Internet Marketing and Depression
Have you ever been depressed? I wonder how many internet marketers fall into a depression from lack of success. We begin working in the internet marketing business thinking its going to be an easy journey to success. Then we discover that its not that easy and be begin to lose hope.
It must happen to everyone at one point or another. In fact, it just happened to me. I fell into a complete and utter depression. For about 4 weeks, I was completely paralyzed and unable to work. I sit down at the computer, take a deep breath, get ready to work, log onto my facebook account and there I sit, for hours at a time playing mindless Facebook games.
The problem with depression is not just how we feel, but the paralysis that it creates. One finds it difficult even to do any real work. Most likely this is due to the thinking that it won’t matter anyway. It would just be a waste of time. At least if I play facebook games with my free time, I’ll at least have fun. We need to look into this.
Assuming that I’m even correct, how can we cure this “internet marketers depression?”. I might be dead wrong and it might be a bed of roses for everyone except me. I doubt it.
But let us assume that I am correct and we all go through some kind of depression, despair, hopelessness and the accompanying paralysis. What can we do about it?
I have been able to define a number of possible solutions. But remember that you don’t actually need to have symptoms that are as acute as mine were, try this even if you are only feeling frustrated.
1. Redefine success: Success can be $5000 a month, success can be $200 a month, success can be a single completed article, success can be earning Platinum Status with Ezinearticles. For me, at this moment, success is completing this one blog post. ( I am finding it very therapeutic)
2. Reduce your workload: I have always said that focus is the best way to achieve success. Do not try to build too many websites in many different niches to find the one that is going to work. Use the one that you already have and put everything that you have into it. It will make you feel better, when you relax for the evening realizing that you have written and submitted two articles today.
3. Write it down: If you cannot reduce your workload, you can at least make a list of everything that you are trying to accomplish. You don’t have to do it all in one week, you can spend a night simply writing down all of your projects and the steps that you need to take to complete them. Then, as you slowly complete them and check them off, you will find yourself naturally feeling better.
