Darn.

Now that I've been with WA for a little more than a month, with nothing real to show for it, I thought I'd post this blog to tell you why, and hopefully forewarn fellow newbies not to fall into what I fell into. I don't even have a name for whatever it is I fell into...the closest word that comes to it is probably...darn. I'll call it "darn." That's how bad it is, lol, that I can't find a better word than that.

What is obvious, though, is that I'm thinking sorely of the past 35 (exactly 35 days as of this post! My, how time flies.) days that I let go to waste. I sat, staring at this screen while logged into WA, stalking posts by fellow members, pretending to soak up all the lessons I'd read and watched and then finding that I learned nothing. I ended up having to read and watch them all over again, this second time taking notes and trying hard to keep my eyes from crossing. 

It wasn't, or isn't, the content--far from it! The content, if anything, is the best I've ever encountered in all of my learning. So I deduced that since the content wasn't the problem, it was me. 

I was hoping I'd see the silver lining to the rainy cloud that started following me overhead as I struggled with my fear of writing. That, and my awful, awful procrastination in finding a niche.

At first, when I joined, I was hopeful--really, really hopeful. I figured, once I dove deep into the lessons and followed the instructions step-by-step, then it would be a piece of cake. Easy-peasy. Nothing to it.

I was proud of myself when I bought my first domain and set WA to host it. But then I hit a brick wall--one that unknowingly I put up myself. I had no idea what to write about, or how to write it. I remember being relatively good in English back in high school and college, but those days were SO long ago (heh). Anything I was writing now was basically going in circles; even I could tell. No quality content here; no, sir. Furthermore, reading about how Google switched up it's algorithms or something other to reject irrelevant articles didn't exactly get me excited to write, either.

But I digress, as I've been known to do.

I had to look back at everything I've been doing--or not doing, rather--and put it into perspective. I see now that I failed to do 2 very important things:

1. Plan out your objectives.
2. Execute the plan.

And then finally the most important thing was to always--and I mean ALWAYS--K.I.S.S. it, and that means:

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Fellow newbies, don't do like I did. Don't overthink it; just DO it, like a Nike commercial. And don't be afraid to do it, because it's better than doing nothing at all. DOING is what gets you RESULTS. Rather than a lame post like this.