I’d like to share with you how to discover extraordinary pleasure in your Internet business. It’s a crucial element if you desire to experience online success. The excellent way I know to do this is to communicate my personal story of how I found delight in online business..
When I received my Masters in Canada several years ago, I had to return to my home country, the Philippines. I had to honor my responsibility to serve the government for nine years in exchange for my education of three years abroad. I was dejected because I was already accustomed to the comforts of life in a developed nation. It was during that point that my cousin handed me a copy of the best selling book “Man’s Search for Meaning”. It resonated with me because I felt that staying for 9 years in the Philippines would be a “prison term” for me then.
My Search for Purpose Resulted in Happiness
Man’s Search for Meaning narrates the appalling and inspiring account of eminent Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who was jailed at Auschwitz and other prison camps for three years during World War II. In the center of enormous distress and loss, Frankl started to question why some of his fellow prisoners were able not simply to endure the pitiless setting, but to grow up in the process. Frankl concluded that the most fundamental human drive is the search for life purpose. As Nietzsche says it, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
At first I agonized over my stay in the Philippines but over time, I gradually found God’s purpose in placing me in public service. I discovered to love what I was working for that when my contract ended after 9 years, I was no longer interested to depart from the country.
Discovering Purpose in Your Internet Business Offers You Joy
In the best selling book ” The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?, Rick Warren says that the search for purpose of life has perplexed people for thousands of years as we typically start at the wrong starting place – ourselves.
We ask selfish questions like, “What should I do with my life?”, “What are my aspirations?” and “What do I want to be?” But focusing on ourselves will not at all uncover our life’s purpose nor that of our internet business.
Rick Warren illustrated this well when he presented an example that if somebody gives you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t recognize its purpose. And the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the originator or the owner’s instruction booklet could show its purpose.
God’s Purpose Provides You Enjoyment
It’s the identical with our life. Assuming you wish to know why you were placed on this earth, you need to commence with God. You exist by his purpose and for his purpose.
Four years ago, God led me to leave my comfort zone again. I left my government job of 20 years to follow the entrepreneurial dream placed by God in my heart. For the reason that my purpose is unambiguous, nothing stopped me from pursuing that dream.
I can no longer count the nights when I would sleep not knowing what to do next the following day. I attempted lots of things but I ended up much poorer than when I commenced. After 3 years and 3 months, I was inancially ruined and no where to go. It was at that precise moment that God rescued me. God gave me the correct internet marketing mentor and right internet business resources. It was only when I found that guru that I started experiencing genuine development in my online marketing.
You can Construct An Online Business Cathedral
Life as a hopeful internet marketer, especially when you’re starting out, is not comfortable. There are countless apparently uninteresting and monotonous activities you have to do, for example, link building. It is during those times that I always go back to my purpose.
I always remember the old tale about the two masons. I guess you have already heard this before. As the story goes, the two masons were working side by side. When asked, “What are you doing?” the first mason responded: “I’m laying bricks.” The second mason when asked the same question responded “I’m building a cathedral.”
How about you? Are you “building a cathedral”? You can only find genuine joy if you know God’s purpose in your life and internet business. JOY comes by putting Jesus first, Others second, and Yourself last.