Are You A Gladiator?

What defines your greater glory?

What is it that you are willing to sacrifice for the greater glory?

Who has become your inspiration for your drive?

Where do you go for content on gaining greater success?

Wikipedia describes a Gladiator as: (Latin: gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the arena. Most were despised as slaves, schooled under harsh conditions, socially marginalized, and segregated even in death. Irrespective of their origin, gladiators offered audiences an example of Rome's martial ethics and, in fighting or dying well, they could inspire admiration and popular acclaim. They were celebrated in high and low art, and their value as entertainers was commemorated in precious and commonplace objects throughout the Roman world.

Today is no different. When it comes to the enjoyment of a good battle. I know I find myself, with the guilty pleasure, of Monday Night WWE Raw. And look forward to the upcoming events of MMA. With the media today we can DVR the shows and watch them over and over again. There is just something to the raw and real emotions of the inner animalistic nature we have burning inside of us.

Can you imagine the training those men went through? Knowing that at a moments time they could lose an arm, a leg, their life. With each training section they had to have the intense physical and mental conditioning, to create a favorable outcome. For each LIVE performance had to be perfect, or else.

I am finding that this same tenacity of survival is needed in my business thinking. It is imperative that I create and perfect the business outline. So that I can then bask in the rewards of a perfect season of training and performing. With wealth being created while I play, sleep, spend time traveling, enjoying time with family and friends.

When I began my journey of online marketing. I had no idea what I was doing. But I sure knew I wanted to take full advantage of the internet money being generated, that others were enjoying. I just had to learn the how-to's.

When a new gladiator was taken on. They had the opportunity to be mentored. Their teacher did not care if he killed. So the newbie had to have a quick reaction to the onslaught of training. It was imperative that he learned NOW.

Today we have it a bit simpler...lol. We know we won't die in our training. But I still knew it was extremely important that I had the same mindset to succeed with online marketing.

TextAds4Profits is a site I create to get my feet wet with online marketing. It is pretty exciting to know that I have an internet business that generates $$$. By little ole' me.

What really got me excited about this project, was that this just did not generate money for myself. This had the powerful word of 'affiliate' to it. Here YOU are able to make money. Sure I might own the site, it is more empowering to give you a piece of ownership to the site as well.

When you sign up for free, you instantly are a member and part owner of TextAds4Profits. You have the freedom to advertise this site, to generate as many personal members as you desire. In doing so, each one you sign up, you get paid, when they pay.

Now lets say you want a McDonald's. You know you are going to have to pay in order to have the rights to the the name and products affiliated with it. But you also know that you will be gaining the success of the brand. If you pay a greater value for it, the greater the return. The less value, well you get lesser the value.

Same thing goes with TextAds4Profits. When you purchase a Lifetime JV Partnership, you have the HIGHEST earning value. When you are a Pro Member it is a mid value. And as a Free Member, well this is the lesser value. But you still get paid.

In beginning this project, it was not easy. And shoot to be blatantly honest with you, it still is a challenge. But one I ABSOLUTELY LOVE! Each day I am learning the next step in the how-to's. Each day I make a choice whether to stick it out or tuck and roll. And just like those stubburn gladiators that just did not have a quit in them, I take a step forward and keep on moving.

You see that is what it takes to succeed online.

DON'T QUIT!!

Don't get so frustrated that you are not growing like you think you should, or you want to.

If you are beginning to dabble with the online marketing...

...get ready for hard knocks. They will come.

Get ready for frustration. That will come.

Get ready for sacrifice. For this is a must.

Get ready for failure. For this is necessary.

Get ready for long hours. For this is part of the journey.

Any successful and Glorified Gladiator had scars. They had stories to tell of the beginning failures. They had opportunities to quit, yet chose to stand their ground. To take the punishment, take the learning stages, take the battles, in order to grow in knowledge, and then stature.

Online Marketing is so rewarding. But it is only for those that are willing to understand that this is for the Gladiators, that choose to stand there ground. And do whatever it takes to gain the knowledge.

There has been many times I threw my hands up in the air in frustration. But there was not a moment I thought "forget this". The reason why is because I determined in my heart I WOULD NOT QUIT.

Taking a step back is a good thing to do. This helps in create a moment of clarity.

When you get to the boiling point.

STEP BACK!

Get out of your house, go for a walk, a run, rollerblade, workout. Something physical. So that you can get some of that frustration out of your mind. And allow the body to become stress free.

Then here is something key. If at this moment, you don't have a mentor FIND ONE!! Gina Sprinkle has been a great mentor for me. She has an amazing team that supports and encourages you through the entire journey. She meets you where you are. And simply walks you through to the levels of success. I met her through My Residual Team. I strongly encourage you to join up with her and her dynamic team. You will be saving yourself much time, money, and frustration. And it is so much more easier with someone by your side, hooking up with your dreams of successful in Online Marketing.

So I go back to the title of this article.

Are You A Gladiator?

Do you have what it takes to become an Online Gladiator?

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Now have fun. Enjoy LIFE. And GO MAKE IT AN EPIC ADVENTURE!

Inner Battles

...Seth rose one afternoon thinking it was just another day to begin. If he only knew what was going to take place, would he of just turned over and fell back to sleep?

Another state away lies a young lady staring at the ceiling wondering what the existence of life is all about...wondering if the loneliness could get anymore lonely and desiring a long walk on a beach with someone she completely loves and loves her. Her heart is pounding with anxiety that eats at her...toys with her...talks back at her...she wonders if she can pull herself together for another day...not desiring to go out to face another dreaded day of mystery.

Each day has come and gone like another wave crashing in the beach with no end in site. The storms have come and gone, the still of the water has made its way to motion again...is each day suppose to go by so fast...are these moments flying by faster when coming in for a landing...what is happening in this world that it seems that there is no method to the madness...faces are beginning to run together...and the meaning of life shifting faster than a stock car heading for the home stretch. There seems to be no end to these days.

...Seth begins the day looking deep into his soul...knowing that the meaning of life is in there. He has been coming to a point in his life that the people with all the titles...the people with all the understanding...the people with the look of professionalism...is nothing more than a facade. He has begun to see cracks in the systems of the world, the nation, the church, the academia world...he has sensed that something more is inside to be expressed, found, lived. His longing is to put his finger on what is itching so bad...what is it? What is demanding attention?

She is dreading the morning...shoot the whole day...she speeds through the whole day before it has taken its course and already hates it. She looks in the mirror...SCREAMING INSIDE...another tear begins to form and rolling down her cheek...does she have enough inside her to make it another day? Can she manage fake talks, laughs, expressions? Is this who she truly is? SCREAMING turns into grunts and the walk to begin to get dressed and to the car. The drive is dreary...a void that is so deep...the drive is like every other day...she is there faster than she wished...and the beating on the steering wheel does not take away the emotional chaos.

What's with these days? Why are they feeling so different? There is something in the air...just when you think you might have something figured out...the day rolls into another and another...and you begin to see that the same expression is on the people around you...wondering what's with these days?

Seth is stopped on his walk in the morning to attempt to clear his mind and listen to what the still small voice is saying...he stairs at this person asking him a question...he hears the words...but does not listen to them...but then the expression of the person wakes him to conscience...and Seth asks "can you repeat that?" He is stunned...the person says "This isn't all we are meant to be, is it?" And the strangeness was that he did not stay to hear an answer...he walked on...and Seth stood there in a fog. He is stunned...was he talking out loud...how did that other man know what I was wrestling with, what...he did not stay to hear my answer...shoot what is my answer...

She pulls out of the frig her lunch...thankful she prepared it the night before...but not happy she is sitting there with people wanting to talk...'can't these people see I DON'T WANT TO TALK', she thinks to herself...and out of the blue she hears in the back ground...'you know your alright'...'huh what, who...' she spins around and no one is there...she is perplexed...she thinks to herself...'was I talking out loud...what was that...wait who was that?' The afternoon goes by so fast...but that voice...that voice is ringing in her head...'who was that'...

A newness seems to be dawning...but what is it...the days seem to be talking but what are they saying...and how is that possible? The air is filled with energy that seems to want to be experienced...but how? Newness...new...new to what...where is the newness going...what does it look like, feel like? How does it want to be defined?

...the answer begins to turn into the carrot...you know the carrot before the horse...and the horse continues to walk staring at it...thinking at any moment he will be able to chew down on it. But that moment never comes. Seth is chewing on that thought even more...'what is all this meant for?' All the systems being a dud...all of it in place for power of the elites...the power struggle of the desire to be excepted begins to fall away...and this question...this DAMN QUESTION!!!

"Love is it real? Have I had it all wrong? How do I get it? Why can't you just go down to the corner store and buy it? AWWWWW!!!! Just seems its not for me", she thinks...but then there is the thought it is meant to be...but when? She is staring once again at the damn ceiling and the night has come once again...and the voice...THE VOICE...OH MY GOODNESS THAT VOICE!!!! "you know your alright"...she begins to think back to when she was a child...the memories flying by so fast she has a hard time keeping them in order...and she settles on this one moment and time as a young child...playing alone with herself and she heard that voice then...'what was it saying?' She sees what she is wearing...oh how she missed that yellow pocket dotted dress...ahhh the smell...the moment of peace...how happiness is filling her entire being...LOVE...LOVE...Oh my goodness, tears streaming down her face...love...that voice.

In a moment the day begins to stand up and be noticed...it is becoming to take a clearer picture...it is becoming to take shape and form...but what?


The moment came and the sound of the crashing waves with the shining of the moon took his breath away. Seth began to see a vision it was something he has never seen before and experienced...his senses seem to be heighten...he is aware of where he is, smells the sea, hears the waves, but what he begins to see...has him in complete awe...is this real? He begins to see himself on one side of this world...this world is hanging before him between the ocean and the moon...he sees himself...and senses he is STRONG, CONFIDENT, SOUND, PEACEFUL, HAPPY, PERFECT...then the world rises closer to the moon...creating further space from the ocean...he now is under the world staring back at him with a smile...the smile makes him feel warm, in control, and peaceful.