Life is passing you by very, very quickly. Yet, there is still not just a desire to do so, but also a need to do so. What am I talking about, well, acquiring both some wealth and fitness. I have not always realised it but I now believe it to be true that wealth and fitness do go hand in hand together.

When time is marching on, and you’re well past the half-way mark, what do you do about it? I am always slow in grasping opportunities. Like now, I’ve recently decided to try to make my fortune on the Internet. You will have gathered from this, that I have failed to do so in my many other various non internet related attempts in the past. Typically, I have had a few PC‘s, of some kind, for around 15 years but mostly just regarded them as playthings, games and socialising etc.. But when you start to think about the Web as being perhaps a possible money earner, where do you begin ( to tell the story of how great…..), sorry for that outburst.

What is the first thing you do. Well I knew of websites, so why not look towards having my own. Into the search engine I type, ‘How can I build a website’. Wham, all sorts of information impacts upon to the screen. Most of it with Money, Money, Money ringing tones embedded in the ‘Build your site quick and easy’ and ‘Up and running in no time’ claims. Money, that’s easy, I have none. Time, I’ve got all the time in the world, time…..sorry about that one too. I start being bamboozled by all the jargon and bllst (I know it now) that anyone could wish for. I couldn’t even explain what a Browser was.

I did eventually figure browser out, because I had one, and that through Yahoo you could build a simple cost free website. I cannot even remember what it was about. Anyway up, I sat there and waited, and waited, expecting what, I didn’t specifically know, just that I needed it to happen. I suppose feedback, comments, participation, offers flooding in loaded with financial rewards to me are just a few things I would get.

I hadn’t thought of how this feedback, etc.. was going to happen. I had entered an email address into my website through which I kind of thought it would happen. What I did get was a bombardment of offers of ’The Best Way To Get Rich On The Internet Overnight’ programs. Yes, you’ve got it straight away, I started buying a few, then even more of these with cash I really hadn’t got. I did a lot of work with one particular data entry scam which promised to pay me X amount of pounds if I completed a certain amount of assignments. Guess what, once I requested payment after completing the required work, not a single cent was forthcoming. Despite notifying the FBI about this scam, nothing has been heard from them in the two years since.

Well, I have learned something and that is to be cautious. I still buy things online however. You see I know have four, what I consider to be reasonably ok websites, the sort you get free by subscribing to these ‘Get Guaranteed Traffic’ programs, such programs that do not supply all of the ‘in just 6 clicks’ and ‘quickly and easily’ claims that they make without you updating your base subscription to silver and then platinum level.

To end this drizzle, I m still just beginning, I am trying the next route suggested to me. This being the route of Article Writing. Again, you probably will see that I am not too good at it, it is just the only way I can relate to you. in as short a story as possible, some of the trials and tribulations I have had along the way. Probably my best website at the moment is that of the subject of this article, Wealth and Fitness. In it I have probably put too much content, but in trying to earn a living, I have signed up as an affiliate to Clickbank, Amazon, Aweber, Commission Junction, etc.. and other product promoting organisations.

It has been suggested to me that Facebook is a good place for advertising, although one program I subscribe to that claims you can get Facebook ads free, has not quite worked out as I thought it would. I have posted about ten different advertisements on Facebook already, including a free eBook offer, and had no takers. Another social site I’ve tried is Squidoo, which allows you to include Amazon modules within your lenses (articles) and from which you can receive some commissions. Again nothing has been earned by myself despite having now some 12 different lenses.

I still can’t explain what an Autoresponder is or advise on how to build a list, these two things being the next on my list. What my intention now is to get some traffic to my websites because I understand that is what’s required.

As for my fitness, well that’s another story. You see, trying my hardest to create wealth is taking up all my time. I’ve no time to concentrate on my fitness. Perhaps then this explains or suggests that Wealth comes before Health. Now there’s an argument.

Should you have any comments about what I consider to be my best website, or are just curious, please take a look a look at it. I hope to submit follow up articles to this one so that any success or failures, and how they were accomplished or not, can be read. I would also be appreciative of any comments you would make.