Time To Roll Up Our Sleeves And Do The Hard Work To Really Get Ahead
Hi everyone,
Its great if we enjoy or love what we are doing to earn income, but that is not always going to be the case.
I've been self employed since at least 1993.
And there have been rough times along the way, but I have always preferred to working hard for myself than working hard for an employer and making them the money.
I enjoy the freedom of running my businesses my way.
They say, "the customer is always right".
I don't subscribe fully to that idea. I remember distinctly the moment I Fired a customer who I could see was going to be a bear to work with over the next few weeks. I don't regret that decision.
As I know work towards my 3 year vision board goal of having $10 Million Dollars, there are going to be many times when the work is going to weigh down on me.
It's really simple. How bad do we want the results we are looking for?
If we want it bad enough, then we will do whatever it takes to achieve those results.
I now have 2 Amazon Ads campaigns running and they are both earning $$$. I will soon start a 3rd campaign.
I'm good at creating content, ebooks, books, courses...etc. Now I need to get better at promoting and selling them.
I have a number of different income avenues that I will soon start to explore and implement on. I need to stay focused and get the work done.
Don't be afraid of hard work. Instead be afraid of what you might miss out on in life, because you are unwilling to fully commit to improving your life, your business and your future.
To Our Success!
Mel Waller
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Great post Mel. Financial success never happens if we sit back and daydream of the good life. We must make that effort, even when we don't feel up to it.
Even if you want a chance to win the lottery, you still have to make the effort to get up and go to the lottery agent and buy a ticket.
Robert
Hi Mel, I know most will tell you good going and it is, you are on the right track.
I however what to learn from you, study your methodology, Practice them, see what works for my own business plan. Take what is meat from your plan and throw away the bone. Why because like you I want to be the best at my game.
You may be wondering why you, its because my story is similar. Many years ago I saw a man who had been working in the same organization as I for 10 years, yet my salary was bigger than his, simply because my education level was better. I made a decision, there and then, that my path would be different.
Now like you I'm self employed, and smart enough to know that you would understand the self employed dynamic. And I plan to succeed. I don't steal, so i'm saying upfront that I will study your methods, use what works for me. Even ask you questions and seek advice from time.
Thanks for this write-up. Appreciated ^_^ Cheers
Thanks Paul for the thoughtful reply!
You are free to ask questions;/advice and I will get to them as I can.
At least living in the Caribbean, you probably had a nice warm and sunny Christmas.
Mel
Yeah, it fine, Thank God we had no rain this year and most of the family overnighted.
However the Caribbean is no longer a zone of peace it used to be.
We had a saying 'Trinidad is nice, Trinidad is a paradise' however we now have fishermen afraid to fish, tourist visitors now afraid to come to our country.
Cheers, my country's new reality'. Cheers ^_^
Sorry to hear of your challenges, Paul.
It seems peace can not be found anywhere in the world today. Not like I would be happy experiencing.
One option if we have the income to do it, is to be able to travel to and fro around the world. That's another thing I desire to be able to do.
Mel
I had no idea Paul:
Trinidad and Tobago's main current challenges center on severe crime and violence (especially gang-related homicides), a struggling, undiversified economy vulnerable to global shifts, corruption, economic hardship with high cost of living and unemployment, and issues with governance and public service delivery, alongside persistent social problems like human trafficking and gender-based violence. The nation is also grappling with increased illegal immigration, straining resources and exacerbating crime, while facing environmental concerns and calls for urgent economic reform.
Really sorry to hear of your challenges. :-(
Mel
The Caribbean was the last zone of peace in this world. I have looked around the world, and haven't see many area I wish to visit. But, thanks appreciated ^_^ Cheers appreciated.
There isn't many places better than Trinidad and Tobago even with all the issues. Many places have greater violence and a lower living and educational standard.
ATM I see no reason to leave, anywhere else have the same issues, just at different levels. ^_^
I think at some point in the future, the people are just going to have to rise up and throw off the corrupt govts and clean house themselves. When and if that will happen is another story.
Mel
Mel, only some of that is correct. , and you need to have some context.
1 - Trinidad sits next door to Venezuela and Colombia, two of the worlds major drug producers, the use the Caribbean Sea to transship drugs to Europe. When they bring the drugs here they leave the guns behind. So we have drug gangs here affiliated to gangs in those countries. Most of our murders a gang members. It's easy to manipulate statistics
2 - Trinidad is an Oil and Gas producing country rank in the top 7 of the world methanol producers. Tobago is a tourist oriented island, we have the 2nd highest GDP in the c
Caribbean after the Bahamas. We have a 99% literacy rate and are a very tech savvy people.
3 - The challenges you speak of, lets discuss them
a - Corruption, every country has corrupt officials, money talks, We are no different and we struggle with it like every other nation.
b - Non-diversified economy, besides oil and tourism, we have a robust manufacturing sector, the majority of goods sold throughout the Caribbean is manufactured here in Trinidad. People talk about India and the Philippines for outsourcing, we not that far behind
c - Social problem, this is the real challenge. our population is identified in population census 40% East Indian and 40% of African descent, with significant populations of Chinese, Caucasians - mainly Spanish, French , Portuguese and English), Arabs, Latin Americans and our own native Amerindian people (called Caribs and Arawaks, we call Kalinago). What the census never reflects is the mixing that takes place in our population. My own ethnic background is Ethiopian, Amerindian, and Scottish, some I'm considered mix.
Inside of this are the religions - Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Orisha and some Amerindian belief. The problematic group are the Hindus (they carry a fear that the Africans would dominate them and fought independence rather wanted to create their own separate state.
This situation has never been resolved, and a silent war is continually being fought whenever government shift from one group to the other (the thing that they don't tell you about.)
Our current prime Minister is a Hindu nationalist, you talk about unemployment, they have already terminated over 100,000 non Hindu state employees, they are concerned with competence.
d - Venezuela - the Caribbean group of nations (Caricom) took a position of neutrality in the conflict between the Trump Administration and Venezuela. Our current Hindu government broke with the Caricom position (the only Caribbean country to do so) and openly sided with the US position.
As a result Venezuela our major gas supplier cut off all gas to Trinidad and Tobago - remember our economy of in the main an oil and gas producer, without gas supplies, this sector will eventually shot down.
I'm not into politics, I'm just a business doing risk analysis. This is also part of the reason diversifying into an affiliate based business is the best way for me to go.
I trust that this will help provide you with clarity 'A non political, economic and cultural assessment of the Trinidad and Tobago economy'
Cheers ^_^
I just deleted my entire reply and now have to rewrite it. I'm not into politics, I'm into economics and the analysis of risk, and risk takes into account every factor.
Non-moral people rely on the moral people being and remaining passive. They make the most noise, push their agenda first and use their immense social influence to bully and cower populations into believing they have no voice. I don' t see that changing any time soon. Just saying ^_^
Thanks Kj
Business people have to learn to read all weathers, the objective will always be business survival.
Just saying ^_^. Cheers
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I am actually looking forward to doing the hard work, let's say next year, this one is nearly gone.
I have been spent far too much time dreaming and not enough doing.
My momentum has been building toward the end of this year and I am hoping I can keep that rolling into 2026.
Thanks for sharing Elyta! Like Nike says, Just Do It. :-)
Mel
You're welcome. Exactly!