Well I have been a "Warrior" for 6 years now. Its hard to believe my foray into IM started back in 2001 and I had struggled for 5 years before signing up here!

Of course 2000 posts doesn't mean anything really, some people who have 10000 posts are a bunch of blow-hard's, while some with 300 are pure geniuses. I put myself in the middle (maybe leaning towards the blowhard side )

I have learned a lot even though I haven't posted all that much. I started off posting constantly, then realized the more I posted the less I was working, hence the rapid decline. But I always made time each week to come here to the WF and read, learn and stay caught up on techniques that benefit my business.

It's funny how over 6 years, no matter when I come here I see the same type of posts, and instead of looking at it with frustration, I look at from a positive perspective. More and more people are willing to be independent and try to be their own boss...and that's a good thing for everyone. Not just the people selling "how to make money" products, but all niches because competition breeds innovation.

Yeah, I'm sure the number of people who want "easy money" and be a gazillionaire overnight have increased proportionately, but that's ok too. The more the merrier in my book!!

Over the past 6 years I have learned so much from everyone here, and it has really done right by me. Like most everyone else, I went through all the stages. Buy buy buy, read read read....then get overwhelmed...all without trying anything. But once I learned to tell myself to shut the f$%k up and just "do it", things drastically changed.

I have bounced from biz to biz, starting with graphics, then I created (and sold) a forum for the offline niche, and have essentially been doing marketing and promotion for quite a few years now. I have my own office, make my own hours(which I still work 60+ a week...because I WANT to) and enjoy time with my kids.

IM is tough, but I have found as others have, that when you accept nothing less than success, then you will achieve it! This isn't going to turn into some "rah rah" post so don't worry. Just stating the fact that when you get done wading through all the IM landmines set to distract you and focus in on a mission that its really amazing the success that you can achieve.

So with that said I will shut up and go back to work. Here's to another 6 years and in 2017 I will be saying all this again, but with 4000 posts.


~Keith