An Epiphany, a Calling, and a Dream
Life is funny, how it takes unpredictable twists and turns from time to time. More or less like my golf swing :>)
It’s a good idea to look back on where you’ve been and appreciate just how far you have come, and maybe even give yourself a little pat on the back once in awhile.
I’ve been talking with Craig Beckta that last few days on the phone (Craig is the author of Secret Affiliate Code 2), more or less comparing notes with him. You see, Craig and I come from a very similar background. In fact, Craig and I worked together on Sea King helicopters on a little Canadian Air force unit just outside Halifax nova Scotia.
Craig has done some amazing things with social networking, web 2 as it appies to affiliate marketing. But I’ve watched his product rise up the charts at ClickBank to one of the top two or three products on the whole system.
Well done Craig! Can’t wait to see what is next #;>)
Myself, I started in web marketing almost a decade ago. I was dabbling at it a little bit while I was employed by the Air Force. I dabbled in eBay. I dabbled in domain name trading. I dabbled in e-products and just about everything in sight and “dabbling” pretty much what described what I was doing online – you see I really wasn’t to it, and didn’t know anyone personally that was any good at it anyway.
You see, the funny thing about a civil service job like the one I had it pays very well for what you do and has great security, a great pension, and we didn’t have to worry about anything. Anything other than wars I guess. But long deployments across the globe away from friends and family made that job difficult.
But, I continued to dabble halfheartedly, not really taking any specific direction. And then one day one of the ships returned from overseas where we often did long deployments up to six months or even longer. One of my friends was returning from this particular deployment. Now he was a wonderful family man, a great comrade and co-worker, just one of those people that is effective, but a joy to be around.
On an evening walk with his wife on the dau he arrived home, he dropped to the ground and died from a heart attack. He was gone. Gone as my friend. Gone as the husband to his wife. Gone as the father. Just gone.
When this happened it touched a lot of people. We are a small community and it affected everybody differently. Of course there was a sense of loss but for me there was another feeling. I wondered “Could this happen to me?” I didn’t want to spend my last living days doing the job that wasn’t what I had in mind for my future.
They were so many things that I still wanted to do. I guess I had an epiphany. I realized that my if life was going to go where I wanted to go I had to make it go there. I had to be the one at the controls. I could no longer set in the comfy Civil Servant chair, numb to the future, and not really living, and certainly not in control any more.
I could no longer just “dabble”. I had to commit.
I decided to take affirmative action, and turn my dabbling into a fulltime income. I had no idea that in just a couple of years I would exceed the half $1,000,000 a year mark. After all I was just a helicopter repairman.
In hindsight I have to wonder, if I had not lost my friend that day where what I have ended up? I know one thing… It is very unlikely that I would be setting where I am now.
So of course I am elated to see Craig‘s success. Craoig is living proof, as am I, that you can do what we do. It isn’t tricky, it doesn’t require great academics or special skills. Just knowledge, and action.
So if you find you have a voice in the back of your head right now saying “Self, am I happy being a dabbler or should I take affirmative action like Ron Davie & Craig Beckta did and turn my life around - take it where I want to go – take it to where I deserve it to be?” LISTEN to the voice!
I invite you to contact me through this blog, or through my email Ron @ Davies.ca. I would be happy to help you, because sometimes an epiphany is a calling to start fulfilling a dream.
What does your dream look like?
Very best regards,
