Prosperous New Year

Well, here it is, another new year and I survived it! lol

I always start off a new year by reflecting on the success and failure of the one that just past. It's important that I include failures on my list because, without them, it is much more difficult to succeed. The road to success is a long, difficult journey that will include many obstacles along the way and many failed ideas. Much of working online is trial and error, hit or miss type plans that can go wrong at any time.

I'm mentioning this not to be negative, but to prepare you for the long road ahead. The so-called "gurus" who claim overnight riches are just lying to you to get you to buy their ebook or whatever scheme they are spinning to you. I don't have an ebook and I don't have an overnight success story to dazzle you with. It took a LOT of hard work and many failed ideas to get to where I am today.

I've been scammed. I've been lied to and I've been promised things by people who just didn't deliver, but I'm not bitter or upset. Why? Because learning from my mistakes is how I succeed, and you will too. There is no magic formula to be found in some guru ebook.

Yes, the gurus do annoy me sometimes with their pictures of fancy cars and big, luxurious houses, which are often faked, to impress people. Screenshots of earnings can now easily be faked as well. Hell, with the new Photoshop program pretty much ANYTHING can be faked online these days, but that's not what bothers me the most.

What REALLY gets me is all the legions of followers that hang on to every word a guru says, as if it was some kind of golden key of knowledge. If a pro blogger like John Chow posts something, there are people waiting to lap it up like it was diamonds, yet I've been using some of the same techniques that he uses for years and I learned it ON MY OWN with no help from anyone else. I've refined my techniques through my own trial and error over the years as well.

If you were to look behind the scenes you would see that people like him are only successful because of people like you who follow his every word. He's made the same mistakes I have in the past and he's also learned to refine his techniques. You can too. Don't get discouraged and don't get lazy. There is much to be done on your journey!

If you follow my blog I promise you will learn many useful things in the knowledge that I have learned to pass on to you, and it won't cost you ANYTHING! I have no expensive ebook to sell and I have no fancy pictures of my mansion to impress you. Oh, but I DO have a picture on the bottom of my blog that shows the view from my house. I live on top of a big hill overlooking the ocean and beaches with deer frollicking in my backyard in the summer and great scenery. But still no million dollar sportscar. Hmmm, perhaps I SHOULD write an ebook! lol

Have a safe and prosperous new year everyone!!