of that is confidence.
Money losses creates a snowball effect. For example, people who are crypto traders do something called "revenge-trade".
It's like trying to win back the money you've lost to the market by trying to lock in with even higher figures, but the biggest flaws with this tactics is that you're not thinking straight, you're basically just trying to get back what you've lost and even make more money as well, and 70% of the time, revenge trading doesn't work, at least not for everyone.
While I won't say I've been doing something similar to revenge trading, I think I've been trying to luck in by investing my reserves and then just get sad that the milestone I need to see that might guarantee that I make money in at least 8 months to one year isn't really happening.
I've listened to some people, they said it's not slow progress. They think every effort will eventually snowball and even though it's currently looking stagnant that it'll eventually pay off, it's definitely not looking like that and I have to continue throwing in resources at all times, even though I feel a certain type of uncertainty.
I guess this is how the hustle actually feel.
A lot of times it's just difficult to see progress. While it's true that there might actually be no progress at all. It's actually likely that there's progress and we're just not seeing it because we're scared it won't work out and we'd have wasted our resources for nothing.
This something you don't experience when you have enough resources. When you've got enough resources, you're not scared to build, you don't even bother how long it takes, you're not scared of failure because the possibilities of failures does not change your current state of finance.
Infact what you're building is supposed to make you more money, and because there are no fears of failure, you can build without actually trying to hasten the building process.
After this careful scrutiny I have realized that my previous failures are what causes my current fears, and I've you've tried building something that constantly requires you to put in money without a guaranteed for success, then you'll probably never understand this.
