After joining SFI a little less than a year ago now, I started off with a bang and reached EA status within a few hours. With the little knowledge I had at that stage, I tried my very best, but was very disappointed with the results at the end of Month 1.
I then started comparing my relative positions on the various leaderboards with other affiliates who joined more or less the same time as I. There seemed to be a lot who made much better progress, and I started wondering what I was doing wrong. I went through all the training material and other available resources in SFI, frantically looking for THE answer why I was doing (in my view) so badly. I even contacted an a2a friend who was doing well, to try and find out what his secret to success was.
Then I read a post in the Forum one day that basically said "take your time, maintain your own pace and do the best you can" I then realised that we are all individuals, each with our own strong and weak points and I learned then that I had to go on doing the things I was good in, and work hard at improving the things I was not good in.
I am still working hard at my shortcomings, and I don't look at the Scoreboard that much any more, but what I've seen there, is that many of the shining stars that so bothered me in the beginning, have now fainted away.
I think it was Winston Churchill who said in a speech at the beginning of the WW2 : "We will never surrender"
Nor would I.
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After joining SFI a little less than a year ago now, I started off with a bang and reached EA status within a few hours. With the little knowledge I had at that stage, I tried my very best, but was very disappointed with the results at the end of Month 1.
I then started comparing my relative positions on the various leaderboards with other affiliates who joined more or less the same time as I. There seemed to be a lot who made much better progress, and I started wondering what I was doing
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