Q: Just got a discouraging email from my sister. I came from a family whose jobs are their life and their reputation. You see I tried this home-based 6 years ago and failed. I know this time it looks promising as ever and my sister is already warning me that if I might fail again, she may not be there to help me back.
This is my plan and I'm laying this all out to you as my mentor. I want you to be frank with me if I can make it through. By NOvember this year, I can already avail of my separation pay of around XXX,000 pesos. Then I will also have my 13th month and some savings. I may come out with about XXXK by december to start my home-based.
By that time, I will have a DSL line with PLDT connected and have my laptop setup. Right now, I have started my blog. I've noticed you have more than a dozen more blogs and some of them are hitting the charts at google.
I don't want to fail this time. When I get my savings, I'll get your online seminar for the VA. But my bank is still processing to give me a card that I can use for the internet so I can be protected. Also, my paypal account is standing by to get this new card registered under it.
I can do the blogging, I can also do Odesk and being a VA. Should I start learning how to create a website for anyone? I saw that Odesk have so many listed for skills they require. Only the office and admin part I can relate with. The others, I'm completely a stranger to them.
I can do the blogging, I can also do Odesk and being a VA. Should I start learning how to create a website for anyone? I saw that Odesk have so many listed for skills they require. Only the office and admin part I can relate with. The others, I'm completely a stranger to them.
Please help. Thank you for your patience.
(Name withheld so that sister will not be able to read this!)
A: This would be fun.
1. Define failure. Even better, describe in perfect detail what will happen if you fail. If it involves feeling radical emotional and physical pain (like running a marathon and you're at half way out of breath and if you give up your family will be broke and hungry for 100 years), include it.
If it involves possible death, like swimming to the shore after the ship has sunk, include it.
Just detail your own definition of failure.
This should be fun.
And don't think I'm joking, I am not.
2. Stop talking to your sister. People who are moving in the right direction talk only to people who will encourage them, even if all they did in life was FAIL in the past, specially if all they did in life WAS FAIL, then the people around them WAS DEFINITELY instrumental in all those failures. Hence the need to change the people surrounding yourself.
3. YOU DO NOT NEED A TON OF MONEY to become a VA and stop that paypal/bank/credit card merry go round. Go to the bank, pay for the VA seminar this Saturday and attend it. (Click here: http://filipinova.com) You can also go to the bank and pay for the P 2375 online seminar and repeat listening to it - http://jhilario.com/downloadva
Your cost is only laptop, fast DSL and your determination and electricity. What do you need P XXX,000 for? Do you really eat that much?
4. Just be ready to sit or stand in front of a computer for MONTHS- SELF STUDYING how things work online. If you're happy to self study and watch videos on youtube about how websites work and function--- then you can be a VA.
For example, how many videos like this can you watch w/o feeling any pain?
First timers in the VA world will have to watch more than 100 of these videos. Can you watch videos like these repeatedly?
You need to repeat because sometimes you won't get the point of the video at first. But I mean how many movies have you watched in your lifetime that you hardly understood everything 100% after one viewing?
And how hard can it be to look up google for words you don't understand?
Not hard at all.
Being a VA is better than being employed. Better than being an OFW because you have all their benefits and none of their disadvantages.
And all you need to do is to believe that you can do it.
You've had a lot of training, 1,000,000 hours of watching TV, VCD, DVD and movies aren't going to waste. You're just going to watch different things from now on - website tutorials on youtube. And don't tell me you need to pay for youtube - it's free too. Just make sure your internet speed is fast enough or you need to upgrade.
See you at the VA Seminar or online and start changing your life for the better, dude!
