My First Year! Should I STAY or should I GO?
Today is almost Spring and with that comes those positive feelings of Goodness around every corner. Flowers will start blooming soon and SNOW will finally start melting in other areas! What a glorious time of year. I love spring and I love JANUARY! Both give me a feeling of newness and a fresh start.
Funny how that goes. My first year is up at Wealthy Affiliate U. and the decision to continue or stop was heavy on my mind. Sorry if that surprises anyone here but honesty is what I am all about. It is so much fun to 'Look Successful' but more fun to 'BE' successful. I can say I am successful in learning as much as I have learned.
I can say I am successful in helping where I could and I am certainly successful in getting my sites up and messing them up...just ask support! :) sorry guys. I promise to be better this next year. YOAST would have a finger wagging at me for those two identical sentences above...LoL.
Yes, I have made a decision that is now firm. No more wobbling about. The truth is, I have not made any money yet in this past year, and I am finishing boot camp as I got off track with being too damned excited and two to many sites!! You just can't do that when you are new and learning!
Gosh, I hope I can encourage everyone NOT to do what I did. And you know, when we have people that have been here for 5 and 10 years that speaks volumes!! It does work. If others can then so can I. So can You!
Part of my decision was visiting GoDaddy and doing a comparison. Did you know that for just ONE website and without security it will cost you over $200.00 per year? If you add in the extras we have here your costs again for ONE is over $282.00. ONE site!!! You can't even compare those numbers to WA and what we have here.
The knowledge and support I have gotten from so many of you is just incredible and worth more to me than the costs. The #7 is my favorite number and this is 2017 so maybe just maybe this will be my year. I am not always the brightest light bulb on the block some days ( blame my hairdresser for putting too much bleach on my head!) I get to say that as I was a hairstylist before getting sick and kind of coined the phrase pointing the finger back to myself. Ha Ha BUT if determination says anything then I am good to go.
When it came down to the last day, the day before my auto pay I was a wreck as I fought with those thoughts that questioned what I was doing when I couldn't afford to spend more money on my credit card. Do I stay, or do I go? But when it came right down to the last minute I knew If I did not continue the pain in my heart would be too heavy to bear. I couldn't quit. I needed ME to be proud of ME for continuing and seeing the success hard work can bring.
I believe we can do anything we set out to achieve. Sometimes you just have to get out of your own way!! Thank you Craig and Barry for your last minute encouragement and thank you to my would me Mentors that I need to adopt this year.
I stayed! I am staying AND one of the best things is me recognizing where I got off track and fell into the ditch. Where I tried to do it my way which really wasn't the way to go. WA is awesome and the community help is awesomer!! So everyone reading, I hope you continue the awesoming experiences here because that is how you grow and learn and become a stronger You. ( just having some fun with words again Craig!)
Once again Thank You to Everyone who helped my first year at WA to be great. Sorry, I didn't mean to write a short story! :)
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I'm glad you've made that commitment to stay... I started a little over a year ago. My first site I felt I really didn't know enough of and therefore had issues of trying to be an authority on it. Didn't even finish the lessons because I was not happy with my progress.
I started my second site this January and following the lessons from the beginning. Taking notes and have a checklist which is working great. My niche on scuba diving is my passion and I'm more excited about it and know with confidence it will be successful. I don't know why but I'm finding the information is finally 'sinking' in. Ya...lol... I color my hair too...
I haven't touched that first site since... i'll go back to it when I'm ready. Going thru it the second time is much better.
I know you can do it and you will do it!!
I'm glad you're asking lots of questions. I remember when you helped me on a question I had... thank you!
Stick with the one site... your very true passion and you'll be amazed!
You can do this... you will be successful!!
I'm going to learn to streamline and to plan each day so that I get something achieved each day. The learning here is awesome! What I've found is that there's not enough time to learn AND work on my sites! Hence the need to strategise and to streamline! :-)
carl
