My Dress Rehearsal

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Kia Ora

Good afternoon, from New Zealand friends and colleagues,

I was having a chat with Carol (CCelest), one of the really cool members here, yesterday and it made me think about something I had not quite realised until that point...................

Joining Wealthy Affiliate

I joined Wealthy Affiliate as a free starter on 13 January this year and within an hour I had

signed up to premium, within 2 hours I had launched a website, and in 94 days ( although I didn't get around to reporting it until day 95) I had written 100,000 words, over 3 websites, over more than 70 articles.

Yup I know you have heard all of that from me already on these pages, but bear with me, because there might just be someone reading who has not had that pleasure ........................

Hang on where was I........oh yes..... so I was talking to Carol (CCelest) and we were talking about what we were doing, and how this WA thing is going, and it suddenly occurred to me, that since that day in April when New Zealand went into lock down, I have been on a dress rehearsal!

The Plan

What is he talking about?.........

Well when I signed up to premium, 63 minutes after registering as a starter, I had already decided that my goal was to be a full time affiliate marketer, working primarily on the Wealthy Affiliate platform, by 31 May 2021.

But I am still in a pretty high tempo, demanding day job. So the only way that I could know what that full time gig was like was at weekends, when in the first couple of months before lock down, I worked all the hours I could find to get knowledgeable and get content published.

Happenstance

Then of course came lock down, 7 days a week, at home and in my home office, doing as much of my day job as is possible remotely, 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

What this did though was give me the opportunity, with control over my time, to balance my day job outputs with my future job outputs, across the 7 days and experience in effect what my life might look like from May 2021, assuming I hit my targets.

Findings

So it came as no surprise to me that.......... I LOVE IT!

Having had a wee taste of this in 2013 when I took a year's sabbatical to do a Masters degree in Infornation Management at Victoria University in Wellington, I suspected I would and I never really got used to going back to the office environment and in particular the 8-5 at the desk bracketed by two hours of commuting.


Wealthy Affiliate to the Rescue

Before Wealthy Affiliate though I couldn't think of a way in which I could recreate the control over my time that I had in that year and still have a good income.

Now, along with two other income streams, that I have been developing in the last few months I have a way forward and I have even had a thoroughly enjoyable and successful dress rehearsal!

Do you have a plan? Are you working towards a clear objective? What are your drivers?

With that I bid you all good afternoon, from New Zealand, friends and colleagues. I am off to dream about and visualise my last day in salaried employment and how I will stage-manage that LoL........

Kia Koa, Kia Kaha,

Hamish🧐

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Hi Hamish!
I'm also enjoying my dress rehearsal, and I think I am going to have a hard time going back to "normal" when this is over, unless I can achieve going into full mode online income in these months.
I also spend much time on my online work for my websites and training, except for Mondays, because then I have to teach my 7th graders online, and the work involved takes up hours, but it's just one day per week (and a few hours today for grading). I can manage that :-)
Wealthy Affiliate could not have come at a better time for many of us :-)

Couldn’t agree more Christiine exactly why I am trying to get as much content laid down as quickly as I can while we have this perverse freedom of movement which comes about because of government restriction in movement LoL🧐

Lol, exactly. I find much freedom within this restriction of movement :-) although right now I'm standing in line to get into a grocery story, it feels surreal.

It is unlike anything we have experienced before but it is of our time. Good luck with the groceries 🧐

Good work Hamish.
Do you wear your kilt for inspiration?
Have you made any bucks yet? (though not really relevant)
I have only 20 published posts ( and that's working 10 hours a day for 6 weeks) This said, 6 of my blogs already indexed.
Problem with me is that I get distracted; start battling with the long winded process of joining affiliate networks, get all sorts of codes, don't know what to do with them, bother site help and so forth. My posts take a long time, not because I am illiterate but cursed with perfectionism. They have to be from my own experience, of life, of a product.So my topics comes from my own experience. If I write about Pablo Escobar for example its that I met him.
This has been a good experience for me as it brings back good and bad memories of the past, that normally I just block out.
A good window for introspection!
Doubt if I will make any real money!

Ha ha , suffice to say that I have now been in profit for 1 month sir.

I get it!

Perfectionism, while important to you personally, will, as you say, hold you back from quick progress here.

I see affiliate marketers, who are making 6 figure incomes, who cannot write anywhere near as well as me.

So who is right?

I know what the bank manager would say LoL 🧐

My friend, I feel the same about perfectionism..and how it keeps me from progressing.
I just read an article by Kyle, that I wwant to share with you. He simplifies the process of writing an article, that is so direct, that whil reading this, I got ideas to write about for my own niche....

Rudy

Yes it s a great article which I have read before. It is much the way I write as you can see by this training tutorial I published recently: 80% is ok you will find people like Nathaniel and others advocating this as well.

There are people making 6 figure incomes who write with less elegance than many of us who are not yet in that earning position LoL🧐

Good Morning Hamish,

I had to take a second look. Is that him? Yes, it is Hamish.
This post has left me kind of breathless, so much in such a short time. That make my more than 3 years at WA sound like a prolonged holiday.
Hats off, it all sounds great.

Stay safe and healthy,

Taetske

Haha thank you Taetske, I do like to get on with things LoL🧐

So glad to hear you are loving your time here. Me, too...oh, there are a few things that can be a bit of a drag -- like research -- but I muscle through, and when I get to the writing part, it gets easier. I, too, am hoping to make an actual income from all this work at some point.

Hi Fran, I actually like both the research and the writing but especially the writing, that’s what drew me to the platform was being able to get into a position to make money from writing but without having to be Hemingway LoL. Glass is all going well for you 🧐

Oh My!!!!

I had not read your story before.
Simply amazing! You really dove into this.
That was real dedication, and it paid off Kuddos to you my friend.

I cannot wait to see where you are in the next 2 months.

I am on my own mission and have been on SUPERCHARGE
MODE. I in total silence, no music these few days, just taking everything in, and excited to see where I will be by the end of next week.

I am working on bitesize goals, so I do not set myself up for disappointment.

Much success moving forward.

Have a blessed evening, and hope to chat tomorrow.

Lovely to have you drop by Carla, yes I am a pretty driven kinda soul when I set my mind on achieving something I usually do what has to be done in order to do it. I hope that all is well with you. Thanks for the kind and encouraging words🧐

Haha you are one of half a dozen ladies on here who has made me blush LoL🧐

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