Back to Real Life

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6 years ago

Holy Smokes! The summer is almost over and I return to real life in a few days. I say "real life" because I am an Educational Assistant that gets laid off every summer and hired again in the fall for the school year.

At the beginning of summer I was diagnosed with a muscular imbalance in my legs ( was prescribed, by physio, to do two hours of "working out" per day......yup, TWO hours!!!!). At the same time I also discovered Wealthy Affiliate! So, for almost two monthsI have been working out and studying WA courses. That is pretty much all I devoted my time to.

Well, yesterday, I had my last physio appointment, my legs are way better (still need to some exercising on a regular basis.....as we all should). School/work starts next week, so I will also now be spending WAY less time working on my courses here. :(

I have learned so many things this summer about affiliate marketing and website building. It has been a real journey. One, I hope to keep up with in the evenings and weekends Some of the hi-lights of the summer are:

I have a website
joined some affiliate programs and have some ads up that are related to my niche and posts
learned about Amazon one-link ( well, still kinda figuring it out :)
joined google+,posted some articles, still getting my head wrapped around the communities and groups
posted articles to Facebook and Pinterest
found out my (very old and never used) account from Twitter had been suspended for some reason (I lthink I was hacked) I have appealed for it to be re opened but was denied. Will probably have to make a new account.
currently working on the fourth of five lessons in the course
Made a special connection with someone here that I share similiar career interests with, this individual interviewed me and generated a post about me (and my career). That was very sweet!
Oh, yes, I have to say that Google Analytics is fantastically fun!!! Allmost,in a distracting way though. I have spent so much time checking it and getting excited over the handful of people checking out my site and watching what pages they read in "real time". At times I have to make a concentrated effort to click off and go work on my articles...lol
I can actually write! That was a suprise. It had been years since I sat down to put pen to paper ( or fingers to keyboard ) in any significant way. I was not sure if this would be a successful venture for me for that reason. So far, so good, I guess. No one has told me they have no idea what I am talking about and I have not recieved any crushing feedback on what I have done so far....lol

On the topic of writing, when I started here, I saw this blogging area. My initial thought was, " I can't see myself participating in that!" Reason being, generating content took me a long time. I should not tell you, but my first article took me four days. I was so particular and careful, checking and double checking EVERYTHING! Over the past couple months, I have become faster ( not where I would like to be yet, but am getting there).

Anyhow, I just wanted to say thanks to the community for helping me through some of the blips I have had along the way. Wealthy Affiliate has been very informative and a great deal of fun!

Anynow, thanks everyone. See you soon!

Angela