Do You Have a Long Term Mindset?

by Christopher D. Anderson on December 11, 2009

Many peo­ple come into mar­ket­ing think­ing that it’s some­thing that can hap­pen overnight. And while it has hap­pened, it’s not likely. If you have these thoughts in your head get them out now. If you come into mar­ket­ing and run­ning an online busi­ness as a quick way to make a buck, you are set­ting your­self up for failure.

Some­times it hap­pens. Some peo­ple to make money seem­ingly overnight. But don’t go into think­ing this way. Instead develop a long term mind­set. Build a solid foun­da­tion for your busi­ness and con­cen­trate on grow­ing it every­day. Even­tu­ally things will pay off.

Yes you will make money and it prob­a­bly won’t be right away. Think in the long term. Think about where you want to be in 6 months. In a year. Two years. Build your busi­ness to achieve that.

Once you switch your­self a long term mind­set things will clear up and you will see things in a dif­fer­ent light. Instead of fleet­ing from one oppor­tu­nity to the next, wast­ing money, you will start to con­cen­trate on one thing and becom­ing good at that one thing. Fig­ure out what you know you can do and stick with it. Think long term.

The sooner you are in this mind­set the better.

~Chris

If you have already come to this mind­set, how did it change things for you?

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1 Ethan Lanagan December 15, 2009 at 7:26 pm

Good tips! I agree. Peo­ple MUST thing long term. Unless of course you only want to be suc­cess­ful short term? But who the hell wants that!

You have to be per­sis­tent yet patient with your long term goals while being impa­tient with your short term goals. Because lets be hon­est… we live in an instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion soci­ety! I deal with this mind­set shift con­stantly in Net­work Mar­ket­ing. Good stuff Chris.

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Christopher D. Anderson Reply:

Excel­lent way to put it Ethan. I think that’s part of the prob­lem, that we live in an instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion soci­ety. It’s kind of sad but true. And while that may work for a lit­tle bit, it’s.… well, short term.

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