"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

Thinking more about the purpose of your networking would be helpful to you.

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."

-Elbert Hubbard

We actually tend to resist a lot of change. And tend to stay where we are. That's the fear zone. It's gonna be tougher, it's gonna be different. But it's not the reason not to do it.

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; Be afraid only of standing still.” -Chinese Proverb

In the job search, the analogous initial conditions are: FOCUS, MINDSET and METHOD.

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

It takes work to follow up. So let's distribute our application effort, make it consistent that way our followup efforts roll like a wave.