fast web life change

I can only talk of my own experience here. The last six to twelve months of my life have been a roller coaster. About this time last year the owner of the company and I had an argument that caused me to question my role. I began to question the effort I had put in especially in light of the fact that at the end of the day it was not my company - I could be sacked, it could fold or any other number of scenarios that would leave me high and dry and unemployed.

It started me thinking about what I was doing and where I wanted to be. Hey we've all been there haven't we. You start questioning everything!

Well I decided to do my own thing but it has taken me a while to work out what my own thing is. Over the last 6 months that has changed a number of times. In no small part to just continually refocusing on whether my goals are acually mine - or some one elses. Where my action plans will get me where I really want to be. As you all probably know that cna be a difficult question when you still aren't clear on where you want to be.

What changed for me 6 months ago was James Schramko. He is an Australian internet marketer. He spoke at a workshop I was at before I even knew what internet marketing was. It was a weekend that started a process of life change for me. I went back to work a new person, revitalised, full of ideas and excitement that took some a little by surprise!

Still not really "getting" internet marketing but just knowing it could help me get where I wanted to go I enrolled in a training course with James. In some aspects in very real ways he blew my mind. See the most amazing thing for me was that the changes his course was sparking were more than just internet marketing related.

I was being asked to reset my mindset, to look at what business models suited my skills, interested me, to look at how to determine actions to achieve the goals I set, to avoid being pulled down by limitation and challenge and how to sell.

That has been a continual process since. Including this last month in which I have been evaluating what work I do, what I outsource, where I want to be and whether the actions I am currently taking will actually get me there. There has also been this other funny circumstance of having to look at things I do well off-line and how they are the same things I need to be doing online to be successful. This requires me to rethink strategy, recognise things I am good at and apply them differently using different media.

So after learning internet marketing and being flooded with ideas I started to apply the tools. It wasn't easy but for the first time ever I did not give up. I stuck with it and with it, worked through every block and within three days I had registered my first domain, set up a reseller hosting account and built my first sales page.

Then I sat on the lounge and cried. Cried because I had done it, I had not given up, I had perservered, solved every stumbling block and achieved. It was such a sense of relief that with no previous experience i could do this. I cried because I had achieved something which for me was a really big task!

From there I decided to leave my job and work for myself. It took me 6 months to finalise my exit but I have not looked back. I am building sites, getting page 1 listings, building my client base with clients I want to work with and am working on projects that interest me. I have even learnt to outsource.

Don't get me wrong I am working hard and on a steep learning curve but it doesn't feel like work anymore! I love what I am doing and I love the sense of achievement I get when I make something work or when I do something new for thr first time.

In bigger picture life change I have been evaluating where I spend my time, what living I am doing, who I am doing that living with and what positive influences my involvement is having on them and they on me. It is fair to say almost every aspect of my life has been evaluated and is changing positively.