You Are Not Alone

Even when you think you can’t get it done, you can do it. Why? Because you’re not alone!

Feeling supported, having a mentor and everything surrounding what I’ve talked about in previous blogs, well, that can be fine but having the confidence in yourself to just “do it” (like that sports company apply says) has no price.

Confidence

How such a word can sound so daunting when you say it and feel what it means is truly astonishing. They say confidence can move mountains and lack of it can stop greatness. But how do you get to be confident in yourself and in your ability to do a specific task?

My grandfather, ever the wise man, once told me, (when I was quite young and not truly listening to what he had to say), that even a king needs to kneel to receive his crown. That didn’t mean much at that age, probably not much either when I was first started being bullied in school – nerds like me were always at the mercy of those bullies.

But at one point in my life, I joined Cadets. Now for those unaware, Canada has a youth organization, supported by the Canadian Armed Forces, which is called the Cadets Canada. Being an Army brat, there was no way I wasn’t joining the Army Cadets (I think my father made that clear).

In any case, with Cadets came confidence. Confidence in myself and in the things I could do. Ironically, the bullying stopped at school when I confronted the bully because of that confidence.

Applying That Confidence

Now, having confidence is one thing; applying that confidence in everyday life is a whole other bowl of wax! When we start working as Affiliate Marketers, we don’t necessarily know what we’re getting into and the more we learn, the harder it can be to bring that confidence forward.

My mentor, Dean Holland, has stated it many times: “You don’t have to know everything but you do need to keep going forward in your learning process”. To me, that’s making sure that having confidence in yourself and your capabilities is always on your mind.

Like everything else we’ve learnt in our lives, some things will be easy and other will be harder. Let’s not kid ourselves, me learning how to write a blog and recording myself was the easy part – selling it to gain subscribers and – dare I say – followers – is where I needed to gain more confidence.

You Are Not Alone… Really!

The very last thing you need to be thinking about or going through when starting your Affiliate Marketing journey is to think you’re alone. With the internet came droves of ways to reach out to others who are going through the same thing you are. YouTube is so very popular because not only can you hear someone talk about their experiences but you can actually see them and the emotions that they convey in their videos.

Another avenue that is becoming quite popular with its short videos is Tik Tok. I truly believe that it has revolutionized videos and how we perceive usage of them.

You might say, well, easy for you Marc, you’ve got the experience in front of a microphone and you’re pretty good at conveying your emotions through that microphone but I don’t think I’ve got the chops to make a video.

One question comes to mind: What if I told you that there were 5,000 people just like you who thought that they couldn’t go in front of a camera to do videos? And more importantly, that you could become their mentor in their journey? Do you think that could help change your mind?

The great thing about blogs and contacts is that it opens your horizons to the different experiences everyone has. The greatest gift you could give yourself is the opportunity to become an Affiliate Marketer and have mentors like Dean Holland, his team and, why not, I’ll throw it in there: me!

Making It Look Easy – Even When It Isn’t

Like confidence, every journey will have it’s ups and downs. In my case, the last month of 2023 and the first couple of months of 2024 have both been disheartening and emotionally draining because of the loss of a very good friend and other family issues that sprang up.

What kept me going? Honestly, some days I don’t know but one thing did always creep back in the back of my head: the confidence that working my blog and working my Affiliate Marketing via Internet Profits with Dean was something that I knew could change my life for the better.

Even setting up my blog on the new platform Affiliate System (more on that on another blog), took me over a month because of technical hiccups I was having – the Holidays didn’t help in the delays too. But – I spent my down time after work, getting it to work and catching up on the course Dean is providing. As of this evening, I’m finishing up on my blog entry and am very proud to say that I’ll have caught up on the course curriculum by the end of the week-end.

All that because I knew, even with the heartaches and pains I was going through, that I had the confidence to take the time and go forward. Take a knee, (grandfathers know best, that’s for sure), and rise up to the occasion because I know that with this training and the knowledge I’m gaining, I can change my life for the better.

All of this does take dedication and time – for some, time is short but it can’t be used as an excuse; one of the Mentors at Internet Profit, Sophie, gets up at something like 4:30am in the morning just to make sure she gets in the time that is needed for her business.

Confidence In Yourself

Some may say that many of the things I’ve so far spoken about on my blog really have nothing to do with business. I don’t think so. I think it’s part of the base you need to make sure that the steps you are going to take to change your life for the better are in place.

Nobody will come to you and say: “I think you’d make an excellent blogger” or “you should be doing Tik Tok videos!” – but if you tell yourself I have the confidence that while I’m learning these new things, I’ll get better and better at them and yes, one day, I’ll have all these members listening to me on a regular basis, I truly believe that you will make it happen.

I’ll leave you today with this quote I love from Ed Mylett: “You are the most capable and qualified to help the person you used to be”.

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