Confession of a New WA Member and a Poll for a 3 Months to Full-Time Challenge?

byTDenise

5.7K followers

Updated 5 years ago

This is my first blog post that I'm writing just short of one week as a premium member at WA. I wanted to document my journey from where I am into where I want to be, and this blog seems to be the most appropriate place to do that.

I'll admit, when I first heard about WA...I can't even remember the specifics because my expectation was so low. I had tried so many side hustles (which I talk alot about on my blog): from fish farming, to selling gold from old computer motherboards, buying and placing ATMs in convenience stores to writing and publishing books. The list of my side hustles goes on and on. To say my 20's was full is an understatement. Most of my side hustles were done while I was active duty in the military as a newly wed with a 4 year old son. Can you see some busy-ness in that? I was busy and too busy to be focused, but I didn't know that at the time.

So, now I've joined 4 days ago after having a 3-year history of working online. I've been full-time working online since January 2017, so I guess you can say I have somewhat of an advantage, but when you hear the rest of my story, you may think otherwise, so let me explain...

I am a home school mom of a 10-year old and also the mom of a toddler. My husband runs a General Contracting business and he works 14+ hours per day, 7 days per week (for reasons of his own that I care not to entertain here)

When solo, as the income earner, I can cover the expenses of our household off of my freelance income, however, I have one contract that is my primary income and it's hourly. It feels like a job even though I pick my hours, I make my schedule, and they don't ask for time sheets. I have integrity, so when I don't work, I don't charge for it. The fluctuation hurts my heart to the CORE. I want work that I can do around my family values. I want to involve myself with my kids. I'll stay up from when I put my kids down at 8PM until 2-3AM 6 or 7 days a week if it's what I have to do (which is what I've been doing).

The week I joined WA, I was struggling. My son had been sick for 6-weeks with cardiology issues, and the medical bills racked up. I went to conventional doctor after conventional doctor to no avail. At 10 years old, his heart rate was at 31 bpms, and the doctors had no sense of urgency. They acted nonchalant. It was scary as HELL( and I'm a Christian blogger...lol)! I kept scrambling and eventually decided to go the alternative medicine route. We went to a chiropractor with a background in nutritional medicine, he did some adjustments and gave him a whole food mineral supplement, then his heart rate went back to normal (within one week)! All of those conventional medicine appointments gave no symptom management, but I still have bills to show for it, and guess who has to pay them? Me.

When I stumbled onto WA, I had a diehard mission to increase my income I had written about on my blog here. I said I wanted to make more money, and I thought converting from freelancing into a nice affiliate income would be to my best interest and my families'. It's not that I don't want to work. I love creating and producing and helping others with every fiber of my being, but I don't want to sacrifice my family and freedom to participate in the workforce.

Since I joined WA, my hope has increased drastically. I thought I could create a full time income blogging within three months with the tools I had, but now, I feel like I can DEFINITELY create my full time income blogging.

I want to post challenges here if enough people respond. I'd like to challenge one another to accomplish certain goals that can plummet us from o pageviews to 10,000 and beyond, from making 0$ to $1000 and beyond.

Let me let you know where I am now...

I currently make somewhere around $50/month (from book royalties), I'm made $3 last month from posting ads on a site I had previous to WA, and the rest of my income (typically $3000) is from freelancing. I want to quit freelancing (on hourly contracts) and get the other income streams up to $3000 or more within the next 3 months, so...

-I started a blog with a narrower niche 4 days ago called www.howtoentrepreneur.org

-I've been writing on www.howtoentrepreneur.org daily since I started it

-It reached 504 pageviews in its second day and since has dropped to 60-70 pageviews per day (BUMMER!)

I know my goal is a steep goal, but the worse case scenario is that I try. Is anyone else up for the challenge of trying? Is anyone game? Depending on how everyone responds here, I will decide how to map this out to execution because you know my background is as a business strategist. I need some people on board though. Let me know if you're in for the challenge below.

Best wishes on your endeavors,

Tiffany Domena