Are you spending YOUR time wisely?

Probably not.

Going to tell you some of my story, then let you come to your own conclusion.

I am an internet marketer.

Not "offline" not "online", but "all of the lines".

My internet marketing career started back in 2006, I was active duty. I wouldn't call it much of a career back then, unless of course, spending 10s of thousands of dollars on useless information is considered a career.

It was always hit or miss, but I did get the feeling, or taste, of that first money generated online.. I had no clue what it would lead to.

It wasn't long before my "career" had put me in debt, marriage was on the rocks, etc. (yea, I got to feel what it was like to make that first online cash, but I was already WAAYY in the hole)

2010, I leave the Marines, get a comfy' job in an office.

Early 2011, I get promoted, I am not the youngest person in the DoD that holds this particular position.

October of 2011, I decided I was tired of my alarm clock, I was tired of my bosses, and I was scared I couldn't go but so much higher, and at the rate I was going, I would reach that within a few years.

I pointed my hunger in another direction, back to internet marketing.

I find the Warrior forum, I find this very offline sections, I learn, I get to work.

I accepted my first Offline check in December of 2011 for $800.

By Early march, I was making enough to quit my day job (a very nice one).

At the end of 2012, I had made 4 times the amount I had made my previous 6 years of employment.

This year, I should move into the coveted "millionaire" status, I am very close.

Don't get me wrong, I am responsible now for millions of dollars in revenue generated, but personally, in my bank, I do not have 1 million dollars. There is a difference.

By no means am I bragging (and as explained shortly, you won't see much of me anymore).

Anyways, just today, I was talking with a company CEO (technology company valued at 20 million) on how they wanted to handle the marketing budget, and it came down to 2 options:

1) $1,5000,000 budgeted annually with bonuses & incentives built into revenue generated

or

2) One-time "set up" fee of $500,000 and a small amount of equity, based on a performance (the more revenue generated, the more equity, capped at a certain %)

This is still being worked out, and we have some really high level meetings to get this sorted, but the bottom line is we are going to get paid nicely, one way or the other.

So what happened for me to finish 2012 so strong, and blast through revenue goals for the first half of this year, and to be able to have conversations like the one I had today?

Did I drink a magic potion?

Or wait, better yet, was it a plugin that contacts and closes offline clients for me?

Maybe one of those softwares ACTUALLY did find me a loop hole to floods of traffic and riches?

All great guesses, but nah, none of that.

Besides working my ass off..

I have stayed off of the forum.

Seriously.

You can go to my oldest post, and follow my growth through this.

You can see me asking questions that make some noobs cringe, I mean, I was clueless.

As my offline business was growing, and I kept putting more and more people around me so that I had to do less and less... I moved into "online stuff".

I started teaching and helping others replicate my success, and my final push away from the forum has ultimately been the most profitable decision I have made.

Don't get me wrong, I owe this forum a lot.. I started here.. BUT if you are at a level right now where you are actually HELPING more and more and LEARNING less and less.. and you are NOT happy with your 5K or 10K a month.. I would bet anything that you are not spending your time wisely.

Or maybe you are happy at that level, and spending all of your time here on this forum is exactly what you want in life, nothing wrong with that..

I hadn't realized it, but I had got to that point, where I was spending hours in here doing mindless things .. and looking where I could "help", instead of working on my own business.

I also learned how little free advice was valued, a valuable lesson, that all of you need to make sure you understand as well (that is a whole nother' rant)

Once I stopped wasting so much time in here, started focusing on my businesses, my businesses started taking off.

We only got one life to live folks, so many days, and hours..so few minutes.

Spend them wisely.

True to my own advice, this will be the one of the last threads/post I make here in the good ol' Warrior forum. I was up late, unable
to sleep with anticipation (if you had a phone call like I explained early, wouldn't you have issues sleeping?)

While I was reflecting, I remembered this is where it all started for me, so I wanted to come share my experience with you guys.

Hopefully, this post wasn't for nothin', as I know many of the "forum-gurus" have to be here to see their own self talk, or get that
extra thanks, or get that post count up.

None of which builds wealth for generations to come (which is my plan).

So, I ask again...are you spending YOUR time wisely?

RyMac

P.S. It's nearly 3 A.M. where I live...please forgive typing errors and grammar mistakes.