Finding my way --- Competition meet WA

bydavepr

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11 years ago

I recently wrote a blog Yreka, I found it. besides misspelling Eureka (which means to express triumph on a discovery) I should have put more thought into the title to express what the blog was about. So I have decided to repost under a different title. You know the leaning process here at WA is so awesome. Though blind ambition I posted with little thought and I learned a lesson. Everyday I put forth some action here at WA I learn a lesion. Blows me away. Anyway about the repost. I just thought I would get more readers with a proper title, explaining the body of the work. Anyway here goes my experiment. Finding my way Myself being in my late fifties and self-employed with a consulting business. I have been lucky enough to enjoy my winters in various sunbelt locations(I live in Portland, Oregon). So this winter I went to Aiken, South Carolina to visit my sister. She and her husband own a small horse ranch and live for the week-end Polo matches (must be nice, right). Anyway, my sister issued me a few light chores to carry my weight. Enabling me to while away the winter in independent thought.

0n a absolutely beautiful evening I was sitting out on the veranda banging away on my laptop. I was franticly trying to come up with a solution to a challenge I have with my consulting business. With my business growing I found I couldn't be everywhere at the same time. I needed to create a downloadable program (a reference manual) to help guide clients thru troubled waters when I 'm unavailable. Then it hit me square between the eyes. I am going to need a website. I don't know how to build a website. I guess I could hire someone. No, I've done that before and it never works out. The sizzle always gets lost in translation. You know what? I need to learn to build my own website. Then I woke up for just a second, your not tech-no savvy. What are you thinking, have you lost your mind!

So I 'm hanging out with the horses (o.k., I 'm cleaning stalls) and I can't get this building my own website out of my mind. My cell phone rings and its my Mother. Luck seemingly being on my side, it ends up being a very fortuitous call. As we speak, my Father is in his den (at age 73) learning to build his own website. (I 'm not lying). It seems he has his own project. She hands him the phone and after we visit for a while. I get the info on his Guru. Naturally excited, I finish my chores and head for my laptop.

My Father gives me his user name and password to check out his program. So I 'm deeply involved in pouring over his program and I get stuck (imagine that!). So I call my Dad and ask him a few questions. He can't help me. I said Dad, what do you do if you get stuck? I just call my consultant. Really, how much does that cost. $200.00 for initial set-up. o.k. then what? Well your going to need this and your going to need that and eventually you will need this also! Of course what followed was dollar amount, dollar amount and dollar amount! Thanks Dad, I'll get back to you. Competition meet WA

Well, why I 'm I surprised. Knowledge is power, I know that. I 'm a consultant and knowledge is what I sell. So dust yourself off and let's get this thing going! So I pay dollar amount, dollar amount and well you know. I'm tearing up the course studies to get my money's worth and then it happened. I'm in the study your completion section. I 'm instructed to search out websites and write down what I like and what I don't like. They gave me a link to search to get started. I clicked on it and EUREKA, Wow their it was Wealthy Affiliate number two on the front page of Google. That's not where they sent me, but that's where I landed. The rest is history. I 'd love to read how other members of the WA community found they way!

I just want to finish by saying something to Kyle, YOU-DA-MAN. What a great consulting business you have!

Later, Dave