Today I have leant a lesson I wish everyone should know. This is relevant to all intellectual property owners e.g. writers, artists, painters, composers, designers, etc. Of course I know that all people have their own God given area of expertise where they can excel and probably be innovative above average to competitors. So, if you’re not sure where you can excel, you have a big task to find out.

Let me get to the lesson. ‘Never underestimate whatever you give out to the consumers’. This need not be material products, but it could be electronic, digital, as well as services. This fact lies on that it is your consumers/customers who will rank the status/quality of your product/service, not you. Don’t give up, not until they tell you otherwise.

This goes hand in hand with underutilizing one’s potential. This is common where there is a lot of competition like on the internet. I’ll share my experience with you that has made me believe that I’m leaving a mark on the internet as my website continues to develop. If you go to google and search for my name , you’ll definitely get some results that will direct you to some of my work.

I’m an African, who is ever willing to learn, but the truth is that I could be better, just that I’m a bit lazy. My website has been up since October 2006 . I learnt from gurus online on how to market one’s website, and I tried it and it is bringing some encouraging results. Some of the tip was that of writing and posting articles free online, which this article is part of. I’m certain that a great potion of the page impressions I get in my website are from my posted articles. True, it has taken me some time to learn that I can write an article that other people online would commend and even publish in their own websites. Yes, I have done well, though I thought I couldn’t.

I have even noticed that some people stole some of my free articles and re-published it in another article website. I have myself to blame for not having published my articles in as many websites that accept free articles. After a month or two, I tried publishing one of my articles with some article hosting site, where I discovered that someone else had published the very same article. So hurting to know that I author the article. I’m sure there certainly is nothing I can do now because I actually offered my article for free.

What this tells me is that my lack of confidence has robbed me some benefits. I always though that because I have never done well in any of my English classes, then I’m not good at written English. Yet I so much like to write. To my surprise, to date I author five fully fledged books.

I have had occasional complement from the people in my community. A week ago I got a complementary email from a reader (whom I don’t know) who saw one of my published articles. Isn’t it encouraging? To me it does.

From today onwards, I swear not to underestimate my potential. I also encourage whoever will read this article to be confident in whatever is a product of his/her hands. Having confidence does pay of, but the lack of it only provides a stepping stone for those who may follow’.

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