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"My Journey To $10,000.00 a Month" - Are You A Target For Online Scams ?

The Crazy Guru

Published on March 19, 2013

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I thought I'd write today about my blog "My Journey To $10,000.00 a Month. Recently I was told that my blog could be on the internet and my title could attract the wrong people and target me or my company. Needless to say that freaked me out!. I know that in the past it has freaked me out to see that so much of what I do is on the internet, I found on the internet the other day where it said "this person also owns other websites" etc. and also my address etc.
Its scary to see how our private life is no longer private, everything seems to be on the internet as far as what we do, what we own, where we've been etc etc. and we aren't even famous! I wouldn't even want to be,...just to see how everything is out there for everyone to see, like someone is peaking through your living room window looking into your home, that's what it feels like and quite frankly I don't like that, its scary. I like to think that I'm not important enough that someone would want to know about me or my life :) But the fact is, is that we are now all fair game.
When I was told that...my first instinct was to stop writing my blog, and to even delete everything I have written. I don't write my goals for reasons of gloating or the likes of that, but it motivates me, and it motivates others. I like writing about this journey because many of us here have the same goals in mind some with more, some with less. But its not the amount we want to make, its the fact that we have a goal that we want to achieve. Some people want to run a 5k, some a 10k, some a 1/2 marathon or a marathon. The satisfaction, the glory, the happiness, and the pride that is felt at the end of any one of those runs is the same for each person, because they each achieved what they set out to do. They had a goal in mind and they each met their own goal.
Time will tell, but I do confess...it freaked me out! (LOL).

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