01-01-10_The Year We Made Contact
Will 2010 be the Year I make contact? Will I include my friends in this contact? I must say, "Yes. It's the Year we made contact."
The new year is one hour old right now, in fact only 59 minutes - now it's one hour.
This is a report of where I'm at right now with my life, my goals and my aspirations.
Where am I at?
[This entry is exceptionally long so I've decided to remove this and the next section. What remains is relevant to Wealthy Affiliate. When I wrote this, it was about 1:00 am New Year's Day. When I actually joined WA, it was after I had gone to bed and awoke at about 8:30 am. At around 9:00 am, I actually joined Wealthy Affiliate. However, I did this on an antiquated computer. The first month at WA would be wholly taken up with data recover operations because of a hard drive failure a few weeks before this event.]
What's to come?
I'm about to become a member of the Wealthy Affiliate Program. It's a place to go to learn and apply Internet marketing skills to what I'm pursuing. I've decided that this is the best way to go - get in as a member, use their servers to build even more websites, only this time, having them in the kind of environment which promotes their success. There's all kinds of tools, web hosting, forums, tutorials, and more in this membership. [...]
This year I expect to complete some of my books, apply the things I've learned about writing, publishing and promoting them. I will be building new websites for these books and for other special things. One of the things I feared I lost in the wake of the hard drive failure was the giveaway software I purchased last year. I still have not found the applications, but now I can go to the source which I did not have prior to looking into existing CDs of my documents. The point of doing all this is to get my hands into as many different applications of Internet marketing as I can within the niche I'm in.
Once I can achieve full control of my time, I will be able to put more attention to my projects and move faster with these websites. John's needs completion and improvements. He wants the website to pay for itself. Right now it's just sitting there and going into this new program will undoubtibly help me sort things out and improve it. I'm thinking of putting up an affiliation website up similar to Plain Door to Success. This way I will produce more money-making power to his line-up.
Email marketing needs to be set up and implemented. Right now there's no email marketing to speak of. The autoresponder is up and functioning away and I have not been taking advantage of it at all. I can have as many lists on it as I want.
Article marketing is yet another means. I've learned how to do this but need to brush up on it and get it started. I will need to maintain as many as three or four periodicals both in John's campaigns and my own.
Affiliate marketing is on its way in its development. It is farther along than anything else.
SEO stinks! It really needs to be worked over. There's hub websites, funneling, backlinking, keywords amongst other things - all of which are very weak in my campaign right now.
This is why I'm about to join Wealthy Affiliate. It addresses all of these issues and more.
I need to take on some of the concepts I've learned from the old classics like "Think and Grow Rich." The great concept in this book is the idea of having a mastermind group, mentors, and leverage. I've not even read through this book. I have been through "The Science of Getting Rich" and have found the main point in that book. Thinking in terms of the truth instead of illusion is one of the hardest things a man can do. It takes great deal of effort and many people do not practice this.
What are my aspirations?
To leave a legacy in my wake and do my part to help those as I've been helped. My purpose in life is to motivate others to rise above mediocrity but I must first rise above it myself. It's a vicious cycle, a seemingly endless loop which goes around and around like the clock on the workplace wall. It's got to be broken and the way I've chosen to do that is to write my books from the standpoint that I'm yet in the rat race but climbing the mountain out of it. Since I don't have my own credibility, I must rely on affiliate programs to do that. My hallmark is to feature the best marketers I can find and make my campaign better than most in this regard.
I have something I never had before - drive and purpose behind it. I have some of the best sources of mentorship and friendships anyone could ever have. I've been educated and now it's a uphill climb to excellence I'm actively working to master.
With data recovery nearly completed, I'm ready to focus my attention back on that narrow path upward. I've a little more data to recover and it's over It will be properly stored in a safe place via CD disks and remote server. It has been one hour since I began writing this report and it's time to stop and think about my game plan for the a new decade.
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Just read one page per day. LOL! Now I can see the wisdom in the way you put out content. I realize there are two pages in there that are extremely long - however, I leave it to the readers to read thoroughly, skim or skip these two pages, or any that they wish.
Let's just say I made up for lost time. Anyway, Not here to see who can compete with the biggest autobiography. The whole thing culminates into why I joined Wealthy Affiliate and why I am here (at that point in time where it breaks off.) It was meant to be a story with real people and things. I realize not everybody likes that and that's okay.
Hey, Page ten was a given, so I had more like nine pages of long, boring text. I do appreciate you attempted to read the pages and I also appreciate your honesty.
My Resource isn't about hardship though I can see this might be true from your perspective. Now, there was a time when I wrote daily blogs on here - all about things that were happening to me. After awhile I got the message that writing daily ramblings about drama in my life is annoying and that WA is not a sounding board for those kind of things. It comes down to basic human nature, that I had to learn for myself - people don't care about someone else's drama. It 's just as true here as it is outside of here. Therefore I stopped doing it. It doesn't make for the most inspirational reading and is a colossal time-waster for both sides. I was told by a number of people, some public, some private, some kindly and others downright abrupt. I will talk about this practice later. I didn't stop there - further, removed 400+ blogs, leaving only the few that actually would help other members.
This is not a tutorial I know, but it leads up to what I'm about to say today, even though the venue isn't technically what it's for. It holds lessons for others. It was all about what made me want to join what I found to be the best of the best. In all good intent I joined, but my overall intent in being here has not borne witness with the intent I had when I first walked in the door, that at least, not in full.
This is a general statement and should be regarded as such. There are numerous mentionings about exercising the tongue (and pen) too much as I was doing (and am apt to,) in the Bible. However, such quotes are not allowed on here. So I must resort to any one of quite a number of secular ones, and so let's choose Plato. Now that's as secular as we can get right?
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, but fools speak because they have to say something."
I may have things to learn about being laconic, but I've learned the hard way that there are times to hold the tongue, and that being more than not. Anybody can be heard, and is a given right, but million-pound words come far and few.
God's mighty blessings on you dear boy........
Shirley
It's not just the point of putting personal history up here - but more about WHY I originally came here.
Part II is going to tell a different story once I got inside and what happened during the last five years.
Thank you dear boy =0))
Got a long way to go...
Had some rough times, but they were much worse before the 2000s.
