Can it possibly be a year since I last wrote on my blog?  “Time flies when you’re having fun”, they say.  Well, the time has certainly flown by, but the latter part of that saying doesn’t really fit.

It’s been an active year, to be sure, of buying many products that seemed promising to help us push our online business upward and onward to the land of financial independence.  Each one of the many products inferred their promise to get us there by following their program to the letter.

Without going into gory detail, let me just put it this way – we recently bought another product.  Need I say more??

But, quitters we are not!  We are persevering and WILL succeed one of these days which we truly feel is getting closer and closer to becoming our reality.

Both of us have had our own offline businesses in the past; we have managed employees; we have built up our databases of clients and customers to impressively successful businesses that afforded us very nice lifestyles.  But we are now, and have been since the beginning, still challenged by learning “how to crack the nut” of a consistent, reliable, substantial income from our online business.

I recognize that we are in good company, however.  Remember old Thomas Edison?  The story goes that he persisted through 10,000 failed efforts to discover the electric light bulb.  With each failure, he was not thwarted in his efforts.  Instead, he said that he just succeeded to learn a new way that his invention won’t work and pressed on towards his mark.

That’s how we feel.  We will continue to press on towards our mark.  There are too many very successful people whose sole livelihood is derived from their online business, and we know that we are just as dedicated, just as intelligent, just as driven, just as deserving, just as talented, and just as bull-headed as any of these folks to give up.  Some of them have even admitted that the road to their success was something like our road behind us as it pertains to the amount of products they bought and tried in order to build an online business and that their success took them a few years to achieve, also.

As you notice, I am not sharing what we have attempted so far in our online business efforts because what we have found challenging and unfruitful, others have used and found their dreams.  It seems to be a very personal and individual endeavor to “get us there”, regardless of who the “us” is and regardless of what the “there” is.

So, what has not worked for us may be just what is or will work for you.  Let us not taint your success with our stories of “un-success” – so far, anyway.  Sometimes, we go back and re-visit one of the programs that we looked at before only to find that NOW their lessons are more pertinent to what we’re doing probably because our understanding and experience have grown to the point where we can appreciate how that program would now apply to our current process.

There have been times when we would buy someone’s product knowing that it won’t fit into our system right now, but there is good value in it for what we anticipate doing in the future.  They are figuratively “sitting on the shelf” in my Documents Folder on my computer waiting to be resurrected in the future when we say “Ahhh, you are JUST what we need to use right now!”

We are not giving up.  Perish the thought!  We are just getting warmed up!  One of these days – soon, I hope – I’ll be posting about our long-awaited success and what we found that got us there.  In the meantime, let’s all just keep pushing through to the light at the end of the tunnel!  I hear it’s lovely there!