Massy

I wanted to start my blog on here by talking about inspiration, what inspires me, who, and why at this moment in time.

I have just come through a few months of being pretty low, not something I’ll go into in any real depth here, but just to say that being laid off from my contract management position 6 days before Christmas was not the recipe for a great start to 2009. For the first 4 months of the year I must have sent off an average of 2 cv's a day, week in, week out, and had an invite to a grand total of 3 interviews, such is the state of things at the moment on that front. Needless to say, none of those interviews came to anything and it came to the stage where switching the pc on each morning was just making me feel worse. Then one morning in late April I woke to find my 7 year old looking at me, "what you doing today dad, more job hunting?", "yes son", I said, with an obvious almost beaten look in my eye. "It's not very good at the moment, is it dad?, not many jobs and millions looking, if I had a job, I would give it to you, them people don’t know what they're missing not giving you a job, they don’t deserve you anyway". Those couple of moments instantly changed my whole thought process, I became me again and I was no longer one of the millions out there being beaten down by the economic doom and gloom. My son instantly inspired me for reasons that anyone with a child will know without me having to explain. I had fallen into a trap without even realising it.

My whole life has changed during the past few weeks, that very morning I switched the pc on and I placed a free advert on a site to advertise myself doing some freelance work, I didn't look at a single vacancy being advertised!. Within about 4 hours I had a reply and after a few e-mails between us I took my first booking without even speaking to the guy and arranged a day and time for me to visit his country home. I'll come back to him later!.

Aside of the inspiration from my son and getting my first client I want to say that this site has inspired me greatly the last few weeks, I think it's an absolute mine of information and say well done to those that run it and to those that contribute through the forum, fantastic job people!.

I have been reading Randy's blog posts this morning, another reason for feeling so inspired, nice work Randy!, I certainly didn't feel like you were bragging about things going so well, it's great that they are and sharing your story of success can only help inspire others, it certainly has me.

Aside of gaining my first client I began to look at other things I had done in the past, things I enjoyed doing, and this took me back to a few years ago when I ran a poker site, now the site itself was sold quite a long time ago and has now gone altogether, no idea what happened to it. All the affiliate links etc were changed on the sale and as most of my accounts were set up on cpa deals, only a few on rev!, I cleared out what was there. Over the past few weeks I have managed to find the details of most of the accounts that I had all but forgotten about, mainly due to moving into other fields, moving house, no internet connection for quite some time and losing the e-mail address that was used for the accounts. What I found in some of those accounts almost knocked me off my seat, it just hadn't occurred to me that in those intervening years players that had entered my freerolls or small buy in events with added money would have become real money players or qualified on the points front years later. Of course, its this that has brought me back to looking in this area again and indeed to find this site. Inspired!.

My new client as talked of above, turns out to be a past online gaming guru, who sold his very successful business a couple of years ago, just before he broke his back in a vehicle accident, someone who never gave up hope and now walks very well un-aided. Inspired!. He gave me a good idea of what my previous site was probably worth, gutted!, I never at that time thought I was building something that could have been worth so much and now realise that if I have done it once, without realising it, I can surely do it again, sure enough I had made mistakes and lots of them in getting the site to the stage it was at when I let it go for such a minimal amount and have lots to learn about the affiliating game etc, but this again has left me ........, I think you've guessed the word.

So here I am, starting out on what is not so much a new road, but more a new beginning. I hope to post here as things progress on my journey