Begin Picking Up the Pieces
I am late as usual getting to work (an odd job) but I feel it necessary to follow up on yesterday's post with some goal-setting.
Last evening, after taking a nap, and after having seen someone putting a laptop hard drive into a desktop computer, I remembered one of my older desktop computers that has been in a box since the hard drive failed in it three years ago. Without adapters, I was able to connect my best laptop hard drive to it and have restored Internet access in my apartment. I have a laptop that does work but it is a Windows XP machine. Some time ago I re-installed the operating system from scratch, to my dismay, I could not get the laptop online for some reason and could not validate that copy of Windows. In 30 days the dreaded expiry message came up and that was the end of using that computer.
What I have now is not much, in fact, very dated - on a desktop computer that had Windows 7 on it, now has Windows 8.1 which comes from a laptop hard drive now connected.
This doesn't solve the dental problems and trying to fund that problems, but it will allow me to move forward once again with my campaigns and begin to get caught up with my work per the WA Super Affiliate Challenge.
I am now two months behind on it due to circumstances and just sheer discouragement. I have seen Jay Gumbs doing what he has been doing for the last two weeks and that alone prompts me to get busy and start picking up the pieces from another downfall.
So my overall goal is - Double my efforts and catch up one month by doing March and April's tasks during this month's 8th-to-7th span of time. I am not good at predetermining what I will get done day-by-day, and have rarely met such goals, so the best I can do with this is just go at this as much as I can.
By this time in the next four and one-half weeks, I would like to see myself one month behind instead of two, or even worse, three. This is less than one article per day. If I could actually do one per day, I would be ahead of this goal by a few days on that aspect. As for other things, like blogging once a week, I will try to do better by writing blogs when I have made significant progress. This does not mean writing one article and then blogging about it. I don't plan on writing a blog every single day as I have been called down for that in times past.
I assure you that I am not here blogging to reach Ambassador status and such. In fact, I do not want to be in that status for the sheer reason that this has never been my prime income, thus I cannot call myself an affiliate marketer, but as yet, an aspiring one.
I have seen others do this - come on here, long after I have become a member, not knowing what a keyword was, and make full-time businesses out of this. Why am I still here? Why do I bother to stay here after going on nine years and barely making enough to pay the next year's subscription? The potential is very high if I could just make some semblence of order in my life and business.
I don't dare make promises that I will get this and that by day's end and then have to report the next time I write that I didn't make it - at least on a regular basis because I see that Jay Gumbs has had his non-productive days, few there be. I feel I'm more prone to failure in this and am more comfortable doing what I can and then reporting on that.
So, what I can say is that I will get right back on that horse and ride again. I have saddled him up with the junk I had available to me to get this make-shift computer up and running. It was a start. It's slow, can't have more than a couple tabs or windows up at a time, can't be running more than one or two programs at the same time, can't add anymore memory to it, can't do videos on it, the aspect ratio is incorrect and can't be fixed, but I can write using this computer. I may need to just break down and take some of my dental money and put it tuwards a good, used Dell laptop that I have been looking at. I prefer a desktop because I don't like laptop keyboards, but I could connect one up to a laptop.
Yes, I threw up my hands again. I ranted about this yesterday. Today I am going to put my nose to the grindstone again and get myself caught up.
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It's great that Jay Gumbs's posts provided the motivation for you to pick yourself up again.
I am not good at that kind of goal setting either and I would begrudge the time it takes typing it all up - it's hard enough deciding what to do in the first place since I really have little time for WA at the moment. But reading his posts has provided motivation for me to do just that little bit more too.
Wishing you all the best,
~ Isabella
He is a go-getter. We used to communicate with each other but I blew it by apparently wasting his time and he put an end to it. Looking up to him, it kind of bothers me to go to those posts because having been put out and now we are strangers and get the feeling you get when you are on someone's private property knowing you don't belong there, but I know I have to get over feelings like this and get what good is in the posts, because they are motivating and that's why they're there.
I know personally, in those days, he was doing very well with affiliate marketing. So, even though that closed up, I pay attention to him whenever he writes on here. If you get stuck, he's a great person to go to. He will help you and get you going again, but, after a fair span of time, if he feels it's a waste of his time and good reason to believe it's doing no good, he will drop you like a hot potato.
I don't know that he knows or cares that he has had some serious positive influences in my life and how I do things, even on how I used this platform these days, I knew i lost a great connection and still feel its effects today. He would give the shirt off his back, but be sure to show progress, which I didn't.
I don't read his posts in great detail because I don't need to know exactly what he does each day, but I try to take something from them - the message from a quote, some of his discipline... I'll never be anything like as methodical as he is, but I still find some inspiration from his posts.
Wishing you all the best with catching up on your tasks.
You've got this! You can only do what you can do, and comparing yourself to someone else will not accomplish anything except to frustrate you all the more. Just keep a to-do list, and mark things off as you complete them. With each "check" you are taking steps towards your ultimate goal. We all achieve success in different ways, but the key is just to keep moving forward, one step at a time.
I do look to others to get ideas on what it takes to get stuff done. It's not really comparing. I do this especially with Jay when he has those episodes on how he runs his business and what would be good for others to do. Jay is so far ahead of me it isn't funny. That's why he's a coach on here and his livelihood is centered around online business.
Yes, I keep a daily checklist. I call it, "Daily Checklist." I have been doing this for some time. It started right here on the Platform when I had my "Day 1, Day 2, etc." It wasn't getting much of a readership so I stopped doing it and went offline with it. I would not be where I am today had I not started doing this.
I also keep a Journal. I have been doing this since 1973. It is thousands of pages long and contaynes stories beyond your wildest imagination.
What I keep failing to do is account for the unexpected and then when it happens, it comes as a big surprise and I get tangled up in it. It frustrates me but then I realize I'm usually the one who brought it on in the first place.
Hi Daniel, I liked XP the best, I really like your number 8 wire approach to it all. I guess all we need at the end of the day is a way to create content and a connection and then we can set about plying out trade.
Some folks are high flyers, the rest of us plod along What counts at the end of the day is that we all keep on going setting those goals can be what helps. Best wishes for your catch up phase.
It was a pretty versatile build. It's too bad Microsoft stopped supporting it. Windows 7 was a good one as well, but after that, they began removing (or hiding) settings I found very useful and started putting that crap like Cortana on there, which cannot be removed from the hard drive. There's a bunch of other junk on the later builds that I would wasn't there. There are ways to remove some of them but as soon as one of those cumulative updates come up, it puts that junk right back.
I was never a high flyer either but I would like to make this my primary income if possible. I've done more than my fair share of plodding, but that will likely not change. Goals certainly bring about success if carried through.
One of the things I need to adopt is making a new section in my Daily Checklist - "Tomorrow's Tasks." It's yet another thing brought to remembrance from Jay Gumb's series.
You have a good can-do attitude, Daniel. Life isn't going to get in the way of your success. Good for you.
Debbie
Well, it does sometimes and it frustrates me when I get stuck, but usually in a day or two, Often I get these times when I purchase something expensive that is a luxury, which I did - and then right after that, something comes up that reminds me that I was in no position to be purchasing that. As it would go, no sooner than I get over the awful dental emergency I had, the computer goes down. Then I lose the back brakes in my motorcycle, on top of needing a rear tire that I now don't have the money for. I need a new computer. It's been my story to be doctoring old equipment along and then of course, it breaks. Sometimes stuff like this happens almost at once. I get over it and just go back to it (if I can.)
It is easy to make an overall goal. The real challenge comes in those day-to-day goals. I notice Jay Gumbs (and others) resort to setting out what they will be doing the next day - and they get it done. I have not been organized enough to do anything like this and go at it impromptu.
I can relate. My best made plans are either interrupted by unforeseen life challenges or my own lack of follow through. But the important thing is that we get ourselves back on track asap.
Hi Daniel it is surprising that you managed without any extra adaptors. The stuff in a laptop is really tiny, I had a close look these days when I opened my machine due to fan issues. In the end had to buy a new notebook.
Hey Jovo!
Actually, some desktops have the same connectors as those found in laptops. I was dismayed when the hard drive went kaput and when I went to change it I could not. All I could say was, "What a cheap computer!" I put it up in storage so I could put another hard drive in it that fits and never did - until now. Yes, its tiny! It's why I have all those broken ones. They don't hold up like desktops do. I can't say that for the hard drives though. I have never experienced a hard drive failure in anything other than desktops.
You will know a desktop that will take a laptop hard drive - it doesn't have the grey ribbon cables, but regular cables and the connectors are much smaller.. From what I understand, there are only two types of connectors in use in modern computers - the long ones with two rows of pins and the ones used in laptops and some desktops - much smaller and the connectors fit in at a 45-degree angle. The long ones are called "SATA" and I don't know what the others are called.
Thank you, I learned something new from your struggle, yes I think I have seen this term SATA but never had the idea what it was.
In fact, I can look that up for you...
I had it backwards. The PATA (Parallel AT Attachment) is the one with the multiple pins and four-prong power connector. These are the older ones which came out in 1986. The SATA (Serial AT Attachme t) are the newer ones, used in laptops and some desktops like mine. There were actually others and still yet others newer than these. These connectors are called "hard drive interface."
Wikipedia is awesome!
Champion in training. There's those I look up to and follow their examples. Seeing some members on here and what they are doing definitely influences me. I know I need to get busy on this and have some articles almost ready to go. I have a lot of keyword research to do. I didn't get much past the first month with that. I'm just glad I was able to get the computer up and running and wish I had thought of this six weeks ago! I had no idea a laptop hard drive would work and all this stuff was right under my nose.
"Hidden in plain sight" as the saying goes...
It's easy for me to get caught up in the "should have's" and the "I wish"; perhaps, you should just embrace that you found it when you did. Who knows, if you found it 6 weeks ago, there could have been something else that could have prevented you from moving forward.
Start where you are, Daniel, and just take consistent steps forward. If all you can do one day is watch one of Kyle's training or Jay's webinars, then do that.
There were days that I felt so mentally stuck that I would just hang out on the WA platform, read posts, and leave comments. Sometimes, it's like that and that's OK because you're still learning, being inspired, and receiving encouragement.
Just keep it moving, Daniel.
Thanks Alanna. Sometimes I'm more stubborn than determined, but there is a fine line there. The worst of it is that the Internet has become so much a part of my life, when I don't have it, there's a hole in my life. I missed YouTube and documentaries. I got the Internet back but still can't do YouTube! I can watch the ones I have downloaded but anything online keeps buffering every 30 seconds and the aspect ratio is driving me up the wall All the circles are ovals and the squares are rectangles. Well, it's functional and just came up with no issues, so the errors on it doesn't stop me from getting back on track.
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Good Luck.
Jerry
Thanks Jerry :)