MY LITTLE STORY...

My name is Jocelyne Chouinard.

I am a French lady from Quebec, Canada.

And...

This is my little story.

I retired few years ago and I have to admit it, I had a wonderful career in telecommunication and computer sciences. I had the task, as expert, to build, program, teach, write user or technical/ procedures books, supervise and administrate the installation of the first high speed network around the Province with optic-fiber cable and 10 or 100baseT technologies.

I realised, with a real good team (engineers & technicians), from the beginning (1984) to the end, hardware & software included, the integration of a large multiple level LAN (Local Area Network using Novell or Windows NT (Now Windows Server) as Lan Communication Softwares), including PC users (WorkStation or TCP/IP protocols), Administration Systems with main frame IBM (X25-terminal emulation protocols technology) and real time Electric Network Control Center (CCR or Centre de Contrôle du Réseau) with Unix technology. By the same time we built another larger network called WAN (Wide Area Network with Intranet & Internet TCP/IP protocols).

These projects were executed for a Governmental Company named Hydro-Quebec, producing and distributing electricity services for the entire Province (US too). This was my life for almost 20 years and these were MY PROJECTS before I retired.

And then, this year (February 2006), I found and started a new career, a new big PROJECT, in Internet Marketing Business. My

HOME FREEDOM PROJECT

... I started with nothing, like a newbie and newbie I was certainly (only into that domain, don't even think something else)! But for sure, I was not an expert anymore.

First I signed up for few affiliate programs, and then I started my advertising (FREE first). I wanted to learn so fast, I found many ebooks, ecourses, reports, ... I received emails, etc... I took everything marketers sent to me. I bought a lot of products. I worked every day around 12 hrs each day and it was never enough. I wanted more and more, ... faster, always faster. So much to learn, so much to do to become a good marketer!

I so desperately wanted to succeed, to become a PRO like all these Gurus, these Mentors. I signed up for their programs or information they were so kind to give me, for FREE or with PayPal or Credit Card. And I was so sure I will do it one day! ... I will become one of them.

Eh voilà!...Ce qui devait arriver, arriva ! Too many Mentors, too many information, too many products with resell rights or giving away by the owners. too many email received, too many "PDF files downloaded telling me they are the best, the first one and I cannot survive without their courses. Others telling me I have to register to their programs, to become an affiliate, to buy their stuff if I want to succeed.

--- DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY...
--- YOU ABSOLUTLY NEED THIS REPORT...
--- IT'S FREE...
--- YOU LEAVE YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS...
--- etc... !

Too many ... everything.... and by the same way ...nothing at the end... Suddenly, after few months of full work, spent lot of money for affiliate programs, software, domain names, hosting services, resell rights, salesletter, articles, reports, PDF files, etc...

Everything turned upside down, back to the beginning... I realised I was going anywhere like this.

I remember it like it was yesterday (maybe because it was really yesterday) that I was following the wrong track. I couldn't decide anymore which system to follow, which guru to trust, which idea to process first. I was confused I was fed up, I was feeling hopeless, negative, etc...etc..

It was like my brain said, "Sorry, too much conflicting information coming in at the same time. Subroutine failure.

"Need Time Out to shutdown and restart."

"Should I learn SEO? Wait --- I need to run an Ad words campaign... but how? NO!--- I need an opt-in list... but how to find it? I have to use an AutoResponder, create a campaign, and write a newsletter, a blog... a follow-up... Or maybe Ad Sense is the way to go. And there's always affiliate marketing...

And so on ... and on!"

Articles, HTML, Copywriting, AutoResponder, Joint Ventures. All these "must-know" strategies and tactics started to overlap and form a huge tangled mess in my head. It became harder and harder to focus. Trying to move forward with even the smallest of tasks became a monumental chore (corvée).

STOP !...

TOO MUCH is TOO MUCH!...

And I had to STOP everything! ...

Then the "demons of doubt" started IN MY HEAD. Destructive statements have crossed my mind, I wanted peace, I needed calm, I needed to put away everything, to start over, I needed...

WHAT EXACTLY?...
I don't know...

Because as fast as I could say "the money is in the list", my dreams of making money online, becoming a good marketer, a PRO, began to fade away.

UNTIL !...

One day I received an e-mail (like the others, sent by an AutoResponder or a kind of an automatic) The email was short and simple, and was asking 2 questions:

1. What's the single most important question you have with regards to creating and selling products online?

2. Have you purchased private label rights' products before, and were you successful in making money with them?"

Nothing very interesting for me there until I found these little phrases:

"I really want to hear from you.

If I don't, I will be really sad... and you don't want me to be sad, do you? :)

So hit the "reply" button and let me know."

Was like a challenge (défit)... And I took it as a challenge and I answered to his 2 questions!

Guess what?...

Few days later he replied. But because I use the LIFO routine, (Last In First Out) I saw the public letter first. But the other message was not an automatic reply but a real email just for ME. I was chocked and happy at the same time. This was the first time somebody, I mean a real successful marketer, answered personally to my email and, believe me I tried few times with other gurus of my affiliate programs.

I believed him and I always do because he tells me the truth not what I want to hear but the truth. This is what I need from a Mentor... Maybe... I am not sure... Sometimes... just a little...

... WOUPS !.. Human Nature!.....

But anyway... I put back all the rest... And ...

---   I started all over again!

Of corse this story is not a love or emotional story as you normally read. This is the banal story of the way I started what I am doing today, give hope, joy and happiness to everyone who needs it. Because I received a lot I can give a lot... And because I can give a lot, I will receive a lot. It is like a merry-go-round where everybody can win.

When I created my first site I didn't know then where I was going with it. I tried many things at the same time, I made multiple mistakes and I failed too. Then, I was in a negative motion. I was on the path to let go everything because I knew I was going nowhere, I was loosing my time and my money to make the things worse. But the good thing is, the story does not stop there.

One day, somebody, a pure stranger, wrote something, that changed everything for me. All my life I liked and I needed challenges because by nature I am a fighter. For me a good challenge is something that forces me to go ahead without hesitation just to prove to myself and the others that I can do it.

I saw these simple words "you don't want me to be sad", I saw them as a challenge. At this point of my life, this was what I needed the most to start everything over. He did not know then, but these words reversed my mood from a negative one to a positive one.

When everything goes wrong, the first thing you need is find somebody to give you that positive motion, somebody to listen and mostly to hear what you have to say. Or, sometimes, you just need somebody to be there at the good place at the right moment.

This kind of hazard life gives you is something "unpredictable" but it exists and sometimes this is the most important event in your life. This could change your life for the better and for ever and if you don't take its present you will regret it for the rest of your life. For me, I have found this "Little Unpredictable Moment" and I took it as it is, a gift in my life who changed everything. So...

" HOME FREEDOM PROJECT " became " WHAT MAGIC MOMENT "
... THIS ONE...

Because of these few little words and few mistakes after, I already know what I want to do, where I want to go... I know I will do it right... And I know I will succeed with it. The first challenge of life is to learn, make mistakes with what we learn and learn again by these mistakes. Such is live until the end, and we can not pass through with it.

Now, for you   " WHAT MAGIC MOMENT & I "  would like to become this

"Unpredictable Moment"

that could change your life for the best. If I can help you to realize your dream, my own dream will come true too.

"Bring joy into people's life is the most marvelous gift to receive and give to each others."

This is THE END of this Little Story and THE BEGINNING of a new Life Story. But because I will never be able to terminate it if I go further, I will write the new one another day.

Daily Inspiration

"I want to live this day with love, hope and happiness in my heart. Tomorrow I will do the same... and again... and again... until my life comes to its end!"

"Je veux vivre aujourd'hui avec de l'amour, de l'espoir et du bonheur dans mon coeur. Demain je ferai de même... et encore... et encore... jusqu'à mon dernier souffle de vie! "

Merci de tout mon coeur d'être simplement là,

Québec, Canada
Jocelyne.Chouinard@hypertelecom.net

    www.whatmagicmoment.com
    www.quelmomentmagique.com
    Au Jardin de Jolyne

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