This Is How You Develop Unshakeable Confidence
By: Sunder Dragoon
Tags: Digital Marketing, Success, Self Improvement, Affiliate Marketing, Confidence

This Is How You Develop Unshakeable Confidence

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“Believe in yourself,” the gurus tell you.

I wholeheartedly agree, believing in yourself is crucial to your self development. But what they don’t tell you is how to believe in yourself.

It’s not like we wake up one day and miraculously possess faith of steel. There’s something more, something that’s missing from the puzzle, something that nobody else can tell us about.

If you don’t believe in you, nobody else will.

I’ll tell you exactly what you need in order to obtain this level of self-confidence in the following paragraphs.

“Affiliate Marketing Doesn’t Work”

I have met countless people who haven’t made a dime from affiliate marketing, but yet, it has been the most successful source of passive income for me that I just can’t fathom any other way of living.

As I write this, I am already beginning a new campaign, starting from scratch. I’ve spent the last several days ruminating about the domain name and what products I could market. I have been doing market research for the past several weeks just figuring out what niches to get in to. It’s hard work, but I love it.

“It won’t work,” they tell me. But do I listen? Nope!

I am confident about my abilities because I’ve already done it before, numerous times. I know from personal experience that it does work, and I know just how lucrative it is. And because I’ve had strings of successes, I have power, and nobody can take that away from me.

Success is Lonely

This is why I don’t tell anyone about my campaigns anymore. They don’t have a clue what I do in the first place, and they don’t have the technical background to even begin to understand the path that I have chosen.

Oh, are you selling on eBay?

No, I’m not selling on eBay. And I’m not selling on Amazon. There is such a wide ocean out there to be focusing on such a limited scope.

If you really want to be successful, you will have to dive deep into your path, where others cannot follow. You will become an expert at your craft, and it will be yours alone.

Success is a lonely road.

Yes, it’s true, success is a lonely road. You can see it as a bad thing and be sad about it, or you can see it for what it actually is: you are becoming a true expert at your niche, where few others dwell. As the rule of life in society puts it: “the more of an expert you become, the more society rewards you.”

Society pays doctors handsomely because they are experts in their field, and have the years of education to back it up. Lawyers also are paid well, and they, too, perform important work. These are just two examples of experts who get paid well. Their salaries increase with each year of experience under their belts.

Understand that you are doing what others cannot. You see what they could never have imagined to be possible. All that’s left is to “prove them wrong” (although you could do this, I would recommend focusing on yourself instead, which I will be writing in a future article).

Just keep swimming. — Dory, Finding Nemo

All It Takes Is That Initial Success

Just one dollar is all you need.

When I first started doing affiliate marketing, I told myself that I just needed to have “proof” that it works.

If I could only just make one dollar, I will be happy.

One dollar would mean the world to me. If I could just see it happen, then I would know for a fact that it works. I could finally confirm that all of this “internet business” hype is not a scam, that people really are becoming rich through technology.

I did make that first dollar, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

After proving to myself that it worked, I worked frantically to see if I could do more, to see if I could scale it up. It took about a year of constant work and failure, but I made it happen. I was able to make money hand-over-foot.

It takes a lot of technical knowledge and market research, so don’t think that just anyone can do it. Actually, I don’t recommend it for most people because the mentality needed is the complete reverse of most other professions. This is what leads us back to what we said earlier: “society rewards you for your expertise.” I had unknowingly become an expert at digital marketing.

Develop Confidence Through Competence

Just keep doing what you’re doing and don’t let anyone stop you from doing it. Just because other people can’t see where you’re going doesn’t mean you have to stop. Reach for your dreams. Believe in yourself, because nobody else will. Build your confidence from the small successes you achieve along the way.