“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist and novelist

I just came back from my cousin’s wedding in North Carolina. It was certainly an intersting experience. For the first time in my life, I was exposed to a church wedding. Kinda scary, but nonetheless educational.

As I was coming back on the plane ride and trains, I realized how I almost didn’t go. If I didn’t go, I would have missed out on a lot. Aside from the actual wedding, I had a great time. For example, the first night, we met up my cousin at a small club and were there pretty late.

I didn’t realize it buy I actually got drunk. It wasn’t as bad as I thought. I was with good company, everyone I trusted, so it was actually quite fun. But, still, won’t be doing that again. It was one of those things that you do once in your life, and you’re good to go.

Just as I probably will never go into a church ever again. Not my cup of tea. Well, I don’t even like going to a Jain temple, so makes sense. But the point is that I would have missed out on my meeting my cousins, my aunts, and uncles.

I would have missed on seeing one of my other cousin’s huge property. I would have missed out on staying in a hotel room. I would have missed out on lots of good Indian food. And I would have missed out on the garba.

So, anyways all I’m saying is that I feel like I am missing out on a lot by not being more out going. I have lots of opportunities to do “stuff” that I just don’t take. I should take them. But more importantly, I’ve been just sitting around for the most part waiting for something to happen.

I need to be even more proactive in achieving my dreams.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

I don’t think I’ve ever found my self on the side of the majority. I’ve always been a non-conformist. But I don’t do things differently just because I don’t wish to fit in. But in fact I do things differently just because I want to.

That’s how it should be. Why should anyone tell me what to do? It’s my life, and it’s my decision to do as I wish to do. One of the biggest reasons why I’ve chosen to focus so much time and energy on Shah Training and Affiliate Marketing is because of my pursuit of freedom.

Freedom is the ability to determine action without restraint. I want absolute freedom. Freedom from parents. Freedom from a boss. Freedom from government. Look, I understand that we all need laws and government for protection.

But I don’t like the idea of someone controlling every little aspect of my life. And unfortunately, that is the direction this country is heading. But even then, the real reason why I want to leave this country is two-fold:

1 – I don’t want to give away 30% of my earnings to the government, and

2 – 1 U.S. Dollar = 50 Rupees.

At the end of the day, that means more money in my pocket, and more freedom from my struggles.

So, with that said, lets take a look at my progress for the past few weeks:

As you can see, my weeks start on Wednesdays. I was almost able to break $100 last week. For about 10 days, I went without a single sale. During those 10 days I was following the advice of Mr. Ewen Chia.

Yeah, I did buy his latest product. There were some great ideas in there that I just needed to try. Too bad they didn’t work. Thats why I’ve decided from now on I’m only going to listen to my own head.

Think about it, the week I followed Mr. Chia’s advice I only made $23. Once I stopped following his advice, my sales went up. This isn’t the first time this has happened. I’m just going to stop listening to all these so called “Guru’s”

Ok, so what I realized was that with one of my products, Gladiator Body Workout. The conversion rate is 1/135. Not bad. The average commission for each sale is $22.60. So, if I want to break $100, I need to send at least 600 people to the Gladiator Body Workout sales page.

So, that’s exactly what I’ll be working on this week. This is going to be difficult, because my site only gets around 300-400 hits per day. I’ll spend today trying to figure out how to generate the traffic.