Hi guys,

I have a confession to make. It's very hard to admit but I'm stuck. I'm trying hard not to get discouraged. I've been with WA since late August. I've only just finished the 8-week training. I really good at giving advice. Not so good at implementing it myself. The last line of my last blog post was "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway."  So what have I done? Aside from the mountains of reading and reseaching I've done, I find that when I sit down to write an article, I don't know where to start. What's stopping me? Fear! I've been reading about people ripping off other people's articles so I think to myself, "why should I spend time writing an article if someone else will use it? So I can't bring myself to write articles. Ok, that's not the only reason why. I don't know what niches to promote. There are soooooooo many out there, I just can't chose! I've looked at Clickbank and other affiliate programs. I've signed up for affiliate programs but haven't actually put together articles about them yet. I get confused about things like "gravity" on Clickbank. What the heck does that mean, anyway?

Here's the real bottom line. I am classic at starting lots of things and never finishing them and I fear that this is yet one more thing I have started that I won't finish. I have no sales yet. I've only written two articles for WA. I had around 30 clicks but no sales. I'm not surprised really because I should have written more articles. I know that. I have all this knowledge now and yet I still don't know what to do with it or where to point my attention. I have a website up now. It's indexed with Google but I only have a few pages so far. One of the pages, of course, promotes WA!! :)  When I look at my site and compare it to others, mine looks quite amateurish. I want to put out a weekly newsletter but I fear that I actually won't have anything to say on that newsletter! So I haven't put an opt-in on my site yet. I really want my site to look more professional. I look at Squidoo lenses and WP sites and they all look fantastic. I'm trying to keep my site simple but I think that simple is translating to boring.

I know that this will take time and it's a labor of love, believe me. I have no problem spending hours on the computer doing research. It's my fear of success that's holding me back. That's why I haven't taken action. Then I can beat myself up and say, "ok, that's one more thing you didn't finish so it was a waste of my time and money." But my gut is telling me something quite different. Deep down inside, I believe that this system works. I'm actually afraid to leave WA because I've gained so much just by being a member here. 

See, on the one hand, I think I should focus on promoting my niche through my site. Even tho I've chosen a pretty difficult niche to promote. But on the other hand, I'm dying for a sale so I get sidetracked into looking at things to market on Clickbank and Amazon, etc. Then I think that maybe I should chose another niche that's perhaps easier to promote and start another website? Or maybe I should forget the sites altogether and try Squidoo or WP promoting or even an online store through Popups?  Does anyone else feel like this? Surely, I can't be the only one. Usually when I have a braindump like this I come to a healthy conclusion by the end of my rant but I'm no better off now than when I first started typing this post. 

I'd love to hear how the other newbies or seasoned players here have handled this type of situation. Afterall, I can't be the only one feeling this way. I think that perhaps I'm afraid to fail. That's the best I can come up with.

It's now 12:10pm in my world. I just had an idea. Something that might help me. I don't know. I'll try it to see if it works. Ok, here goes. Perhaps this is so elementary it went right by me. 

My goal is to make $100 per day. So it just occurred to me that in order to make $100 per day, I have to promote something that will generate enough sales to get there. For instance, if I promote a cookbook that will give me $20 per sale, then I have to sell 5 to get $100. In order to get that I should probably promote it several times in several different places in order to generate enough traffic to get those sales? Am I on the right track?  Maybe with all the talk about niche markets and keywords, I missed this part.