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bysiskiyoujim

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3 years ago

This morning I was feeling a little discouraged about my website. Have you ever been there?

I had big goals when I started with Wealthy Affiliate nearly three months ago. It will be a week and a half from now, and I feel like I've fallen short. I wanted to follow the schedule that I found on the Wealthy Affiliate site.

Third Month Accomplishment Goals

Some of the goals outlined have started happening, but the ones dependent on me alone are still short of being finished.

• Content Starting to Get Ranked - YES!
• Experience Some Big Breakthroughs in Search - Not yet, still hopeful though
• Have Made the First Sale or Two - NO. I check anxiously several times a day.
• Traffic is Cumulatively Starting to Grow - not as much as I had hoped
• Search Engines are starting to give your site authority - Not that I can tell
• You have 30-60 posts on your website - THIS IS WHERE I FALL SHORT! Seriously! I'll be at almost 25 by the end of month three, but only if I can knock out an article a day for the next nine days.
• Earning potential - $0.00 to $500.00 per month. - Right on target for the $0.00 dollars so far.

Don't feel bad for me. We are our own worst critics and the most severe taskmasters when we fail to reach our goals. To me, building a new affiliate marketing website in order to produce income is like playing golf or bowling.

Bowling is Like Building a Profitable Website

Since nearly everyone I know has been bowling at some point in their lives, I'll use that example. A perfect game is 300 points. That's the goal. Most of us will never bowl a 300 game.

My goal in bowling is usually around 165, so its not a really high score I'm aiming for. The closest bowling alley is 30 minutes away, in the next town over. When I bowl, I want to have fun, try to reach 165, and enjoy some time with family or friends. Unless I am willing to devote hours of driving, gallons and gallons of fuel, and an investment of time and money, I'll never do much better than the 120 to 165 points I usually get now.

The point is, bowling is a competition where I am both challenger and champion. I'm playing against myself every single time. I'm always trying to get a higher score.

My Plan? Move Forward and Keep Going

This morning I was looking at the mountain of content that I would need to write to get even close to the minimum goal of 30 posts on my website by the end of month three with Wealthy Affilate.

I wondered how I was going to get just one post written today, and the burden was consuming my thoughts and keeping me from writing. I had a mental block. You've probably never suffered the same difficulty, have you? (Nod, Nod, Wink, Wink) Creating content is one of the biggest challenges we face each day and each week, isn't it?

Here's what I did, and because of it, I finished my first blog post of the day in record time.

I started to write and I was successful.

I started writing! My topic was this very subject, the difficulty and discouragement I felt this morning. The finished product was 1,769 words crafted to promote Wealthy Affiliate and the wonderful course we have in the Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp.

My intention and plan is to complete the Bootcamp training, and to reap the rewards of finising the course. The crown only goes to the victor, but no victorious runner has ever dropped out of the race before the finish line and still won the race.

Finish your race, and I will try to finish mine.