Good morning! It’s been a while since I last posted and I truly apologise – life has been amazingly hectic and has changed dramatically over the past few weeks, which I am going to tell you about now, in case you haven’t read of my story – I’m so excited!
On May 19 I came across a somebody called Barry Walls on the Warrior Forum (a forum for internet marketers). Somebody had started a thread that talked about her celebrating her success after being awarded $20 commission on a ClickBank sale. She had been working at it for 7 long months.
Most people responded with encouragement and congratulations, except Barry.
Barry wasn’t all that “congratulatory”! In fact, he said he could have worked in a third world country during that time and walked away with more money! This generated many harsh comments towards him, but I realised that he was 100% right in what he said. Ok, he didn’t have to be so harsh, but what he said was 100% true.
So many people work their butts off for very little reward, and he was simply pointing this out.
He went on to say was that he could teach her to make more than that (he even suggested up to $1000 per DAY!) within a few months. He even offered her FREE coaching!
She did not take him up on his offer. I, on the other hand, wanted to know more – a LOT more, so I contacted him.
I wanted to know what he had to offer. He told me what he had been coaching people face to face and they had all experienced amazing results. I wanted in, so asked him how much I could pay him to coach me.
He told me that he almost had ready an online version of his coaching program, and he’d offer me a discount if I was prepared to be a “guinea pig” so to speak, and to help him by offering feedback on each module as they came through.
My credit card was out within a millisecond and I got started! I was THAT desperate to lose my full time job and work from home, I was prepared to try anything that worked!
So I began the course, which taught me how to get work writing articles for other business owners. Prior to this I had been writing and submitting my own articles to article directories, and of course on my websites, so this wasn’t anything new, although I’d never written for somebody else before.
What I love about what I do now is the fact that I get to choose who I write for and therefore the type of writing I do, so many of my clients are fellow Life Coaches!
6 weeks after I began the course, I was making enough to quit my job. I was pretty well-paid before in my job, so to see these results in only 6 weeks – well, I’ve never experienced that before and I’ve done a lot of courses!
This post wasn’t supposed to be all about the course I’m doing though. It’s supposed to be about the goal I had written down only a few months ago.
I was extremely passionate about my goal because this goal was about life change for me. I no longer wanted to get up at 5am, work all day and go to bed at night without having the time or the freedom to spend with my children. They mean everything to me, and I was being deprived of my right to enjoy being with them!
We all have choices in life, and my choice was to take my life into my own hands and make some drastic changes. It took a long time, but it was so totally worth it.
My goal was to be working from home and making more money than I was in my job. At this point it didn’t matter how much more – I just wanted it to be more! 🙂 The date I had written on my goal card was June 30.
I left my job on June 26! How good is THAT!!??
Now I truly believe that if I hadn’t written down my goal and wasn’t as specific as I was, then I really don’t know if Barry Walls and I would have crossed paths. If we did, I’m not sure I would have tracked him down and insisted that he coach me!
So whatever your goal, be specific and write it down, and be sure to give your goal a due date to generate a sense of urgency – you will be glad you did!
I have read the info on Barry’s course. I am sorry, I don’t mean to sound pessimistic. But it seems to me that the only one who is apt to get rich because of Barry’s course, is Barry himself.
Vicki, thank you for voicing your opinion.
I get where you are coming from about how it is usually the course owners who are making the money, and not those buying the course. We see it every day, so it’s actually a healthy thing to be sceptical about such things.
Of course, I’m not going to leave it at that though! 🙂
If you read Barry’s sales page you will notice that he talks about building a business that will eventually require little input from you.
The difference between this course and any other I have seen however, is that this one provides almost instant results. The others I have seen (and done!) don’t offer results like this. Also, because you have 30 days to try it out, you essentially get the bulk of the course up front with zero risk. Many people could make a living just on Module 1! In fact, many do! So this course is essentially free of risk.
Now, I am yet to come across anybody who has not made back the cost of the course within the first two weeks. That is definitely something to consider.
I am now earning a full time income from home, and only started his course two months ago. Some days I earn more than I did in my job, and at other times I earn a little less, but in all cases it all comes down to the amount of effort I am prepared to put in each day.
I spend my days in my home office, not worrying about commuting to work or the swine flu or anything else that’s going around. I can even sit outside with my laptop and enjoy the sunshine when I work. It’s not for everybody, but I’m not “everybody”!
If I can open up the door by telling somebody else about this who would benefit from my experience, then of course I am happy to tell the world, because this stuff has been life changing for me.
This won’t suit everybody though. In fact, a couple of people I know of have dropped out of the course because they just couldn’t keep up with the workload. If you’ve never felt overwhelmed with work before, then you will now.
If you’re any good at writing (and even if you’re not) then it’s definitely worth at least a look, because this course will teach you how to become a full time writer/entrepreneur, although be prepared for a huge learning curve and lots of work.
It is the optimists, the ones who are prepared to take whatever action it takes to achieve their goals, that will achieve them, and this course is going to save a lot of people a lot of commuting to work time!