Certification 2 Completed, is WA Worth It?
Published on June 30, 2019
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I Joined WA January of 2017 and I couldn't tell you what happened then. Maybe it was the lack of time, the lack of patience, or the lack of time and patience. Like many of us here, we were probably led here from doing a Google search about making money online, or watching a YouTube video and then you clicked on a link. I am pretty sure I may have clicked on an affiliate link from a YouTube video or something. The thing is, if I did, at that time I was desperate to find ways to make money, quick money. Which may be the reason it took me so long actually put in the initiative here that would have put in the financial position that I wanted to be in today. I mean, I would have been celebrating 2years right about now. Now for me, I saw the benefit in this program, I just didn't have that type of time, and what I wanted was the promise of overnight success that some of us often times get baited by, you know, the click bait.

Now that I have completed Certification 2, I wish I had taken the initiative sooner, even it was not that day, I could have at least taken baby steps to understand the actual value and benefits that this training could have been to the projects that I was working on around that time period. But then again I am a firm believer in everything has its time, and everything happens for a reason. So maybe, at that time, I wasn't ready.
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Trying to build and launch a Wordpress site on your own without understanding the updated dashboard will have you stuck on stupid. I have had two of my own sites, and then one in which I was an admin and content editor. Well once Wordpress updated it was like, "What the hell is this?!" I got so frustrated that I just went over to WIX, which wasn't much better because the things that I was looking for in back office management they didn't have but I was too confused and frustrated to understand what the hell was going on with Wordpress. Not knowing that I had all the tools I needed here and then some.
Listen, lets be honest, your not going to make money here over night, unless your Kyle, LOL,
Not in the beginning anyway. So be honest with yourself, if you are here because you followed some click bait saying that you can make money while you sleep, or make a certain amount in 7 days, or even the ones that say that "I MADE $10,000 WITH WA!", then this may not be the place for you. WA is not a get-rich-quick scheme, its not MLM, its not a pyramid. Your income goals and rewards are dependent upon the amount of time and work your dedicated to investing in yourself and your business. It's just that simple.
So if you are new here and you made it this far congrats, you have made it through the free Certification lesson, now you can decide if this is for you, if this training will benefit you, if you have the time and patience to put into building your site and learning how to succeed in your online business. WA has tons of training readily available, things that you would be paying thousands of dollars to learn and on top of that this community is the SHHHHHIIIIIIIIIZZZZZ! It is always a good thing when you can reach out for help and understanding when you get stuck. Just remember, slow and easy wins the race, taking shortcuts will only lead you back to where you started. 
Good luck to everyone and much success!
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