Like a rubber ball, I'll come bouncing back for more

byKettei

1.4K followers

5 years ago

I've nearly cancelled my membership several times over the last year.

I started the year with great intentions, all fired up with resolve to succeed and make my first one hundred dollars online.

I was so excited to be back working on the training that I somehow made ambassador because I was spending so much time here, helping other people.

I'm fortunate in that I have actually made money online already. I have some video courses that are creating a small amount as a passive income (around $20 a month) and I've just started selling books on Amazon (that's brought in a huge $10 so far). These sums may be small but they're proof that money can be made online.

But then I stumbled during the very real balancing act of taking care of my two daughters on my own and doing enough freelance work to pay the bills.

Something had to give and WA was it.

Perhaps foolishly, I continued to pay the monthly subscription for WA and I did nothing with it. I say foolishly, not because I think WA isn't worth the membership charge but rather that I was paying for something that I just wasn't using.

Decision time

Black Friday crept up on me and that's when I really asked myself, "am I ever going to make any money as an affiliate marketer or should I just cancel my membership now?"

Henry Ford is commonly attributed as saying, "whether you think you can or you can't you're right."

And deep down I've always harbored a self-defeating cynicism about making money online. It doesn't feel great saying it, but it's true. I've spent months on WA, plugging away at the training, publishing stuff to more than one site when I never really believed it would work.

It's little wonder that I didn't really find any measure of success.

So why didn't I quit?

Well, deep down, I also harbor the hope that it will work.

Reasons to be cheerful

Admit it, some of you were thinking, "one, two, three" at the end of the sub-heading. ;-)

Kyle and Carson seem to be quite genuine people that work hard to provide a platform that as a professional web-developer, I recognise as being pretty good value for money, just for the hosting!

And then there's the success stories here at WA. There's plenty of those here, posted by genuine people that have no reason to lie about it - and some even provide proof in the form of screenshots. Not screenshots of seven figure paychecks but believable figures like a few hundred.

I went ahead and took advantage of the Black Friday offer so that I could quit worrying about how I'm going to pay that monthly membership fee and start worrying about a publishing strategy.

Now I need to focus on just one thing and make it work.

I need to tame the grasshopper

Thanks to my grasshopper mind, I have too many ideas to just pick one, sometimes.

That's probably what led me to accomplish absolutely nothing.

There's an old proverb: "The hunter that chases two rabbits will catch neither."

This was me several months back - I created site after site, each with a bit of content and looking great but never publishing much to them. I have one niche site that I'm still interested in posting on but that's more of a hobby site than a business.

So now I need to look at my web-properties and make a choice.

Maybe even start the training again, from scratch.

I'm a little scared to be back, to be honest.

I could fail to achieve anything in the twelve months I've paid for.

But then, that's up to me, isn't it?