It's Goodbye
After 8 months of struggling to make this system work for me in dozens of different ways I have finally decided to step down.
Not from striving for online entrepreneurship and financial success through affiliate marketing – but from WA. This decision was surprisingly easy after I looked at a few important facts that I had previously blinded myself towards.
I can remember a time during my WA journey that the mere thought of leaving felt like it would be the end of the world should it occur. I have accepted though that I always seem to be bound for major change in great sudden leaps.
I have 'left' the WA community before in small ways – but I have always paid my membership and maintained a stubborn half accepted kind of approach to everything offered here. I recently took an extended break and came back only weeks ago - but jumping back in didn't help as much as I initially thought it would.
I still feel that the value of the benefits and features included in premium are more than outstanding – and well worth every penny when said features are used to the fullest.
For the past several months though I haven't been able to use my premium account to it's fullest potential. I have long since deviated from the lessons and WA formula for success and found my own promising path that allows more freedoms alongside poor health.
Even with this new avenue I have defended and trusted WA alone for their unmatched website hosting services – and I believed that this alone would be worth keeping my premium account.
But with being unable to work productively on my website for reasons described in my last blog post have been spending more and more time and energy on other interests – and I have also realized that spending all of my waking hours building my website accompanied by being constantly filled with guilt, stress and pressure to make the most of the time in between each WA billing cycle just isn't very healthy.
And with divided interests no longer can I justify spending so much on something that cannot always have my complete attention. I need to make my life more simple and I am not using my premium account to the fullest – and so it must go.
For the cost of one month of what has become almost entirely website hosting here I can buy one year elsewhere. I fully expect the quality, security and support with such a rate to be poor or even nonexistent but as long as my websites are still up and running in some acceptable form I can work on them at my leisure in a much more relaxed fashion and with less of the financial anxiety that currently surrounds my efforts.
I feel that using what I have learned so far and building out my sites and visions at a much slower pace will still eventually result in my early goal of a very modest monthly sum.
I will not forget the start that WA gave me and I may even return in a few years - when I am in a better place physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially.
I could not stay away a lifetime knowing what potential exists here - and the undiscovered territory of affiliate bootcamp intrigues me. Although the method and system of writing for a targeted niche never quite fit me - I see it working for so many others and hold the bright hope of promoting WA to the similarly disabled in a few years time.
I will take a few days to make sure I transfer my websites correctly and I can still sign into them. I am not completely sure I remember how to change the dashboard password yet.
I am so honoured to have been a part of this community and to have met such wonderful people whose kinds words will always be treasured. Your constant help and support while I have been figuring things out will always be appreciated.
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Hi Lunaela,
Your reasons for leaving seem sound and well thought through to me.
I have enjoyed your blogs in the past, and although we are from different eras I've felt quite an empathy.
I am also leaving WA as I have to undergo surgery in the very near future, with no indication of the time required for recovery ( medical consultants are very cagey when pressed on time scales..(.it all depends etc etc...))
If all goes well, and I've no reason to assume otherwise, I'll consider returning to WA.
Cheers and good luck with your future endevours,
Mike
I want to thank you for listening to my thoughts in the past and for commenting now. I wish you the best of luck on your surgery, recovery and future success at WA and elsewhere :)
Lunaela,
I'm sorry to see you leave WA, but understand that you need to make the decision that is best for you at this present time. I wish you continued success and improved health.
Take care & may God bless you richly.
-Patrick
Lunaela,
Sorry about your leaving. I can understand your situation. Maybe some time away will help you later when you want to get back and focus on becoming a successful online marketer. Nothing comes easy. You must put some effort into everything you do, including WA. You might want to consider WA as a job. When you are doing work on the job you want to do your best so you get noticed by the boss who may give you more responsibility and or increase in salary or promotion. The same is true at WA. However, you are the boss. No one checks up on you.
Kyle and Carson provide all the tools in your handbag and it's up to us to use them and apply them to our trade which is building websites and getting traffic to them so we can earn commissions.
I wish you all the best in your future. We hope you will be coming back sometime in the future.
George
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment and for your best wishes. However I do not believe that WA is the only and best way to become a successful online marketer - and I am determined to do this on my own, in my own time and with less stress and long term cost. You don't know me and I know you mean well but I am more hardworking than most healthy people and telling me to treat WA as a job right now is rather insulting - have done so these past 8 months and the massive unseen effort I have put into making this work might surprise you. I don't give up easily and by choosing to leave WA I still haven't given up - I am simply making things easier in a way that I realize only I can understand. I truly hope that anyone else reading this does not see my leaving as giving up because of lack of patience or effort. The affiliate marketing world still exists outside the realm of WA and the expertise and inside knowledge of Kyle and Carson is quite valuable - but not something that is prereqisite to success. I can no longer afford to pay for part time learning and so I am left to learn through my own experiences. I really don't need to be told how to go about using all of the tools provided when I have already expressed the lack of compatibility I have with the methods and overall approach here. I see that they do work for others though and would recommend the WA training to anyone who needs an real opportunity. If and when I do return in time it will not be as a member building a niche site, it will be as an existing affiliate marketer promoting WA. I am grateful for my time here and for the chance to realize I can do this - on my own terms.
I understand your leaving but sure hate seein' ya' go! Sure do want to wish you all the best!
Sorry to hear you are leaving but it sounds like you have given it a lot of thought so all the best to you and I hope we meet up again somewhere down the line.
Dear Lunaela, it is your choice and your decision. You are an outstanding person and I wish you all the best and a good luck on which ever path you will take.
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I read your posts Lunaela and I'll miss them! You are a great writer who has a magical way of putting your thoughts and feelings into text. You have an old head on a young body! You've never mentioned the cause of your suffering, but I can understand a little of your thoughts and motivations as I'm recovering from a major.
We will all miss you and hope you return someday.
In the meantime, I wish you all the best for your health and much happiness.
Love and light,
Kevin