Corn season is over.
Today I peeled my last ear of corn of the season.
With almost a tear in the eye I was caught to say: “See you next year my friends for more delicious adventures!”
Yes, I love corn on the cob so every year when the corn season is finished, I take it a bit sadly.
But today I have decided to take this opportunity to structure my blog post on it.
When my mind is business-oriented, like everyday for near a year now, weird creative ideas sometimes pop in my mind like this.
While peeling an ear of corn, I noticed a common scheme with affiliate marketing I’m describing below.
In order to have a dinner fast enough, that is, before the sun was down and gone for the night, the fastest way for me to complete the dozen and get the job done was to peeled each cob by pulling many leaves together.
This requires more energy and to make more efforts but it’s faster than peeling one leaf at a time.
With practice, I noticed that when the tail (the stem) of the cob is long enough, I can simply break it and then get almost all the leaves off in one shot.
This is the fastest way but it requires the biggest effort because of the force necessary in both your hands to break the tail, but also because of the practice one needs to achieve this skill properly.
Then, when all the leaves are removed, you need to also remove the hair. This job requires low effort but more precision, dexterity, and patience (especially if you want to remove all of them).😁
You make a last visual check to remove, if any, small insects you may found, and your comb on the cob is ready to get it’s place in the pot.
I don’t know if you ever did an ear of corn peeling activity, but for me, at did it many many times. Now I’m good at it. I’m an expert and I can do a dozen cobs in a very short time
But there is another way to get even faster. It’s by asking someone to help you.
The other day I did that. I asked my daughter to give me some help peeling the 18 ears of corn I had to do.
For my daughter it was one of her first times she tried this art. That is, she’s a beginner.
Her technique was to remove about one leave at a time until the cob is clean. When she completed one, I did six.
By her smile I noticed nonetheless she was very happy for getting her job done. At least her sense of pride she felt from having successfully provided help is what made her so satisfied.
Of course, most people when they begin at something are not good. They have to learn and master the skills required in order to perform better.
And you know what?
Learning takes time.
Most beginners in affiliate marketing are like my daughter, they start by peeling their ear of corn leaf per leaf.
By nature, humans are lazy, so it’s normal to not make the effort one should do to become efficient. Beginners take a lot of time but that doesn’t mean they are not making progress. They are just slow.
One side effect of this is that beginners are also more prone to become distracted by the next butterfly passing by. Well, they are not committed to the process yet, have no real plan, so their focus can be everywhere, on everything.
They are disorganized. They don’t have the mindset required to perform.
This last point is critical because, if they are not well supervised, they may quit their duties on the fly, and bad habits easily come back.
However if they find someone to help, like an expert who shows how to concentrate more effort at the right place, like how to break the tail of the ear of corn for example, then progress could be made much faster.
While I still believe strongly there is no push button way to make quick money online, making money faster is possible provided the following:
- Put your energy and efforts at the beginning of your journey, this is the phase where you learn, plan, and do;
- Commit to your program only, avoid being distracted elsewhere by gurus selling quick money;
- Ask for an expert to help you and learn from his/her experience;
- Continue focusing on your tasks, practice; while you make progress, you take less time and effort at getting the job done;
- Do this for the extended period of time required for the process to work and get your business profitable!
You will see that, at some point, when all the ground work is done, you will only need some calculated efforts here and there to get your business running smoothly.
This is when you’re almost on autopilot, making little chunk of effort at the right place to maintain and fine-tune your business.
That’s the beauty of affiliate marketing. Provided you gave the efforts required at the beginning you can achieve a passive income for life.
Just think about it the next time you peel your ear of corn.
There is no quick way to make money online without giving efforts. However, there are ways to accelerate your success.
This is when you choose to get a mentor (or serious coaching), someone that will teach you how to break the tail of the ear of corn to pull all the leaves in one shot.
If you want information about my program, then you can reserve your place for a nice webinar with Dean. Simply click the banner on the right (or below if you are on a cell phone) called “Borrow My Business”.
Martin
P.S. We all need a good laugh from time to time, and there’s nothing like a classic dad joke to bring a smile to our faces. Today, I’ve got a corny joke that’s sure to tickle your funny bone. Ready? Here it goes:
Why did the ear of corn go to school?
Because it wanted to be a little corny!
Okay, okay, I know it’s super cheesy, but that’s the beauty of dad jokes, right? They’re so simple and silly that you can’t help but chuckle.
If this joke brightened your day, be sure to share it with your friends and family, like hitting a share button for example. Everyone could use a little more laughter in their lives! And if you have a favorite dad joke, drop it in the comments below. Let’s spread the joy one joke at a time!
Keep smiling and stay corny, my friends! 🌽😁
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