People grossly underestimate how far they can get in 6 years, but normally overestimate how far they can get in 6 months. If you desire for results, make a long term commitment to a particular path. A 5 year plan for a particular project. It could be developing a blog, building an online business, becoming a trainer, learning a skill, developing your social skills, becoming a writer, etc.
A lesser commitment is a waste of time and effort. When I started to learn pitman shorthand in 1994, I expected to be a stenographer in the long run. After learning shorthand for 6 months, I found it very difficult as I am nowhere in taking dictations. I quit for a short while. Then I restarted and continued for 5 years. Many of my friends quit with with the first few months, which is largely a wast of time and effort.
If you are going to quit within such a short time, it means you are not serious about it to begin it. The best results comes after the first year. If you can't make it more than one year, why bother about it at all? Surely you will get some experience from short term commitment. By changing frequently you will have many experiences to talk about. That experiences will not make any money for you.
Many bloggers quit within their first year, which is largely a waste of effort. It shows that they are not serious about their blogging activity. If you have quality blogs, it can make some money for you. By inserting ads in your blog, you can promote goods and services. But for that you need a good traffic to your blogs. Online business are some good option for making money online. If you are not going to continue for a long period of time, why you are wasting your time? Stop it at once.
If you start a shop in your neighborhood, on the first month you will not have many customers. You have to build relationships with you customers. After a few months people will be aware of the fact that there is a shop near to their residence. But they are not sure whether the good they need are available in that shop. Over a period of time, all the people in your area will be aware of the existence of the shop. You need to build a longterm relationship with the customers. Then you can sell goods repeatedly. Your customers would love to build personal relationship with you. It will increase your sales. You need to be polite and gentile to your customers. After 4-5 years, you will be having a lot of customers. Those who are traveling around your neighborhood also will be aware of your shop over a long period. So if you want succeed in your business, you need to have a long term commitment to your business.
It is same with the personal relationship. Family life is build up on a long term relationship with the husband and wife. In this modern era, people are not committed for a long term. That is the reason for the increasing divorce rate. People prefer live in relationship as they are not interested in long term relationship. They don't like marriage. Because marriage demand a long term relationship. If you want to lead a good family life, you need to look for people interested in a married life. Live in partner relationship is a temporary arrangement and very soon you will find that your partner move on to another live in partner. Long term relationship demand patience and perseverance. It have it's own benefits and joy as well as its own drawbacks.
You may gain some experience and pleasure from your short term commitments. But will not last for long. If you are only interested in a bunch of short term experience, then go for it. That's fine. You will be a "Jack of all trades, master of none".
To build a commercially competitive skill set, to build strong new relationships, to build a fulfilling career path or some strong income streams, then you need a strong and long term commitment in what you do. You need to forget about short term experiences.
Noncommittal people start a new project every 6 months. Before reaching the transition into a moderate result territory, you are switching the project and deleting the progress. You could be just about the transition point into a moderate result when your switching on to another project. That is dangerous and a waste of time and effort.
In the first year, your new blog will just begin to get some links, social networking recognition, search engine placement, and some moderate traffic. The seed has grown to a sapling. Then the owners look at the sapling with disappointment because they wanted a full-grown tree by that point, so they uproot it and start another project from scratch. After five years of this pattern, they have little to show for their efforts. This is something we need to avoid.
After a single year on a new path, it may look like you’re barely getting anywhere. Transformation often looks that way at first. But fast forward five years and look back, and the total transformation can be profound.
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