A Terrifying Experience!
I was in my Journal and found this in the sea of writing.
It was a dream I had in late May of 1989. It was so disturbing back then that I wrote about it. It isn't so much the dream itself that is so frightening as is the way things are right now...including Internet marketing. Whilst there is nothing new with the way things are now, how this dream parallels with how things are is pretty creepy.
I was in an open field with a distant, lone dwellingplacethere. Woods were afar off and the road was gravel. I went to theplace and it was where my father was. He rambled on the way heused to and brought out a Thermos container that had a pop-up spoutmade of plastic. He said he had it for a long time. I could seeagainst the blue sky a medium-sized broiling pan with flowers thatwas given to him by mother. It represented to me being kicked outof the family. Its smallness represented his loneness. Thedwellingplace turned into a small camper that was falling apart.I could see a plastic sub-siding under its outside siding. I couldhear my father say, "Don't mess with it!" He had a Jeep Wagoneerthat looked in good shape. And I thought about having it. I couldsee the inscription that said, "The man which had nothing, eventhat which he had would be taken away." And I could see it fit hisslothfulness. But I went near the Wagoneer to see that it wasbondoed up and it had bad suspension and was really a junk. And Ibegan to walk off, he started coming and I could see that he wasfastened to a heavy chain and he was trying to walk down the road.I was grieved to see it and I saw heavy clouds way off in thedistance and I said to him in anquish and tears, "It was all yourown doing!" I looked and he was gone and I was the one on the endof the chain...
I had aught with my father back in those days. He had died a few years before I wrote the above.
I put this here because it has everything to do with my Internet marketing and everything else in life that I have stood for. My Journal is so vast there are places I've not read since writing them. This isn't one of those cases. I've seen this before...but not in the light of how things are today...
- I'm living in a broken camper.
- I live next to a field and there is a gravel road right near. It is a bit different than the scenario in the dream but is nonetheless there.
- I have been disowned by my family. I did get a call from my younger sister. It lasted five seconds...a forced "Merry Christmas" and then hung up.
- I've had just about everything I once had taken away by theft and time. I am missing some very basic things in life that most people take for granted.
- My landlord called me "lazy" because I have not found a job yet.
- The gifts I do get are tiny indeed (but from the hearts of those who have given them, as Jay rightfully says...it's the act of giving that counts.) I can tell which gifts come with the heart...and which ones don't. When I give a gift...I mean it.
- The siding on this camper awfully fits the description of the one in the dream.
- There is a Wagoneer just outside my door. It isn't mine and though it doesn't have bondo, it is rough and is not driveable. Frightfully, this Jeep is strikingly in the same position and proximity to my camper as it was in the dream except it is a little further to the left and not so forwardly as in front. It is, however very nearly placed as such.
- My father was contained in a prison of his own making...and died that way.
- So am I. (A living dog is better than a dead lion.)
I'm scared to death about this whole thing. Want to talk about something that makes the hair stand up on the back? My head is reeling after finding this by accident this morning.
I have two days to come up with my subscription here. I have made little progress with that since my last post. I'm sure there are a handful here that are ecstatic that I'm on my way out...but most I feel are either indifferent...or sad that this would happen to any member. I am different, there's no question about it. Sometimes my own mind scares me but I've been trying to use it for the good.
How is this about IM?
The writing above says it all. This is beyond the subconscious mind at work. I'm not sure right now what to make of it. Is it destiny? ...or have I done this to myself? I want to just leave this camper and run away from it as far as I can go. Why is there such an accurate description of life in a dream I had so long ago? Belief systems can cause dreams like the above. It can also imprison any of us who let it happen. It's probably too late for me for WA. I dreamed this over 20 years ago. How can life be so accurate?
This is not made up else I wouldn't write it. Why can I know so much about Internet marketing, how to write, and still not be making the grade?
This is my question about marketing... It's been said that anybody can do this. With the fact that I believe fully in WA and the methods done here, I've written three posts here since my last one. I've taken them all off because nobody is reading them...or so it seems. No matter how hard I try, it seems I'm destined according to what I dreamed so long ago. Internet marketing isn't the problem. I've been told from time to time that what I say and what I do appear to be two different things. It's not what I intend. Do people here get the same feelings? I recognize that if this is happening here and in the close circle I'm in, it's probably happening everywhere. I need to know if I should even try to pay my subscription or let this whole thing go. Kyle, Carson and Jay are also welcomed to give their honest assessment. Until all hope is lost, I'm still not giving up. This is all about marketing on the Internet...whether I am ultimately able to do this or not.
First I don't think you should quit WA or anything else you are doing in life based on what other people think. If you don't mind me being blunt that is an ass backwards way of thinking. Visionaries, Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, whatever name they call people like us do not get things done and build new things because we pay attention to what others think!
If I listened to what other people thought I would never have become a sales man, or bought my own business. Let me tell you a small bit about me.
My name is Ty Johnson, I was born in Florida, I have lived in almost half of the 50 states in the US, no not an army brat, my father was a very good business man but after he came back from Vietnam he never could get settled in one place for much more than a year or two.
Had he stayed in one place I guess I would have been just fine for the rest of my life but all that moving was very expensive, just about the time he would get a business up and running and making a killer profit he would sell out load up and move on, you see he needed the adventure.
As he grew older and his health started to give out he could no longer go out and build a business in 5 months time. Please don't ask me how he did it, I wish I knew but he was an amazing man. Anyway as I was saying, times got hard for us. We had one more big business after I was grown, J&J plumbing in Sunbury OH
Yes I was a plumber before I started my own purified water business. I found myself many times so broke I couldn't afford food and rent. I had to move back in with my mother in my early 30s That was really hard of course as I have been supporting myself since I was 16 or 17 years old.
I am telling you this because what I am going to tell you is not going to be easy for you to hear. I want you to understand where it's coming from because these words are meant to help you not in anyway hurt you or ridicule you.
You mentioned in that dream that you turned around in anguish and pain and said "It was all your
own doing!" It seems to me that what you are seeing is a refection of yourself.
I discovered after having to move back in with my mother I felt very sorry for myself, depressed, unsure of myself, I started second guessing everything I did or wanted to do. I felt trapped like caged animal, taken out of my element and placed in isolation.
One day I was feeling sorry for myself something awful, and I am not exactly sure what it was or what triggered it but I just got mad, I mean mad like I have never been mad before, and I am not know for my long fused temper but this was different.
All of the disgust and guilt over all of those years of stupid mistakes and wrong decisions came bubbling up from inside, I was mad at myself, I didn't hate myself I was just angry with myself, I could see really clearly what I needed to be doing with my life.
I didn't make any sacred pacts with myself or anything but something just changed inside of me, I started to follow my own nose or my own radar if you will, Other people will always tell you that you can't do something or tell you it's really hard or everyone would be doing it, or whatever, the point is fuck them, what have they done for you, why should you take there advice or let someone else tell you to quit WA, if they don't like you they don't have to talk to you.
You said something else that I will have to disagree with, (A living dog is better than a dead lion.) using this metaphorically I would rather be the lion.
The fact is at the end of the day the one to blame for where you are is you, you are responsible for the choices you make, no one else, just you and you alone, So you have a choice to make in life, a big change may be needed, maybe making amends with the family, only you know the answer to that but if I were in your shoes I would do anything I could to make up with my family if it were possible but also I would do everything I could to get a job.
You need to see after your essentials in life and I am including WA an essential, I truly believe that WA is a essential part of life for you, You must keep at this until you succeed, I mean seriously do you have a choice? or perhaps something better to do?
I hope to see you stick around here and become a success story.
Have you thought about promoting physical products?
There are a plethora of physical niches available to promote... heck you can promote camper accessories! Turn the negative into a positive and make income off your own 'bane of existence'. All I am saying is that there are many opportunities available to be taken IF you allow yourself to take action. I think there are many people within WA that believe in you and you now need to believe in yourself. Even if your WA membership expires, you can still take enormous action and find something to promote.