You are always going to get that question when you meet someone for the first time… what do you do for a living? Ever since I started working full time online, I mean FULL -TIME, no safety net in the form of a real job somewhere, I have tried to come up with an accurate answer. What is it that I do for a living?
I decided early on I would never say that I was an Internet Marketer. I see how people look at me when I tell them this. They either think I’m envolved in something shady or that I’m selling Amway or something, just a pipe dream of sorts.
As of late, I have been doing a lot of teaching at our cool new college, which I’m loving but how do you define that job description? I often say I work from home but that just leads people to asking… “doing what?”
I could say I’m a web designer, or that I help people establish a presence online? Both true but not exactly what I do. Should I be embarrassed about making a living online?
Who cares what people think, right? Well, I do, and always have… and saying I work online always gets that, “Oh, okay, I’m sorry, I did not mean to pry, please don’t try and add me to your downline, I have a real job” kind of look.
And what of working from home? People tend to think that means from the kitchen table or in a spare bedroom… which is fine, and completely legitimate… but does it feel like a real job? Can you sit at your kitchen table and really take this all seriously?
Actually you can, your work space does not define who your are or how serious you are about your online business. Heck, I was only recently working out of my garage when my ex-business partner screwed me and lost our office space. But you know what? Working in that little plywood box in my garage was not very motivating, I wanted a real office… needed a real office.
When my tenants moved out of the house I have on my property I was like, cool, I’ll make that my office. Of course losing that rent money would hurt but I made a decision that I was going to do it.. and that is what is important, making the decision. Once you make a decision to do something, your whole way of thinking changes and if it is a committed decision, life will most often give you the means to make it happen.
One of the biggest decisions I ever made was to one day work with Travis Sago. Heck, I created the entire 4-Day Money Making Blueprint around his teachings before I ever even talked to him to get his permission to do so, talk about a commitment!
Those of you who have followed me from the beginning know what an undertaking it was to finally meet Travis and get him to promote my program. I lost a lot on the way to that accomplishment but I was determined to make it work. That way of thinking attracted opportunities that I could never have imagined at an earlier time and has given me reason to think that maybe there is something to The Law Of Attraction.
Please, I’m not going all crazy on you here, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this. In fact, in light of what I have gone through to get here I think there is a lesson to be learned in making a committed decision and then achieving it as if the world will end if you don’t… meaning you program your mind to the idea that you can’t give up or there will be absolute hell to pay… and believing it!
I’m actually going to be doing a video on my story and on some of the techniques I used to push through the doubt. I know this can help those who may be ready to quit on their dream of working from home, however you may define that to be.
I’ve received a few emails from people asking what my office looks like now because they saw pictures of the destroyed house I got back when my tenants moved out. Well, here are some pictures for you. And those computers? They were bought “after” I had success online. I created the 4-Day Blueprint on a 5 year old office computer and the Paws manual was put together on an old laptop… Both computers have now bitten the dust!
Once you make the decision to do this full time you have to committ to getting the right tools and to put yourself in the right environment to achieve success, and that is exactly what I have done!
Pretty cool, huh?
That last picture is the station where my part time researcher works. And the pink computer? well, that is baby girls… no, really! And see my treadmill, uh, I mean clothes line? I am trying to make a commitment to use it but it is proving harder to exercise than it was to build an online business!
Okay, long enough post. Please don’t quit, okay? And when the video of my journey is done I urge you to watch it. Keep taking action!!!!!!
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