Another thing I witness is people putting too much emphasis on the path and not the end goal.  I have been actually working on things for RD Concepts since 2005 when I was updating my education.  Over the past 9 years, the path has not been straight and narrow.  Many times people see the little jogs of the path, and they believe it is a sign to call it quits.

This is where the tough economy is taking its toll on my entrepreneurial spirit.  We are on a roller coaster ride of emotions.  If it was not for relying upon people close to me in my mastermind group, I think I would have thrown in the towel and called it quits by now.  If it was not for having examples of my mentors, I would be sitting around of a night complaining about not having any goals.

I cannot count how many times I have felt like a failure for being on a crooked path for a long period to achieve a goal.  It took roughly 2 years to build one Windows application for a client.  I am now taking the application and moving it to a mobile platform which will take the rest of the year.  The knowledge from this system and the applications branched out from it have spurred enormous amount of traffic to my site.

What kept me on the crooked path toward achieving my goal is to define what that goal is.  It does not matter if the path is smooth, straight, and narrow.  It matters that I know where I am going.