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Mr. Villain

GaryK2

Published on September 11, 2018

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Mr. Villain

See that photo above? He's Mr. Villain. He lives inside my head. He always seems to pop up when things are going good and he tries to drag me down. And you know what, he does a pretty good job. He's been inside my head since I was young and I can't get rid of him. I keep fighting him and he usually wins. I've tried so many things in my life and it always starts out great and then here comes Mr. Villain to bring me down to despair. I'm tired of this guy and I need to get rid of him. But he won't go away easy. He almost got me again. I've been with Wealthy Affiliate for a few months now and I have built my website. I'm on level 4 of my training, I have a few affiliate links, Google Adsense is all over my site and I have about 17 posts on my site. Traffic is starting to build and things are looking up. The problem is Mr. Villain doesn't like that. He wants me to fail so he started filling my head with doubt. He wants me to fail so he can feel good about himself and that he won again and again and again. Mr. Villain almost got me to quit Wealthy Affiliate. He had me convinced that this wouldn't work and I should give up. Last night was a bad night. Mr. Villain told me to quit. I made a decision to quit Wealthy Affiliate. I got up this morning ready to cancel my subscription to Wealthy Affiliate. But I didn't. I met a new friend and I asked him to help fight Mr. Villain. He said yes. His name is Mr. Self Confidence. He convinced me to keep going and not give up. He kicked Mr. Villain to the curb and will fight to keep him away. It won't be easy because Mr. Villain is persistent and very strong. But Mr. Self Confidence is strong too and he's ready for a fight. You almost won the fight Mr. Villain, but I'm also ready for a fight and Mr. Self Confidence will be right by my side.

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