“Its Better to Sweat in Training Than to Bleed in Battle”
I forget who said that, but there couldn’t be more a appropriate quote to capture the mindset you need to succeed online.
Everyone’s in such a rush…
Everyone can’t wait to “get to the next level”…
No one can tolerate their current situation long enough to do their research, methodically develop their site, talk to customers and prospects, test and track, analyze the results, and rinse and repeat their way to success.
So instead, because they feel SO desperate to change their current state of affairs, they rush through all the steps. Or they live on HOPE that someone will show them the easier, softer way, which makes them horrifically vulnerable to the next bright shiny object someone puts in front of them.
They refuse to sweat in training…
So they bleed in battle.
And they rush their lives away desperately hopping from level to level, never really being fully present to enjoy the scenery.
Although there ARE always dozens of opportunities to cooperate with your competitors, make no mistake, the Search Marketing landscape is a bloody battlefield which goes to the strongest, not the quickest, or the most hopeful.
It’s better to sweat in training than to bleed in battle…
Something worth thinking about.
Dr. Glenn 
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This is so true, nice to read this before I focus on the urgency of today. I will start with some sweat.
Thanks!
AMEN!
Hi Glen,
What a great saying. I\’m just reading about the life of Ghengis Khan. As a master of the battlefield it sounds like something he would have said and lived by.
“never really being fully present to enjoy the scenery.”
This is the essence it all. You should read this book…
http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mindfulness-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/0807012394
If you haven’t read it already. It is by far my favorite book.
Thanks Yoav, I just downloaded to my Kindle and put in the Que for later this year
The words here, not only have pierce my soul and rattled my mind but most of all it has developed patience and focus for online marketing.
Thanks Glenn
Good stuff, Doc! Very accurately describes what I crawled my way out of in my uber-newbie frantic stage.
There’s just so much NOISE out there once you opt-in to everybody’s list and get bombarded with a zillion ways to make money now, in hours, for real, rags-to-riches, etc.
They all just blow past the fundamentals of learning anything well, which is after all, fundamental to the process learning anything even adequately well. I’ve been suckered into a bunch of them.
But I learned a little from each one. Stubbed my toe on every one. And finally put together a learning template that works for me. Downside is that it takes work and time.
Unfortunately, bleeding is the norm and not the exception. And I guess that’s why success is the exception and not the norm.
Love your stuff, Doc!
Hey Dr. Glenn,
I agree with Paul. And it IS so hard to not click on the shiny dangly things in your inbox that arrive daily. I’m past the “open every one” now and trying to understand and focus more. I’m still a newb but I am gaining confidence slowly. I attribute my seriousness about the possibilities with I.M. for a large part to your consistently honest and helpful advice through your newsletters. I read and save every one. Really, THANK YOU.
I believe I will be happy I stuck it out in the near future.
Please keep the good stuff comin’