WA and I

Before WA

I have worked a full time job since I was 16 to help my parents who are immigrants with no education. I sacrificed going to college to continue to work and help support my parents. My dad passed in 2016 and I currently care for my elderly mother and my 3 children. I work 2 jobs to support my family.

Working 2 jobs takes up majority of my time during the week. Commuting and hours spent at work exceeds the time I would like away from home. I work 6 days a week and for a few days each week, I work 12 hours a day.

Aside from my jobs, I have my daughter and motherly duties that I must do as well. I cook when I can and if not, it will be takeout or pizza night, which is more often than I would like. My kids are active in sports and majority of the time I cannot make it to games or other school activities. My only day off from work consists of cleaning, laundry, food and household shopping, doctor/dental appointments, cooking, kids games, and maybe a movie with my kids.

Before WA, I often felt that my life will never change. Cost of living continues to rise and it seems as if my pay could never move as fast as it goes up. One day, I stumbled across a WA page and I don’t even remember how. It had taken me a month or so to finally tryout the promo 10 day trial offer.

Beginning WA

I am not much of a social person outside of the workplace and somewhat characterize myself of being an introvert. I do not participate in any social media due to the fact that I don’t like my business being put out there for the world to know and feeling obligated to respond to people’s request or comments.

So can you imagine how I felt and currently feel going through some of the training here on WA? I am having constant anxiety when the training consists of asking for feedback or comments and also having to do so for others. This very blog in fact is my first and I am only doing this because I am required to.

Beginning WA for me was extremely hard because of my issues with letting other people in and having to speak my mind to someone I don’t even know. If I am really being honest with myself, I purposely procrastinated on continuing with the training because I was dreading it. Instead of using my time wisely on training I would read other people’s blogs and found myself enjoying them very much. Although I enjoyed it, it had brought about another issue. The many blogs that I have read were written so well it had me feeling self-conscious of my own writing skills and wondered if I really had what it takes to be successful here at WA.

Continuing WA

Been here at WA for 2 months now and it is a continued struggle in regard to finding time to work on my site and moving forward with the training requirements.

I am slowly beginning to be okay with writing content and finding myself being less worried about if it was good enough or not. I am learning that asking for help does not strip you from being independent nor does it make you weak. I have also come to the realization that I should not be afraid of having my own voice.

Understanding that my success with WA requires time and effort. I am trying my best to devote what I can, when I can. I know many of you have already finished your first website within a month or 2 and I am truly happy and proud that you did it. Mine will just take a little longer and it’s okay but I will get there eventually.

Moving Forward with WA

In moving forward with WA I am slowly conquering a fear of mine and finding self-confidence in myself. I shall persevere and complete what I originally had set out to do, which is to build this website. I will find success in WA for failure is not who I am. Through all my struggles in life, I know it has always lead me to where I was meant to be so that I may learn the lesson and move on.
Thank you all for for the continued help and support!!

Mahalo,

March