Success Comes - Set Your Goals and Make them Happen
Minor success story to report here. I hope it helps someone.
I work a full-time job that I will just call a "soul-sucker." It pays good, but you know what I mean - it just doesn't work for me.
I dabbled with IM a few years ago, but never really did anything. Last February I got serious and decided I was going to get in on those $1000, auto-pilot days.
Yes. I got suckered into believing the hype. Then I found out it takes real work and setting obtainable goals to get to the bigger goals. I've been a writer my whole life, so I decided to start doing articles and other content to make some extra money to fund my ventures online.
I've faced some pretty serious health problems the past year, but have kept moving. I have a goal to be out of my full-time job by April. I started getting up every day at 3:00am to work on articles for my clients and to work on my sites, before I go into my full time job. Yes it's tiring, but it let's me get a lot done each day.
Long story short - many failures, a few successes, a lot of lessons learned and I am on track to be out of that job by April, though not in the way I thought it would happen.
Like I said, I bought the hype early on and figured I would have a push-button system going within a few months. I soon found out that it doesn't work like that, but that it can still work.
I have a very full writing career going, with lots of clients and a handful of sites that are finally starting to live up to my expectations. Top that off with the offer from a growing business to become their affiliate manager/marketing advisor, and I finally have my winning combination to escape from my corporate prison and blaze my own path.
No, it's not the instant millions with no work that I originally fell for, but it is going to be the new normal for me. I'm sure that things will change and take different paths down the road, but it is working out and I will be out of that job and doing the things that I really love for a living very soon.
It is very surreal to stand in a place where my dreams of escape from that job are finally becoming a reality, and my story is by no means a case study, but I did want to pipe up and let you know that if you're failing or sputtering, learn and keep moving.
Set your goals and sacrifice to make them happen. You can do it. If a person like me, who flirts more with pessimism than I should, can do it, so can you. I'm not there yet, but I'm on target and approaching the next phase at warp speed.
Stay the course, learn each day, and step on every failure to propel you toward your dreams and goals.
Steve
I work a full-time job that I will just call a "soul-sucker." It pays good, but you know what I mean - it just doesn't work for me.
I dabbled with IM a few years ago, but never really did anything. Last February I got serious and decided I was going to get in on those $1000, auto-pilot days.
Yes. I got suckered into believing the hype. Then I found out it takes real work and setting obtainable goals to get to the bigger goals. I've been a writer my whole life, so I decided to start doing articles and other content to make some extra money to fund my ventures online.
I've faced some pretty serious health problems the past year, but have kept moving. I have a goal to be out of my full-time job by April. I started getting up every day at 3:00am to work on articles for my clients and to work on my sites, before I go into my full time job. Yes it's tiring, but it let's me get a lot done each day.
Long story short - many failures, a few successes, a lot of lessons learned and I am on track to be out of that job by April, though not in the way I thought it would happen.
Like I said, I bought the hype early on and figured I would have a push-button system going within a few months. I soon found out that it doesn't work like that, but that it can still work.
I have a very full writing career going, with lots of clients and a handful of sites that are finally starting to live up to my expectations. Top that off with the offer from a growing business to become their affiliate manager/marketing advisor, and I finally have my winning combination to escape from my corporate prison and blaze my own path.
No, it's not the instant millions with no work that I originally fell for, but it is going to be the new normal for me. I'm sure that things will change and take different paths down the road, but it is working out and I will be out of that job and doing the things that I really love for a living very soon.
It is very surreal to stand in a place where my dreams of escape from that job are finally becoming a reality, and my story is by no means a case study, but I did want to pipe up and let you know that if you're failing or sputtering, learn and keep moving.
Set your goals and sacrifice to make them happen. You can do it. If a person like me, who flirts more with pessimism than I should, can do it, so can you. I'm not there yet, but I'm on target and approaching the next phase at warp speed.
Stay the course, learn each day, and step on every failure to propel you toward your dreams and goals.
Steve
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