Yves Arsenault

Ever feel like you “can’t” or whatever your gonna try it just might not be good enough? Well, I touched on how a lack of self confidence can block us from opportunities in my other article “Finding what to write about when you don’t know what to write about” and thought I would follow with another blogger’s article who gave me some inspiration.

In John Chow’s article “Top Five Killer Reasons Why Online Businesses Fail” he mentions some reasons why one might find failure. I found that in these reasons for failure I found encouragement.

After reading this article I took away some key points.

As mentioned before on this blog as well as countless other very successful blogs you need to love what you do. Reason being is if you don’t love what you do you’ll stop doing it. It’s pretty much an axiom in and of itself really.

I’ll mention again about one blog I’ve been writing for a bit. I started for fun last winter, back in December. When I started it was just an experiement. I tried to write a little bit but that was it.

In the last month I had decided to write at least 1 article every day if possible. If it was current events in this blog’s topic or if it required me to try and find something through a little research. Just try and try to write something…. a little text.

After the wheels got rolling I gotta say that I just love it. I love reading fellow bloggers who are writing about this same subject and it’s awesome.

Now a couple of years back, I had started a similar blog that was not quite as specific in subject and I gave no real effort to continue writing. Guess what happened? I stopped writing for it.

Something else that I really got out of the article is that you have to stick to your guns.

Whether you’re starting a small business, trying to develop some websites to monetize or even looking for a job there are many ups and downs.

In 2004 I started a small business and was employed full time in it for 2 years. I was very inexperienced in trying to develop a business. I eventually took a “full time job” and continued my small business part time until last year where I decided to try to become independant once again.

I still consider myself somewhat inexperienced but the only way to do it is just to do it.

Perseverance is key to success in any business whether online or not.

If anything I’ve written rings a bell, visit John Chow’s article on why online businesses fail.