Website Goal - Work Health!

"I'm Every Woman" - Here's How I Achieved My Work Health - Website Goal!

If anyone told me that starting February 2006, by December 2006 I would have successfully established a website business, (for which I am extremely proud), I would never have believed them. You see, the thought had never even entered my mind.

Yet, I am a classic example of what you do when life circumstances wreak havoc with your best laid plans for your career or work health goals - and everything comes crashing down around you.

Take a look around the Health Womens Healthy Living Goals website and at the quality of information that has been put together in under a year! Does a year in which to achieve a website goal strike you as being quick? No of course not.

what is striking though, is that I've achieved one of my primary goals of offering what I believe to be a much needed service to women - something that's very close to my heart, while at the same time establishing an online home-based business. My website goal is, - a 'Means To An End' Goal.

I take full un-reserved pride in saying that what I have achieved with my website goal as a stay at home mom, working on a part-time basis over the past year, is what many people would take two to three years to achieve with an off-line business. That is not bragging, it's a fact!

If you're wondering how on earth my free service to women could possibly be cited as being a viable, let alone a successful on-line business, think on this! My winning website goal formula is:

As you will see, my ultimate work health, website goal was initially a spiritual one and not a financial one. This is because, work/job satisfaction was my most significant aim at that time.

However, in the process of fulfilling my spiritual goal (my website goal), my financial wellness dimension has benefited to the extent where I can now expand on this area, thus bringing my financial dimension into greater balance.

Using the Internet as an ongoing source of income for my website goal

What has now made me decide that I want to use the internet as an ongoing source of income? I need greater flexibility as well as wanting full control over my life, my working hours and in making my own decisions. Due to my caring responsibilities, I am already restricted in other ways over which I have little to no control.

This is my chance to claw back whatever control I can get. My website goal has helped me create something meaningful (even within the climate of restriction I have experienced).

Achieving my website goal has helped me to feel good about myself, my achievements, as well as validating my numerous other roles as wife, mother/carer, chief cook and bottle washer, friend, advocate etc.,

Here's how I started my website goal - with nothing taken out!

How I Survived The Internet Working From Home Learning Curve

I first learned about a software program called Site Build> It (SBI), in very much the same way that you are hearing about it now from me.

It was brought to my attention via email by someone who had used it, loved it and recommended it - so I researched it to learn how it could help be work toward my website goal.

Having read what I thought was the answer to all my questions on how to establish a successful website presence, I promptly saved it at favourites with the intention of returning to it just as soon as I had followed up my numerous other lines of inquiry.

In the meantime, I also went back to reading the countless emails from Internet marketing gurus, not to mention the countless wild goose chases they led me on; many of which were with the sole intention of parting me from my hard earned cash, which incidentally, was taking me further away from pursuing my website goal!

Beware the sharks!

So compelling were some of these spiels that I absolutely had to check them out. One minute I was following up a new lead, the next thing I knew, it had taken me into five different directions.

The problem was that each seemed equally tempting or promising of my attaining financial freedom from a legitimate work from home opportunity, using this or that piece of software. I just had to read on to find the best qualifier that would help me achieve my website goal.

A year later and a whole lot of grey hairs too, I had come full circle - back to where I had originally started. Only, I had a very bitter taste in my mouth. Yes, I was one (retail) website better off, but a heck of a lot poorer from all the time and money I had invested in it - no, not invested - 'thrown away'.

Having paid for hosting, domain registration, numerous 'How To' software, all recommended by my now few trusted leads. I had at least expected it would have started paying for itself.

Instead, I was caught up in a spiral of needing to spend more and more (according to the ever increasing NOISE from the gurus about yet another ground-breaking piece of Internet software, on which my traffic success depended).

Mistake number two was, that having enlisted someone on a paid basis to help me build the technical aspects of my website, each time I wanted to update it - I couldn't do so without paying him.

To say that my web server was unhelpful and unsupportive would be a gross understatement. I had all but thrown in the towel on my very first site. As I saw it, it was meant to be a part-time work from home online income but instead it had already taken far too much of my time, not to mention taking my focus away from establishing my career - i.e. my life coaching practice.

Wake up and smell the coffee time!

While still pursuing my search for knowledge - this time in relation to setting up my coaching practice, I stumbled across another reference - in bold black and white, to -    Site Build It I gasped in horror, dismay and just about every other non-productive emotion I could muster. I had been sitting on this all the time. Re-reading the information I had saved, I quite literally kicked myself for being such an absolute idiot.

Now, I could be totally honest with myself about the reasons I had filed it away instead of running with it when I had the chance. It was the cost. In all honesty, it wasn't so much that I couldn't afford it but rather a case of 'why spend $299 when I could get the job done with $50. Little did I know!

You see, when you're keen to succeed, it's very easy to get drawn by the NOISE,- into believing what you're being told about setting up a website with hosting and domain for under $50 or so, compared with spending a couple of $100's for what you perceive to be the same thing. 'No it's not'. I had spent close to $3000 on pursuing a website goal without having made even a dollar in return to show for it. This costly realisation completely changed my approach.

It was time to 'wake up and smell the coffee'. In a moment of sanity, I weighed up my time, the expense, the endless hours of frustration from trying to get my head around the mechanics of setting up a successful website from scratch.

You know what really hurt? Not the money but my precious time, lost on pursuing my website goal and how I was so mis-led by people who should be professional enough to know better!

And the moral of the story is...!

Don't put your hopes, dreams, website goals (or otherwise) into the hands of people who haven't proven themselves time and time again.

Unless you really weigh up the true cost, and structure your approach to your career goal or website goal, you'll end up chasing your tail.

You know the saying about 'doctors making the worse patients', (this applies equally to life coaches - they can also be some of the worse clients)! That's precisely what happened to me. Don't end up being your own worse enemy!

I did not abandon that first website and although Site Build It (SBI) gave me the option of transferring it over to their system), in all honesty, I was by now totally fed up with that websit goal and the website world and just wanted rid.

I decided to leave it as far behind me as possible and focus on setting up my coaching practice, - with the intention of resuming this interest once I had achieved my career goal.

As I soon found out though, that wasn't to be either.

How It Rained On My Parade!

A family crisis changed my circumstances and I became a full-time stay at home mum. The nature of my responsibilities meant that I could not now commit to my coaching practice in the way I had wanted.

Forced into revising my goal, my focus shifted back to setting up a new website, my website goal - the Health Womens Healthy Living Goals free resource, dedicated to all women. Only this time I was forewarned and forearmed!

How I retained my sense of Self

As a stay-at-home mum, I knew that I needed to explore ways of retaining my healthy sense of self and purpose, other than being a mum, carer etc., To achieve this, I needed to do something for myself, that was not driven solely by an external need - such as 'a need for income'.

While setting up my life coaching practice in the off-line world was no longer viable, a free coaching website for women certainly was. This website goal would become my spiritual fodder.

How ironic, that having spent so much time and money trying to achieve a part-time income, that I would now find myself in a position where I was gladly giving away my services for free.

But you know what? Your life lessons can come in many ways and many different forms!

Nothing Beats Working From Home - How SBI Helped Me Achieve My Website Goal

My previous year's experience had taught me enough about what other hosting companies had to offer so, it was very interesting to compare the features of some of the very best, against what SBI had to offer. There was no real comparison - Site Build It won hands down.

Once I completed my Site Build It registration, my website was live on the Internet within 48 hours. I then simply went online to use the (SBI) software that's stored on their servers.

The software included a 600 page action guide that led me with ease through each step of the process. The next step was using the software to research popular search terms and key words I would use when writing my web pages. This is also home to the blueprint of my website.

From there on, it was a case of being guided every step along the way, building each web page at a time. In a nutshell Site Build It (SBI) offered me everything I needed to get started and achieve my website goal. I can even build an endless number of websites using the same account.

There's really no such thing as a FREE meal...

One of the things I particularly like and respect about Site Build It is that they impressed upon me at a very early stage the need to ignore all the 'Get Rich Quick' pitching NOISE on the Internet today.

Further, that there really is no magical way from 'rags to riches' overnight but that if you get it right, you can create a good website or promote your existing website business working from home. And I am living proof that doing so can change your life too.

Listen to what other folks who have used SBI are saying about how it changed their lives

I am not going to lie to you, Building my site took hard work, commitment and dedication. Did I feel daunted and overwhelmed at times? Of course I did. But you know what, with the quality of Support Forums, the step-by-step Action Guide and SBI Video Action Guide, I needn't have been. I loved every minute of working with the software and using it to attain my website goal.

Tools to die for...

The second thing that impressed me about Site Build It is, that they had an established web hosting system of tools with a proven track record of success. This was important, since I am not technical-minded and for starters, knew absolutely no html. It was also paramount that I retained full control over my own website.

Yet,I was able build my website from scratch following the step- by-step help and numerous web tools, site hosting, domain registration, learning how to research appropriate keywords, how to optimise my web pages etc.,

The list of benefits I enjoyed from the whole Site Build It package is endless. Yet I have barely scratched the surface. But don't just take my word for it, draw your own conclusions from this comparison of tools SBI offers, against other providers.

Defining my success...

So stunned, not to mentioned thrilled by the success of my website, I am now about to start my second Site Build It web site. Since my definition of success will differ significantly to your own, I am going to let you make up your own mind about my success. Working on a part-time basis from home, here's how I achieved my spiritual goal: