I Love It When A Plan Comes Together! (PersonalChallenge Week 5 of 38)
Hi, my 5th week as a Premium Member here at Wealthy Affiliate has passed.
No, "passed" is absolutely the wrong word! This week has not just passed, it was exciting eventful and intense!
Really fascinating here at Wealthy Affiliate is the diversity of people, their talents and knowledge. It does not matter if you need support, motivation or an opinion, or something else, you will find and get everything here! I have made many great friends and contacts and do not want to miss one of them!
There are two members whom I would like to thank especially, representative of all other members, for the last weeks!
Thank you Andi68, my good old friend!
About 8 years ago we lost sight of each other, after working together for many years in the same company. A few weeks ago we met again - I have recommended you to try WA and behold, today you are premium and build consistently on your own future!
It's great to have you here, to work with you and it feels like the 8 years break has never been!
And the other person I want to thank is Inaeliza !
We met here at WA a few weeks ago. Ina, you are a great motivation and help since the first contact! Rarely have I met such an openhearted, sunny and helpful person!
Stay the way you are - and I hope we can support each other here for a long, long time!
@to all the other members I met here, or will meet in the future!
You are great! I look forward to every contact, every opinion, every comment, every follower - I love it being here and being part of this community!
Thank you all!
So, let´s go over to weekly business...
1) Reach ranking position 300 or better
Unfortunately I missed the goal. I started this week on position 318th, so not far away. It is a matter of days before I venture into the TOP 300. I am satisfied for myself. The medium term goal is still to reach the TOP 100. But the ranking has lost a little importance for me...
2) 10 Referrals and 2 Sales
Due to a change to a new domain, I had scaled down my goals. I have successfully completed the domain change and despite the interruptions, I was able to record 12 referrals.
But, and that's one of my main topics for this week, no sale!
I have set automatic messages to welcome new members, optimized the messages, do welcome new members personally, offer my help, checked and optimized my website content. I also wondered if maybe something had to be changed on the side of Wealthy Affiliate and asked other members: 30-minute Delay on Welcome Message for New Members! Good or Bad?
I have to look deeper into the topic. If you have suggestions or tips for me, I'll gladly accept them!
3) Do Training Courses 1+2
I did 14 Lessons or about 1,5 of the 2 courses. To be honest, more than one course a week doesn´t make sense, if you want to do all the tasks thoroughly and create good content.
1) Training and learning, while creating new content
The most important thing is the training! It took some weeks until I understood that, too.
For this reason, training in the next few weeks is the most important point in my daily routine!
GOAL: Complete 10 lessons successfully
2) Affiliate Program Wealthy Affiliate
Out of the experiences the weeks before, it must be the goal again to reach 10 referrals and finally the next sale! By changing the content on my website I assume fewer referrals - it is more important to focus on conversions.
GOAL: 10 referrals and the next premium sale
3) New! Fitness and Spirit
Although it may be surprising. For the next few weeks, I'll pick up the point in my goals.
In spite all the activities for financial independence and the possibilities here at WA,
I would like to take specific time for my personal development. Doing sport, reading, hiking and taking a break... I want to live the balance between striving for success and my goal of financial independence every day...
GOAL: Do it 2 hours a day
4) WA Ranking Position
This topic has now come to the last place. It is important, but it grows naturally with every of my activities in our community. So I set a goal, but very moderate.
GOAL: Ranking Position 275 or better
It's amazing how my goals have changed within just a few weeks. Partly by success, partly by failure - the important thing is to set new goals every week, every day, and to pursue them!
To conclude for this week!
Wealthy Affiliate is a real gold mine for me! I learn and understand new things every day, great people enrich me and I walk step by step in the direction of my life goals!
I am glad to be here, every day!
@all New Members: You can also participate in this great community. But you have to start yourself, I can not do that for you! "You will never win, if you never begin!"
Wish you a successful and great week!
Andre
Recent Comments
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Congratulations on your progress. You have good priorities in place. Continued success to you.
Debbie
Thank you! I hope my goals are the right ones, and if not? Then I´ll change my goals and prjections for next week!
Andre
Thank you Marcus! I will be soon be the "pushing world champion", thanks to your motivation!
Andre
Thank you, Andre! It is always a real pleasure to "talk" to you! Alike attracts alike (hope this is proper English :) ). And you are also a motivation to me: thanks to you I also decided to "upgrade" my ranking and look where I am now(in just a week or so): about 7000 places up :)
But first of all: congratulations for your achievements! You did accomplish a lot in 5 weeks (trust me when I say it). And your energy, passion and desire to keep going will help you to achieve much much more! So, really take time to celebrate. This way you will tell to the Univers that you are thankful for what you got till now and are ready to receive a lot more (my believe:) ). Plus, celebrating is really fun (another reason in case the first one did not convince you) ;).
I also hope that this is the beginning of a beautiful and long friendship.
LG,
Ina :)
Thank you Ina - it was important for me to mention you in my post. You and my my former workmate Andi are very valuable companions for me these days and I do not want to miss either of you!!!
"Alike attracts alike", I also have no idea if this is proper English - but it´s true! And I also hope that we will support each other for a long time, with mutual motivation, support and help. Yes, I think that's what you call a deep and trusting friendship!
Celebrate? Yeah, I already did yesterday and today it will continue to work. ;-) "After the game, is before the game", a famous German football coach (his team won world cahmionship in 1954) once said. and he is right! Whether you lost or won the last game - the next game (or goal in our business) is the most important!
Have a beautiful day and I'm glad to know you!
Andre
Hello Andre
Sounds like you have an excellent plan. i like it,
Also you did a great post, especially the part
"You will never win, if you never begin!"
I love that,is inspirational as simple as it is.
Thank you !
Daniel Stone
Hi Daniel!
I am glad that you like my post!
This saying / wisdom is essential! I had up to 100 employees under my responsibility, many of them were dissatisfied with their jobs and their lives. The problem with most of them - they have never started to change anything!
It´s like horseracing, you can win, if you are the trainer, owner or jokey of the horse, or if you make a bet. No matter how, you have to start and put something into it!
Andre
Thank you for sharing this, Andre. And a special thank you for the personal words you wrote and for bringing me to WA. I feel the same: I cannot believe it has been less than 30 days ago when we re-connected after a long time. And even though our goals may go into different directions, we are still on the same wave length.
Don‘t put to much pressure on yourself - what you have achieved in this short period of time is amazing. I know why you are under special circumstances since our ex-company f...ed you subsequently. But as I told you - never look back, the future wil rock for the both of us. I‘m convinced that we found the right place at WA and in a year from now we will harvest not only the low hanging fruit. Keep it up, pal!
Andi
Thank you Andi! As you wrote, it's hard to believe, but that's the way it is... We are walking on the same road and are going the same way! Surfing the same wave! :-)
Pressure is not a bad thing for me, under pressure I work best. So do not worry about me - everything is fine!
I´m convinced too, that we are absolutely right here! So let´s keep on pushing it!
You can be really pleased with yourself, Andre. Again, you have achieved a lot in just one week. Also, I think it's great that you adjust your goals as you go along and see more and more of the whole picture. This is a very important step. It makes you prioritise those aspects that are vital for success. I'm sure, this coming week will be a good one again.
Hi Beate! Thanks, you´re absolutely right! It's a puzzle with thousands of pieces, but it's slowly becoming a whole picture!
Hope to get ahead this week, as planned...
Wish you a great and successful week!
Andre
Andre, you have done fantastically well to have gotten 12 referrals in your first 5 weeks, especially if this is a new website. You should be very pleased with yourself.
Wishing you every success with your future goals.
With Grace and Gratitude
Karen
Karen, thank you!
I am pleased - but hopefully some of the new mebers see the great oportunity and chances here at WA and decide to turn Premium... Otherwise they miss a great chance.
All the best and continued success for you!
Andre
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Congrats on your progress and yes goals are soooo important!!
Tried and True
Elaine
Yes, Elaine! Goals are very important, in close cycles they help to me make the right decisions again and again. And there are many landmark decisions to make in our business...
Andre