Back in 1999 I was a single bloke, I had a mortgage on my house but I was yet to settle down and have kids (Hadn’t met the right girl yet!) I was earning a reasonable wage though nothing spectacular, although two thirds of that went on keeping a roof over my head and general day to day living expenses, with a bit of overtime each week was able to go out and enjoy a pretty good social life.
Even back then I wanted to improve my financial position and find a better way to earn a living…. I somehow ended up on the mailing list of a british entrepreneur by the name of Andrew Reynolds who was was still quite new to his business at that time, I bought several of his products with the intention of making some money… well my best intentions just did not work out.
I guess the main problem was that I just did not get it, I dont recall these manuals, at least the few that I read, actually having anything resembling clear step by step instructions, what I read seemed too difficult…like there was missing information or something, a lot of it seemed vague to me, perhaps I did not understand enough of it, perhaps I just did not have the ‘Need’. You see if you have the ‘need’ that will feed the ‘desire’ and if you have enough desire then there will be no stopping you, no matter how long it takes or what obstacles you find in your way.
I bought a few products which I did not even fully read through, or in the case of a set of video tapes I watched the first video but then left the other four, it just seemed that life kept getting in the way and like I already said I did not really have the need, just the desire and so was just looking for something easy… and so it continued until late 2000 when I stopped buying info products, having convinced myself it was all a rip-off and none of it could not possibly work for someone like me…
Fast forward to mid 2008, i’d met the right girl several years earlier and settled down, she already had four kids, but we went on to have two of our own, then her two eldest girls had a child each so there I was settled down with a great family, six kids and two grandkids. I’d rearranged our finances, increased the mortgage to raise capital so we could improve our family home because it was a bit small for all of us. Everything was fine although I was working long 12 hour shifts on a continental shift system, that brought in a good wage on which everything was based, and then after three years my employer shelved the continental shifts which cut my hours and shift premium, and suddenly we were living on the bread line.
The only spare money came from the overtime I was able to work each week, fortunately that is something that is normally plentyful where I work,
You can only work six and seven day weeks for so long before something starts to give, the constant tiredness starts to take it’s toll, your relationship suffers, and your kids start to miss having time with you and wonder why daddy never has time or is too tired to play with them… for me the realisation that something had to change came when I got irritated one day at my daughter, only two and a half years old at the time, who was asking yet again if I could watch tv with her for a bit… when I said no because I was about to go to work (early for some extra overtime) the look of pure disappointment in her face stopped me in my tracks…. she did not complain just looked down at the floor said ‘okay daddy’ and shuffled off to sit on her own in the lounge in front of the tv… and it dawned on me this had become a daily occurance, it was either tv or read a book or play with the toys, she wanted my attention every day but I wasn’t giving it, and then I thought hang on i’m hardly spending any time with my kid and here I am getting irritated… some dad i’m turning out to be!, something had to change, I had to find a way to earn more money so I could cut my hours and stop being such a disapointment to my daughter.
And so shortly after, another one of those home biz op letters came through my door… perhaps it was the inner realisation that I had to start looking for another way to earn more money in fewer hours, or maybe it was just really clever copy writing that caught my attention… or maybe at a basic level I realised I had a very big need… which would fuel my desire to make changes to our lives… whatever it was a light went on inside my head and I found myself once again looking at the possibility of a home business opportunity… so I signed up for what was a series of physical products with master resale licenses. A few weeks later I received an invitation to the 2008 entrepreneurs bootcamp, a three day event that could surely rock even the most skeptical person into believing that an ordinary person really can become successful and make a lot of money in information publishing and marketing, enough to completely change their lives forever.
But and there is always a but isn’t there, I took a few wrong turns….bought products I didn’t really need, procrastinated at times, there were occasions when I would have to do something which would take my focus off learning this business for a few weeks, then when I went back I would have to spend time catching up. Sometimes I would reach a sticking point, and when I couldn’t figure it out I would move onto something else I thought was similar thinking I could make a breakthrough there and then backtrack to the other bit I was stuck on. During this time I amassed quite a collection of info products many with varying levels of resell rights.
I should have stuck to one thing and stayed with it until I achieved results, instead I flittered from one thing to another and that is why I have not started making money yet, I have still been moving forward and learning… but in a meandering and haphazard way.
It has now been a year and a half that I have been struggling to make a start in this business, and I have to point out that I have learned a heck of a lot about how it all works in that time… although I have products and websites in place and ready to take orders, and a squeeze page with opt-in form ready to begin collecting subscriber email addresses, and an auto-responder set to send out a sequence of emails to start building my list and start making sales, but I have yet to join the last few dots so to speak andI have not at this time launched my home business properly, but one thing I do know is that some day soon I will take that final step that will start the wheels turning, and how do I know this? because I will never give up, I will never accept defeat… there is only one way to go and that is forward and up! nothing else is acceptable… because this is my new hope, hell it is my only hope of seriously improving mine and my family’s lives, and just to make absolutely sure I steer a steady course and know in which order to join the dots i’ve done something I should have done a year ago… i’ve taken out a little insurance policy in the form of a mentoring program, John Thornhill’s marketing masterclass.
Now I know I will succeed in this business regardless, it might take weeks, or months or even another year or two before I’m earning on-line, but this way, on J.T’s program I’m taking a learning by numbers approach, no detours no wrong turns or silly mistakes just everything I need to learn to become a successful marketer delivered in managable chunks week after week, and so far after just two weeks I have already expanded my knowledge and skills and am feeling a sense of excitement and anticipation, like i’ve started on the home run after being on a long journey for what feels like forever.
So I’m now going to drink a toast to a brighter future…and I look forward to the day where I’ll be able to give something back by helping other people to make it on-line…
To everyones future success… cheers!
Pete Chapman.
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