I Want to be a Wealthy Affiliate
Before There Was Wealthy Affiliate
It all started when I drifted past 60 years of age and realised I was now in my seventh decade! For forty-five years I have been diligently working hard to make other people wealthy. I.e., I was an employee. My pension arrangments have been far from ideal. I had little to look forward to in retirement. I want to be a wealthy affiliate. I began searching the internet looking to find a way to make it happen. I spent many years building websites and blogging aimlessly and infrequently, not knowing how to monetise my efforts. I was paying around $40 per month for a reseller hosting package with my hosting provider, which enabled me to host up to 50 websites. Things had to change.
Wealthy Affiliate Opened My Eyes
During my late-night searches, I stumbled upon the Wealthy Affiliate website. I don’t remember if it was an affiliate link that brought me here but if it was, good on you! It was a great article. Wow! My eyes nearly popped out of my head! Here was a site that would teach me how to build a Wordpress site, understand SEO, social media, drive traffic to my website, and host up to 25 sites for a similar price to my existing hosting package and no training! Very quickly I upgraded to Premium membership and took advantage of the extended training. Don’t get me wrong, the free stuff is priceless, but I needed to learn more. There is so much on Wealthy Affiliate that it is easy to become overwhelmed. I am just focussing on completing the Certificate Training. The cost of Premium membership at the time of writing is $40 per month. Part of the premium membership is hosting for up to 25 Wordpress websites, with SSL certification. I soon realised I was onto a winner. I moved my existing sites to Wealthy Affiliates, closed my old hosting account. Now I could afford to move forward with Wealthy Affiliate and start learning how to make money online, and as a bonus, it wasn’t going to cost me anything more than what I was already paying for my hosting. The only way is up!
Failure? Bring it on!
Failure is something to be welcomed. With each failure, we learn and move forward.
Remember this: Failure is welcome. Failure is learning. Giving up is not an option!
Persevering does not mean continuing down the same path, repeating the same mistakes. What I mean by this is that after a failure, learn from your mistakes, adjust your game plan and try again. Keep making adjustments. Keep taking a different path. Not giving up, keep on adapting, you will reach your goal.
One of my favourite quotes comes from an American gentleman - Thomas Edison - “I didn’t fail 10,000 times. I discovered 10,000 reasons why it will not work”.
Thomas Edison, inventor of the incandescent light bulb.
Learn a New Skill
If in attaining your goal, you need skills you don’t currently have. Then either learn the required skills or pay someone else who does have those skills to complete the tasks, allowing you to reach your goal.
I recently read a fantastic book by Josh Kaufman called, The First 20 Hours. If you want to learn a new skill, but you don’t think you have the ability or the time, then I highly recommend you read Josh’s book.
The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman
What Josh advocates is that the commonly accepted theory, that to become the best in the world in any skill takes 10,000 hours. Over time this statement has been diluted to mean, it takes 10,000 hours to learn a new craft. Josh states that this is not true.
For most of humanity, we do not want to be world experts in our desired skill. We don’t need to attain perfection. We just want to learn a skill to competency level. To be confident enough to share with friends and family and not feel embarrassed or awkward. When learning a language, for example, all we want is to be able to hold a simple conversation, ask a simple question and understand when someone answers, albeit slowly. To achieve this level of competency takes around 20 focused hours. I’m not sure about the 20 hours, but I get what Josh is saying. Stop trying to attain perfection!
In Conclusion
I spend a little of my time each day, in any small way that I can, by improving my skills.
I write as much as I can every day. Sometimes that may be as little as a couple of hundred words. Other days it may be as much as a thousand. It very much depends on what I have to say and my emotions at the time. Funny though, the more I write, the easier it gets.
Being part of the Wealthy Affiliate group keeps me focused. I am sure that without Wealthy Affiliate, I would have given up long ago. Here I am over a year later, still writing, still learning.
I continue to learn new skills from the experts in Wealthy Affiliate, and I am enjoying everything that I am learning. There are some real gems here. I find new and better ways of doing things and better tools that make my life easier.
Two tools that have made my Wealthy Affiliate life easier are Grammarly and Evernote. These two apps work seamlessly between my iMac and my iPhone. Much of this article I am writing using my iPhone! Don’t worry if you’re not an Apple fan; these two beautiful apps are available for Windows and Android.
I am in no doubt; I will achieve my goal of becoming a Wealthy Affiliate! I feel incredibly optimistic about my future success. If you haven’t upgraded to Premium, I highly recommend you don’t hang about too long! Upgrading will change your life for the better.
If this article has helped you in any way or if you have a recommendation that can help with my writing, please leave a comment?
Recent Comments
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Interestingly, this should be a lot of motivated people with many of your statements are sure for online businessmen to be up and excited like you, good luck
Thank you Saliman. I hope my message reaches many people and encourages them to give Wealthy Affiliate a try.
Your post was great, and I thought well written. I am glad you found WA, I may be bias, but I think it is the best place to be, with all the training and and incredible community.
Mary
I loved all that you wrote . It was genuine and encouraging.
A very inspirational post.
Thank you for sharing :)
Di :)
Thanks for the awesome share! I am always looking for new books to help build myself and this one looks like it would be right in line!
Best wishes,
Karin :)
Thank you, Karin. It is a good book. You'll also find many Youtube videos of Josh presenting his theory.
I think we all try to improve ourselves Paul. This is a wonderful place to get the training.
Derek
Wealthy Affiliate has all that we need to succeed. The only piece required to complete the jigsaw is ourselves.
Thanks, Harvey. The more often I write, the better I get and the easier it gets. I enjoyed this post.
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Well Paul, interesting post and you are in the right place to succeed here for sure, follow and apply the online course and affiliate bootcamp, or alternatively, use the bootcamp startegies to market any affilkiate ventures you are with currently
Doing this will help you succeed, because it keeps the focus for sure
The other bit of advice I would give you, is this and this bit is harder
AVOID, Shiny Object Syndrome.... it does work
If can't avoid it, then learn to write copy, so you can recognise it when you see it
Speaking from experience of falling for SOS year after year. In 2008 I learned to write copy, and then instead of my bank account draining, it filled up
Those two things, will certainly help you become a Wealthy Affiliate
Hi, Dave.
Thanks for your comments. I've behaved myself in 2017/2018 with regards to SOS. The two things I signed up for in 2017 are still the only things I am a member. One of which is WA.
Yes, I intend to start the Bootcamp when I completed the certification course, which isn't far away.
Many thanks,
Paul