Each Step is a Milestone!

Today, after two long weeks, I finally completed Course 1, Lesson 6! This is a major celebration for me!

Yes, it really did take me that long to get through it... You see, this is all new to me. And I want to get it right. I want to understand what I'm doing and why.

It took me nearly a week to choose my niche. It took another week to choose my domain & my website name and at least that long to choose my theme (Nirvana).

So far, it took me less time to get indexed by Google than it has anything else! LOL

I have spent considerable time working on the title and description for my website for the All in One SEO. Everytime I'd try to write the description, I'd hit a snag. Today, I realized that part of my struggle was in the fact that I was trying to be too vague...that I wasn't narrowing it down enough. Today, it finally fell into place. At least for the first round. Maybe I'll review and revise it down the road but right now, it feels pretty good to get check that off my list.

I seem to be moving at the pace of a snail through all of this. I still have nothing on my site. There's so much about setting up a website that I don't know, like what all those terms & abbreviations mean in the first place. I don't know how to change the font or it's color, how to add social media icons or or even if I can save posts I'm working on without publishing them. Nothing about it feels intuitive. Each step feels like I'm over my head. I get discouraged and frustrated. But I keep going.

Why? Because my goal is to be financially independent without being plugged tightly into the "matrix". Because I want the freedom to travel, to create, to contribute to the world and to design my life around my values. I've lived the life of restriction and constriction and I know how it feels to want/need for money or time to pursue something that feeds my soul. I refuse to walk away from the opportunity to create an online business and be successful. I'm determined to live a better life.

This is so much bigger than just me. It represents the gateway through which I can create the life I want. I have hope to live a life that matters beyond this moment. Each step is a milestone because it's a reminder that I haven't given up. It tells me that I'm growing. I know that someday I'll be able to speak the language of websites and affiliates naturally and easily. Maybe I'll even ENJOY creating websites! In the mean time, there are some growing pains...