Living On The Brink
As I shared in my last blog entry, the last 30 days have yielded MarJan’s MarketPlace over $5,000.
However, $1,200 of that $5,000 came from a sale of cell phones outside of ebay.
Sales have continued since September 28th and as these last two days of ebay charts show, I’ve now surpassed the $5,000 mark in earnings made directly from ebay auctions over the last 30 days.
This next image will give you an idea of how I feel much of the time as I learn to explore the virgin frontier each new day lays before me.
This poor guy decided he’d had enough and it was time to end his life. He didn’t think through his decision though, as he decided to wade out into the 20 mile per hour rapids at the brink of Niagara Falls, and then changed his mind. Not good! The camera angle of this photo doesn’t do justice to the gravity of the predicament, this incredibly fortunate individual found himself in.
Video shot 3 years ago for the local news channel in Buffalo, New York shows this man literally two feet from the edge of Niagara Falls. Don’t ask me how he didn’t become just another accident statistic and get swept over the falls, but he didn’t. Once he changed his mind and woke up to the reality of the situation, his toes must of shot through his boots and not stopped until they found their way to the center of the earth’s core. I know mine would have!
This feeling of “living on the brink” is going to take some getting used to. On the other hand, it’s what I love and thrive on most, “living in the moment”, and daily performance reviews.
Don’t get me wrong I feel great, love what I’m doing and where I’ve put myself. But this is a very new and different place I’m “getting used to”. Pressure and the constant rush of unknowns, thrust themselves into my daily environment at a much faster pace than my previous lifestyle.
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart and explains the high mortality rate of those who force themselves into this reality-based arena before they have accurately counted the cost and are ready to stride confidently into the cage with their eyes wide-open.
I’m just a tiny seedling strewn upon the ground of the global marketplace that is ebay. As I shoot my entrepreneurial roots into ebay’s online soil I’m in an extremely vulnerable position and dependant upon countless elements that make up the soil in which I derive my financial nutrients. Darwin would hypothesize ebay’s natural law of selection will weed out the weak from the strong in due time and that only a certain number were “meant” to live.
Fending for yourself is desperate business and immediately awakens the animal within. The effect of looking at oneself and no one else for explanations as to the success or failure over the last 24 hours is a life changing transformation and is why I’m treading oh so slow in these beginning days of my ebay adventure.
From the start I made a conscious decision to let go of the business when I sense it pulling me into a panic mode, it just aint worth it to me. I’ll drop the business like a hot potato if I begin to believe it’s changing the core of who I am.
I have laid it down before and I will lay it down again if need be.
If you love being on the front lines with your all your senses jacked-up to their fullest intensity then being in business for yourself is the place to be. But I’m of the opinion that it takes more than natural talent and training to be successful in business.
Ask the most successful farmer if he controls the destiny of next years crop and he’ll look at you and laugh. The country in which we enjoy our freedoms would never have been discovered had the slightest breeze not filled the sails of Columbus’s Santa Maria. And many of the most talented explorers lay dead, frozen stiff under the snow-capped mountain named Everest, with no explanation for their failure beyond fate.
As I push forward on my ebay adventure it’s with the humble knowledge I can do everything perfectly and still it may not be enough. That there are no guarantees of success in business because you think you’re a good person, have good intentions and deserve success.
That’s why if success in the realm of business does eventually find it’s way to my doorstep I’ll be the first to recognize I had the smaller role in its accomplishment.
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