Whenever I leave Santa Barbara and go home (Bakersfield), I always seem to get really lazy and I don’t know why. I wake up around 7:30-8:00 a.m. everyday at Santa Barbara, yet I find it hard to wake up at 10:00 a.m. in Bakersfield. I also find myself sitting down browsing the internet doing nothing or watching endless amounts of useless MTV, ESPN, or non stimulating boring television.

I was thinking and imagining what my future holds for me, and I couldn’t really think of anything but living a life where I could live. I was thinking about how I’ve never really put myself out there to find a job or get an internship so that I could have something lined up after I graduate from college either this year or next year during fall. One thing that really bothers me is that I have never visited any place outside the United States. I’ve always wanted to travel and experience different cultures, however neither my family or I have the funds to take vacations around the world. So this got me thinking and when I think, I think a lot…

Where my house stands, we have a major ant problem which happens sporadically. I doing my business in the bathroom (droppin a duece) saw some ants in my bathtub that I sprayed with ant spray the night before. However, there was one ant alive and roaming around on the bottom of the tub. At that point some bright light or big bang went on in my head and made me realize ants are one of the hardest workers out there. They do everything precise and serve their queen.

While watching this ant try to crawl up the slippery tub, it kept falling down, but it never gave up. It also took its time searching for a new area or trail to follow so it could climb up and escape. It never looked like it was in a rush or hurry, but everything was carefully planned and executed. The ant finally made it up the tub and carefully maneuvered around all the dead ants and left over ant spray. While looking at this ant, I was relating it to my life. Even though the ant doesn’t really have a “life” and is pretty much a slave to its queen, it still works very hard. So I knew from then on, in order to live the life I wanted, I will have to work hard to play hard.

My brother Gregg brought up a good point while shopping for our mother and father for Christmas, which was starting up a company “in the real world” is harder than internet marketing or affiliate marketing. I earned couple of hundreds of dollars here and there and roughly 3k with one website. The website which I made ~3k with was a website that I worked on for about a week, and then for 3 months every week for one day only worked on it for an hour. If you ask me that is good fucking money for doing hardly anything. I asked myself, “Did I even work that hard to earn that money?” and the answer was no. All this knowledge I know about computers and internet may not be as much as other people, but I do know more than the average person. So, I decided to sign up for certain forums again to research marketing online and will be attempting affiliate marketing again within the week. The rational behind this is because I don’t have to work for anyone, and your successes and failures depend solely on YOU.

My first post on this blog stated that I would drop affiliate marketing, however, after researching some more and thinking about the possibilities it could bring me, it was a no brainier. I can easily make $300 a day and live off of that for the rest of my life (that is if I figure out what I’m doing wrong, which I will this time around). I was looking back at all the failed attempts at different campaigns I tried to promote, and realized I didn’t research them enough, didn’t take my time, and the most important thing spending some money to do it right. What I mean by “right” is spending money for a landing page, or hiring someone to write pages for you, or even paying for classes to learn more about affiliate marketing.

I don’t want to look back at my life and say, damn I wish I would have done that. I really don’t care what people think of me or what I do. If I try hard at everything I do but fail, oh well. I’m not afraid of failure, and I’m not afraid of going bankrupt. My dad said that one of the biggest things he regrets in life is not taking a chance. And if taking a chance means spending the money you have right now and risking going bankrupt, then that is what I’ll do. The biggest risk my Dad took, he admitted, was starting his own business a couple of years ago with his friend. His friend is pretty well off, but what I have observed is that he doesn’t really take big risks or chances. If I had the kind of money as he, I guarantee you that I would be one hundred times richer. There are endless possibilities out there and waiting. You just have to take a chance and have a little luck on your side. The ones that succeed are those who take advantage of their luck at the right time. The ones that don’t are the ones that don’t take advantage in time and are late, or are those who never create that opportunity or luck.

In the end, I realized I have failed a ton with affiliate marketing and have been messing with it off and on for about a year now. But, one of these days all the time spent reading, researching, and failing will pay off. And when that day comes, I will be able to live. I don’t want to be a prisoner of my own world which I created around me, I want to be someone with a cause. I wasn’t born to serve others, I was born to live a life. That is what we are all born to do LIVE LIFE, not live in misery or work for others. So to change these things I’ve decided to change some things in my life and work harder than I have ever done before. It’s going to hard for me not to party all the time in Santa Barbara and get distracted, but I think the only way I will be able to do this is to be motivated by thinking of my future goals and working hard in the library. In the end, when you fall down get up and try harder. And when you fall down again, it’s a little harder to get back up. Even though it is harder after every failure to get back up, you are learning things about yourself which some people never learn in a lifetime. And that day will come when everything comes together and you WILL succeed in life.

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” – Abraham Lincoln

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