Frustration and impatience

Are you impatient because your home business isn’t taking off as quickly as you’d like?

• Maybe you’re feeling frustrated because you thought you’d be more successful by now.

• Maybe you’re angry because you believe you’ve been doing everything right, and you still don’t have the results you’re looking for.

• Maybe you need results soon because you’re running out of time – – you expect to be downsized out of your day job or you anticipate your expenses going up.

I can’t wave a magic wand over your head to get the results you need right now. But I can give you some good advice for using your impatience and frustration for yourself instead of against yourself.

Take your anger, frustration, and impatience out through strategic activity.

Strategic activity

Every time you feel discouraged, impatient, or frustrated, immediately launch into an activity that will move your business forward, even if it’s just incrementally.

Here are ten ideas:

1. Write a blog post. (In fact, some experts recommend generating one piece of content per day.)
2. If you’re using Twitter, go to Hootsuite.com or another Twitter management application and schedule several future tweets for yourself. They can be motivational quotes, links to past blog articles, links to your irresistable offer, or links to other articles and resources that your audience might find useful.
3. If your business is an MLM, look through your list of prospects that you’ve called, and see if there’s anyone you can follow up with.
4. Or, look through your list of friends and associates and just reach out to suggest getting together over coffee – – not to talk about your business, but just to do what friends do. And who knows? They just MIGHT ask you how your business is going, which could open up the conversation to ask for referrals.
5. Pull up the scheduled emails in your autoresponder and see if they need improved or edited. Or perhaps you could add some emails to the scheduler.
6. If there’s something you’ve been meaning to do with your website, start working on that. Maybe you need a new landing page, or need to rework another section.
7. You know all those free ebooks you downloaded over the past year but haven’t gotten around to reading them? Pull them up and read them.
8. Download some free podcasts at iTunes that will inspire you. There are soooo many to choose from! If you need a place to start, go into the search feature at the iTunes store. If your business is an MLM, some names to look for are Ray Higdon, Simon Chan, and David T.S. Wood. For online marketing and general entrepreneurial motivation, look up Michael Hyatt, Sam Crowley, John Lee Dumas, and Patt Flynn.
9. Have you purchased any motivational books lately? If you have, and there are some you haven’t read yet, go dig them out and start reading. If you haven’t purchased any motivational books lately, why not? You can download books from Amazon right to your Kindle app on the phone – heck, you can do this lying in bed or sitting on the . . . well, you get the idea.
10. If your business is an MLM and you’re out of prospects to talk to, consider purchasing leads from a leads company. I know there’s a lot of controversy out there about this, but I’ve had great success with this! Plus, it really makes me feel like I’m doing something active, and not giving in to frustration and impatience. BEFORE you do this, though, get some training. I learned almost everything I know about calling leads from Network Marketing Success Series on iTunes – go there first, and download every episode. There are 23 episodes. They’re not producing them anymore (sad sniff). The podcast is really just a promotion for Networker Central, a leads generation business. However, the information is valuable no matter where you get your leads. (Lately I’ve been getting mine from Selfserveleads.com.)

If, every time you feel frustrated or impatient, you launch into an activity that will move your business forward, eventually you will get traction and you will get the results you want.