I always say during any of my Facebook Live broadcasts on my business page ( facebook.com/ceazfreedom ), that the only way somebody truly fails is when they give up. Even if it takes you 10 or 20 years to accomplish what you want to accomplish, but you keep working towards it and keep going, when you do get there, and trust me, you will get there if you keep going, you'll feel so good about it. The best example I can use is trucking. When I was a company driver, I wanted to have my own truck so badly. I thought, if I'm going to have to do what I'm doing, and be away from my family, I wanted to be able to do the best that I can. Then I got approved for the IC program with Schneider, signed my lease purchase agreement with my truck at schneider over in Green Bay, and I started picking my own loads and making a ton of money compared to what I did before.
As a company driver, my highest check was like, $800 in a week. Most weeks I made $500, which is still a lot better than when I was with CR England. When I drove for them, I lived off the pay advances because I was barely getting enough miles, and my checks sucked. So, from going company driver with schneider to being an owner op, I went from $500.00 a week to almost $2,000. It was great, money was always really good. Looking back, if I could have done things differently, I would have stashed a lot of money away over the course of that year. Hell! I wish I had this online business opportunity back then because I would have already been up and running, doing online marketing, stockpiling savings, etc. Maybe I'd still be driving, maybe I wouldnt. I dont know! I do know that there is a big chance that when I achieve what I am working towards business and income wise, that I very likely will hang up the keys to the truck, and come home for good.
The main reason for that is because of the physical shape that I am in. I want to get into biking, and lifting weights and being on a strict diet that will help, but I can't do that while I'm on the road. So in order to achieve that, and get in better health so I don't develop diabetes or have a heart attack or something, I need to achieve my goals. There's no "well hopefully I do," no, it's a need. A must. I have to do this. It's like that saying, you have to want to accomplish your dreams, as badly as you want to breath. Well that's how bad I want it! That's how determined I am to pull it off! The only downside? I don't know how long it'll take for me to do it, but I refuse to give up.
So what is everyone up to tonight? I'm watching "13 reasons why" on netflix. I want to get started on Game of Thrones but apparently we need HBO for that and I'm not sure we do. I tried to do it on the Roku, but we have to sign up for a trial or whatever and when I tried to do it, it said our payment method doesn't work. So I'm thinking we don't have one listed yet, but I don't know cuz it was set up by the wife when we switched our phones to att and signed up for Direct TV Stream.
The youngest was hanging out with me down here, but wasn't paying attention to the show. She was on her phone playing minecraft or something (a game of some kind), and when I went up and brought my computer down so I could do this blog post and some other stuff, she was like "i'm gonna go upstairs!" Course me being dad, I'm like "are you sure? I go back on the road tomorrow and you don't wanna hang out?" Being a kid she's like "we did hang out!" Oh well, it's all good. That's one reason why I look forward to being here a lot more so that I can do fun things with the kiddos and wife and just hang out and enjoy eachother's company and never have to wonder "can we afford that?" or any of the other questions one asks themself when they either lack time or money or both. For us right now, it's usually both. Hell, I tapped my truck fund a lot yesterday to help pay rent (cuz we were short,) and to pay the electric bill (cuz apparently we got a notice for today), and then again to pitch in extra towards groceries. I hate tapping the truck fund to do extra at home, because what I really need to do as long as I'm out there running the trucking business is to keep saving and letting that maintenance account build so that should anything happen on the road, I'm in a position to take care of it. Even if it means having to get a hotel for the weekend.
So, I'll admit, right now I'm not sure how I'm feeling. I've got so much on my plate, so much I'm trying to do. Everything in baby steps! One positive thing, my computer was actually a rent to own lease with Aarons. Was a 12 month pay off, and our recent payment was the last one for my computer so WOOHOO! I officially own my HP laptop. Course, it's not my dream computer, and I already figure when I get my business off the ground and money isnt an issue anymore, I'm going to get myself a top of the line laptop. Since I did invest in this laptop by purchasing it, and not just that, but really overpaying for it compared to what its worth Im sure, I had an awakening happen when I visited my parents. I went with my dad to a computer store cuz he needed to get his PC fixed. It was a private computer shop, with desktops and laptops set up and and everything seemed reasonably priced and he fixed stuff too. He talked about how he took laptops with one type of harddrive and put in a different, better type of harddrive and basically made them run better. Once money is not an issue anymore, either before or after I buy the dream laptop, I'll take this one into a computer store and be like "is there anything you can do upgrade wise that would make this a better system?"
I'd get rid of any programs that are bogging it own, which I did get rid of one. This last week I had one program that it kept popping up with errors no matter what I did. So I uninstalled and got rid of it and so far the computer seems to be operating a lot faster. I think the problem with new computers is they often come with a ton of programs that they think you need, but it ends up bogging down what should be a decently fast system. I don't know what else to uninstall at this point, but I do know that getting rid of that one program definitely helped, so hey, baby steps in the right direction.
One other baby step, but this one is with me working towards my online business and coming off the road. I've been trying to build a bigger online presence, which is partially what me being more active here on the blog is for, but then there's my business instagram account, and I have had twitter for a while. I've been trying to do more posts and more hash tags and spreading my links out there even more. I wondered for a while why my twitter account seemed dead, and then recently I was in my personal settings and I noticed that I had it set on private so only people following me could see what I posted. So i made that public, and I went on instagram and twitter and followed some random people and got a few followers that day and have gotten a few since then, so I think now I'm on the right path. If you aren't following me on twitter, look me up.
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yes I know, I'm not in pa anymore. Oh well, lol. Didn't feel like starting a brand new one called TNtruckerchris. lol.
So on that note, I'll post my links for everyone to check out. I already posted my facebook business page but just in case you missed it:
facebook.com/ceazfreedom or click HERE!
And lastly, there's a free book that I think everyone should order and take advantage of! Copy and paste the link:
https://expertsecrets.com/?cf_affiliate_id=713695&affiliate_id=713695 or click HERE!
In closing, I hope ya'll enjoy the pictures I've included in this blog entry. Thanks ya'll and have a great night!
