When You Stumble Upon A Wall, Keep On Walking!

10 August 2010, Tuesday morning
(Wanted to blog last night but was totally exhausted by the time I got back. It had been a long day, and a long weekend. The moment I reached home, I actually slept right away, after a quick shower. Shocker. And slept for 12 hours straight. Must have been really tired.) 

That was the opening line from Mr Dean Letfus, one of our mentors for Sni.pr, at the 2-day internet marketing training. Conducted by Dean Letfus and Matthew Stenning, this Twa.lk and Sni.pr workshop was packed with info, updates in social media and other exciting stuff in the fast changing world of internet marketing, revolutionary strategies, "tricks" and inspiration. These two gurus held nothing back as they shared with us all the different ways to make money online.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Dean and Matt. Photo courtesy of Gary Yeow

Dean opened the session on Saturday morning to a room packed with IMers new and old, stressing on the importance of having the right mindset. In fact, it was so important to set our mindset right, he spent one whole hour drilling this into our heads.

He told us to fail as many times as possible as fast as possible. Because, failing is learning. This way, we can shorten the learning curve and fail our way to success, faster. As long as we don't repeat the same mistakes, that is. 

After all, Thomas Edison did fail more than 10,000 times before he finally made a breakthrough with the invention of the light bulb.

We were also reminded that Attitude is what separates Winners from Losers. Winners create their lives. Losers let life happen to them. The choice is ours and ours alone.  

"If it's gonna be, it's up to me". 

Also, we have to reach massive frustration before we can achieve success. According to the world's number one motivational coach, Tony Robbins, "Massive frustration and massive effort - these are the keys to success".

Young and dangerous brilliant Matt

Matt introduced a bunch of internet marketing jargon to newbies like us. SEOs. Social traffic. JVs. Affiliate marketing. Clickbank. Amazon. Adsense. Twitter. Facebook. Digg. Reddit. eBay. Directories. Blogs. Forums. And took us through a whole string of other terminologies and strategies.

We were also introduced to the concept of Domaining. What is that? Well, it is simply buying a domain name and listing it for sale. Just like one would do with a piece of real estate. This is exciting!

I will now implement what I learn until I succeed. All the knowledge in the world (and in our heads) will just remain as that, if we do not take action. 

After all...

Knowledge + Implementation = $UCCE$$ 

And, like Dean says, keep on walking. It doesn't matter if I hit a wall. Or a roadblock. If I keep walking, I will get somewhere, eventually.

Picture taken at Batu Ferringhi, Penang (Feb 2010) copyright M!NG 2010

Let's reach for the skies and soar!

Zig Ziglar sharing the importance of  Attitude, and how it can make all the difference.