Recapping the second month

The second month was insightful because of the things I learned about myself. During the second month, I found myself noticing my entrepreneurial habits. From the very beginning I've been obsessed with Wealthy Affiliate. I've logged in everyday and the very first thing I look at is my ranking. I find the ranking inspiring; it's a reminder to me to be involved and to stay focused. When I don't do courses, post, or support our community, I see my ranking drop and I nudge myself gently and say, "Ok, you're tired today." The next day, I make sure that I get back on track. I am totally inspired by this community of great people!

I also confirmed (again!) that I'm a starter. I know this about myself; I tend not to see things through. I "get bored"…or maybe the truth is, I get scared and I stop. I get scared of not knowing what to do next, how to do it, failing…the usual stuff. The main result of the starter characteristic of my personality is that I now own four domains – a good start! – and have one website – I’m out of the starting gate! Yet even as I work on my first website, I toy with the idea of starting a second site because I feel uncertain about the niche I chose for the first one…and probably because I want to start yet again!

I have an old WordPress.com blog that I spent some time trying to bring back to life...it was lost somewhere in cyberspace for a while. That was maddening and inadvertently led to me to learning the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com – what a big difference! For one thing, I spent some time on my WordPress.com blog site before I learned that it cannot be used for business. Let's just call that whole thing a long learning curve instead of a waste of time!

This month, I joined Street Articles and HubPages. I set up my Street Articles profile and recognized for the first time my fears around putting myself out there; admittedly, I feel open, naked, and vulnerable. I can already see that month three will be full of writing and research - probably in reverse order. I understand that it's my writing that will drive traffic and give me writing experience as a marketer. I know that’s going to build my confidence and make me proud! I am already very proud of everything I've learned and done in the last eight weeks and, like many of you, I've done it on tired evenings after a workday of going flat out.

I enjoy every minute of this and that's how I know more than ever that this is for me!

Cheers to us and to all of our successes!

Chris