Do you really want to make money on the internet?
All of the bloggers that write about making money online make it out to being something easy to do, but I assure you it is not. You can’t just sign up for latest information course and believe their programs alone can help you.
You first need to help yourself
Yes I know it sounds cheesy and stupid but just hear me out.
Last month I earned $4,000 on my websites which was a huge turning point for me considering since first starting websites back in 2005 I never broke the $1,000 barrier until earlier this year in 2009.
(November 2013 update: I wrote this post over 4 years ago and my last month’s income was $86,401.31 quitting WoW was good for me.)
It’s so important that you seriously devote the time necessary to succeed online. If all you’re doing is reading all of the blogs, paying for training programs and looking for shortcuts to riches yet you fail to spend any quality time on your own work than WTF are you doing?
I speak from first hand experience here. Here is the email I sent to my wife after breaking my addiction to World of Warcraft, which was a major turning point to get me back on track to my most ambitious goal.
Date: Feb 11th 2009
Title: I canceled my WoW accountI can still play until March 5th apparently, but I won’t. I wasted too much of my life playing a stupid game.
I want you to hold onto this email so that the next time a new version of WoW comes out I don’t go reactivate my account and play again.
To date I played:
14 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes and 38 seconds
That’s a ton of time spent playing a video game when I have way more stuff going on in my life.
I’m sorry I spent as much time as I did and I can promise you that I’ll never play WoW again.
I wrote an email because it was 3:00 AM in the morning after I was logging off of WoW and didn’t want to wake her up. I quit World of Warcraft because I knew it was consuming my life and my chances at ever being self employed. So 345 hours, 29 minutes and 38 seconds later I broke the WoW addiction and basically became addicted to working on my websites instead. I have been working on average 2 – 4 hours a day on my websites because I want to be making as much money online as possible by the day I quit my job. I also owe my friend Phil – the critic – a little credit as well because every day on the way to work when we would carpool I would share all of these ideas I had to make money online and he would say, “That’s great – why aren’t you doing anything about it?”
So I guess the point of this post is that if you have things in your life that are holding you back from your goals you need to make a lifestyle change in order to achieve any success online.
What do you think?
March 10th 2014 Update:
Quitting WoW was one of the best decisions in my life.
Whatever your addiction is whether it’s WoW or something else I urge you to give it up.
Now nearly 5 years after writing this post I can say happily that my life wouldn’t be nearly as awesome as it is now had I not made this decision to quit this game.
Tip: It’s easier to quit after a marathon gaming session where you feel guilty for being so unproductive.
If you don’t quit now I hope this post will plant a seed in your head to quit some day.
Mate, anything is possible if you put your mind to it and it sounds like you are heading in the right direction and will be making more and more and more money online. Good luck in all of your quests and have fun!!!!
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Great post, Chris. Thanks for being candid about this. From someone who would rather sit and play video games all day, I know exactly what you mean. I have have stayed far away from WoW because I know what it would do to me, my family, and my businesses.
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Congrats! Quit it cold turkey and never go back.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone and apologies for the cursing 😀 , I’d love for this post to help push someone into quitting a game or break a habit that’s consuming their life and to get back on track with important work that needs to be done.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love to game and when I do quit my job I’ll be sure to set aside time to game but the bottom line is that it has to come second, third or however far down the line to ensure it never affects me to the extent that it did.
Always nice to hear from you Gerry, Brian and Shane
How did you quit ? I’m addicted to video games man & i don’ know how to quit !
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Cold turkey style in a sudden realization of how much time I’m wasting.
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I’m liking your down-to-earth posts Chris. I have basically stopped all videogames myself after 14 years of heavy gaming. I actually think it’s because I feel like I’ve seen it all, done it all in gaming terms. Thankfully i get more of a buzz from learning about IM than shooting some pixels ever gave me. Oh, and real life has better graphics 🙂
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Thanks lol. Well, truth be told now I’m really into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I haven’t played it as much as I did with WoW, but I just really love the competition a first person shooter provides.
MMORPG’s I can never play again though. They’re like crack.
Great article! we seems face the same situation according the game. Game become my hindrance too. The best way to avoid is never start the game again because it is surely consume your worthy time.
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Chris, it’s so true that it was those “quality time on your own work” made me first $4000 month last Nov. It involved a lot of dedication, patience, and frustration trying and experimenting.
This month is going slow regarding to the traffic and my online income. Also I was distracted, and busy working on my offline passive income – rental.
Anyway, I hope I could recharge and focus this long weekend again!
Thank you for your reminder and encouragement – it’s all about making quality time and FOCUS.
Sacrifice…that’s what it takes to improve your financial situations. Multiple streams of income is the best way to go!