My Progress Report - Don't Overthink your Niche choice.

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7 years ago

So, I have just finished course 2

I have completed course 2 on Wealthy Affiliate. I can honestly say that I could not have made a better choice than to go Premium within Wealthy Affiliate!

Every time I get the slightest feeling of being overwhelmed, or thinking this is all too much for me right now, I just log into Wealthy Affiliate and I am instantly brought back to focus, and to my WHY for doing this in the first place.

What is my Why?

What is my Why? Well, It is a lot of things. Mostly though, it is my family. That may sound cliche and overused, but it is true! I don't want just a regular lifestyle for my family. I want more than the typical work week and living for the weekends.

My husband is an incredibly hard worker, and because of this, I am blessed to be able to be a stay at home mom. I was a hairdresser for 7 years, and this past August, we moved to a different state, and I decided to stay home with my two young children and pour into their lives as much as I could.

My husband likes his job, but what he would really enjoy is to be able to spend more time doing what he truly is passionate about. He loves investing, owning and managing real estate, and we'd both love to get into flipping houses sometime in our future. We have taken a lot of risks to get to where we are already, but the risk of my husband quitting his job and jumping into house flipping in a new state... that one is just a little too big for us to swallow.

I want my husband to be able to chase his dreams, without fear of our financial situation for our family. He has given me so many of my dreams, and I want to give back to him.

We also would love to home school our kids, but we would love to do it TOGETHER. We have this dream of working from home together every day. Being able to home school our kids, and travel whenever the heck we want. (to where ever the heck we want) We don't want to be tied down by any job, or any financial burden.

My husband and I have a strong desire to want to retire our parents, and help other people. My parents and his mom both need help in the retirement department. It has been a long time dream of mine to be able to go to my parents some day and say, you don't HAVE to work anymore. You are covered. For life.

We are also members of a great church, and would love to give more and help finance a lot of the missionaries within our church to go out and be God's hands and feet.

I told you my WHY was a lot of things... ;) and there's more. But that is where I will stop for today.

Progress Report

I started my own website about a year before joining Wealthy Affiliate. During that year we welcomed our second baby into the world, we moved... TWICE. One of those times being several states away from all of our family, and we of course changed jobs.

Because of all of these adjustments I only added content to my blog about once a month. The website was very slow moving, and I had to learn how to do everything on my own, without the wonderful support group that I have now at WA.

I was able to get a few of my posts ranked on google before joining WA, but since I have joined I have had increasing engagement and post views, and even made my first affiliate sale recently!

I a really hard time narrowing down my niche on that website however, and it led me to become really frustrated with it. I was ALL over the place, talking about a bunch of different subjects, and couldn't get focused. I was having a hard time targeting a true audience. This caused me to lose some motivation and momentum.

Don't Overthink your Niche choice

When I joined WA I spent my first three weeks here just debating which niche I wanted to go with. I worked some more on my original website, and some on a new one I created that is a lot more focused on a subject I am passionate about. Finally, after three weeks, I decided to focus on my new website for now, and maybe come back to my previous website later once I have a good handle on the new one.

My point for all of this is to say.... DON'T DO WHAT I DID. I could have had six or more posts on my new website by now, but I only have two because I wasted so much time in the beginning going back and forth between the two. I finally had to just go with my heart and choose the one that I knew I'd have more motivation to keep up with! That's all there is to it. What niche will drive you even on the toughest days?? What subject could you talk to your best friend/mom/dad about for hours? What thing, or product, or device are you always recommending to people? DO THAT.

Remember if you're just starting, this is only your FIRST website. You will have plenty of time to create more in the other Niches you love in the future. Pick the one that your heart is leaning towards for you first one. :)

This is only the beginning

I know that this is only the beginning. I have a passion for writing and have been writing short stories, journaling, and writing poetry/songs since I was a kid! I am not going to give up on turning my passion of writing and my passion for my niche into a business that can support my family.

And neither should you.

Keep pushing. Keep yourself motivated. Remember your Why. Go chase your dreams!