1000th Post And A Little Inspiration For Some One

Here is my 1000th post on the warrior forum. I have no gift for warriors for now but here is my story. I sincerely hope someone will be inspired.

Those that now me and know how I started know that I was a no body. I had no money, no connection but I have two things : The believe that I am God's son and the will to work hard and make it in life with God's blessing.

It took me 1 year and 1 month to make my first $100. I was super frustrated but was too ashame to give up. First, there was no how I could get a job that will fit my health. Thankfully I had learnt how to invest in the stock market and Nigeria's stock market was rated as the best in the world.

The money raised from being a trader ( not an investor ) helped me run my business and feed myself, my parents and my 4 siblings but the worst happened. The market crashe and it never recovered till today.

I remember then when I had no money and needed to renew my internet connection in about 3 days ( then ). I was frustrated, was to ashame to beg people. There was nothing I could do. It was then I said a thread with the title " internet marketing is frustating for me and I am giving up" ( I actually made 2 of such postes but one and the one I am referring to here is now deleted ).

Unforunately being a Nigerian ( I could not have hidden my identity but decided against it due to advise I got from some warriors who I chat with ) and because someone has tried to ripped off warriors by claiming his dad or his dad's dad and those bull**** was sick and needed warriors to raise funds for him.

I was wrongly accused to be a scammer ( not every body but majority believe I was ). Thankfully James Fraze, Tess7, kohuether, icjackson, alexei_aus, Jenni Mac and so many others ( I just can not resist mentioning those ) were willing to help and encourage me not to give up. I got pms from several people telling me they believe me but I should not give up.

Some recommended books. Some of the books that were recommended are : Success is a Journey - Brian Tracy, Failing forward - John Maxwell, Tough Times Never Last Tough People Do - Robert Schuller. Thankfully I already have the first two and only had to buy the last one for about $5 ( reprinted copies ). I did not only read these books, I allowed them to be my guide.

I made my first $100 through site flipping. Some warriors ( kudos to you Tommyg, Jason Pereira, Hamida Harland, Desmond Ong ) took my by the hand and showed me the way to go. I made my first $100, bought a domain name, wrote some articles and sold another site ( private sale ) for $200. Was able to pay off my internet connection. Bob Coleman (I can't remember his ) accepted $200 in paypal and sent me $180 in western union as Nigeria is not on paypal's list which means I can only adopt another country if I must use paypal and even then, I can not withdraw anymoney.

Unfortunately, the site flipping market became saturated ( not saturated really but my thinking was stagnated ) and I could not sell start up sites again as no one was interested. Just then the major market place ( site point then now flippa ) decided to move and the market was tougher.

I decided to do some long term flips using article marketing. I also made up my mind to move to Benin Republic ( a country close to Nigeria but French is the official language ). On getting to Benin, my paypal was closed and all my money seized - I guess they finally figured I was a Nigerian. Things became bad but I was not going to give up.

I learnt how to write my articles by myself. Did all the dirty job and began to see some success. Fast forward to today, I now know my way through and I can now use paypal ( through the help of friends on the warrior forum ) without being scared of it being closed permanently. About 6 hours ago I was able to give some money to my siblings against Monday for their school fees. Something I could not do some months back, something I would probably have not been able to do if I had given up.

I could have given up, but thank God I did not. I appreciate the fact that I got to know that tough times never last, only tough people do. I now know success is a journey. I now know setback is a set up for a comeback - a great comeback.

I later found out what was the main reason why I did not make it :

1. I was only writting articles and posting it on my blog without driving traffic to it. And when I started driving traffic, I was only using one method ( yahoo answers ).

2. Another thing that stagnated me was because I was jumping from one thing to the other. I have done article marketing and site flipping for the last few months and I have made over $10k which I could not have made by trying everything available on earth.

3. I concentrated on the problem and not solving the problem. I can remember many times when I will just go into my room crying and worrying ( migraine has taken the worrying spirit from me by force ) instead of reading and trying to learn what I am doing wrong.

4. I felt I had known it all and was not interested in learning anything new - had the opportunity to go to seminars and workshops but did not.

5. I DID NOW KNOW THE WARRIOR FORUM EARLY ENOUGH - I got to know the warrior forum almost 1 year of my IM journey.

I did not start this thread to talk about myself but encourage someone that may be close to giving up.

Remeber :

winners never quit and quitters never win
success is a journey
Tough times never last tough people do
Set back is a set up for a come back
Readers are leaders

I have no gift to give warriors ( will finish my site flipping ebook soon and will be given it out at a very cheap price or even free ) but here are some of the posts made by others that really helped me.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...one-place.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-included.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ion-101-a.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-penny.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...-3-months.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...0-dollars.html