6 Month Badge!

Been awhile since I have connected with the community, so when I woke up to this badge I figured now would be a good time to get back out there. I took about a month or so off of blogging. I was seriously lacking motivation and energy to put anything in to it. When people say that this takes hard work and dedication, they aren't joking. This is really one of the hardest things I have ever done. I have started a second website, along with maintaining my first. Coming at things from a different a

Identity Theft - Not the Holiday I was Expecting!

So, I have been reading lots of your posts about how you spent the holidays with your family and friends and had a wonderful time, and I can't help but feel so lost and confused and completley violated.I woke up on Christmas Eve to a bank account with a minus in the thousands of dollars, and I mean THOUSANDS. I immediately called my bank to put my accounts on hold and find out what was going on. Upon further investigation, this was extremely hard considering everything was closed for Christmas,

Network Reached 1000 Today!

I just logged on and saw that my network has reached 1000! This is wonderful news! I have made great connections with so many of you, and some I am still getting to know. I just wanted to make this short and sweet and thank you all for being a part of my online journey.I hope to connect with a lot of you over the next little while here - and if I can help you in any way please don't hesitate to send me a message! That is one thing that I love about WA - everyone (for the most part) here lifts e

No, I haven't disappeared!

I have been MIA the past week or so. I was suffering from some major online burn-out. I needed to take a break from the platform, the community, and clear my mind. When I started this journey about four months ago, I really hit the ground running and took off. By doing that, I also neglected precious family time, and other things in my life that are extremely important to me like my recovery. I have taken the past week to reconnect with my loved ones, as well as my friends. Yesterday I co-hoste

Morning Routine Equals Success?

Do you have a morning routine? I was once told by a friend of mine who is a life coach that "in order to succeed and accomplish your goals, you need to have a morning routine."I can honestly say that until recently - say the past five or six months, that I never understood what this meant. My mornings are a time for myself. I don't check my phone right when I wake up (as much as I want too) - I wake up- I make a tea- I sit in silence and meditate - I check my goal list to see if I can check any

Hard Work Pays Off - Top 200

Woke up this monring to a lovely surprise! Top 200! I can't say that this is something that I was really working towards, and I know that ranking here at WA doesn't really matter all that much. It still feels great knowing that I am progressing as I go along in my journey here. It is strange for me to think of myself as someone that could help and offer assistance to another member. I feel as though I have so much to learn still, as I still think of myself as a newbie around here. I still have

My Traffic has Exploded!

So most of you know I have ventured down the road of Pinterest recently. It was one of the social media platforms that I had no idea how to use, and have spent the past month or so learning to figure it out. I also have just recently started using Canva to create images, banners, and all that jazz.I have literally been sitting here for the past two days watching my Google Analytics explode. Now when I say explode - I mean explode from what it has been recently. I am nowhere near where I want to

Turning 30

I woke up 30 today. 30..... I have been dreading this day for weeks, seriously stressing over it. But Why?In all honesty, I am not that sad to see my 20's go. I had a lot of heartache early on, and lived most of the years in an extremely destructive lifestyle before I got sober. However,Both of my kids were born to me in my 20's, I have grown as a person immensely these past few years, I have joined this community and started an online business which is a long time dream of mine, and I have mov

Pinterest - My New Favourite Social Media Platform!

Up until a couple of weeks ago I was not a fan of Pinterest. Sure, I signed up for it during the training, but I couldn't really get in to it. I didn't understand how it worked, and spent my time on other social media platforms that I knew how to navigate quite well. I wasn't seeing the results I wanted from other places I spent more time at like Instagram and Facebook, so I decided to venture down the Pinterest road and really see what it is all about. I had to watch some training on how it wo

A Sweet Surprise!

I had been working on changing some things around on my site the past week or so because I wasn't getting the results that I wanted. This included some new banners, using different affiliates besides Amazon and learning to branch out a little bit and not rely on just one source for income. I also had been writing in more of a "best of" style to follow the amazing Dylan's traning! Yesterday, I logged in to one of my affiliate websites and I HAD A SALE! That is two in just a couple of days! This