Time to Live :)

byNikkiLC

203 followers

7 years ago

I am writing this as my first blog post as part of my WA training.

I have been a member of WA for about a year and a half now. But I am just now starting to use it much more. I'd had a tragic family event that kept me away for awhile however, I held onto my membership with the hope that I'd return and put it to good use. I used to have a website many years ago, focused on mosaic making. I wasn't even with WA then and I did very well with it - I was starting to get 4-5k visitors a month. Unfortunately, I had to shut the site down due to personal circumstances. But I thought if I could do that then, surely I can do it again, especially with the enormous amount of guidance that WA offers. It had been a long time since I'd had that site and I wanted to brush up on my skills so joining WA seemed perfect.

The best thing about this community is that everyone here is pretty much on the same page. We are all trying to accomplish the same thing so therefore everyone is encouraging everyone else. I didn't always find that nearly as much in regular day to day life concerning making a living online and having a job that you actually like. I remember when I was doing that mosaic website, most of the people I was surrounded by at the time had nothing nice to say about it. Despite the fact that it was getting good traffic, and even earning some off Google Adsense, everyone kept focusing on the fact that I was not earning a full time income from it yet. It had been up and running for about 6 months so I thought it was doing pretty good. But everyone seemed to think that I should have been making a full time income instantly. I tried to explain that this kind of thing takes time but no one seemed to understand or even care.

Anyway, I am here now and I am working hard on my dreams. Luckily, I am no longer surrounded by people who have no encouragement to offer (I had to remove a lot of those people from my life). I have a really busy home life, as I have four children so I don't get as much time to work in WA as I'd like to. But I make time everyday, while they are at school and after they go to bed at night.

I love art and writing so I am working to make that a day to day reality for myself. My goals are pretty simple, I think. Basically, I would like to finally make a full time income off my online work. I was on my way before. I'd like to finish it this time!