I LOVE This Forum, The Owner Of WF, And Everyone Else On This Forum..
This doesn't have much to do with self improvement.
Well it does, but it has more to do with the IMMENSE amount of thanks I have for the guy who made this forum (I believe his name is Allen).
Then for all the brilliant minded people who frequent this forum everyday.
I have wrote stories before, but it is more official today than its ever been.
My entire life, since coming to this forum, is NOTHING LIKE what it use to be before coming here. And I have SO MUCH THANKS on some days that I feel like I have to do something for the forum. Although I'm not sure what.
As cheesy as it is, I was thinking about sending Allen like a basket of fruit lol. Then I just thought "why not become a war room member?" And honestly, it makes sense, but its not an original enough way to show thanks.
Plus lately, I haven't been spending that much time on here anyway. But I DID get my entire "marketing education" on this forum.
So let me show my thanks, by writing a little story. And for the ones who suffer from ADD, let me apologize ahead of time.
Before I came here I had lost my second job. I also lacked a lot of motivation towards life in general. I never felt passionate about almost anything I did. Although I loved psychology, and did counseling for a while, I never really felt that passionate about it. Or maybe I felt like I wasn't helping people, who really WANTED to be helped in the first place. All I know is that "spark" was never really there.
I wound up quitting that job, to become a cashier of all things. Then got fired from that job 6 months later because I simply can't work in those environments. People were too negative, too stressed out all the time, it was starting to turn me into this cold, emotionless robot, and I couldn't take it anymore.
So eventually, of all things, I got fired for telling my boss to "lighten up and chill the 'eff' out". I didn't have any real money saved in the bank. I figured I'd rather live on the streets with "integrity", then make a tiny bit of money and hate myself for who I was becoming.
It was only a few months later, that I found a video on youtube with someone talking about "warrior forum" in the comments section. So I decided to come here... and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was like a forum full of "money psychologists" if that makes sense. The headlines about "getting rich quick" - quickly blinded me. I couldn't get over how most people percieved money on here. Like you could actually make it... doing almost anything.
Well for 3 weeks. I didn't DO ANYTHING, and couldn't sleep. Thinking about ALL THE OPPORTUNITY... questioning whether or not people were lying about all the money they were making.
Around week 3, I decided I should start reading less, and start messaging members who have been around here a while. If you read my profile till this day, you can see some incredible advice that was given to me a LONG TIME AGO. Well not that long, its only been less than a year.
Then I got even better advice in my private messages, from people who I still have ENORMOUS respect for till this day. THEY are the reason I found purpose in my life. THEY are the reason I immediately got on the right path, and went ahead full force in my life taking massive action.
I wound up buying a WSO from Bob Ross, only WSO I've ever bought till this day. It was rather "non conventional" for WF and for some reason it really appealed to me. So I immediately went out and took action on it. In fact, I later found out I was the first person to buy that WSO. Ironically enough, Bob wound up building an entire forum surrounded around what that WSO was about. The first month, I made more money then I EVER HAVE within a 4 week time frame.
And soon enough, I was begining to lose sleep again. I was begining to lose my mind all over again. I'd stay up all night just thinking about my life, and how money was LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. I started hearing quotes from guys like Frank Kern who talked about concepts like these:
"Everywhere you go in life, there is either someone selling something or someone buying something. The question being, WHICH SIDE do YOU want to be on?"
I started taking these concepts VERY SERIOUSLY.
V-E-R-Y S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y.
Eventually I wanted to find an "easier" way to make money. So I started to look into web design. I learned how to make really nice sites with wordpress. Then I started reading a TON about seo, ppc, and marketing on social media sites.
Soon enough, I had my OWN web design biz and was doing very well for myself. 80% of the work I was getting was from referalls, and I was barely doing any prospecting anymore. But after a few months, I got bored of designing websites. I couldn't figure out how to outsource things, and although I still love designing sites... it wasn't something I was hugely passionate about.
After that, I started to ask myself, "what is the most powerful thing I could possibly learn as a marketer?" One thing that could give me ALL the leverage I could ever hope for in life? The one thing that is the MOST DIFFICULT for ANYONE to do?
My answer to that that question was, "lead generation". So that became my new focus in life. I became obsessed with copywriting. Obsessed with building myself a swipe file. Obsessed with different ways to promote a business. Obsessed with stalking all the gurus on WF.
To keep this message short, lets just say I spent about 4-5 months doing nothing but READING & APPLYING the most effective marketing techniques I could find.
Well right now, I am reaching a point in my life, where I wake up some days, and don't even believe my life is real. I wake up, and immediately get to making and promoting new content. Doing keyword research, looking for keywords I can dominate. I have a system set up where I set appointments for small businesses, and collect commission on jobs they sell. And I LOVE IT.
I discovered, that finally, I found something in life that I am TRULEY passionate about. It has completely taken over my life. How do I know this? Because even when I'm not working, I am working.
I now spend almost my ENTIRE day, from 8am to 10pm, doing nothing but finding keywords, making videos, writing ads, and promoting content. I LOVE DOING THIS. I LOVE being "that guy who can generate leads". I LOVE the money I am making. I LOVE the confidence it has given me in life.
I LOVE HOW POSITIVE OF A PERSON IT HAS MADE ME.
I LOVE THE FACT THAT I SMILE NEARLY ALL DAY LONG NOW.
I LOVE HOW EXCITED I AM TO JUST WAKE UP EVERY MORNING.
I LOVE THAT I CAN GO TO BED AT NIGHT WITH NOTHING BUT HAPPY THOUGHTS ON MY MIND.
For what my life use to be, and all the crap I've gone through. There is no possible way I can show enough thanks for what I have today.
I LOVE WARRIOR FORUM.
No matter how many times I say it, you people will never understand what this forum really means to me.
You people will never understand how this forum has changed my life. How I view you all like brothers and sisters... competing in a war where the prize is "freedom". It boggles my mind on a daily basis just to imagine what my life might be like another year from now... or 2. I know bad things are inevitable. I know people will get sick and die, and there's not much we can do about those things.
But I also know that I finally found my path in life. And that I have noone to thank for it other than WF and all the members on here. I genuinely wish you guys nothing but success, peace and happiness for the rest of your lives. If I never read that comment on youtube, and logged onto this forum that day, my entire life would be different right now. And it wouldn't be different in a good way.
So one last time, THANK YOU.
-Red
Well it does, but it has more to do with the IMMENSE amount of thanks I have for the guy who made this forum (I believe his name is Allen).
Then for all the brilliant minded people who frequent this forum everyday.
I have wrote stories before, but it is more official today than its ever been.
My entire life, since coming to this forum, is NOTHING LIKE what it use to be before coming here. And I have SO MUCH THANKS on some days that I feel like I have to do something for the forum. Although I'm not sure what.
As cheesy as it is, I was thinking about sending Allen like a basket of fruit lol. Then I just thought "why not become a war room member?" And honestly, it makes sense, but its not an original enough way to show thanks.
Plus lately, I haven't been spending that much time on here anyway. But I DID get my entire "marketing education" on this forum.
So let me show my thanks, by writing a little story. And for the ones who suffer from ADD, let me apologize ahead of time.
Before I came here I had lost my second job. I also lacked a lot of motivation towards life in general. I never felt passionate about almost anything I did. Although I loved psychology, and did counseling for a while, I never really felt that passionate about it. Or maybe I felt like I wasn't helping people, who really WANTED to be helped in the first place. All I know is that "spark" was never really there.
I wound up quitting that job, to become a cashier of all things. Then got fired from that job 6 months later because I simply can't work in those environments. People were too negative, too stressed out all the time, it was starting to turn me into this cold, emotionless robot, and I couldn't take it anymore.
So eventually, of all things, I got fired for telling my boss to "lighten up and chill the 'eff' out". I didn't have any real money saved in the bank. I figured I'd rather live on the streets with "integrity", then make a tiny bit of money and hate myself for who I was becoming.
It was only a few months later, that I found a video on youtube with someone talking about "warrior forum" in the comments section. So I decided to come here... and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was like a forum full of "money psychologists" if that makes sense. The headlines about "getting rich quick" - quickly blinded me. I couldn't get over how most people percieved money on here. Like you could actually make it... doing almost anything.
Well for 3 weeks. I didn't DO ANYTHING, and couldn't sleep. Thinking about ALL THE OPPORTUNITY... questioning whether or not people were lying about all the money they were making.
Around week 3, I decided I should start reading less, and start messaging members who have been around here a while. If you read my profile till this day, you can see some incredible advice that was given to me a LONG TIME AGO. Well not that long, its only been less than a year.
Then I got even better advice in my private messages, from people who I still have ENORMOUS respect for till this day. THEY are the reason I found purpose in my life. THEY are the reason I immediately got on the right path, and went ahead full force in my life taking massive action.
I wound up buying a WSO from Bob Ross, only WSO I've ever bought till this day. It was rather "non conventional" for WF and for some reason it really appealed to me. So I immediately went out and took action on it. In fact, I later found out I was the first person to buy that WSO. Ironically enough, Bob wound up building an entire forum surrounded around what that WSO was about. The first month, I made more money then I EVER HAVE within a 4 week time frame.
And soon enough, I was begining to lose sleep again. I was begining to lose my mind all over again. I'd stay up all night just thinking about my life, and how money was LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. I started hearing quotes from guys like Frank Kern who talked about concepts like these:
"Everywhere you go in life, there is either someone selling something or someone buying something. The question being, WHICH SIDE do YOU want to be on?"
I started taking these concepts VERY SERIOUSLY.
V-E-R-Y S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y.
Eventually I wanted to find an "easier" way to make money. So I started to look into web design. I learned how to make really nice sites with wordpress. Then I started reading a TON about seo, ppc, and marketing on social media sites.
Soon enough, I had my OWN web design biz and was doing very well for myself. 80% of the work I was getting was from referalls, and I was barely doing any prospecting anymore. But after a few months, I got bored of designing websites. I couldn't figure out how to outsource things, and although I still love designing sites... it wasn't something I was hugely passionate about.
After that, I started to ask myself, "what is the most powerful thing I could possibly learn as a marketer?" One thing that could give me ALL the leverage I could ever hope for in life? The one thing that is the MOST DIFFICULT for ANYONE to do?
My answer to that that question was, "lead generation". So that became my new focus in life. I became obsessed with copywriting. Obsessed with building myself a swipe file. Obsessed with different ways to promote a business. Obsessed with stalking all the gurus on WF.
To keep this message short, lets just say I spent about 4-5 months doing nothing but READING & APPLYING the most effective marketing techniques I could find.
Well right now, I am reaching a point in my life, where I wake up some days, and don't even believe my life is real. I wake up, and immediately get to making and promoting new content. Doing keyword research, looking for keywords I can dominate. I have a system set up where I set appointments for small businesses, and collect commission on jobs they sell. And I LOVE IT.
I discovered, that finally, I found something in life that I am TRULEY passionate about. It has completely taken over my life. How do I know this? Because even when I'm not working, I am working.
I now spend almost my ENTIRE day, from 8am to 10pm, doing nothing but finding keywords, making videos, writing ads, and promoting content. I LOVE DOING THIS. I LOVE being "that guy who can generate leads". I LOVE the money I am making. I LOVE the confidence it has given me in life.
I LOVE HOW POSITIVE OF A PERSON IT HAS MADE ME.
I LOVE THE FACT THAT I SMILE NEARLY ALL DAY LONG NOW.
I LOVE HOW EXCITED I AM TO JUST WAKE UP EVERY MORNING.
I LOVE THAT I CAN GO TO BED AT NIGHT WITH NOTHING BUT HAPPY THOUGHTS ON MY MIND.
For what my life use to be, and all the crap I've gone through. There is no possible way I can show enough thanks for what I have today.
I LOVE WARRIOR FORUM.
No matter how many times I say it, you people will never understand what this forum really means to me.
You people will never understand how this forum has changed my life. How I view you all like brothers and sisters... competing in a war where the prize is "freedom". It boggles my mind on a daily basis just to imagine what my life might be like another year from now... or 2. I know bad things are inevitable. I know people will get sick and die, and there's not much we can do about those things.
But I also know that I finally found my path in life. And that I have noone to thank for it other than WF and all the members on here. I genuinely wish you guys nothing but success, peace and happiness for the rest of your lives. If I never read that comment on youtube, and logged onto this forum that day, my entire life would be different right now. And it wouldn't be different in a good way.
So one last time, THANK YOU.
-Red
- Steve Jobs