You’re not going to succeed in life because other people believe in you – you’ll succeed because you believe in yourself

It’s 7:00AM. I have now been awake for 3 hours and have been working steadily since. Yes, this blog is also work for me. It’s another website venture. I started it 4 months ago. The first month I made $26.47, the second month $17.19, the third month $27.48 , and last month $20.66 counting money earned strictly from advertising. Obviously I’m not making a killing. I work every day of the week, so if you calculate my daily income from this site using a 30 day month you can see I’m making less than a dollar per day.

Sadly, of the small handful of websites I have left in my portfolio, this is currently my most profitable. Warrants a mighty guffaw doesn’t it? Go ahead, have a hearty one; but I’m not convinced completely yet that I’m going through all this for nothing. I’m getting close to being convinced; but there’s still a little belief left.

In the title of this post I state that “You’re not going to succeed in life because other people believe in you – you’ll succeed because you believe in yourself”. Of course it can do wonders for your self-belief when other people believe in you. Conversely, when no one beleives in you believing in yourself gets that much more difficult; but at the end of the day, it’s your own self-belief of lack of self-belief that will determine whether or not you achieve your goals in life.

Image: Believe Fine Art print by Smith-Haynes via art.com