Your online business: Turning stones into milestones

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How many stones did you encounter up to now in your online business? Do you know that turning stones into milestones could make the difference and turn your endeavor into a successful life?

Well let me guess... you might have hit at least the third stone on your path...

First, you have come to the idea that you might be trying an online business and fell on a huge choice in many directions, so you tried one possibility at random.

Second, you went to that irresistible offer, which somehow seemed unrealistic and certainly extremely expensive, after a while you ran away.

And now you are here on the Wealthy Affiliate Platform asking yourself, what you should do.

Dear Reader, I pick you up here ignoring if you already belong to this wonderful family, or if you are new and just stumbling upon this title on which you luckily clicked, let me welcome you aboard in both cases.

I had an urgency to share with you the following story as a wonderful example of what could become your magnificent creation, on how important it is to embrace a given situation in the present moment.

You may want to hear the following story of Mr. Horse (this is not a joke and he is not a member) and his inspirational attitude.

Do know that my English knowledge is not better than this, so please apologize the style and stick to the message. Because...

THIS MIGHT BE A GAME CHANGER IN YOUR LIFE

It applies to all of us. As we are walking our way on the road of our lives, we all stumble upon obstacles. Our reaction towards them is very individual and depending on our personal history. We are not going to dig into the reasons and results of those resistances, instead let me introduce you right away to the person I mentioned above known in France as Mr. Facteur Cheval.

Ferdinand Cheval, his real name, came from a poor family, left school very early, became an apprentice baker and later worked as a rural postman.

If you have some time and are curious, you might read his biography, which is such an epic story... (just type Facteur Cheval in Google, well not now).

At the age of 43, as he was walking on his round, he stumbled over a "block". It hurts, but he didn't grumble at it, no, he took it and put it in his pocket!

He describes the scene as follows:

"What can you do when you always walk in the same setting, if not dream? As a distraction, in my dreams I built a fairy palace"

"My foot has stumbled against a stone which almost made me fall: I wanted to know what it was. It was a stumbling block of such an unusual shape that I put in my pocket to admire it at my leisure. The next day I went back to the same place and found others that were even more beautiful. I thought: since nature wants to do the sculpture, I'll do the masonry and the architecture"

And do you want to know what he did with it?

This rock is the first of a huge construction, born in the imagination of this man and going to become over 33 years an Ideal Palace.

Your takeaway from this story:

People who realize their dream have something special and if you are still reading this, I would say that you are special too, otherwise you would have jumped out earlier.

There are qualities and a manner of managing the circumstances that are part of their success. Let us look at the following ones:

- Listen to your dreams, it all begins with a dream

- Embrace the obstacles and the unusual

- Which obstacles are you going to encounter

- Don't let judgment be your enemy

- Come back and look around

- Stay on track and be persevering

Listen to your dreams

It is quite not noticeable from the outside, you are doing your job, as usual, but your fantasy is very alive. You keep it for you, don't want to appear ridiculous.

==> Be proud to be a dreamer. We are all dreamer, at night or during the day, what changes while becoming adults is we learn to stop believing in our dreams. In fact, they are telling us what we really love to think about, to do, to hope. We often discover later in life, what really makes us wanting the day to come. What seems to be a distraction could very much be an essential part of us. I would even add allow yourself to dream big and nurture it with all your love.

Why shouldn't you live the life of your dream? Being geographically free, financially independent, doing something you love to do?

What you learn within Wealthy Affiliate will provide you with everything you need to realize those dreams.

Embrace the obstacles and the unusual

It is more common to get angry at something blocking us. You just want to do your work and bang, it appears in front of you like a pop-up, preventing you to continue the way you did.

==> Breathe and take your time. Look at it, it is trying to get your attention. Wonder about the way it appears, on how it looks like, what it does to you and what you could do with it.

An online university is not a common way of studying, making a living while working online at home is still unusual, but it is very satisfying.

In one week, your website could be up and running.

Does this sound too strange to be true? Very well, then lets take a look at the dark side.

Which obstacles are you going to encounter?

Do you hear that little voice, saying an online education for free, I can imagine the level of that one?

Do you hear your friends and family, encouraging you to stay in the mainstream and commonly realistic?

Do you hear yourself judging you lout as incapable, not good enough, not smart enough, and, and, and?

You have got it, the only severe obstacle is just you. Oh, no, was just you, because it doesn't cost anything to come back and look around and consider by yourself what you see.

If you find something crazy, meet false people, if you discover a trap, please let me know.

I have seen none of that, but grateful students beginning from scratch, which was my case, who unlearned to say I can't, taught themselves all the skills they wanted at their own pace and in the comfort of their own home and became unexpectedly entrepreneurs. Nothing holds them back, not even a language barrier. Didn't you want to improve your English, your computer skills, your understanding of how all this works and how you can earn your life while sharing your dreams and passions with the world?

Let this platform inspires you more, let the process awake a greater dream.

The owners, Kyle and Carson, are just normal people with both feet on the ground and the heart at the right place. They know the value of their open education course and are not guru-like marketing people. They love their job and are devoted to their vision of making the world a better place while giving everyone access to an excellent education. Did you already make their acquaintance?

What I suggest next:

After you have signed in and created your free starter member account, click here to begin with the first lesson. Introduce yourself in this network. You wouldn't like to stay a worldwide anyone, whose success story remains anonymous, Ferdinand Facteur was proud of his name.

Enjoy being part of this community. Working online from home often means to be working as a sole person, but fortunately here you are not alone.

Pick up every idea and put it down (on a paper, on a notepad, whatever, you will see your creativity blooming and diving in a wealth of information, it is easy to lose ideas on the way).

Look at other websites, discover what you like, what you imagine for yours, what you want to avoid.

Take your time, breathe, make a break, which domain name do you want to choose (remember that you can't change a domain name. On the other hand you can change the title of a website, the theme and many other things along the way).

Trust the process. This is a proven method and really you don't need to reinvent the world. Just take the advises, the tasks as they are and make them yours.

Discover your inner garden and turn it out in a shareable passion, become a helpful and happy person. Enjoy your transformation. Yes, you were someone looking at internet and now you are becoming active and about to transform your life. This is a fantastical feeling.

Don't try to make it perfect. This is a work in progress, a website is a lively work, growing and changing with the time. You are doing fine. Believe in yourself and let us believe in you.

Give it time, doing the research, finding your topics, your images.

You have a technical problem, you are in trouble, you don't know what to do next, you are confused, lost: ASK FOR HELP by clicking on the Help Center.

Stay on track and be persevering

Always learn, apply and move forwards. Kyle repeats it so many times Take action. An entrepreneur in French means someone who is doing! It sounds simple, often too simple you know like drinking enough water, it is too simple we often forget it. Do you remember, no you are no longer just looking on internet, you are creating your own work, you are the architect of your website. This is very different, well it makes the difference. This is what will change your life. This is the game changer. As from today your idea is no longer a fairy tale, it is true reality.

You need to devote the necessary time to create it, to stay on track and let perseverance be your ally.

Ferdinand Facteur completed his dream at the age of 77.

After 33 years...

10 000 days

93 000 hours

So don't look at the whole road, focus on the next step each one of them will turn out to be a milestone, stay involved in your progress, your work is unique as you are, just produce original content and offer the world the full of you.

You are now lucky enough to own your own business.

Oh, I nearly forgot it doesn't end here...

I am so pleased to meet you, thank you for reading, thank you for being here.

Together we will celebrate each and every milestone.

To your happiness,