What Comes Next?
Posted On: 2015-07-09
Hopefully you've come into this business with your eyes wide open. You know the realities of working here and you're not bedazzled by promises of untold wealth for little effort ... at least I hope you're not.
You know that it's going to be a struggle and it could be months before you make your first sale and start to see an income from a sponsor. Hopefully you are prepared for that because that's the way it really is here.
This industry is just the same as any other. There's a learning curve ... a steep learning curve ... and it takes time to learn how to make money here but you're ready for that.
But what comes next? What comes after you're over the steepest part of the learning curve and the income from your efforts has become regular and is growing in size? What comes next when you're beginning to feel that you have arrived?
And what does come next? What is the next thing that you should be thinking about? Should you be thinking about taking a holiday? Should you be thinking about doing more of the same?
Heck, who wants to do more of the same? Building and submitting and then building and submitting some more and doing it every day of the week for the rest of your working life is almost as bad as working for the man and depending on him for your income ... but what does come next?
Some people arrive at that point sooner than others. Some quickly become impatient and want to go on and build their business further. They want to try new things and move their business in different directions but remain within the adult industry.
Others are less driven, they can handle the boredom of building and submitting for far longer but eventually they too reach the point where they start thinking about what comes next.
When you reach that point, the point of wondering what comes next, you have reached a really critical point where your business life could go either way. You could move on and succeed or you could stay where you are and fail miserably.
You could even take a holiday and spend some time thinking about where you could go from here ... but I'm not sure that's what you should choose to. I knew one guy who was really successful and he deserved to be because he worked hard but then he decided that he needed to take a holiday.
That holiday kept being extended and extended and by the time he came back to his business he didn't have one. The industry had moved on, his contacts had forgotten about him and he was basically back to square one and the challenge of building his empire all over again was too much for him.
That's not a place you want to be. You've worked hard, you've put in very long hours and the last thing you want to do is let it all unravel while you try to work out what comes next. So what do you do to prevent yourself from making the wrong decision about what comes next?
Perhaps the first thing you need to do when you reach "what comes next" point is to look inside yourself. You're more experienced now than you were when you first started in this industry so look at what you have learned and find the barriers.
The barriers are the things that are holding you in and preventing you from doing something bigger, better, more exciting ... or even more dangerous. Those barriers aren't physical, they're emotional, psychological. They are what is within your mind and they are stronger than any physical barrier.
Physical barriers don't keep you awake at night, they don't gnaw at your guts and fill you with self-doubt and make you wish that you could stay in your comfort zone. Emotional and psychological barriers do that ... they keep you awake at night and condemn you to a life of regret.
So when you reach the point of wondering what comes next the first thing you need to do is to find those barriers and be prepared to push through them and challenge yourself by doing things that are out there on the edge because that's what needs to come next.
What comes next needs to be something that you haven't done before. What comes next needs to be something that will challenge you because, if it isn't something that will challenge you, it's not going to be exciting enough for you to make it work.
What comes next needs to be something that scares the shit out of you because anything less leads to stagnation!