So many good points in this post. Tony Robbins is right about the trials we go through. They make us stronger and many times, we wouldn’t have moved out of where we were to where we are now, without the trials.

How true!

We’ve talked quite a bit, not sure if you remember. But I was in your Etycoon class (I bought lovehandleexercise.net) and I am also a member of WA, and a subscriber to a couple of your lists.

Anyhow, I am sorry to hear that you’re having a rough time dude. It sucks. Not sure what’s going on, but the way you described it kind of brought me back to my own personal struggle which only ended about a year and a half ago.

Out here on Long Island (NY), heroin is a huge problem. From about 05-08 I had a pretty bad problem with it. I had nothing, I was in a relationship that made me miserable and I knew it wasn’t healthy, but I wasn’t strong enough to leave it. I was in debt, my family felt I was a big disapointment… and so on.

It was a terrible part of my life, and sometimes I would just sit outside, smoking a cigarette and think, why can’t I just be friggin normal? Why the hell did I have to come across this stuff and totally ruin my early twenties. I should be out having fun with friends, chasing girls, getting a career started.. and instead Im wasting away. I honestly felt like there was just NO HOPE in sight. It’s a very depressing and discouraging feeling when you just feel like that pain will never end.

I could go on for days about how much my life sucked, and how I didn’t have the will power to do a damn thing to help myself, no mater how bad I wanted a better life.. but I’ll try to keep the story short…

I eventually caught my stupid girlfriend cheating on me and left to move back in with my parents… If only life could get any worse right?

After about 3 months of living with my parents, something just clicked. To this day I have NO idea what the hell it was, but something clicked and I got clean. It was definitely a struggle, but nothing compared to how hard it had been when I tried in the past. I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I somehow cleaned myself up.

Over the next several months, I took baby steps in fixing up my life. I opened a bank account (yea that’s right, I didn’t even have a bank account), I started eating better, I got out of debt, I saved up for a new car, I started apologizing and making amends to family old friends that I had screwed over, and started earning their trust back. I just got my $#!+ together. I was done being a friggin child.

One of the things that I did along the way was buy a computer. I instantly got to work and started learning everything I could about internet marketing. I wanted to be successful more than anything in the world. When I was a junkie, I didn’t have any ambition. Now, all of a sudden, I had a burning desire to be successful. I worked around the clock. The second I got home from my day job, I got on the computer and started learning more and working on marketing.

Now a year and a half later, I am not rich, and I haven’t even been able to make internet marketing a full time income yet. But you know what? I STILL bust my @ss every single day to be as good as I can be. I am SO much further along in life than I was 2 years ago. I have my own business! If you would have told me 2 years ago that in 2 years I would be a business owner, I would have laughed and said “yea ok”. But Im doing it man! And at this rate, I know that one day I will be very successful, because I put so much into it and have such a hunger for success.

Moral of the story is, you could be at rock bottom and feel like life will never be the same one day, and a year later you could be feeling on top of the world. Everyone struggles, and everyone has up’s and down’s, but just keep pumpin through dude. You’re already a success story. You’re one of the first names I heard when I started marketing. You will find your way out of whatever mess your in eventually, and it will have only made you stronger.

Thanks for all the quality stuff you put out, and for sharing your feelings with us. I hope one day we will meet up and get to kick it. Take care bro

I have been following you unofficially for years now via emails and you tube. I had a safe secure job back in New York but have been unemployed since last September! I haven’t been able to get a job after making very good money in NYC! I have been applying for thousands of jobs for months that I know I am overqualified to do and still no work… I am also a newly wed and am now living with my inlaws and my wife in North Carolina. Enough is enough! I gotta do something different in this new economy! You need your own business in this day and age because relying on the government and a company to take care of you is foolish! Man I gotta get the Wealthy Affiliate membership and follow you! You obviously know what you’re doing and making money at it so I would be foolish not to follow a tree that bears fruit! Btw I’m with you on the spiritual journey as well. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you! The Golden Rule which happens to be in the bible as well Thanks for the encouragement and this post was plain awesome! Keep on keeping on my man

Johnny V
NC

Tony

It was pushing through and still continuing to push through the struggles that have put me in better positions to make more money and continue to do the things that I want to do.

Good post.

Ryan, we need to catch up…Are you still traveling around the world?