When you find your purpose in life, it should be in the form of a skill with the intention of helping, inspiring or entertaining others. This way, it will be more meaningful to you. But be aware that once you decide to take it seriously, there will be a long and hard road toward financial success. Here is how to stay patient when trying to make money from your purpose:
Keep your “Why” Strong
When we do anything, there’s always a “why” behind it. The stronger and more meaningful the why, the more likely you are to stay on the path toward your goal when times get tough.
By simply reminding yourself of it when those times come (which they will) while working on your purpose, you will have a much tougher time giving up. Doing so will remind you of who you want to become and the identity you want to leave behind.
For those using e-commerce businesses to profit from your purpose, just know that up to 90% of startups fail. And 75% fail that are venture-backed.
To avoid falling into that statistic, your first step is to find and stay firm with your why.
Stay Consistent with Quality and Quantity
On the journey to success, you should ensure two major aspects of your work are properly implemented: quality and quantity.
Quality and quantity separate you from the rest and help increase reliability.
In other words, putting out the best possible quality of your particular work will ensure you’re at least in competition with those who are at the top of that field. This will automatically separate you from those who are creating low-value goods, services or content.
Once that aspect of your purpose has been honed, it’s smart to focus on quantity. In the case of content creation, uploading content often will signal to viewers that you’re dedicated to your content, which increases reliability while also putting you above those who upload scarcely.
The quality side of it should come easy as your purpose will drive you to want to understand and support your audience. But quantity will require discipline, which will be especially necessary on the days you’re just not motivated to work.
See here for how to develop self-discipline.
You can rest assured that implementing the above will help you remain patient. Knowing you’re doing your best is a good reason to stick it out until you see results.
Also don’t be afraid of exploring new skills that contribute to your purpose. In fact, it’s always a positive to be adding more to your arsenal in any case.
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Use Positive Visualization
Because it takes time to develop an audience and make a profit, your name will not be known for a while. Your work will fly under the radar.
During this period it would be in your benefit to use positive visualization.
Starting from an optimistic viewpoint, imagine exactly how your future audience will be impacted by your work. How you’ll be improving the lives of other people by believing in the value of what you’re doing.
This could also tie in with your “why”.
I personally like to use positive visualization with this blog. It’s taken, and is still taking some time to develop my own audience.
But because I have a strong belief in what I preach in the personal development space and how it will improve people’s lives, I have no problem staying patient.
Enjoy the Process
The process itself of offering your purpose to the world should bring deep satisfaction.
It should not feel like a chore to be working for that reason.
But the obstacles you will face may lessen your satisfaction if you don’t understand how important they are. Life comes with obstacles, and they’re there to test you. In this case, to test your discipline and dedication.
So enjoying the process is also enjoying all that comes wth it.
This mindset will help you stay patient almost unknowingly by allowing you to fixate less on the time it takes to arrive at your goal.