New Subscription, New Goals But First A Year's Worth of Lesson

byJohnGreg08

916 followers

4 years ago

After lengthy deliberation, I decided to give Wealthy Affiliate another chance, but this time I will not cheat on her.

I know. Purchasing Wealthy Affiliate's Black Friday Yearly Subscription is a no brainer. Just think about it. What other platforms provide so much value to their member for only $25/month.

If you are wondering why I had to consider whether to buy WA or not is because I am tight with cash after purchasing something big and I haven't made money yet from WA (okay that one was a lie because I made $135 from a friend who purchased a yearly subscription).

Anyways, the reason why I am writing this blog is to share with you what I have realized while thinking about whether or not to buy WA.

4 Things I Think The Reasons Why I am Not Succeeding

1. I am not faithful with WA
2. I need to practice humility
3. I am counting my chickens before it hatches
4. I am not leveraging the value WA is providing

I am Not Faithful with WA

One of the things that I realize is I am not faithful to WA - meaning I have been spending a lot of money buying courses on uDemy, subscribing to Shaw Academy, and trying to make my Clickbank business work.

I mean there is nothing wrong with learning from other sources. What is wrong is I lose focus. My goals get changed every now and then. My business spending gets bloated. And I get options paralysis.

After realizing this, I find it funny that I complain about paying for WA subscription yet I am not making money but WA is not about that. WA is a learning platform and blogging services first and making money from WA is just a by-product of their good services.

I Need to Practice Humility (Listen to the Training)

Another thing that I realize why WA is not working for me is because I don't want to listen to their training. There is part of me saying that I already know this topic and I think my strategy is more superior to what they are teaching. Instead of doing what they are teaching, I do my own thing, but in the end, I realize my thing, although it is a better one, does not fit in WA strategy, therefore, it does not work.

If I want to make WA work then I need to humble myself and follow their instructions to the dot.

I am Counting my Chickens Before They Hatch

This is another WA deadly sin that I am doing. I know this is deadly because I've done stock trading, and did the same thing. The result is I only get discouraged because I overestimate my numbers.

If you haven't realized it yet, discouragement is the number 1 enemy of success. If you are discouraged, you will not pick up yourself when you fall no matter how close you are to the finish line.

I am Not Properly Leveraging the Value WA Provides

Many say focus on your blog and don't worry too much being active in WA. I beg to differ or at least focus on your blog 80% of your time but you must spend 20% of your time adding value to the lives of WA members.

Being active in WA have a lot of advantages and although I am sorry I will not spill it out what are those here (message me if you are really interested) I will still give you a hint.

Be active on writing a WA blog post - make sure to introduce yourself, add value to others by solving a problem in our post.

• Welcome new members / expand your network
• Ask and/or answer questions
• Be active on the threads Kyle mentioned in the training videos
• Ask for SITE Feedback

Well, that is it for me.

I know this sounds like I am just ranting, nevertheless I hope you pick some bit and pieces of wisdom in this article. If you have any questions please let us know down below.

If you have none, then let me ask you some!

Cheers,
John Greg of wealthbuildertips