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12/31/17 It's the last day of 2017 man, crazy. Another whole year of life has gone by and I must say this year has to be a bit different. It will be a bit different. In this year we're gonna do better, we're gonna go farther, we're gonna be better. For me it's time to really get up and take actions on the things that need to be done and I'm excited to see where life will take me. I'm excited, I'm anxious, I'm nervous, and I'm a little scared but 2018 is here. My student loans will become active this year, I'll be graduating from college, my brother will have to make big decisions regarding where he'll finish his remaining time in undergrad, my cousin will be returning from the military; there's so much already impacting us for 2018. I want to begin making better content, I wanna actually begin profiting from marketing and/in addition to building my own online business, I want to work with all my newly acquired networks for projects,

12/30/17 2 Days from 2018, about 49 views from 1000 total views on this daily blog, about 2000 views from being able to monetize videos on my YouTube channel. These are crazy numbers/details. I really can't believe that 2017 has come and gone so quickly, it's been a great year with many great memories, I'm excited for what 2018 holds. I myself really want to solve this online money making mystery so that I can spend more time with my family and supporters upon graduating this May. That's really where my focus and passions are geared towards and I know how will begin profiting from Affiliate Marketing very soon. I can't believe we've come this far with the blog, unfortunately I can't say all 1000 views have been easy or that they even reflect only the time I've been daily blogging as some occurred before starting this journey. Nevertheless, we are doing great, we are growing, we are moving forward. In addition to just being able to monetize my You

12/29/17 work, work, work. I can't even afford to say rest as I'm already getting 8 hours of sleep a night, sometimes more and this is gonna have to change. I'm learning a lot and experimenting a lot but I really want to just find 1 avenue to take and then run with it. All of these platforms ( Shopify & Amazon FBA; Drop-shipping, Affiliate Marketing, Influencer Marketing & Branding ) all seem very lucrative yet I am not making any money with them. I find it so funny that I actually fall in a category that the rich people reference when convincing people to join their programs. I currently spend hours and hours doing online surveys and researching ways to make money from home and honestly that kind of pursuit is never really gonna get you anywhere. I'm sure there are people making decent money from surveys or some of these other task related jobs and even the virtual assistant etc. type of work. But the simple fact is that I realize the "How" in which

12/28/17 Alright guys so if you read yesterday's post you now have a better idea of what kind of business I'm in and how it's done. I truly see the potential behind Affiliate Marketing and am confident that I'll be able to reach my small goals revolving around $3000 a month, $800 a week, $100 a day by early, lets say March of 2018. I am planning to take enroll into some training programs that I have found recently, both paid and free right after writing this post. The grind for me starts today and will not stop even after those small goals are accomplished and I'm feeling very confident that we'll crush those. The toughest part for me is that I'm doing all of this stuff alone, learning about the business, implementing the business, and I'll pretty much be managing it by myself also since I haven't really found any solid business partners. But I'm actually happy that I'll be tested with this business as the results will rely solely on my per

12/27/17 4 more days, man does time sure fly. 4 days until 2018, another new year. A sign of hope for some and a sign of freedom for others. I for sure am not thinking about any days or certain dates, although graduating in May of 2018 will be a very big day for me. But no, I'm excited and motivated for today. The 27th of December, 2017. I'm ready my people, ready for success. I'm ready for greatness with the ability to have nice things and to be able to lead and teach others. This affiliate marketing thing is really driving me crazy I'm not gonna lie. I truly see the potential behind it and believe that with the proper knowledge I could easily be making my goal of $3000 a month but it really is a bit confusing to start. But I won't give up that's for sure and once I make at least $1000 or so I'll begin making tutorials and providing my recommendations/reviews for you guys. It's gonna feel so good once I've gotten to this small goal, I would love

12/26/17 Alright, today is the day darnit lol. I have been doing a lot and I do mean a lot of talking here on the blog but I'm about to have either a cup of tea or coffee and get to work. It's currently about 6:30 here on the east coast in the states and I have to put in some major work. My "Why" has me extremely motivated and extremely hungry for success. I know what needs to be done I just don't know how exactly to do the things that will get me to where I want to be. Affiliate Marketing: either creating a landing page for people to go to who are looking for the products I'm promoting, creating a landing page where I'll collect emails to then send people the products I'm promoting, or just going out and sharing my affiliate links on various platforms.       Also it would be nice to use my YouTube channel to promote affiliate offers but my channel is not purely for profit. My channel as you guys know is documenting my journey while providing mo

12.25.17 Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays to those that don't celebrate Christmas. I can't even start this post here without mentioning something crucial, something that I'm trying to forgive myself for as I've made the promise to myself that as of next year, today really, will never happen again. I'm doing all of this business stuff and especially leaving these reflections to ensure that I grow as a person. I'll just say that things between my family and I, the way that I've been brought up and raised, I will grow up to do more in life. I wouldn't say that I've been held back but surely I have been spoiled and with the way I've been treated up until this age of 22 I sometimes wish that I had experienced a harsher childhood. I wish that I weren't so fortunate enough to get everything that I wanted as a kid because I was so blind to the way that the world works. And for this reason I take my ideas, my dreams so seriously and give m

12/24/17 More Motivation, More Motivation! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays my people, I hope you all are able to enjoy these good times with family and friends. I am so so so so so motivated and happy and filled with energy. GT-R here I come. 2018 will be my year! 2018 will be the year for all of you as well, to do anything that you aspire to achieve. After watching more videos today from a few channels I'm subbed to I'm really considering going with the route of a print-on-demand Shopify store. This basically means creating my own t-shirt store. As some of you will know I currently have my own t-shirt store for my personal brand under Teespring but this idea would involve using an app like Teespring through the Shopify platform. Long story short, by doing this I would have a better looking store with the capability of making higher profits for a longer duration. This option over just trying to find some random product would be so much easier and I truly see the advant

12/23/17 A little over an hour from Christmas Eve yet I don't see Santa 😟 If we lived in some magical world where you could really get what you want or at least, I were actually getting any real gifts I wouldn't even ask for anything. I guess some others at my age are fortunate enough to still get gifts whether their parents/loved ones can afford it or they're just more creative and free spirited with their money. Over here that is certainly not the case, I wouldn't/don't even ask for much because I don't want those around me to spend their money on me. I know what I want right now and in life in general and these things I really will gain much more satisfaction through acquiring for myself. Let me know if you can relate. As usual, didn't get a darn thing done at work, it's really a waste of my time. Like I literally need a new job, definitely a priority for early 2018. I noticed that we got more viewers on yesterday's post regarding the ent

12/22/17 Welp, as to be expected I forgot to give you guys the second post yesterday. Thankfully I didn't forget to come back and post today although I honestly had the thought of just watching videos and doing research on my phone once I got home, and I don't have much experience working from my phone so we definitely would not have had a post for today. But that's okay, I'll continue on with the business topics here in today's post. So we have a few business models in mind, see yesterday's post if you haven't. I will either take the route of having my niche/products in mind and ready for Shopify store launch in the first part of January 2018 or I will begin buying products in bulk here locally and attempt to do e-bay reselling. Those are the two best options I have right now although I'm still watching videos and researching the steps to selling with Amazon FBA as well as the "correct way" to do affiliate marketing. I'm currently an

12/21/17 Alright guys, I'm starting the post early today. It's roughly 6pm and I'm really feeling ready to work. I've spent the day trying to become motivated and on track with what I really need to be doing. Long story short the plan is to get into the business of selling physical products. The plan is to be ready to start 2018 knowing which platform, niche, and products I'll be working within. I've been saying Shopify over and over here on the blog but I really have been procrastinating way too much. Even as a super small scale entrepreneur I myself would preach to just get started with anything you want to do yet I have not opened one Shopify store. I just want to take the time here to mention that I have a new upload on my YouTube channel which you can watch by clicking here . I will no longer be doing any paid marketing for my YouTube channel, at least not until I have quite a few more videos out and have really put my free traffic sources to better use

12/20/17 I'm finally a free man, for about 4 more weeks lol. I'm currently editing a video on my latest experiences in the car scene including last weekend's Car's & Coffee event. I then have all the video put together for yet another upload which I'm hoping to have up asap. Once that's all said and done I then have yet another set of clips waiting to be put together for another video, all of these to be uploaded before the end of December. So all within these last 10/11 days. I also really want to finish up the video on affiliate marketing that I started back in October or so followed by going live immediately upon finding my product/niche I'll be going into for my store. Despite the schedule/order or even my progress with these videos I will for sure go live again on the day in which I start my Shopify store to make sure that I have it recorded, that stuff is especially for me to watch again someday. I also want to begin adding more value to both my

12/19/17 YES. I am finally free, well free from college for the moment. I have finally completed mostly everything that I've needed to do for college to be able to then get into my final semester next month. Somehow some way I managed to get a B in my psychology class, I'm assuming that I got an A in my internship class, the bio-mechanics class is still up in the air, literally if I pulled off a C I'll will have to celebrate. If I get a C in that class I'll do a giveaway on my YouTube channel, I will go out and give a better effort towards finding a girlfriend, and I'll begin a daily training routine which I'll include on my YouTube channel lol. God that would be amazing. I thankfully have what appears to be the perfect location for my spring internship, ironically at a nearby tennis club. This internship just from the description sounds 1000 times better than my that of my experience at ACAC which I've been a darn member of for nearly 10 years. Really m

12/18/17 Yo what is up my people, I somehow have 162 subscribers on my YouTube channel and I honestly have no idea how this is possible. I literally woke up this morning to see 164 subscribers despite being at 81 just last night and I haven't uploaded any videos within the past 6 days. I'm not complaining though, you guys are awesome. For those that watch YouTube videos and/or support me there I plan to either upload a video tomorrow or to go live, or maybe both :P Make sure you're subscribed and have hit the notification bell to stay updated. Today was definitely another good day, another fun Monday. I managed to play some tennis with a friend of mine and I thankfully have found a site (a damn good site) for my next internship. I might actually survive next semester. Finding this site allowed has given me a new set of motivation and confidence towards how next year will go for me. Anyways I played some great tennis and received some very useful information from anoth

12/17/17 Oh no, back to the old habits. Another late post, another unproductive day. I wasted the whole day, but I did pass my exam and the cumulative final :) Another good Sunday to be alive, cheers to another great week. Twas the week before Christmas, amazing. Time is moving so quickly man, you have to enjoy the time while you have it. Love life and it will love you back. Despite the troubles you face or situations you arrive in we must keep moving forward. I am so happy to say, so happy to see that the past few days we've been getting more views than ever before. Thank you. For those new to the blog I will keep this part short, this blog is much more than a personal reflection. My name is Derrick, thank you for stopping by my blog. I want to also mention that I Vlog on YouTube ( click here to go to my channel ). My goal with this blog, my channel, and my brand in it's entirety is to motivate others to chase their dreams and to live their lives on their own terms. I da

12/16/17 I can barely keep my eyes open right now, we're off to a great start to the blog. I am literally so tired right now that I may actually go to sleep after writing this which I never do. It's only 10:36pm here but I had to be up early for cars and coffee this morning. I truly do believe that being tired can be mental as well as physically but man in this case it feels all mental. I am simply exhausted. Anyways today I met yet another girl, a freshman in college that has again provided motivation for me to go out and find myself a nice girl friend. She was awesome honestly lol. But man today's like today I really do value when good things happen as today was just such a long day. I really wish I could just have my own place to go to with that special someone waiting for me, but that's soon to come. I am finally beginning to feel free again and assuming I'll do well on this exam that's due tomorrow, life is about to become great again. Tomorrow my pla

12/15/17 Guys I got to see a $575,000 dollar car today lol. That's a little over half a million dollars in a car, a 2017 Ford GT to be specific. For sure the craziest car I've ever seen in person and there it was sitting casually in a Ford dealership here in Richmond, Va. It turns out the car is owned by a professional MLB player and from what I'm hearing, his team made it to the worlds series recently. I don't know much about baseball but wow lol, wow wow wow. Obviously I'm not gonna switch my mindset to becoming a baseball player but it's so great to see someone else from this side of the world, this side of the country having such success and buying a supercar. I won't go into much detail, especially since I don't know all the stats but the car was full of carbon fiber, super light weight, and is super fast. I must say, this car made my day, this car gave me a lot of motivation. Besides seeing the new Ford GT I also got to see that yellow Lamborgh

12/14/17 Oh my goodness my people, another good day. Wow it is so late yet again, but today was indeed quite a crazy day. I actually do have a bunch more work to get done aside from all the stuff that had me in such a happier mood when starting this post. It's been about 20 minutes since I wrote the first sentence but now I must quickly finish this post as I have a busy day tomorrow. The good stuff: I managed to sell one of two of my Babolat Aeropro Drive Gt tennis rackets on ebay for $100 and the other I'm awaiting to hear if $90 is a reasonable adjustment. I was given these rackets back in 2010 when I first started playing the game and the original price was $199 per racket. Yes, tennis is a very expensive sport haha, but honestly people tend to get new rackets every year which is insane. Anyways we go from $400 of tennis rackets in 2010 to roughly $200 in just about 2018, I for sure am okay with this. Most often you play with a racket and some wear and tear occurs so t

12/13/17 And we're back on track. So I'll pick up where we left off on the post from earlier... With all that being said, with all that taken into consideration I give so much effort towards this because I truly believe and I know that there is more to life. We have to keep moving forward and striving for more in life otherwise you become complacent. Otherwise you become comfortable. And this state of rest is when you begin to lose perspective, you begin to take what you have for granted. Ultimately you will fall behind because as you back off there is always someone else out there that is giving 110% each and every day because we aspire for the same high levels of success. And so with my YouTube channel I really want to be able to show people, if even just 1 person that you can achieve anything you want in life. As I've mentioned many times before, by documenting my life it's especially good for me as I'll be able to look back on these moments and it simpl

12/13/17 Oh no, I missed a day. I somehow managed to forget to write a post yesterday, that is not good. But that's a bit reflective of how things are right now and honestly it's okay. Things happen and everybody forgets. But that for sure means 2 posts today, 2 good posts. This post will be a bit shorter but the actual one for today which I'll post later tonight, will be better. For this post I'll talk to you guys a bit about what I've got going for the business. I'm considering spending about $200 on merch to have on me. I'll have about 2 hoodies for myself and the rest will be for my family. I'm hoping to get some good photos of the shirts and hoodies to be used for advertising as I'm sure you guys have seen before. I am just so excited to have clothing of my own brand, a brand that I myself am building up to be a big big brand. I'm gonna end the post off with this guys, I must get back to/start studying for my exam tomorrow. My Bran

12/11/17 Guys oh my goodness, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! Oh my goodness, please if you have any support for what I'm doing at all and have just a second to spare please go check my YouTube subscriber count. I won't say exactly how right now but oh my goodness I have surpassed 100 subscribers! Some of you may not be able to understand or relate but honestly it feels so good to just have some results, some sign of progress. I'm working so hard, and honestly with not as much effort as I'm about to start giving towards this business stuff and to see any progress at all is just amazing. Man this is just so cool, there has been about an hour intermission between the first part and this new paragraph as I completed yet another upload for the channel. I am so excited and motivated by having over 100 subscribers on YouTube, it was a major goal for me and somehow we made it happen. I have some big big goals in life and this for sure was a significant m

12/10/17 Alright guys today is the big day, today's another Sunday but no ordinary Sunday. It's Sunday December 10th 2017. Idk about you but it's a big day for me. Everyday I'm learning, everyday I'm growing, I'm always moving forward. So today I did indeed manage to make an investment, a purchase for the business. I won't say exactly what/with who/how I did it but just know that hopefully we'll be making some big inroads for the YouTube channel well before Christmas (December 25th). I'm gonna work on yet another upload for you guys tonight and hopefully finish it tomorrow followed by another live stream coming either tomorrow or Tuesday. Side note: I need to just remember what I'm saying, what I'm doing, and what I'm getting myself into. Basically the choices I'm making on a daily basis. I just signed myself up for some regular 6am tennis with a group of guys knowing that I'm not a morning person but on the bright side, I w

12/9/17 alright guys, another crazy day, another late post. Today is a big day though, a lot is about to change around here. I honestly am hoping to have some kind of financial success by the end of the week with my businesses to be able to refund my campaigns. Tonight's post will be short but tomorrow is the big day. I'm hoping to initiate the purchase process on some of those investments you all have seen in my most recent posts and I hope to narrow down my choices with my Drop shipping and Affiliate marketing businesses. My goal is to be able to start my Shopify store before Christmas on December 25th. 15 days away and I'm feeling more than confident that I'll be able to meet this goal. I also need to just choose between these platforms to dedicate my time to, YouTube is for sure the easiest and least time consuming of the platforms but still maybe I should consider this as valuable time also. Whichever platform I choose between Drop shipping or Affiliate Marke