One Day at a Time

byCuriousEwa

144 followers

7 years ago

Writing a blog post at WA is one of the tasks from Certification Training. I skipped it a long time ago and moved on with the classes. I felt I have not much to say, not useful to others at least. I felt I'm still a newbie, struggling with the website, struggling with writing, moving back and forth with ideas, wasting time on distractions, endless changes to the website theme instead of producing the actual content, signing up for different online money making machines although everything I need is here at WA. Getting excited and getting down, being motivated and being overwhelmed, I felt it all although I have barely started. When the task of writing a post at WA appeared as part of the course, I thought: "and write what? That I'm failing?"

And here I am, a few months later, writing my first post at WA. Not because I succeeded. I'm writing it because I matured to admit to everyone and myself that I'm still failing and that it's ok. I finally understood it and accepted it. Sure, no one promised easy solutions or overnight successes, and yet that was my perception and hope. Wrong. I had to redefine how I look at what I committed myself to. I understand that patience and persistence are key and I should not feel down because I'm not "there" yet.

So where am I?

The websites

I have two websites. One mini-niche website in baby products niche and one "big project," dream website on lifestyle and self-development. I am focusing on the mini-website first and treat it as practice before I dive myself into the other one full time. I do it this way because I am passionate about the big website and want it to be near-perfect from the start. I wrote a couple of posts there, each took me ages to complete, and none I am happy with. I need more confidence, more knowledge, more writing experience and more boundaries to my own still chaotic ideas.

The small website has my full attention now; I am writing one post every week, sometimes less frequent. The website is still young so ranks somewhere at the end of Google, has 0 traffic except for entires from people I requested comments from and obviously earned me 0$. But I know it's normal. I keep on writing.

The Certification course

I'm learning about the social media now. I'm an active user of social media like everyone these days, but social media in business is something entirely different. I have a Google+ account and Facebook and am just at the beginning of things, collecting followers and friends. Next steps will be with Twitter and Pinterest.

The motivation

Money. I have seen a bit of life and know for a fact that money can buy happiness. Or, to put it better, money can buy things that free up time for things that make us happy - family, friends, travel, charity. I have worked for a few companies and am no longer interested in receiving peanuts in exchange for my precious time, (and they all want loads of it!). There's just one life.

The hopes

That I persevere. That I grow to the best of my potential. That I build a network of friends in this business. That it becomes my life, not work. That I master doing business online and eventually empower others by teaching them how to do it.

Well, writing my first post wasn't so bad after all! Comments are very welcome! I seem to have plenty of followers (no idea how that happened), maybe some of you will give a damn and read it, maybe some of you would like to reach out to me via comments or private message, maybe some of you have similar niches and would like to chat, team up? And maybe, just maybe, this post is some encouragement for someone who also struggles. To this person, I want to say this. You, like me, are trying to live by your own rules, work for your success and happiness. That already is an achievement. Praise yourself for that. And stop worrying about your small base and feeling overwhelmed by the goal you have in your head. One day at a time. That's all it takes.