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Hi everyone, here's an update on my life since August 2020.

Just noticed I had not written to my WA profile blog since freaking August 27th when I had bad anxiety attack-like symptoms. I took time back then to really evaluate my business and what I was accomplishing.

At the time I was spending more time in live chat helping others run their business to the point I would go weeks at times not running my own. I would spend all my creative time helping forward many both here and outside WA to places I hadn't reached yet since the Nervous Breakdown that brought me here to regain my mojo.

So I made a choice, to get focused on the whole of my business plans, get my direction figured out, and get making some money again before I even think of making another run as an ambassador.

The results are kind of awesome though.

While I have been limited on what I have been putting out on the blogs I have been taking some of the training and using it to propel other business interests and as result, in the last 32 days, I have had one of my best months since returning online.

Not saying a ton yet, but I have a new traffic site that launched 2 months ago and has over 200 members and has made a few hundred dollars and I have another new Advertising Cooperatives program that put me in the Cryptocurrencies niche already over $600 in profit and it doesn't launch fully until the first.

Between the two I will have the time freedom to focus more on my brain training and blog success again and they have already also started steering some good people into WA, one of which became my first paid referral of 2021.

The organization is another part of things that had to change.

I was faltering in part because I was automating very little and had a loss of grasp on the schedule that sale 2020 was my best year since joining WA. I started as a Lamb, roared loudly in the mid, year, and lost focus as elections neared and I went into campaigns time and spent more time on that than keeping my main blog up to date.

The strange thing I was not forgetting the old blog I just wasn't happy with a few of the results and set about making better while I was having issues creating new content. Now some older posts are getting traffic that hadn't in a while and I have been working on a new style of me going forward as a writer.

The old blog Affiliate 3 Percent though I have found has a few things holding it back. The big one being the word affiliate in the name puts me competing with a ton of sites in a still fairly narrow field on day 1. It also makes the choice of autoresponders and affiliate programs that will work with you a big... OK Quite a bit smaller.

This became apparent when I was kicked out of MailChimp because they don't accept Get rich Quick programs. I tried to get them to read the content and tell me where I was promoting even one get-rich-quick program but the morons there chose instead to double down on stupid.

SO as I get back to writing I am moving to a new domain name, something I seldom recommend, and changing some of the focus to a broader niche instead of backing myself in another corner. The New blog Income Legion will let me focus on all things making money including my new interest in Cryptocurrencies without having 10 domains 9 of which were in mothballs with sites only planned.

I also decided I needed to separate my political interest and be able to actually vent frustrations and pitch ideologies so I secured a domain for Fired Up Patriot, a new opinion site that is non-partite because the entire system has been proven this year to not only be broken but devoid of the intended checks and balances.

It's Wednesday, February 24th for example, and half a nation still don't know if their election was fair because the people declaring it fair refused to look at the evidence in court or congress before declaring it such.

Just yesterday the Supreme Court finally decided they were not going to look at the evidence and that's after the results were ratified and the deadlines passed to do this. Again, not saying anyone was wronged, just saying the rules were broken regardless of wrong or right result.

So why a political blog when they often don't make much and can sometimes be mired and bogged down growth-wise by small minds threatened by differences of opinion?

When I was a kid I fell in love with Politics and predicted the era of Ronald Reagan, and the strength of a lot of politicians who would do great things according to my family's values and my own budding political opinions. I started finding interest in people like my Dad's old boss Barry Goldwater, and the John McCain a nation loved not the one who seemed to have lost a few steps as he exited a great world.

A John McCain who I called a friend at one time was not the man who wrote his final legacy on earth. He was a guy so into the thoughts of the people in his district he came to the middle of the desert, to a town with under 2,400 summer residents, and held a town hall for around 80 people, because one young pup (me) asked him to at a League of Cities and Towns about 3 weeks earlier. Sadly the John who departed us became a part of the problem more than the solution late in life as he strayed from that type of man to the political center and oft times nearly switched ideology entirely.

I myself was the Youngest Town Council member in Arizona History, 2nd youngest Republican Precinct Committeemen, and youngest First Vice Chairman and later on youngest country Chairman Pro-Tem for LaPaz County Arizona. I was one making the party work from inside and proving change comes one vote and one voice at a time.

Now I believe much the same, that each voice should matter, I just think the parties have forgotten that gotten bogged in a system of namesakes instead of representation, and am looking forward to helping train candidates of tomorrow to make their voices, and those of the people they work for or plan to count.

I held my voice back because I was told politics, religion, and business did not mix and have seen Congress taken over by lawyers and activists instead of business owners and actual smart people with your real best interest in mind. Repressing this was like stifling me and releasing this has been liberating and has made me so much more dedicated and refocused because of lifting that barrier. I always felt I would rather lose some business than lose my country I just didn't live that way.

I know that was a long rant but I am hoping that regardless of ideology others are empowered to remove artificial limitations and practice the freedom you have while you have it.

Anyhow, I need to get a choice made as 4 AM is already here. Do I start another new day, or take a nap and start it later. Either way, I start emotionally liberated and headed for financially free, and having no regret in the direction my life has taken since my last post.

Andy

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I was in the military at the time of the Vietnam Disaster which I believe was the beginning of the big divide. It was approximately 20 years after WWII. Many people forget that the Soviet Union was on a rampage to change as many countries as it could. I am not saying what we were doing was right, but there is a right way and a wrong way to address the problem. Not highlighting things that were wrong with protests etc. I had all the respect in the world for John McCain and what he went through and should never ever be treated the way he was when he was following orders and not giving in to the enemy while protecting his country. I don't want to say any more.

It was good to hear from you again Andy and wish you the best going forward.

Glad you are back with us, Andy. Hope you have great success.

Thanks, Fran. How are your Alaska Stories and YouTube doing? I will be around more now that I will have time to study again and refocus on my long game instead of the putting greens.

I haven't done YouTube in a while. It's a long story. Focusing on Lucinda.

Hi Andy,
A lot of information shared in your post. Glad to see you have regained your mojo and are putting it to good use.

All the best,

Michael

Thanks, my friend. Hoping you have found some relief and good health. We finally legalized in Arizona so my own pain is now managed more effectively with fewer side effects on the negative side. The good ones are I am sleeping better and staying in a more even mood ( Psych help finally ), my mobility is up, and weights down. ( should be under 300 pounds next Dr. Visit) and while I am still in pain by day, I can have relief and fall asleep faster by night, and between better sleep, better health, and better mood my A1C will likely come down so I may be off insulin soon and my clarity hasn't been this good in years. May everyone be blessed with changes like these in their life, pot ot no pot. CBD works wonders especially Nano CBD Full Spectrum ( the stuff Tommy Chong is selling now.)

Hi Andy,
I am so glad to hear you are doing better. Pain reduction and better sleep. I am sure in time things will get better. Weight is an important factor and you are addressing the issue. Really happy for you Andy.

Stay well, my friend.

Wishing you all the very best,

Michael

Hello Andy, good post.

Sorry to hear about your sentiment about many things. And I'm so sorry for your loss, your Dad. I have no parents too. I know what you feel.

Times come, and you will recover by then; it's not for long you will adjust, and you'll be ok, believe me. And it's good to help yourself by diverting your time to your other passion or other activities you want to do in life. I also read that you love politics; that's very good; you have your heart helping your community.

All the best to you, Andy.
And take care of yourself.
Thanks,
Joyce

The best part about this is that I found out these things about myself and my business early enough to correct the path and move forward with only moderate adjustments. Changing the domain on the blog will lose some of the time of having built the old one but will help the new one go further and faster without mistakes of the past.

While some sadness comes in with losing my dad and the nervous breakdown, I have found out how strong and loving my wife and kids are and can be, and How resilient I can be. I can't complain much about my progress in the last year. I web from earning $48 in January 2021. This January I made over $300 and in the last 2 months, I have brought in over $700.

My skills are returning and my swagger is getting stronger as I don't feel helpless in my Bipolar depression. The only real major change I would ask for is my runaway to come home, but at least she finally visited the other night for like 20 minutes. There is hope where you feel it and my hope is my family is united soon.

This is going to be a BIG year. Big things come to those who hustle and I have a lot of that in me. God bless you and yours.

Andy

You are welcome, and God bless you too.
Take care,
Joyce

All the best Andy.
I can see how passionate you feel about politics.

It's like a lifelong passion but also one thing my dad and I shared that was unique to us. We would sit over coffee each morning and discuss the news of the day and what our elected officials were actually doing. Not what they were promising in an election year but what they were actually accomplishing. Not very many would get re-elected if we all thought that way.

Still reviving something that died a bit in me when my dad died and I had my nervous breakdown a year later had to be revived for the sanity in me.

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