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Sick Of Struggling

Sick Of Struggling

I find that when I feel like I am sick of struggling, the truth is something slightly different.

The truth is that I am sick of a lack of progress.

This has happened many times in my blogging. I publish post after post. Weeks go by. Then I go look at my analytics and find my traffic is not even flat. It has decreased.

I can take having minor success.

I just want my work to translate into observable headway.

All these people I follow online and their hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors… When DOES this get easy?

The only thing I know for sure is that your odds of success improve as you chase the process, rather than the goal.

Understand: The direction matters more than the state.

“What do you want?” This stopped me short. She was obviously asking a bigger question than just “pay off my taxes” or “make more money.” She wanted to know what about this situation was really making me so angry. I took a deep breath. “I’m just ready for this to be easy.” At first Candace didn’t really get what I was saying. “You want it to be easy? You mean, so it’s not a lot of work?” “No, no. I don’t mind working. I’m sick of struggling. Of churning and pushing and feeling like whatever I am and however hard I work, it’s never quite good enough.”

-Tim Grahl, Running Down A Dream

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