The One Shot Deal

Happy FriYAY My Fellow HIVERS!!

I'm totally stoked, as per usual; when the end of the week is upon us:

It helps to go into a HIIT workout at 5am in the morning and have enough energy to kick ass during the session, then carry that into putting in my time for my employers and then doing a balancing act with making sure my HIVE and Email Marketing; gets as much love as possible.

I mean, dawg; I can give you a million reasons on why, I just want to lay in bed today and just sleep the day away.

But the show must go on.

Actually, Tiffany and I have a mini road trip to Sarasota this weekend, where workouts are scheduled and of course a Saturday cheat day will be in the mix. With that said, allergies are kicking my ass, I've been dealing with migraines for a few days and my nose is a mess. You would think I sniffed up a brick.

You know what? All that shit above don't mean anything, if I'm not grindin' everyday, to reach my long-term goals.

I like to always talk about how by the middle of the week, I'm assessing what has gone right during that particular week and building on that or what isn't working and tweak it a bit (not overhaul) and ride the week out, crushing smaller goals along the way. It's how I've conditioned myself.

During my health and fitness journey, I instantly knew and had some experience with weight loss in the past; that it's a slow process, if you do it a healthy way.

I started at about 216 pounds and pushing a 42 waist size to an average of too low of a weight at 155 pounds and a my pants swimming in a size 34 to averaging 165 to 170 and maintaining a size 34. The point is, I've been on this journey of eating healthier and working out for over EIGHT YEARS and it's still not easy and all has been gradual.

Equating my health and fitness with my online marketing journey will always be something I write about, because it's two core things in my life that I'm trying to not only blend; but to compare notes on how I tackled my successes in weight loss and fitness and applying the same mindset with online marketing.

More to the point, my successes with bettering my health and fitness has been a positive force in my life, in so many ways, that I lose count; so coming back to online marketing, after years away from it; came with this mindset in mind. A healthier mindset.

See, when you want to earn an income online; we are conditioned to believe things that are embellished, that are just not true. So, many of us walk away from the experience; believing it's all a scam or just not possible.

In my opinion, there is one mentality that existed back then that still exists today; whether in losing weight, making money online or earning a raise at work. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING is a one shot deal.

I didn't workout, ate just salad and took a supplement or two and lost 25 pounds the first week.

I didn't send out a lead capture page my first day back and sent it through a few ad sites, a solo or two and had 100 people sign up to my list the first week.

I didn't walk into my current employment, worked hard from day one, put in the extra time to show my worth and was promoted in my first week.

All of the above happened slowly and continues in that same slow grind.

Of course, we should always try to move things along in certain situations; but the overall expectation in whatever we deem as a success; DOES NOT come from a one shot deal.

The one shot deal usually involves some luck, if not a shit load of it or you are just in a great position to provide yourself or be provided with a leg up and hey that is super awesome. I am not hating on you, but I only know the grind life. The hustle life.

Till this day, I'm still learning, I'm still failing. I'm still adjusting.

In no way, shape or form; am I anywhere near where I want to be, but I do know this; that if I slack off in any of the phases in my life that matter to me most and ever start relying on that one shot deal mentality; then I have already lost.

I'm going into the weekend in pretty good shape on my LISTNERDS journey. I'm still hanging tough in the Top 10 on each side, so staying consistent and showing up daily is truly helpful:

I'm smelling 10,000 Staked ListNerds, so by Monday; I should be in Rock Mode:

I honestly thought, that my Email Marketing effort; which was more on a wane than most of what I do; was going to produce shittier results - as it should have, but I'm certainly not mad at the 12 subscribers for the last 7 days, which I honestly didn't think would have been that much at all. Not with what I've put into it:

I continue to be really happy with this Lead Capture Page:

The work never stops and honestly, none of what I truly love is work; so I'm just on a 24/7 hustle and it's how I roll. I've come a long way from living life in search of that One Shot Deal.

Let's Gooooooooooooooooo!!!

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