Earning My Stripes

byCherise1

133 followers

Updated 5 years ago

Day 11 of being in this wonderful community! Honestly, feels like I've been a part of it for a lot longer! So welcoming, encouraging, and exciting! Let' not forget the wonderful training!

When jumping into anything new, I tend to take the back seat, observe, listen and generally not engage. I will even struggle a bit on my own for awhile, perhaps out of embarrassment for lack of knowledge and heaven forbid, engaging with strangers LOL. At least until I feel comfortable enough to reach out if needing help, or offer my two sense if I'm cozy enough with the topic. This is a weird trait for someone who is an extrovert! But it's how I generally role when put into a foreign setting of learning something new.

Something's Different

Coming into this community not aware of the first thing about affiliate marketing, was quite overwhelming. I thought to myself, read a bunch, get tips and tricks, learn some stuff and get out. That is how my experience with online training seemed to go until now. Nothing ever kept me there, what was I doing. Only to have my inbox full each morning with ridiculous amounts of emails going nowhere. Sure I may have learned 1 or two things, but there was absolutely nothing keeping me there. Nothing making me want to go back.

Something's different here at Wealthy Affiliate. Not somethings, everything! On day 2 of this platform, I was fully engaged, fully encompassed and attracted to everything that this community is! This makes me want to move forward with leaps and bounds. So, thank you!

Hold up tiger!

Day 3, I wanted to go on a bender...ha...A knowledge bender, soaking up the info and moving into the next training module as quick as I possibly could. I'm pretty sure I missed breakfast, lunch and dinner that day. I was so hell-bent on getting this info into me, I was focused and eager to progress at a face pace. I'm sure my husband must have fed the kids that day, right?! yikes! It was a productive day, working on my site and getting Sh** done! A great feeling.

But I could't move any quicker than I already was, why? A. the lack of knowledge B. things take time, especially great things.

So hold up tiger, woah back! Center yourself, ground yourself. Take the time needed to learn, make those steps then move forward. I am learning this, in learning this, I am also learning patience. Not a strong suit for this Taurus. However, I'm getting better in this department. It's only taken 39 years of practice haha. Each day with Wealthy Affiliate I make steps, some baby some much bigger. It's how it works. It is how it should work. With the encouragement and expertise of this community, the steps have taken place with ease. You guys rock!

Got me a stripe!

Coming into WA from a career where, I am the expert, into a new beginning where I am nowhere near even a novice is tough. I can imagine there are others out there feeling this exact emotion. But we all start somewhere. Even in our previous skilled careers we were all green once, right?

Day 10 of Wealthy Affiliate I earned a stripe! Not sure how big or substantial this stripe is in the bigger picture. But I will take it! This small step forward made me feel so good, it made me feel I am on the right track and indeed moving forward. This is the kind of small badges of encouragement we all need when we start something new. So kudos to WA for this simple but much needed goal marker for us newbies, it keeps us going and hungry for more of these little "stripes". It will take time and patience to get enough stripes to be a full tiger (or zebra, no judgement hah) reagardless, this community is 100% of what will strengthen and encourage you to achieving your next goal.

xo, Cherise