I was really in deep thought today.
"What drove me to work online?"
How did I decide that THIS is what I'm going to do?
What took me from making 6k plus a month as a fitness trainer, and a single father, to deciding that I was going to make it on the internet?
What was that motivation for working online...it must have been lunacy.
Clearly.
Actually, I realized I was exhausted.
I grew sick of not being able to sleep longer than 3 hours at a time.
I grew tired of the training sessions at dawn that, while enjoyable because I was so selective with who I trained, killed any chance of me having energy to work on myself later.
I could never train in the sport that I was so passionate about and focused on pursuing because it was always time or money.
Never enough of both.
I slept in my car between sessions.
I had no choice but to spend more time at the gym than home due to my stretched out schedule.
People called me a gym rat and it stung, because I felt like a slave.
The few days of the week I got to see my son were secretly miserable. I adored being around him and chasing him allover the house, but the fact that he had already taken his first steps without me, cried for his mother when he was cranky, and would refuse to sleep in my arms broke my heart.
I was done.
I informed my clients that I was finished with training. I only had a few weeks left and that was it.
What was bound to happen was going to happen, but I was determined to see my child grow up.
I didn't care.
Of course, everyone thought I was crazy, and I could see in their eyes how disbelieving they were when I told them what I was going to do, but that's people.
I expected that.
Thankfully, I've always believed in myself when nobody else had, so I kept pushing.
As a young, little, chubby kid, I learned that giving into bullies remarks doesn't help. It just makes you want to eat more pie.
I listened to the rare individual that encouraged me, however. One of those people happened to be a guy that started off by selling hosting in his apartment, and turned it into a million dollar a year business. He was proof enough that this was possible.
Yeah, I had less energy for that first month.
Yeah, it was rough.
And at that point I had to see my son less often.
After that first day and making a sale, I realized how real this was.
I got past the biggest obstacle of any real business online.
My way of thinking.
Making money was now a tangible thing. I had something I could spend.
It was real, and I knew I was doing what I was supposed to do.
In the end, it's two years later and I'm making a couple years worth of salary spending half the energy.
I still work as hard, but because I want to, and because my son loves playing with the, "puda", as he says.
So, in conclusion, what's my motivation for working online?
My motivation for working online is me, as it should be for all of us.
It wasn't the outside forces that caused me to decide enough was enough.
None of that had changed. That situation was as stale and exhausting as it had always been.
What changed was the way I saw my own potential, and how I was wasting it away.
I remembered how many people, authority figures, in my formative years had doubted me, and I would prove them wrong.
I was the person in charge here, and I'd fail or be successful on my own terms.
Fortunately, I proved them all wrong on theirs as well.
I recommend a book called "The New Psycho-Cybernetics." You can get it at any bookstore.
It also comes in a CD set if you'd rather listen.
I've read everything out there, and this book managed to open my eyes even further. Something about the way it's written maybe? I don't know, but it's amazing.
If you don't get it, take what you will from my example, and always believe in your own abilities, especially when no one else does.
You're the only thing you know about for sure anyway.
Until we meet again, keep the pie off your face. - 15431
"What drove me to work online?"
How did I decide that THIS is what I'm going to do?
What took me from making 6k plus a month as a fitness trainer, and a single father, to deciding that I was going to make it on the internet?
What was that motivation for working online...it must have been lunacy.
Clearly.
Actually, I realized I was exhausted.
I grew sick of not being able to sleep longer than 3 hours at a time.
I grew tired of the training sessions at dawn that, while enjoyable because I was so selective with who I trained, killed any chance of me having energy to work on myself later.
I could never train in the sport that I was so passionate about and focused on pursuing because it was always time or money.
Never enough of both.
I slept in my car between sessions.
I had no choice but to spend more time at the gym than home due to my stretched out schedule.
People called me a gym rat and it stung, because I felt like a slave.
The few days of the week I got to see my son were secretly miserable. I adored being around him and chasing him allover the house, but the fact that he had already taken his first steps without me, cried for his mother when he was cranky, and would refuse to sleep in my arms broke my heart.
I was done.
I informed my clients that I was finished with training. I only had a few weeks left and that was it.
What was bound to happen was going to happen, but I was determined to see my child grow up.
I didn't care.
Of course, everyone thought I was crazy, and I could see in their eyes how disbelieving they were when I told them what I was going to do, but that's people.
I expected that.
Thankfully, I've always believed in myself when nobody else had, so I kept pushing.
As a young, little, chubby kid, I learned that giving into bullies remarks doesn't help. It just makes you want to eat more pie.
I listened to the rare individual that encouraged me, however. One of those people happened to be a guy that started off by selling hosting in his apartment, and turned it into a million dollar a year business. He was proof enough that this was possible.
Yeah, I had less energy for that first month.
Yeah, it was rough.
And at that point I had to see my son less often.
After that first day and making a sale, I realized how real this was.
I got past the biggest obstacle of any real business online.
My way of thinking.
Making money was now a tangible thing. I had something I could spend.
It was real, and I knew I was doing what I was supposed to do.
In the end, it's two years later and I'm making a couple years worth of salary spending half the energy.
I still work as hard, but because I want to, and because my son loves playing with the, "puda", as he says.
So, in conclusion, what's my motivation for working online?
My motivation for working online is me, as it should be for all of us.
It wasn't the outside forces that caused me to decide enough was enough.
None of that had changed. That situation was as stale and exhausting as it had always been.
What changed was the way I saw my own potential, and how I was wasting it away.
I remembered how many people, authority figures, in my formative years had doubted me, and I would prove them wrong.
I was the person in charge here, and I'd fail or be successful on my own terms.
Fortunately, I proved them all wrong on theirs as well.
I recommend a book called "The New Psycho-Cybernetics." You can get it at any bookstore.
It also comes in a CD set if you'd rather listen.
I've read everything out there, and this book managed to open my eyes even further. Something about the way it's written maybe? I don't know, but it's amazing.
If you don't get it, take what you will from my example, and always believe in your own abilities, especially when no one else does.
You're the only thing you know about for sure anyway.
Until we meet again, keep the pie off your face. - 15431
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