Fired Up!
Published on January 13, 2019
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For some reason, I'm really fired up tonight and I can already tell it's going to be difficult to get my butt to sleep. But I can remember a time in my life when I had trouble getting fired up about anything. I was a victim of the daily grind and saw no evidence that such a life was ever going to amount to much. Not long after that, I had no job at all and things looked even more grim.
Then I discovered freelance writing and realized that there was at least one thing I was decent enough at to actually earn some money. It didn't pay much at first, but it was better than blowing a tank of gas to drive all over town applying for jobs I wasn't going to get. The effect this had on my mentality was amazing. I can't overstate how powerful it is to realize at the lowest point in your life that you have a marketable skill that doesn't involve a miserable job.
Fast-forward about 5 years and that's when I discovered Wealthy Affiliate. I was already giving my all to freelance writing, which is something I hadn't been able to get myself to do in any of the regular jobs I'd held over the years. But now I had stumbled across something even more exciting! I finally had the missing piece to the puzzle that would allow me to transmit my own message to the world. I had a vehicle for my writing that nobody else held the keys to.
Ever since then, I've been on a high that's pretty hard to explain. I won't say that my progress has been as fast as I would have hoped, but that's only because of the time I still spend on freelance work. Gradually that phase in my writing career is winding down and I'm finding more time to work on my sites now. So I guess that's what has me so fired up right now.
That got me to wondering what it takes to get other members here fired up. Does it come naturally to you or do you have to psyche yourself up each morning, before you get started? Is there any type of ritual involved in getting you into the required creative/productive state or has it now become so much a part of your mindset that you just wake up ready for action?
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