Having completed another turn around the sun, it’s time again for new resolutions to start 2024 on the right foot!
What’s more important to begin the year than finding ways to free up time for ourselves and the family? Ha Haaa! I picked your curiosity right?!
This one is all about learning at doing our tasks efficiently, i.e. correctly the first time.
You want to be on the path to success this year? Then follow-me. Don’t rush, I’ll go slowly.
Like my teacher at University used to say: “We have to hurry-up! Let’s slow down!”
It’s a fact that being in a rush to do something brings us often in front of a blank page. We panic, and our brain freezes or acts as if it wants to go everywhere at once, so we make bad decisions, we leave projects unfinished promising to return to them later, only to end up taking longer to achieve our goals.
We must learn to be patient. One must take the time to learn, go hands on, repeat, then get the job done.
Practice makes perfect! Then faster we are.
The challenge is not in the hurry of completing a milestone for the next one. Rather, it is to learn at doing our tasks correctly the first time.
Once a project is satisfactorily completed, only then can we proceed to the next milestone on our roadmap.
Focus on the process, not the end results.
Avoid distractions and procrastination, they are bad habits that we want to get rid of.
Remember La Fontaine’s fable “The Hare and the Turtoise”?
“Slow but steady wins the race”
The Learning Curve
I often hear that affiliate marketing is the perfect business model for everyone to begin with, but it doesn’t mean it has to be simple.
Yet for me, it’s far from being simple.
As you may know, I’m a beginner. This means I’m actively learning to become proficient at doing my affiliate marketing tasks.
As an engineer in my day job, experience taught me that it’s frequent to feel inefficient in the first times of doing something new. But for us engineers, this feeling of being not so good at doing a new task is not a show stopper anymore.
The fact is, we can’t know what we don’t know. We’re not born with science at our finger tips. Rather, we had to follow a long learning process involving many years at University to finally culminate in really just the basics!
I’m placed in front of new technologies almost every week. Furthermore, I’m myself involved at transferring and developing new technologies. I know what it means to put learning efforts at something because it’s part of my daily activities.
This is not a secret for anyone: new competencies necessitates learning efforts and it’s not just applicable to engineers.
Performance increases and tasks are completed correctly the first time as new skills develop.
It’s universal!
It is called “the learning curve“…
Basically, the learning curve tells you that it takes less time and effort in theory to complete a task after you have done it for a while.
There are many variations of this curve that exist today, depending on the application and the parameters you want to study.
However, the principles remain the same.
In the following, I’m applying the concept of the learning curve to affiliate marketing. Interestingly, you will be brought to observe a fundamental behavior you surely want to know and exploit for your benefits.
Continue to read.
As a beginner, when you first start in affiliate marketing, you don’t have the skills required to make your business profitable. Your learning efforts are therefore more important at this stage but little by little, things become easier, learning efforts decrease, and your performance increases.
At some point, the learning curve levels up because you’re getting in control of the things you’re doing. Somewhere along that line, your business becomes profitable, and all that’s needed now is some fine-tuning efforts to maintain a sustainable income.
The above reasoning may be represented on a graph like this:
The vegetable garden analogy
Suppose you want to build a vegetable garden in your backyard. You want to start soon in spring, expecting to have your vegetables ready somewhere in the fall season.
First, you need to decide which vegetables you intend to grow and come up with a plan to divide and lay out your garden accordingly.
Then you search for a bright and sunny spot, well protected from the winds. Once you find it, you work the ground and remove unwanted vegetation.
The next step is to cover your garden with the proper soil thickness. You go to the nearby market and buy bags of nutrient-rich black soil. You bring those bags to your location and you start to empty and spread their content all over your garden area.
Once finished, you continue by sowing the seeds in rows at evenly spaced locations. Now it is time to add water including the right amount of fertilizer if needed. Days later, the efforts you did start by giving results.
Unfortunately, you realize your baby plants are being eaten by marmots, rabbits and other little animals. You construct a fence around your garden and put a net against birds and squirrels.
Your tomato plants are getting too tall, you install stakes to strengthen them. Insects become a nuisance? You spread natural insect repellent around.
At this stage you have acquired all competencies required to take care of your garden in a daily manner. You no longer need to dig the ground like you did before and lift heavy bags of soil.
All you need now is to put the smaller efforts required to ensure your plants grow and produce vegetables in time.
This means you have more time doing other activities because your garden requires less care and attention.
When fall arrives, your efforts have been well rewarded by all the vegetables your garden produces. You are proud of it and your neighbors envy you.
That’s where you start to help them prepare for the next season.
Get the Advantages of Mentorship
This is what affiliate marketing is like to me. Efforts are required at the beginning and gradually, as the basic things are learned and done, you catch with proficiency and in time you achieve a profitable business, with sustainable gains. You can quit your daily job to become your own boss, and finally you got the time you need to enjoy life as you wish.
However, the learning curve is not exactly the same for every one.
Some people, for whatever reasons, doesn’t put the required and committed efforts at the beginning.
Some get distracted by the next shiny object they see on the internet, so they deviate from their proven plan until they realize they have lost enough time and money, and they get back on their initial track.
Hence, many will never reach their goals.
But some will succeed faster than others and with less overall efforts why?
The answer is quite simple: they were smart enough to ask for help!
Someone taught them how to avoid the many pitfalls online and they took advantage of it.
They got mentorship.
They were coached by an expert, someone who already did the journey before.
Their learning curve was drastically affected by this, dropping faster with increased performance. They learned to put their efforts where it counts.
Those people were taught, straight from the start, to do the right things at the right place. They learned more effectively.
The learning curve is not solely about becoming proficient at managing your business, but it is also about learning to free your day time for eventually do things you love.
If you love your business so much that all you want is to re-invest your excess efforts to make it grows to the next level, then you can! If you want to use the time you freed up for you and your hobbies, do it! It’s up to you, you are the BOSS!
Thanks to my mentor Dean Holland, I’m on the accelerated curve.
Now I’m here to tell you that you too can do it.
You too can dream having the life of your dreams and known with confidence that it could be possible.
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Start by learning effectively. Get on the Accelerated learning curve.
Which one are you? The hare or the turtle? 😉
Martin
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