How to Keep Going (Even When You Don’t See Any Results)

Have you ever had a goal that no matter how hard you worked or how many hours you dedicated or how many affirmations you chanted, just didn’t seem to make any progress? Despite all your best effort, it felt like you were running on a treadmill — working hard but not going anywhere.

When I decided to take my career to the next level and become a freelancer, I encountered this problem. Even though I was putting in countless hours every week, I just wasn’t getting any clients. At the time, I didn’t even know the first thing about business or marketing or how to sell my services. The only thing I actually knew how to do was the service I was trying to get clients for.

And the scary truth was, I had no idea if I would ever get a single client or make a single dollar. There were weeks and weeks of what seemed like zero progress being made. I remember creating a spreadsheet to track my daily progress towards my goals and watching as the days piled up with nothing to show for it. So there were definitely more than a few times when I wondered if I should give up and stick…