From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: The ONLY Thing That Is Keeping You From Success
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As a millionaire blog artist, on my way to the billions, many young and hungry blog artists ask me how to do it.
They always ask the wrong questions. I say it over and damn over again but no one wants to hear the truth…
All I do is write great articles. That's it! I did nothing else for years but write great articles. I had the patience of a zen master. I knew that if I did great work and just waited, success would come running to me.
Guess what happened? Success came running to me with open arms. She was skipping like a schoolgirl when she said “I'm here daddy!” My patience paid off by making me millions in revenue and untold thousands per month.
I wasn't always wealthy, or well-off, and I definitely was not always patient…
When I was a young man trying hard to become an entrepreneur I tried everything you could think of.
I tried to invent new exercise machines, I tried all kinds of grand, big schemes and they always ended the same way, with me getting easily discouraged and quickly quitting.
It was failure after failure after failure after failure.
I knew something had to change because what I was doing wasn't working. And if what I was doing was not working, it would be dumb to continue doing it.
So I made the choice to stop trying to chase all these lofty dreams and start focusing on ways I could actually make money. When I stopped thinking big, and making ZERO money, and started thinking small I started making a LOT of money.
It wasn't until I started doing business the easy way that I started to make money.
In fact, my first year of doing easy business I made over 100k (this was before blogging). The year before that I'd made about, oh, 12k. When I made 12k I was trying to do so many big things and I was overcomplicating what was extremely simple. When I started to make things simple I finally had money for the first time in my life.
I wasn't doing anything hard, I wasn't doing all these grand big extra things, all I was doing was thinking small and thinking small is what made me a millionaire.
Wouldn't you like to do less and make more money?
In a previous article I wrote to let you know that I will a) be taking questions and b) be publishing a blog article every day for 30 days.
You wrote in with a lot of great questions, many well thought out and very detailed questions and I can see that these questions are indeed giving you grief.
But it was while analyzing the questions you sent in that I had a realization about why you find it hard to succeed.
There actually is “one secret piece of information” that is standing in the way of you and your dreams.
The answer I give you will seem so simple that you will not even pay attention to it, and that is a mistake.
When I tell you the secret you need to read all of the words thoroughly and make sure that you understand them thoroughly.
Do not skim the words, do not gloss over the words, do not rush to judgement over the words…. review the words thoroughly and let them sink in to your brain.
When these words sink in you will be able to unlock the mental chains that have been keeping you prisoner. You will be free to see success for what it is and nothing will be holding you back anymore.
Are you ready to know what the simple secret to success is?
Here is the simple secret to success…
Success is easier than everybody thinks it is.
Everybody thinks too much, and nobody thinks about what is simple and obvious. Many people think the most simple and obvious thing to do is wrong, even though that is how everybody who is rich got rich.
So what is your problem? Why do you find it hard to succeed?
Well, you find it hard to succeed because you are exactly like most people…
You overcomplicate simple things.
When you overcomplicate simple things you make success impossible.
You must remember that less is more, more is not more. Doing more is keeping you from gaining material and personal success. You overlook what is right in front of your face (the obvious) and you make up problems.
Here are some of your questions and these are perfect examples of trying to do too much…
How do you move out of your parents’ house, if you’re a 23 year old college dropout and only lasted 2 weeks at the one and only job you’ve ever had? Also in this case, you don’t have your own room at your parents’ house, and your computer got moved to the living room where your family watches TV 24 hours a day.
I know the answer is just “Get a job, save money, move out”.
Still, is there more you can add to that answer? Or do you have a different answer entirely?
Since you’re completely against the 9-5, should a budding young man in my situation just build a business until it makes enough money for him to move out of his parents’ place and get his own apartment? Btw since I’m in the living room, I have one tiny spot there and I have to deal with nonstop noise and distractions (family watches TV 16+ hours a day, almost never turns the TV off), and focus is key to building a business, should I just bear with a job, save, move out, and build a business on the side once I have my own quiet apartment where I can really focus and get down to work?”
Everybody already knows the answer to every question they ask, but they overcomplicate things and pretend it is harder than it is. Buried in this long paragraph is the answer…
The answer is get a job, save money, move out.
But along with the actual answer are all of these seemingly impossible hurdles to jump through, but they aren't hurdles at all. They are over-complications of very simple things. These “complications” go away by getting a job, saving money, moving out.
Thanks to this blog, I decided to start a business. I don't trust anyone else to make my content, and I like to do things myself. How do I know if/when I need to hire help?”
Since you like to do everything yourself, wouldn't it be easier to do everything yourself and stop worrying about hiring somebody at some distant point in the future?
Since you like to do everything yourself why are you fretting about hiring somebody at a non-existent position? You are overcomplicating what is extremely simple.
You like to do everything yourself, so do everything yourself. Do not worry about future what-ifs. Keep it simple.
How do you promote your blog/business before you have a following without using social media?”
If you don't have great content you will never succeed as a blog artist. And if you do have great content people will find it on their own. Trying to do too much gets you nowhere.
Create great work and there is nothing extra for you to do.
This is very difficult for so many people to imagine and that is why so many people agonize about promoting their work and when they can't, they quit.
There are only two things needed to succeed as a billionaire blog artist: Great content and patience.
What does a professional blogger do? Write blog articles. Nothing else required. When I say nothing else required I mean exactly those words,, NOTHING ELSE REQUIRED!
Blog artistry is the most zen practice of all, it requires utmost patience and a clear mind. You must do the work and then move on. Nobody will read a new blog and make you a success right away.
Do the work, be patient, be zen about it, the audience will find you when the time is right and that is it.
This is the magic of thinking small.
When you re-wire your brain to focus on the smallest, most obvious path then success stops being hard-to-reach and becomes easy, it becomes super obvious.
Success is not a process of building things up and doing extra work, success is a result of tearing things down and doing less work. Instead of focusing on thinking big, think small, sit back and watch the magic of success happen.
If you are actually trying and you are failing, it isn't because you are doing too little… If you are failing, it is because you are trying to do too much, too quickly.
Here is what you can do…
Do nothing but the basics (and do them well) and wait until success comes to you. If you chase her too much she will run away from you. If you do your own thing, she will come skipping like a happy schoolgirl, saying to you: “I'm here daddy!”
Until next time.
Your man,
-Victor Pride
PS – Don't forget to buy Bold and Determined Vol. 2 on paperback. Instead of thinking big and spending months writing a brand new book, I thought smaller and put together a book of old content that is already proven to kill.
Many times I would ask about this or that. Your reply was to just put in the work. When you focus on the WORK you will then get results.
Fellow blog artists: Publish content and don’t think that you have to follow the ways of the other writers. It is your game when you understand this.
Bless up!
Wow. Awesome perspective. I catch myself creating my own problems even when I know what I need to do to get where I want.
A simple, logical approach often is the best for solving life’s problems.
Think small to get it all.
cheers for goddamn happiness,
we are always tied to goals & business,
not for people nor objects but for fitness,
victor’s words indicates the life of greatness.
I grew up dirt poor on a ranch, and ranching is hard azz work. After getting out of the Army I worked my way thru college by working at an Exxon station 40 hours a week and going to college full time making $4 an hour. After college I went to work as an Allstate insurance agent, and I hated this line of work. So, I took my hard work ethic and construction skills and started buying and rehabbing properties in Austin, Texas, and by 1996 I owned 55 properties in Austin, Texas. I still have 30 rental properties, and I still work a lot doing my own maintenance and remodel work on my properties. My success came from having a work ethic that was twenty times stronger than all my friends, and I had an iron will and drive to succeed. I believe anyone can do this if they have a tough as hell work ethic. Go out and grab your success.
My man!
Beast, respect and honor!
Beastly indeed!
Perfect timing Vic. Time for this guy to think small.
You nailed it.
Thanks……..
Victor,
Your content has skyrocketed in quality in the past few weeks. I was thinking the same thing last night as what you said in this article. Keep up the good work.
You should show us people who have followed your strategies and found success.
On December 31st, 2011, you published an article called “The No Bullshit Guide to Making Money Online”.
https://boldanddetermined.com/the-no-bullshit-guide-to-making-money-online/
Some commenters have their website linked when you click their name. I clicked on 28 websites of people who commented on your article.
Only a handful of websites are still active. Only ten still have web-hosting. That means 18/28 didn’t even make enough money to cover hosting costs.
Will you show us the most successful websites of Bold and Determined Readers? People who produced great content and are now making a living from their websites?
For every one hundred that start the journey, one will complete it.
Loser: “I have a 1% chance of success.”
Winner: “Of one hundred people, one is willing to do the work.”
>For every one hundred that start the journey, one will complete it.
It’s like Ninja Warrior
A slight aside but the japanese version is the most meritocratic thing on television i’ve ever seen. Girls don’t get any handouts and rarely get past the second stage because men are physically stronger. But there was one american stuntwoman that got to the third, but not the final. She earned every bit of acolade she got because they didn’t hand her a step stool or an easier course.
The way it should be.
MR Cameron,His content helped me a lot…I thank God for the day I started reading this blog…His content made me start thinking like a man,going to the gym,building my confidence and generally enjoying myself…Making money must not only be from websiteS..There are things like offline businesses and his content has helped a lot of us make more than we are used to.I TESTIFY TO THAT!!!
Victor is not the creator of the universe and cannot be there to force the defunct website owners apply all his strategies diligently…He has done his bit by exposing the strategies…Show us yours or keep quite..
Dear Victor,
Should I try and buy out the owner of .com?
I want to set up a blog in my name, but the .com domain carrying my name, but someone with the same name as me bought the .com domain carrying my name in January 2016. He doesn’t seem to be using the site much: he’s had WordPress installed since he registered the domain, but there are no posts on the site. I hoped that he’d let the registration lapse at the start of this year, but it has been renewed.
My question: should I contact the owner and try to buy the domain now? I’m worried that it will be more expensive in the future, particularly if I make a name for myself in another field.
Yeah, I would.
Thanks, Victor!
Damn thats good! Thanks Vic.
I just spent the day “figuring” out something when the answer was literally outside my doorstep.
Albert Einstein agreed when he said:
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Overcomplicating things kills focus and leads to analysis paralysis.
Thanks for this article.
All the best,
D
I am the king of overcomplicating and overthinking everything. Thanks man!
Thinking small never worked for me. Thinking big is my default setting.
I agree with everything in this article.
But only 1 thing is bugging me – 5-10 years ago this was definitely the way, you only needed the content.
However, now you have all these Google Ads and SEO. Without complicating this question – how much do you think a writer should be aware of that as well? Because, in the end, some dumbass might be getting the clicks and appearing on top of the Google Search, while your masterpiece is lost in the pages.
The answer is the same. Focus on the content. Not on the hypothetical what-ifs afterwards
It is not “afterwards” imo. Stuff like keywords need to be in the content itself for the SEO to work well.
have you started by making a site with BADnet? have you started writing articles regularly for a period for 6-12 months?
It says it in the article he answered you already. Write great content. Be patient. GREAT i think is the key word.
You need two things to have success in blogging
1) Have GREAT content
2) Have good content but know SEO
Without SEO and good content you will fail for sure. Just i dont know why you didnt share info about search engine optimization ? I’m pretty sure B&D work on that in order to get more visits on blog.
So true, when I started refocusing on my career, I closed out of Facebook and ditched my phone for a month. A lot of people make success a lot harder than it should be. Deep down we all know the path.
I’m loving the article a day bit, your content is always great and always worth the wait, but this it’s almost too much awesome to handle!
The truth is, I know and most everyone else knows exactly what they need to do, they just don’t want to do it.
You The Man V. Pride,
RhinoRyan
Awesome
I am not a blog artist. But there is more to blogging success than articles – Im certain the products that are being sold have something to do with it.
I would like to know all of the benefits of nofap (sexual transmutation) fleshed out and I’ll take whatever answer you give as the final answer on the subject.
U in miami?
Awesome content!
Side note, I stopped watching porn since one of your articles and in a week i lost interest on a lot of fetishes (BBW, Sissy, Gloryhole), femdom and other weird stuff. Thanks for so much!!
Hasta luego.
Victor, it would be great to read an article on writing:
Process, techniques, styles and other. Any advices for writers would be appreciated.
Great advice here. Clear as a whistle.
Simple and shot.”less is more, more is not more”.Thanks
I wasted a lot of time trying to build my blog from scratch, but I found your book “The Blog Artist’s Handbook” and since I had the domain and webhost, I took your advice.
Now I am a success not because I made money but because my blog is active.
You took me from: trying to do too much and getting nowhere to: doing so little and actually getting somewhere one step at a time.
Thanks to You!
I used to overcomplicate things that can be addressed with a “Yes” or “No”. Smart small, keep it simple, and actually start doing the work. Then you’ll just learn along the way.
So true! I also tend to make things more complicated, but when I force myself to think simply good things happen!