Six month badge-mixed feelings

byDougie-Smith

384 followers

6 years ago

Hey Guys and Gals,

I've just received my 6 month badge as a premium member here at W/A and I must say it came as a bit of a shock.Happy on one hand, but a little down(not a lot) on the other.

You see, I joined W/A last August and Knew this was for me. I had been looking for a very long time for something like this to find me and help me start an online business. I got really excited and got started right away on the training but got stumped on choosing my niche, as I'm sure a good deal of newbies do, but I asked a couple questions and very quickly got help and was soon on my way again. I'd come to the right place. Things were turning !!

And turn they did. In the most extreme way. As,have many things at crucial times in my life.

Life decided to throw me a huge curve ball and I had to choose to take immediate action. My eldest daughter who emigrated to Queensland, Australia, three years ago,was pregnant with her third girl and was due at Christmas on boxing day. She needed help. Daddy's physical help !!

She found out that her unborn was gonna need open-heart surgery as soon as she was born. Devastating news. It shook me !! We all were shaken !! She would need to have the baby 80km south of where she lived in Brisbane, in a specialist hospital. And she would need to be admitted and induced one week before her due date. How on earth was she going to do this? It was 'Christmas'. She has two other little girls aged two and six to look after and a partner that works tirleessly on his stone craft landscaping business that he'd just started up two years ago and this was their summer, prime working time, and throw in the school holidays. Urghhhh!! Oh, and no family support system either.

Without thinking how on earth was I gonna do it, I told her I would come out to Australia and help them, I would look after the girls (one who I'd still never met). She had no choice but to be in Brisbane and me being there would allow her partner to support her and work on his business if he had to. Logical right ?! But, and a big but.......I had no money !!!

Here I was stuck again(like with my niche, but a good bit deeper) and had to reach out for help. Help came in the form of me getting an extra job in my same forestry industry that I could work at weekends and as much at other times that would be possible to do so, out with my day to day forestry job. And so I had to make a decision to put everything that I was working on, including W/A, to the side for the time being. I had to focus and take action on making as much and saving as much money that I could in the short time between end of August and start of December, that would allow me to achieve this. Seriously, I had no funds or reserves that would allow this to happen.

However, with grit and sheer determination I did it. I worked extra at nights and I worked every weekend and saved just enough money to pay for my flight and very limited spending budget for the time I would be there. Being self-employed, I also had to cover all my bills and life costs here whilst I would be away, and leave enough money here to allow me to start work again on my return. Self employed, we cover all our own costs as you know.

I also wanted to keep paying my monthly investment to W/A as a premium member. For I knew that when I returned from down under I would need to crank things back up here. I was gutted that I couldn't afford to make the investment to go yearly on black Friday, but I sure will this year. Before I made the decision to put everything aside for the time being I had only written one post, on taking action. I had ranked 46750 and had a network of 81 followers. I noticed though while I was away that although my ranking dropped my followers slowly crept up. Although I couldn't thank these members at the time I can't tell you how much they helped me in knowing I had made the right decision back in August to join W/A and this wonderful community. The increase in numbers told me I had made a small impression on a few people who I'd never met but had taken the time to notice me and choose to follow me online. The online structure of how things work was in fact working. Albeit not in the making money sense. But I could see it right in front of my eyes and it gave me faith in my decision.

And so, Australia, I made it happen. I worked hard every single day and I kept focus.I went out and helped my daughter by looking after her two little girls. I looked after their household. I met my two year old granddaughter for the first time, I found out what a gorgeous little girl my six year old granddaughter had turned into and we had so much fun together. I was able to hug and support my big 33 year old baby. And finally I was there to meet my youngest little granddaughter as she was born. It was a very emotional and stressful time for myself and them but little Amber had her open-heart surgery and is still making a wonderful recovery. And we all made the most of our Christmas time together.

I have returned and I'm back to work and I'm catching up on everything back home. I'm still having to work an extra day at weekends to bring the funds back up, but I'm ready to get to work on my training again and determined to have my website up and running soon.

With receiving my six month badge I had a thought of where I would have been had I been able to work on my online business for the past six months, but I had to let them thoughts go quickly for it is the now that matters. It is taking action today that counts. I have achieved so much in the past six months. I am thankful and grateful for so much and I am really looking forward to the next six months to.

I would just like to finish by thanking all the members that are following me and I look forward to working with you all here at W/A.

Hard work, focus, taking action on a daily basis and being determined will bring results, But you really have to want it bad. Like reeeeeeeal bad !!!

Thank you so much if you have taken some of your precious time to reach the end of my second post. I salute you. Your'e awesome :)

Dougie :)