Rohail Rizvi | Rogue Affiliate | Entrepreneur

I recently stumbled across a really cool blog called SpiritualPlayer.com. The site is run by Dhrumil Purohit and does a fantastic job of covering the spiritual aspects of health, wealth, happiness, career and more with a modern and more practical sense to it. One of the posts he has there is called “What Are You Waiting For?” and it really struck a cord with me.

Initially you would think his post would be your typical motivational post about getting off your ass and taking action. However, it was quite the opposite. Dhrumil asks what’s the point of pursuing a goal and not enjoying the journey if once you get there it will in all likelihood not be as sweet as you imagined and you’ll find yourself pursuing another goal. While I thoroughly enjoy entrepreneurship and couldn’t see myself doing anything else, it forced me to ask whether or not I am enjoying the journey. Am I merely writing articles day in and day out with the belief that once I start making $500 a day I’ll FINALLY be happy and finally be able to socialize/have fun/ be open with people? I’ve definitely had those thoughts and I’m sure you have to. Thoughts like “Oh once I reach x amount of dollars per day, I’ll start spending more time with my kids” or “Once I pay off my car loan, I’ll start working a job I really like.”

His post was a real eye opener and should force everyone to look at where they are right now and see if they are truly enjoying their journey. Do you enjoy waking up every morning to be an entrepreneur to work towards finally making X amount of dollars or do you enjoy waking up every morning to find new and creative ways to provide value to people and to improve the world?

The journey is more important than the destination. And I’ll leave you with this quote by yours truly that I came up with after listening to Dhrumil’s podcast:

“Immersion in the present moment is life truly enjoyed.”

Personal stories have always been a part of this blog and so I’m going to give you guys the low down right now.

It’s not meant to be a surprise but…I’m not rich…I’m not swimming in money…yet. I am, however, trying my hardest to become wealthy by building streams of income through the Internet. It’s not easy, but I believe it is possible and I believe in the resources I’ve alluded to in this blog before, which I’m personally using on a daily basis to help me reach my goals.

In fact, it’s actually quite the opposite right now. I’m freakin dead broke.

Taking a semester off from college to work on building my online business because I believe in it, but at the same time staying at my parent’s home because I can’t afford rent right now.

Of course you have the parents always telling me to get a job and go back to school, but I have a goal and I’m going to accomplish it. At a certain point you have to say screw it all and make your life what you want it to be. In my opinion, either you’re screwing the world or the world is screwing you and the former takes a little bit of independence.

So yeah. With $5 in my bank account right now, I’m beyond broke and certainly not rich. I do intend to however, “make it.”

Oh and another thing- my license is suspended for speeding for four months and thus I have no way of going anywhere.

The level of powerlessness I’m feeling is pretty immense. For now though, I’ll be locked up in my room, defying parents, friends, and the world, in order to make this dream a reality.

Now that I don’t have “school” anymore, I have a lot more time to do the things I’ve always wanted to do.

Here are some of the business and personal goals on my agenda.

Business

• Get to $100 per day with affiliate marketing by June 15th.
• Get to $200 per day by August 15th.
• Kick start Walamu again for Fall and maybe upgrade it’s features.
• Teach one other person how Affiliate Marketing works and have them earning as much as me.

Personal

• Visit London in the next few months.
• Get in the best shape of my life.
• Start being financially responsible and practice budgeting.
• Cook for myself (related to #3).
• Eat more healthy- Do a detox and start eating right.

Those are my goals for now. Doing a little bit everyday helps.

Oh and since it’s obvious that I’m in affiliate marketing, I want to assure everyone that I wouldn’t promote anything on this site unless I really believed in it. BANs and Wealthy Affiliate are two products that have my highest recommendation.

I have a bunch of things going on right now from personal to business and I don’t really want this to be an aimless rambling of my life. If you guys have any ideas as to posts you would like to see, please let me know. It could be about anything from being an *ex*-college entrepreneur, affiliate marketer, traveler, whatever.

As entrepreneurs, most of us have more important things to worry about than health. Things like

how many clients we have, how many users, and how much revenue for the month. There is often a lot of discussion about keeping in good health and managing the stress that comes with being an  entrepreneur. I personally haven’t cared much for health since the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey although I know I should. In fact, I intend to start caring now. This is actually because I

used to think doing proper maintenance on your body wasn’t important, but it’s apparent that it is. A lot of what Healthy Body, a regular commenter on this blog (Gina?), has said has also made me think about taking care of oneself as well. I plan to change my diet, do some detoxing, and start hitting the gym. I just got myself some of that Kombucha tea. What are some things you, as an entrepreneur, do to keep in good health or keep yourself motivated to take care of your body?

Today’s society no longer considers Pluto a planet, and if you’re Wendy’s you no longer consider “small” as a menu size option. With the recent “war against obesity” featuring documentaries such as Super Size Me and slogans such as “Say No to Biggie size,” Wendy’s has taken a clever turn. While ordering a number one classic single with cheese last night at the student center, I was asked if I wanted a medium or a large. I went with medium, although usually I go for the small if it’s there. However, since the cashier never mentioned “small,” I didn’t bother to ask. The person next in line ordered the same thing as me and was asked the same question, medium or small? At first, he said medium, but then had to ask if there was a small option. The cashier said yes and put in an order for a small. This is pretty clever by Wendy’s and I don’t even think it’s that ethical. If you’re going to ramble on about giving your customers choice, at least reveal all your menu options. Now I don’t mind that I got a medium because I finished all my fries and my soda, but that’s just another way of ripping customers off and not letting them have what they really want. This is just another way of corporations like Wendy’s not caring about the health of their customers, but rather trying to improve their margins in sneakier and sneakier ways. So remember, next time you go to Wendy’s and want a small, make sure you tell them.

Well, it’s been a week of underachieving for me, and I have to say this is working out pretty well. Not only do I feel more relaxed, but I working faster towards my goals and not slower. I have been talking to one new person a day on campus since Wednesday (I’m back home for the weekend so I won’t get to resume that until Monday). I have also been able to go to sleep close to midnight and somehow wake up right around 9am automatically. I think subconsciously my mind was thinking 9am because of that blog post and that’s why I woke up then (with no alarm). Nine hours is more than enough so next week I will focus on cutting it to eight hours. Blogging once a week hasn’t been too difficult as you can see. The “going to the gym” thing totally didn’t work out. I didn’t hit the gym not once. As far as doing one small thing to promote Walamu, I was doing well until I promoted Walamu too much one day without noticing and got banned for a week from the Internet in my dorm room. So no Internet until next Thursday. I did get a lot of attention from a one day run of Facebook flyers at Rutgers promoting Walamu (30,000 ad impressions). I am going to try out real flyers again for next week and start promoting the Classifieds portion of Walamu now since the textbook season is kind of over.

Speaking of Walamu, I have recently received a number of emails from my major competitors concerning partnerships or liquidation. It is too early to decide on this matter and certainly too early for liquidation.

The next thing I need now is some sort of inspiration. I feel like I’ve been running in the hamster’s wheel for the past six months and I need something new. I think I’ll go snowboarding for the first time or something.

I’d been thinking about this for the past couple of weeks before Trizle posted this today. If you’re a regular reader you probably noticed my lack of posting and I apologize for that.
But as a blogger, and especially as an entrepreneur, you eventually come to ask yourself: Why are you doing what you are doing when you could be using that time to do something more productive? This isn’t to say blogging isn’t productive because I’ve met countless people since the start of this site and it’s kept me going and has motivated me to keep striving and achieving as opposed to being idle.

I’m not saying I am going to stop blogging any time soon. I’m just taking a retrospective view of doing what I’m doing. Trizoko does hit the spot when they say no one cares what you are doing. And to a certain extent that’s true. Sure I have readers and maybe even a couple fans out there, but for the most part no ones depending on my blog for their well-being.

I don’t find myself as being a talented writer and nor do I come up with brilliant business philosophies that readers love to eat up (unlike Trizoko). Sometimes I feel it’s a burden to write something by readers will find useful. But truth be told, the reason I started blogging was to keep track of my ventures and aspirations and to keep myself moving towards my goals. And if readers enjoy that then great, but I can’t promise anyone mind bottling business advice.

All in all, I’m an 18-year old kid chasing a dream and that’s what this blog will remain about .