by JimRaffel on December 18, 2010
Your toughest trials will come right before your biggest breakthroughs.
When the road seems roughest.
When the darkness seems darker than ever before.
When your patience has expired.
When you feel most alone and defeated.
…but if you have been doing the right things like:
Only engaging in those actions that bring you closer to not further from your goals.
Living within your means.
Helping others before yourself.
Hanging onto hope and faith even if by the tinniest of threads.
Then, these are the moments that immediately proceed your greatest breakthroughs in life and in business.
Stay your course if you know in your heart it’s the right one. Yes, make minor adjustments to your route to get around the tough trials but only for the purpose of achieving your ever growing breakthroughs.
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by JimRaffel on September 2, 2010
There was a time not so long ago, when I could not wait to click publish on a new post. Sometimes I still feel that urge but I know from experience that by waiting a week or so the post will only become better.
Cooling off time. First, I edit the post with fresh eyes a day later. I have yet to find a piece of writing I have not been able to tighten up 24 hours later. As a mater of fact, entire posts sometimes get deleted at this point in the process. Some, because I feel the writing was just that bad. Others, because whatever I was ranting about just doesn’t seem that important anymore.
Edit time. I happen to also have a fantastic pair of editors. One has a full-time day job and edits this blog in exchange for an occasional “I Love You.” The other starts school again full-time soon. Both like having a little lead time (more than a day and less than a week) to review the volume of work I churn out. (Not every post gets edited before publication but most do at some point.)
It’s all about delivery. Not that I’m a comedian, (although I do try my hand at humor occasionally) but the order in which you serve up posts does matter. I sometimes write posts about products I have an affiliate relationship with. I’m pretty sure if I reeled three of those off in a row I’d lose some readers. So, when I write a few affiliate posts in one day I’m careful to share them with you over a couple of weeks.
Continuity of content. While writing a post, before I know it I may end up with 1500 or more words. I’m finding most readers prefer my thoughts in short concise bursts, so I will break a post like that into a week-long series of five posts. That may or may not mean you’ll see manifesto-type posts here again in the future (I’d guess you will from time to time).
I think any task that becomes a habit can only help people like me that struggle with patience. What say you?
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