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What to do when you’re always failing, burned out, just want to quit
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An Email Players subscriber once asked: === Something that jumps out at me: When you were in burnout
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An Email Players subscriber (not sure she wants me revealing her name) once asked: === Something that jumps out at me: When you were in burnout, you wanted the 10-minute workday. When you came out of burnout, you wanted to work more. I'm deep in burnout right now and feeling overwhelmed. But I've been sending my daily emails for almost a year now, and it feels like I'm cracking my way into a new level. The revenue still isn't there but I'm trying new things. This email gives me hope that I won't always feel this way, that things will get easier at some point, something will click, and and I will be ready to contribute MORE instead of wanting to get by on LESS. I hate wanting to be smaller. No question, just a THANKS for the (unintentional?) encouragement to keep going. === That is exactly how it works. And this is what 99% never understand or experience because they quit too early. In my experience: Whatever someone is going after, if they have a good plan to follow, it will happen eventually. Thatâs literally how the process works: Thereâs nothing, nothing, nothing happening⦠wheels spinning... you wonder what's the point... until youâre on the verge of just saying to hell with it all... but you keep going even though any rational person would probably quit (it helps to have someone who is a naysayer you can prove wrongâ¦) and then seemingly out of nowhere: BAM! Something happens and everything changes. What will happen? Who knows? I've never heard or seen it be the same for any two people. And I have my own story with this myself. But the common theme is, an opportunity arises seemingly out of nowhere while, in reality, you've been readying yourself to see and exploit it the whole time. Maybe an old dead deal revives. Or maybe an idea comes to you out of the blue that changes everything. Or maybe you get on someoneâs radar who mails their list about you somewhere and 2000+ people join your email list, many becoming buyers, and many of those buyers leading to new deals, JV's, clients, whatever it is. Itâs impossible to say what for any specific business. But all the above has happened to me and more all at once it seemed. In fact, there was a time many years ago I was on the verge of saying screw it all. Nothing seemed to work sustainably. All my hard work seemed to be for nothing. And I started to think I was wasting my talents on skills with nothing to show for it, constantly clawing away, working like a mule, and getting screwed over, or making stupid decisions, or just toiling away in frustration not knowing what to do next. (This was, incidentally, before I took email and list building seriously, which took me far too long to start doing. And I do not recommend making that mistake...) But then a deal emerged I thought was long dead. A client came out of the woodworks I never expected. I got an idea to implement out of the blue. And then because of that one thing, I got on some radars of the right people â who had seen some of the stuff Iâd been toiling away on but that I didnât think anyone saw â who helped put a lot of people on my list, including people wanting to hire me. Money came in that let me invest in programs that made my skills sharper. Which led to more profits. And more skill mastery. Which then led to another series of opportunities, deals, clients, etc. And all of those then had "threads" I tugged on, that led to more opportunity. Until, today, it's not a matter of where good deals or ideas are, but which to turn down. And so on, and so forth. As much as I wish I could say otherwise, I didnât âengineerâ any of it. I simply created an environment for it to happen and let it grow in organically, and went with it. Had I known then what I do now Iâd have both created the environment & engineered it. But the point is this: Any one of a million âthingsâ can happen. And every single successful person I know in this business has had some âthingâ like that happen at some point. There was some catalyst that sparked a fuse. And that then created a chain reaction of events and opportunities that changed their entire lives seemingly "overnight" after many months or even years of hard grind and struggle. Admittedly: Itâs hard to see it or believe it when youâre in the thick of darkness & despair and nothing is working. But if you were to ask people you know who are successful at what they do, I suspect theyâd tell you the same thing. Itâs just like that law of physics where for every action there is a reaction. Of course, the opposite is also true: When there is no action there can be no reaction. So it goes to reason that you should not focus on the reaction, but the action. Do as many actions as you can. Eventually there'll be a reaction. There has to be - because, as the late Earl Nightingale astutely used to say: "That's the law." Ain't nothing metaphysical or "woo-woo" about it either. The thing is though, nothing to aim your actions at itâs almost as bad as having no action. A ship without a rudder will get to some destination, probably something destructive... (deserted island, shoals, storms, hit an iceberg or another ship...) so it's foolish to try to approach it like The Secret or whatever. Thus, having a plan. Doing the work, with a plan, is what separates the sheep from the goats. That plan may change and evolve but it's a start. As far as how to use this info? I canât make your plan for you. Nobody can â not some coach or anyone else. Itâs all you, baby. Do it. And then if email is the plumb youâre after picking to make sales with, see BerserkerMail. Like I said about the platform yesterday: Itâs the worldâs only âEmail Players-approvedâ platform â and was designed by a Nuclear Engineer-turned-software-developer who also was the Executive Director of Technology at Encyclopedia Brittanica (where he ran a $12 million department of developers), who owned a multi-million dollar SEO company (where he figured out what Google says they want and what they really want are not always the same â which has helped do wonders for BerserkerMailâs deliverability), and who used to routinely send/tract/test/automate as many as 30-50 million emails per month for his clients as a consultant. i.e., he knows a little bit about email. Not just how to create an automation & usability-friendly platform. But how to help get world class email deliverability, too. Not to mention nearly everyone involved with BerserkerMail is an Email Players subscriber who uses email for their own businesses (selling their own offers to their own lists) â including co-owners Nicole English (our COO) and John Wood (old school email guy and master of the game), and the head of our Helpdesk (Lance Hunt who probably gets more testimonials than the platform does â our clients love the hell out of him), and even the attorney we hire Mike Young who wrote the platformâs community guidelines and even gifts a copy of his book about how to be legally compliant in your emails to our paying clients in the mobile app. Weâre a tight knit group over at BerserkerMail. The main players and support desk USE email in our own businesses. We arenât just managers, developers, investors, and bureaucrats. If thatâs important to you, then you can get a free test drive and learn more here: [httpsâ¶//www.EmailPlayers.com/berserker]( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to
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