Onionsnbugs? Wha?

Onionsnbugs? Onions and bugs? What's that about?

I told some people I'd reveal after I took a certain action. That action was to purchase onionsandbugs.com, which I've done, and now own.

The reason is simple, really, but has two parts.

First, onions.

I used to belong to Wealthy Affiliate some time ago. I got frustrated and quit. I cancelled my Premium. My life didn't change.

Currently, I'm hating my j.o.b. Well, not really hating it, but enough to stop many times during the day, look up to the sky (ceiling) and just sigh. Enough that I dread when it pops into my head I have to go back in the next day. When the time comes for my day off and the day before, it pops into my head, I'm elated.

Anyway, a week or so ago, I was driving in traffic on the way home from a particularly disappointing day at the j.o.b., and admittedly, I was daydreaming. I know, not good. I started thinking about Wealthy Affiliate again, and my disappointment in myself that I quit. But, intellectually, I knew/remembered the amount of training that was offered. I remembered the helpfulness of the community. And I remembered there seems to be so many layers of things I had to learn. Which is fine. While I was daydreaming and thinking about it, the layers reminded me that Wealthy Affiliate and affiliate marketing in general is just like an onion with all the layers. That just stuck with me.

But Joe, you have bugs.

As I was driving home on this particularly disappointing day at the j.o.b., daydreaming at 65 miles per hour about Wealthy Affiliate, a bug landed right on my windshield, right smack in front of me.

What interested me was that it didn't splat. It landed. It just sat there. I could see the antennae twitching, and the wings twitching at 65 miles per hour. It quite frankly didn't look phased. Then it flew off (got blown?), and went on it's way.

It made me realize that even though I was sitting there, driving home, disgusted from work, ...that the world outside is going about it's business. When you're driving home, you're not thinking about a bug out in the woods, going about it's day, looking for food and living it's life. But, it's happening; regardless of how your day is going.

I began to think about other people, and everything else in the world that is going on continuously, regardless of me and what I'm doing. Time passes, and the world keeps turning regardless if I've had a bad day at work, or hating my life at the moment.

That bug...thank goodness it didn't splat and further ruin my day...reminded me, when I was daydreaming about whether I should give Wealthy Affiliate another shot, that the world is going to continue turning, the people still members of the Wealthy Affiliate community are still going to be working on their lives (and hopefully some will be successful), whether I get off my butt and try again, or I don't.

Those two things on that drive home helped me decide to give Wealthy Affiliate another try; to take a leap of faith in it.

Also, it didn't hurt that in the days before, I had met Cld111, looked at her Wealthy Affiliate promotion site, and enjoyed it. I was amazed at the work she had put into it. I am amazed how she seems to blend so many aspects/widgets/software together so well. It inspired me. I could do that.

I'm not going to promote Wealthy Affiliate quite yet, though. I personally don't believe you should, unless you've had niche website success, and seen first hand that the platform/training works.

That's where I'm starting. I'm going to give fortunetellinghelponline.com a shot, and flesh it out.

I know next to nothing about it, but it's an interest. I know that Wealthy Affiliate concentrates on researching content and keywords. I figure if I go into this with 'an interest', and am forced to research keywords, and information...because I truly know little about it...that it will help me learn the Wealthy Affiliate process/training better. I remember having a niche last time that I knew a lot about, and when I had to keyword or research, I would think to myself, " OMG I know this stuff already. Why am I looking this up again? Why do I have to research keywords? I'll just blog about it, and the keywords will come." But even though I knew something about that niche, it bored me. And, because I thought the keywording, etc. was unimportant, I skipped a lot of the training and keyword research content. This led to frustration, and quitting too soon.

So...

Onions, because I know that many layers exist within Wealthy Affiliate, affiliate marketing, and the world itself.

Bugs, because I'm thankful to the bug that nonchalantly, in 65 miles per hour wind, landed on my windshield (and mysteriously didn't SPLAT) just long enough to take a look at me, and remind me that things are going on, and will keep going on, regardless if I'm having a bad day, but don't decide to do something with my life.

Thank you, bug.

/smile

When choosing the username there wasn't enough space for letters to spell out onionsANDbugs. I had to shorten it to onionsNbugs.

So, Onionsnbugs. onionsandbugs.com

Hope you're having a good day.

Stop reading my ramblings and go work on your site. Life is going on out there, and will pass you by. : )

-Joe

http://www.fortunetellinghelponline.com

http://www.onionsandbugs.com

/HUGS