I’d like to share with you how to find extraordinary joy in your Internet business. It’s an essential element if you want to experience online success. The best way I know to do this is to share my personal story of how I found joy in internet business..
When I completed my Masters in Canada many years ago, I had to return to my home country, the Philippines. I had to honor my commitment to serve the government for 9 nine in exchange for my scholarship of three years abroad. I was disheartened because I learned to enjoy the comforts of life in a developed country. It was during that time that my cousin gave 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 Meaning Resulted in Joy
Man’s Search for Meaning tells the horrifying and inspirational story of respectable Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and other concentration camps for three years during World War II. In the midst of immense suffering and death, Frankl began to question why some of his fellow prisoners were able not only to survive the cruel conditions, but to grow in the process. Frankl concluded that the most basic human drive is the will to meaning. As Nietzsche puts 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 discovered God’s purpose in placing me in the government. I learned to enjoy what I was doing that when my contract ended after 9 years, I was no longer interested to leave the country.
Finding Purpose in Your Internet Business Give 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 puzzled people for thousands of years because we normally begin at the wrong starting point – ourselves.
We ask self-centered questions like, “What should I do with my life?”, “What are my dreams?” and “What do I want to be?” But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose nor that of our internet business.
Rick Warren illustrated this well when he gave an example that if somebody gives you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know its purpose. And the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the inventor or the owner’s manual could show its purpose.
God’s Purpose Gives You Joy
It’s the same with our life. If you want to know why you were placed on this world, you should begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.
Four years ago, God asked me to leave my comfort zone again. I left my government job of 20 years to pursue the entrepreneurial dream placed by God in my heart. Because my purpose is clear, 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 tried many things but I ended up much poorer than when I started. After 3 years and 3 months, I was broke and no where to go. It was at that precise time that God rescued me. God gave me the right internet business mentor. It was only when I found that mentor that I started experiencing real progress in my internet business.
You can Build An Internet Business Cathedral
Life as an aspiring internet entrepreneur, especially when you’re starting out, is not easy. There are many seemingly boring and monotonous tasks you have to do, for example, link building. It is during those moments that I always go back to my purpose.
I always recall the old story 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 replied: “I’m laying bricks.” The second mason when asked the same question replied “I’m building a cathedral.”
How about you? Are you “building a cathedral”? You can only find real joy if you know God’s purpose in your life and business. JOY comes by putting Jesus first, Others second, and Yourself last.
This article was written by Jose Paclibare. You may also enjoy his previous article Purpose Driven Internet Business
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On The Subject of Cathedrals- just went to see the Robin Hood movie. Here’s Crowe/Hood’s quote as it applies to building an internet business-
“You build an internet business (he said “Country”) like you build a cathedral, from the ground up,”.
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