The Chronicles: Day 86

March is here, and as I sit listening to the winds shipping around the mature trees outside, I can feel spring rattling the door, desperate to get in. Thankfully, I am now starting to walk after two months of immobility. It’s still painful, and I walk a little like Charley Chaplin, but I can now get around unaided, and yesterday, I even drove for the first time in over two months.

What an incredible period of reflection it has been. As I mentioned last time, pain is a fabulous resource if you know how to use it and avoid shooting a second, blaming arrow at yourself.

While in a cast, I managed to keep working for a large part of every day. One day, my partner remarked on how pale I looked compared to before the accident. This is so because I have been unable to walk outside for at least an hour daily. But I have channelled all that outdoor time into developing my businesses and walking down my millionaire’s roadmap.

My progress so far

I can hardly believe that I now have four websites indexing on Google and appearing in the search results. I’ve had several emails congratulating me from Google Console, so at last, I have emerged from the tunnel of unknowing.

Creating new websites is genuinely an act of faith. Until you have published at least 30 articles to display your topic authority and received comments on as many as possible to show engagement, it is impossible to know if anyone is interested in your niche, especially in my case, as all of my websites have a spiritual/philosophical quality.

I feel launched, and my chosen direction is valid and potentially successful.

Wealthy Affiliate: the truly perfect Internet business website

At this point, I’d like to pay tribute to my base, Wealthy Affiliate. I joined in November 2023 on a free account and almost immediately upgraded to Premium+. Then, I was tasked with an incredible pay-it-forward system which keeps you producing content and improving all the skills required to be a website owner.

As you add content to each website, it is monitored so that you can quickly see what you need to do next and where you need to catch up. There is a progress bar that starts off red – ‘site health needs work’- and gradually changes through blue and eventually becomes green, which means ‘site health is awesome.’ I have been motivated to keep all four sites in the green zone.

These are the parameters you are working to improve:

• Publishing frequency
•  Content quality and variety
•  Visitor engagement (comments)
•  Your engagement (answering comments)
•  Plugins
•  Google Ranked
•  Site Trust
•  Website feedback

I look at this daily, and it maps out my day.

You may wonder how brand-new websites can get comments. Having spent three years trying to get traffic to my site alone, I can tell you that it is impossible unless you have a good SEO structure and learn how to keep in Google’s good books. All of these are in the core training after first joining.

But here’s how the system works. You can request comments from the 2.6 million Wealthy Affiliate members anytime, but you must pay with credits. You can accumulate credits if you voluntarily offer credits to your colleagues, or if you’re in a hurry, you can purchase them. This is a brilliant system that helps everyone and gives commentators a chance to view a wide variety of websites and comment on individual posts and the website in general. I got many ideas for improving my sites from commenting and feedback.

Google can see that you are publishing frequently/regularly (2 posts a week) and have several meaningful comments on those posts. They realise your men’s business and rank you more quickly, pushing you towards Page 1, every website owner’s goal.

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Financial Progress towards my 18-month challenge

I am now earning small amounts of passive income each week from my sites and adding products from the affiliate partner programs I have joined. I was not in such a hurry to do this, as I fully understood that attracting organic traffic to your sites is the top priority. My income should increase during the next few weeks before I write the next chronicle.

I have never been more pleased that Wealthy Affiliate strongly advises us to establish a solid business before we expect income. Visitors will only buy recommended products once we’ve established trust and shown your commitment to providing quality information.

Above, you can see the ‘Site Trust’ indicator on the WA website details. My first website, https://jambhalawealth.com, is now at 40%. This has taken me three months of constant work, but I’m confident I have laid a strong foundation.

MIllionaire’s Apprentice program

If you remember, I joined Michael Cheney’s program about the same time I joined Wealthy Affiliate. This has also been incredible training. Millionaire Mindset Roadmap is now ready to add his high-ticket products. That is one of my main tasks this week.

Michael’s energy and positive view of wealth accumulation are inspiring. He sends emails most days to me with zany notions and realisations, which move me on to agree with him. Incredible common sense combined with experience and marketing tools to ensure you are successful. Traditional work to line other people’s pockets is for the birds! I am truly living my first-hand life now and loving it.

I have created everything from scratch, I depend on no one, and the future looks bright. In addition, this is the perfect opportunity to bring my wisdom and spiritual training into the limelight, so I enjoy reframing it for the various niches I’ve created, namely,

• https://jambhalawealth.com – Spiritual strategies for wealth attraction
•  https://millionairemindset roadmap.com – The millionaire mindset and psychological strategies
•  https://flourishwriteconsult.com – Strategies for digital nomads and travellers
•  https://first-hand-life.com – Coaching people to step into the limelight as I did.

You may be interested to see my 5-part Preliminaries to Start on Online Business on First-Hand Life to see how I am encouraging marginal people often excluded from technology to get involved.

Last week, I started weekly sessions with him to scale up my businesses and establish a mailing list from which people will buy digital products. I will soon be receiving high-ticket commissions.

Final Thoughts

It’s hard to describe how much I am enjoying this journey. I have never done anything like this before and didn’t think I ever would. But I remain committed to the idea that the Internet is our future marketplace and refuge from pending recessions, natural disasters, the outbreak of war and pandemics. The world population is predicted to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050.

In Japan, where I have lived for almost 20 years now, there are significant social/work problems. In 2022, around 2,968 workers here committed suicide related to their working situation – karoshi – “death by overwork.” Many full-time permanent workers work 12-16 hours daily with few holidays because of fierce job competition.

Also, ‘lonely deaths’ – older people isolate themselves, and their deaths are undiscovered for days because no one misses them. By 2025, one in 5 people aged over 65 will suffer from dementia and perhaps die alone. Valid research shows that social participation may reduce dementia risk by maintaining cognitive functions and reducing stress to improve cerebrovascular health.

I have a solid mission to entice people onto the Internet, where they can interact to their heart’s content. I believe EVERYONE, young, old, disabled, long-term sick, etc., should have a Digital ID and learn how to access the many platforms which may well keep them alive.

Speaking as a person who has retired from traditional work and is not so young, my everyday life is full of communication. For example, at Wealthy Affiliate, I can chat 24/7 with an international group and ask questions of veteran internet business people and SEO experts. I am an active member of LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Medium.com. and others. I would be greatly missed if I went dark, I’m sure.

Internet Business is about stepping into the limelight of your First-Hand Life and opening up untold possibilities and potential. Plus, by using ethical approaches—one of Wealthy Affiliate’s greatest strengths is transparency—we can all help make the Internet a splendid, safe space in the future.