Drinking From a Firehose - Confessions of a Newbie

I'm truly enjoying my time here at WA, and I'm eager to keep learning and building an online business. There is so much here to absorb, from the training modules to Jay's training, to all the videos from helpful members in this fantastic community.

I want to know everything, but trying to consume all this knowledge is akin to trying to drink from a fire hose. If I'm not careful, I could drown in the attempt! Yet, how can I possibly decide which pieces of this puzzle are the most important, or the most urgent?

So, here I am, trying to take everything in because I don't want to miss anything.

No, I am not suffering from "information overload", and I am definitely not suffering from burnout, even though I've been devoting well over forty hours each week to WA. In fact, I have the opposite problem - I don't want to stop at day's end!

But my conscience, A.K.A. "Boss", "Master", "Sweetie" reminds me that I've been on this computer all day, and it's time to pay some attention to her! I don't dare tell her "no", that's for sure! Men, you know WHY.

I've had all the "married man's dinners" I want. You guys out there know the menu. There are only two courses, hot tongue and cold shoulder. Neither are very appetizing, and are often followed by a sleepless night on the couch!

My problem, delightful as it is to me, is that there are so many different lessons to be learned, and they are all not only useful and necessary, but interesting as well.

I feel like that poor puppy that accidentally startles a nest of baby rabbits. Those babies scatter in every direction, and the puppy just doesn't know which one to chase, so it's paralyzed with indecision.

No, I won't become paralyzed by indecision. I'll just have to follow each little path, no matter how long it takes. But, which ones do I opt to follow this time?

I am truly grateful for having found and joined WA. The WA community has been such a wonderful, unexpected bonus. There are so many friendly, helpful members!

The training itself is unbelievably comprehensive, although I must admit that sometimes I feel really ignorant! SEO, CSS, RSS, Long Tail Key Words.......Huh? Yet, step by step, brick by brick, the lessons help me lay the foundation for my new online business, just as surely as if it were a brick and mortar creation.

In that analogy, while the WA training (Thank you Kyle, Carson, and Jay!) provides the bricks, the WA community provides the mortar to hold it all together. It works well, to say the least! I'd give a "shout out" to the ones that have helped me the most, but the list would be just too darned long!

It feels as though it's taking me too long to complete the training. I just completed Certification Course 2, and it took two months to do so. I don't know if that's fast, slow, or average, relative to anyone else in training. While that seems slow to me, the reality is that it doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as I get it right the first time.

WA training isn't a race, and even if it were, I would be the tortoise, not the hare. But I will get there, sucking up every last bit of knowledge I can find along the way.

My resolution for 2018 (I know it's late, but I never make New Year's resolutions anyway!) is to continue the training, attempt to become more selective in the side trips I take, yet still keep moving ahead.

To sum it up, I need to repeat over and over "Idle down, Sparky" and drink without drowning. That should be easy enough to do, right?

Uh-oh!................

I wonder if I can work up an appetite for a "married man's dinner"?

Frank