Knock Off My Path - Temporarily Off Course

In April of this year I was planning out the months ahead at Wealthy Affiliate. I knew that I would be off work for sometime do to having my knee replaced. Though I did not look forward to the surgery, I was excited that I would have so much time on my hands that I could continue training, build good content, and apply ranking SEO practices.

Sadly this was not the case. When I was awake which often was an issue, I chased shiny objects, procrastinated, and down right avoided working. Four months later and I look back at all the wasted time. The one positive I give myself, is that I stayed connected with the community, and I am glad I did.

Staying connected, reading encouraging posts from so many members, seeing success stories regularly, helped me to stay the course. Even though I was not personally advancing in my training or content, I still knew this was the direction I wanted.

Today was the day. I made a firm decision to go back and start the training from scratch, and I chose to change course. I eventually want to go towards the MMO and Bootcamp training but that required more learning.

Instead, I chose a niche that I am trained in professionally, and very passionate about. Photography has been a part of my life since my teen years, trust me that was a very long time ago. The decision to change course at this point in time was based on already being very knowledgeable, which will help with content building. It is probably the direction I should have originally gone.

So back to today, I entered my office at 1:00pm, put my head down and went through Level ! of the Online Entreprenuer Certification. I started the new website, wrote About Me page and got the Private Policy In Order.

It is now 1:20 am, I just finished check my emails and to my surprise, earlier this evening my website was indexed into Google. I could have been only hours since I posted it. This is an incredible motivation to get back in my office first thing tomorrow and review Level 2 of the training. I feel like I am on fire now.

I chalked up my slip and fall at Wealthy Affiliate as to many obstacles to climb. I needed to recover both mentally and physically before I could really concentrate on my path here at WA.

Over the months I have received many well wishes and I would like to thank everyone in the community. I have always maintained that one of the greatest selling factors at WA is the members and how they support on another. I found this out firsthand.

Onward and upward - success is waiting for us!

Mary