now what?
certification done, now what?
certification complete... wow. I learned so much yet what do I know really? I don't know. I can write an article and know my subject well... Art and design have been my life for all of my life so that part was easy... yet I have been doing this online thing since April... still have not ranked (that I know anyway). That is disappointing, I have to admit. I know art and design, share my knowledge - some with affiliate links, others without... but either way I now have to keep motivated without results or "lessons" to keep me going. It's all me now..... yikes!!!!
I have heard the 90-day syndrome has hit - that time period in which I have been working my tail off and still do not see results so it goes from excited to do this to why am I doing this anyway? and having to work hard to keep motivation up. worse, its summer break and the kids just want to go play so I have to not only resist the urge to do zero articles and just play with them but force motivation that's hanging by a thread to write an article a week (which I know is about two articles less than I should be doing per week) but I cant make the kids sit around here all summer, so a break for them is important........So glad to have completed the certification course but praying something grows a little and soon - seriously, even a dollar or two would be motivating. So having finished courses I have mixed feelings. I still have hope for where this can go, so I choose not to give up, but sure working hard to keep motivated.
what do you do when you are feeling bummed and not motivated? I feel as though I should be more excited than I am or more motivated. Since school got out I have not been writing as much and wonder how much that is hurting my forward movement to making income happen.
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I know exactly where you are at. I finished my training 10 days ago, and always having more training to get through made it easier to keep pushing. I too at a child at home in the summer and try to keep things fun for him, but after he goes to bed I am also tired and have a hard time pushing forward. My goal until school starts is 2 posts/week and then 3 posts/ week when school starts. So far I have only gotten 1 post done each week.
yes, not easy. I have one at home all the time, shes only 3 - and the boys are 8 and 10 - its almost impossible to write anything let alone have my own thoughts to even know what to write about! I write a paragraph here and there and just get back at it whenever I have a minute.... so far about one a week but my goals are the same as yours. I think I will do the affiliate boot camp as soon as school starts so I can keep up with training and force myself to maintain online presence. so hard!!! I hope you are able to reach your goals, its hard being mama and working at the same time!
I have to agree with you. I have a 10 year old, and in the summer he goes to bed later, and the only time I have to write is after he goes to bed. That leaves me working until 12 or 1 and up early the next day. With research and writing it takes me 2-3 nights to get my post done.
Good luck to you.
Best to start applying what you have learned immediately from the training courses, or things can get stale quickly. Ideally, you go and take action on One thing, then when you see results you will get excited again!
Good Luck!
Kaju
Thank you :) I’ve made a point to practice with each lesson. I know some of it didn’t stick but most of it has. I just started in April so it not like I’ve been at it long. Just in a funk I guess? Results are what I want to start seeing! :P
Many successful members here have reviewed the training 3-4 times before they completely understood it. This along with concerted action based on my experience is the Best Approach. Learn and Take Action as You Go You can read my post on my philosophy about this.
Best to you,
Kaju
thanks! I will check that out when I get back... heading out to go camping with my son...
Hi.
1. Your site has been indexed.
2. You are writing good content.
3. You are determined.
Those are all good accomplishments.
Spend some time with your precious family. School starts back soon. After that, you can really begin to focus. You can do this. Right now is just the slow time. But eventually, your hard work and dreams will become reality. Remember... Quitters never win... And Winners NEVER EVER quit. We're all pulling for you, Girl. Hang in there.
All the best,
Wendi :)
thank you! I wont quit. just a little discouraged - I tend to be hard on myself anyway, expecting more than any person could possibly complete.... and I have never been a writer till now so I am always questioning whether I have good content or not. I know I will get there. I am enjoying my littles now because I will miss them terribly when they start school - and once I get past the 90 day syndrome of doubt LOL - I know inspiration will come once again. I guess I expected to feel more knowledgeable when I reached this point and I dont... again though, I expect too much from myself on a daily basis as if there are more hours in a day than there really are... you'd think I would learn right???
Don't give up, you have come too far. Last it out. That's what I tell myself every day. I get bummed and slack off for a day but then I get right back in the game. Quitters can not EVER, EVER win - Quitting is a sure failure. Going forward and keeping on is the only way to get ahead. Don't quit until you have 500 great posts and still no sales. Don't quit until after you have finished all the training available here, including member training. Don't quit until all the other members tell you your websites and your writing sucks.
Remember, all the members who have seen success DID NOT QUIT.
-shirley
I have a hard time quitting, but in a place where its hard to write too - needing a paycheck. I will keep writing - just going slower than I thought I would and not where I was hoping to be at this point. I guess it takes more time for some than others and I have to keep it up or i will never know!?!?!
You have to remember why you're doing this in the first place and always keep that as a goal that you can revisit or see daily as it's a great motivation booster. Keep writing and researching even when you don't feel like it or lack the motivation because I guarantee you, eventually, you'll see the results start to happen that you've been waiting for.
It took me a long time before I saw any kind of revenue from my first website. I hadn't always worked as consistently as I should and when I finally got back on the consistency train and was trying to fix a continuing problem with my website at the time, I ended up breaking my website and got the dreaded 404 error. I was so distraught and upset that I started to feel that everything I did with my website was for nothing and I was contemplating the thought of ending my time here at WA.
I decided to send in a ticket to SiteSupport first to see if they could fix my website or at least bring it back up. In the mean time, I decided to check my Google AdSense account stats and expected them to say 0, but when I actually went there, I was SHOCKED to see that I had made 7 cents!! Yes, I know, that's not much, but for me at that time, it was everything because I waited so long and so hard at times to make anything and when it finally happened, I was so ecstatic! It showed me that what is taught here really does work at WA.
Now I'm not going to say that I'm making tons of money now and everything is all roses. As I said earlier, I'm not always consistent and when you're not consistent, it will take much longer to reach your goals. I've continued to earn some money with Adsense and I'm now in the dollars range instead of cents, but still have a long ways to go before I can actually cash out.
I have also made a few affiliate sales from products I actually promoted so that was a big milestone for me, but my biggest problem is when I reach something that is a big deal to me, I let off the gas and then things slow down. I'm working hard right now to stay on a very consistent path because I have some big goals I'm trying to achieve and I do believe that I can achieve them. I'm in a very bad financial situation at the moment, most of it my own doing, but I'm determined to fight and move forward to get out of it.
I wish you much success as well as finding the motivation you need to push forward because that's how you'll definitely succeed and I believe that you can succeed :)
thank you! I am glad to know others have been in a place of motivation fog and glad to know you got through it. there is hope!! WOO HOO!!! I will plug on forward one step at a time. I have huge goals so I cant afford to quit. thanks again and best of luck to you as well!
Absolutely! Take it one step at a time and keep moving forward. I know things can definitely get discouraging, but taking action is much better than inaction.
I'm reading a very motivating book right now by my favorite radio host called "Fail Until You Don't: Fight, Grind, and Repeat". He talks about a very small and poor town he grew up in in Arkansas and how he never had a truly stable family life. His dad left him at a very early age and his mother battled severe alcoholism. It was his grandma who provided a semblance of stability and he learned a lot from her.
His dream was to be in the radio business and he had to work very hard and had many struggles and mistakes on the path of becoming a radio host/having his own radio show. He details his biggest failures and mistakes, mistakes that nearly ended his chance in being in radio, but he was determined not to give up, learned very hard from his mistakes and pushed forward and now he is one of the most well known radio hosts in the country and the youngest to ever be inducted into the national radio hall of fame.
He also details other people in his book that had struggles in their life time and failures that they had to deal with, but they were determined never to give up and they finally hit their stride to reach the success they've always wanted.
He wants everyone to know that life will get hard, the motivation will seep away at times, and sometimes it just does not seem like you will ever achieve anything, but he says that's where the fight comes in and you have to grind away and keep taking action to achieve what you want most in life and it IS achievable. Sometimes you just have to work a lot harder than others, but you can achieve what you really want and that has helped me immensity on pushing forward here at WA :)
Congrats on completing the certification course!
Now it's up to you to create a daily schedule of what you want to get done based on what you now know. Depending on your niche it can take six to twelve months to really gain traction.
Keep at it! Success will come if you don't give up!
I just got on one of my websites and over 1300 people had been there today, plus sales were made. It took me a while too, but if you following all the training here you will get the results you desire!
Press on . . .
thank you. not posting as much as I would like to , but knowing the kids start school again soon and I will be missing them all day its ok to enjoy them now and keep plugging away, one post at a time believing for the best and I can pick up the pace again when they are gone all day!
My friend out of experience I can say this will complete honestly don't you dare stop don't you dare give up because it's a fact when everything is going against you and everything seems like it's dark it means one thing you are almost cross the finish line you will succeed just keep believing in yourself and what you were doing I'm not going to give you the complete story but you'll get the point in Napoleon Hill's book he talks about a wealthy kid that came from Back East New York a bus and I believe and he went out west he wanted to be part of the gold rush so he brought this piece of land hired a crew searching for gold for a year living way below his means then one day he just said I can't do this anymore you got a hold of his parents and ask her to come home and of course they said by all means come son he sold the property that he bought the person that brought the property 10 ft from where this kid's stop digging was one of the biggest finds ever in gold 10 feet he gave up my friend don't you dare do the same thing I can feel it you're going to do it and you're going to do it big
thank you!!!!! I wont give up, just feeling low motivation the past couple weeks. I am discouraged and broke, but I will keep believing and reading all the positive reinforcement of this incredible community of people at WA.... one little step at a time I will keep pushing through this strange space I find myself in....
That's what I'm talking about you are a winner I know you are and you know you are by the way graduation on the certificate
The real excitement will hit when you make that first dollar. You may want to think about doing Bootcamp. It is another avenue to earn money.
Jerry
I have thought about that one. I think I will start that when my boys go back to school and I have time to focus - I believe in the training and the WA community so promoting it will be easy!
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Congratulations on completing Certification, that’s a great milestone! Now the conundrum, more questions than answers!
More training may seem an easy way out, it may make you feel more comfortable because you’re doing something. I fall into this trap all the time rather than persistently and consistently apply the training I’ve already undertaken.
There therefore seems to be only one appropriate answer, take action when you gain the time and resume blogging more frequently? If you don’t hit the frequency targets, you simply won’t attain the traffic! You have to give some time and effort for it to build up.
I know this of course but I also wonder will I do what’s necessary once my WA Bootcamp training is complete? You’re not alone dear, we all have this to go through!
And one last question, it’s about your niche, are you happy with the audience you seek? You write so well and engage effortlessly here, so hopefully it is just a time problem you have at present which will correct shortly.
thank you!
I will do affiliate boot camp at some point but for now just trying to keep up with my writing and increase frequency. I get very frustrated with myself when I cant reach a goal for whatever reason.... but this time trying to take it easy on myself, especially knowing now that I am not alone and others get through the bloggers funk (dont know what else to call it). when the kids are back in school I am sure it will happen.
my niche? love it. I am an artist and have been all my life so I am simply applying my knowledge and interest there and writing about it. It is what I know most about and enjoy, have not been able to get into my studio as much as I would like to lately so taking my love of art and writing instead. I think, being the person who is harder on myself than anything, I have been wondering if I know anything at all, why no traffic yet... blah blah blah - all the stuff we do to torture ourselves when frustrated. I know this will pass, just need income and feeling a little stuck, but I do know that income is coming..... its being patient that always gets me....
Yes, I do understand, sure the results will come, we just need to keep plugging away at it :)