Finding my way-My story

My story, I guess is two-fold. On the one hand, it’s spiritual and on the other side it’s practical. And I felt caught between the two for the longest time.I’d always seen myself as spiritual, especially starting with my very early teens. I got baptized, like most people in my church, around 14, but I felt like something was missing. I didn’t know what, but it was missing. At least for me. I started visiting other churches, then decided to leave the church scene altogethe

Happy Thanksgiving to all

I'd like to take this time to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Day. As so many people have said already, the American Thanksgiving is celebrated on the last Thursday of the month. I'd also like to take this time to give thanks.My Wealthy Affiliate FamilyI started up my training last April, and I am so grateful for the support of all of my Wealthy Affiliate family. Honestly, without your cheering me on, and giving moral support(yes, I know, you can't do the work for me, lol), I would have not

Finally Finished Writing and Publishing my First Post

It felt like a mountain that was impassible, but I finally finished and writing my first post. It felt like a feat of tantalus, but I got it. I published my first post. I don't know if I put too much information in the first post, but I did find that I was trying to put two topics in one post, so a few false starts, but I finally got it done! Yay, me!Never gave upThe important thing was that I never gave up on my post, or I guess, myself. I just wanted to get this done, and go on with my tra

I've Achieved Ambassador Status

I was intending to wait til my first website blog post was done before blogging anything else, but I got the most suprising news in my inbox yesterday. I'm now officially a WA Ambassador. I was hoping for that, but I figured I might not get it for a while, certainly not before I finished my level 2 training. I just started Level 2 a few weeks ago, and am working on my first post for my website. So I was suitably surprised, as you can imagine. How it makes me feelDoes this make me feel good, y

My Whys: Thoughts & Musings

I've been doing a lot of thinking about my 4 main whys I'm pursuing Internet Marketing/Affiliate Marketing or Online business through Wealthy Affiliate.Shaking off my dependence on SSII went on SSI Disability over 30 years ago with the idea that it was going to be only temporary, but 37 years later, I'm still on it, but I never gave up trying, and I'm not giving up now. It bought me time to face my issues, and change my mindset, but it didn't really make me comfortable being on the largess of

The Dangers of Perfectionism

I've been working on my "About Me" post....again for my Online Entrepreneurship Certification training, and I've come across an all-too-common "enemy": Perfectionism. Part of it, I think is that I care so much about my niche. I want this to be the best it can be. I want it to be "just so", and that stops me. It makes me feel like I am hitting a brick wall. but what are the dangers of perfectionism?Nothing ever gets accomplishedIf we keep overthinking and working and working to get a blog post

Changing My Mindset

One of the things that's happened since I started at Wealthy Affiliate is that my mindset has changed and improved. When I started Wealthy Affiliate, I was so down on myself and really didn't think that much of myself. As far as my self-talk, the less said, the better. I was so horribly negative, and beat myself up every time I appeared to have failed. Even the slightest mistake. I knew I shouldn't have done that, but I couldn't seem to stop myself. What changed? I started reading self-develo

Celebrating my first milestone

I'm celebrating my first milestone. I usually have trouble with follow-through, so to me, this is a BIG Victory. I completed my first module in the Online Entrepreneurship Certification. I know to some, this might not be a big deal, but to me, I actually finished the "Getting Started" module. I've never progressed this far with the course. I've started it a few times, but kept stalling out. This time, I pushed through and completed it a few days ago. So, on I go to the Traffic module, and I th

A New Start

I haven't been active for a long time, and for a time, was considering canceling WA, but I kept putting it off for some reason. My argument to myself was that I wasn't using the service as it deserved to be used. I thought and thought about it, and was so close to canceling, but then I thought, what if I started using it, starting over? What if I actually gave it a chance and actually utilized it for a change? What would happen? And then, what's the worst that would happen? Why did I stop usin

New Post is now up on my blog!

Just wanted everyone to know that my new post just  got published on my blog.This wasn't the easiest post to write as I am still learning about beliefs and their effect on our lives and how our lives can be sabotaged by beliefs we don't even know we have, or if we do, we don't know how to change them. I'm starting to get more confident in writing posts, now if I can just become as confident in writing articles for Ezine Articles and Street articles.  Anyway, take a look if you want. St