Have you ever noticed that some opportunities we said "Pass" to keep coming back? Those opportunities are kinda like a mosquito at night. It's loud, it's annoying, and keeps coming back. Maybe that Mosquito Opportunity is the one thing we should be doing. 

In the Fall of 2017, I first heard of "affiliate marketing". At the time I didn't think much of it because I thought I was one job application away from my job. I moved on. I used my "Pass" option.

In April 2020, I was reminded of affiliate marketing after going through ClickFunnels' One Funnel Away Challenge. I had an idea for a product to sell but I really wasn't interested in it myself which is why I was finding it hard finish far enough to start selling. That is when affiliate marketing came back to me again as ClickFunnel's Affiliate Bootcamp program. This time I choose to start considering affiliate marketing as a way to increase my monthly income, to learn new skills, and as a way to figure out what I am passionate about enough to sell (read my One Funnel Away Story Here).

I have other opportunities too. I have a growing interest in real estate and architecture. I am investing more time into learning about passive home design. I like to hike. I like to learn about conservation and environmental management projects. I got into refurbishing furniture last spring. I have a strong interest in personal development and growth. I thrive in the search for patterns and trends to find opportunities. And there's a whole lot more.

Every day, I get a choice. I can acknowledge my Mosquito Opportunity and do something that will move me closer to the life I want. Or I can trying to ignore that Mosquito Opportunity. That Mosquito Opportunity for me is Affiliate Marketing. It just might be the risk and challenge I need to move myself one step closer to the life I want.

A purchase I thought I would never make.

I purchased a membership to a brand new program called: GrowthDay. A membership based community for personal growth and development.

One week into the first month of live training, GrowthDay already paid for itself.

"Write a letter to your fears." - Dave Hollis on GrowthDay

All of February's training was on confidence. What does writing a letter to your fear have to do with your confidence? It helps you it let go of it. You realize what fears are real, why, and how to deal with them.

Everything you have ever wanted is on the other side of fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of embarrassment, fear of success, fear of disappointing, fear of change, fear of making the wrong choice. Fear stops us from doing something that could be the next step to our lives.

Dave Hollis explained in his training on confidence that many of our fears are not real. They are made up in our own minds. We create stories of what might happen. Those stories paralyze us even though that situation will more than likely never happen.

All fears fall into one of two groups:

What is the one thing you are going to do?

Write it down. (Bonus points if you write it on the wall with a permanent marker.)

What are your fears with that goal? Write them down.

What do you think you need to learn? Write it down.

What do you know you need to learn? Write it down.

What are the minimal tools you need to achieve it? Write it down.

How do you keep yourself accountable? Write it down.

What do you have to give up? Write it down.

What is the cost of not doing it? Write it down.

Answer: The first thing is to figure out what the 5 Major Moves are to achieving your goal.

Break your goal down into 5 Major Moves (if you are a GrowthDay Member, Brendon Burchard has training on this).

Assign smaller actions to those major moves. Here's the biggest misconception to planning your moves. That are not their own levels that have to be completed before starting the next. They can overlap.

By writing your goal down with everything you need to do to reach it will bring it into to perspective. Breaking it down into smaller milestones you know you can reach will help reduce your fears and doubts. Even if all you can come up with right now is the first two of the 5 major moves, start working.

By sharing you are supporting someone else to do what you are doing. Inspire by sharing.

Don't just show the good days. Show the bad days.

Explain what you learned and how you still showed up on the bad days and the good days. Even if no one is watching you today.