Terry Dean’s two innocuous little sentences have probably saved me a ton of lost opportunities moving forward: “What was my mistake? No one identifies themselves as a local business owners.”

So, a huge THANK YOU to the Dean Cousins for this hosting this post and for responding to it. Happy New Year!

Just let me know where and when. Any excuse to head to Europe and spend time with cool people (you). 🙂

Definitely at a crossroads, but I still write product review PLR and still promote other sellers. I LOVE PLR and I *have* been bitten by the IM bug. 😉

Right now everything is just in hobby mode–and I’m fine with that. No pressure, right?

In five years, oh I’d love to be in a cute little cottage in the English countryside just writing away about romance, mystery and whatever strikes my fancy. Maybe you and your Mom will come have a glass of wine with me and we’ll show the English how silly American women can be. LOL

I don’t mind failing – means I now know what NOT to do. 🙂

But this year I’d like to fail less. Or I should put a positive spin on that say succeed more!

So I’m spending this month planning out my projects (not totally but outlined) so that I don’t “flit” as much. Flitting is my Achilles heel.

Anyhoo – glad to see experts stepping up to say failing is A-ok!
tiff 😉

As ever a great “Experts Brief” post.

Everyone makes mistakes – but it’s what we learn from them that counts.

As the year is coming to an end – I think it’s a great idea to look back at all of the mistakes you have made over the past year, and what you can do to learn from them in the next.

Kelly,
A very wise man, my Dad, once told me “If a man tells you he has never made a mistake stay away from him. He is either a liar and has never done anything in his life”

Sort of confirms your suspicions doesn’t it?

Shiny Object Syndrome. It’s an addiction. I got caught up in that for 2 years, that I will admit. lol

Glad to hear you were able to kick the habit. It feels great when you break free of something. Especially when that something is costing you time, money and success.

Clyde

Makes me think The Lord is trying to tell me something.

We need to be our own client. If we are not doing what we are teaching we need to fix that before we go any further.

I think my biggest failure to date is/was/still is not completing an outstanding multimedia product I have been working on for over a year. The product is on setting and reaching goals and I am the world’s worst at doing that.

I think it comes from being in the brick and mortar service business most of my life, where goals change every day. That is not an excuse but it is, I think, the root cause. Now that 2 people have told me about it within just a few minutes I think it is time to start practing what I preach. How do I send myself a bill for coaching?

Thanks for the great information. Please keep it coming.

Many Blessings,
Clyde

1. information – I love info… I love to read to get info… I love to buy info… now what do I do with it all! I am an “info junkie” and I need to stop. So my new goal is to purge my info. Take each product, article, plug in, etc and use it. I can only “buy, read, amass” 3 items a day… period.

2. junk email – I subscribe and then hate to unsub. But I am now unsubing from everything that is a buy me type only. For me to stay subscribed you must have some value in your email.

3. allotting my time wisely – well that is too long a failure here so let’s just say if I stick to one and two then three should work itself out….

Thanks Nicole for posting such great info…

I’ve had so many failures and duds in my business that I really don’t know where to begin.

I guess my biggest mistake was closing down the one website I had that was actually bringing in residual income because I had become bored with it. The problem was, I didn’t have another business model in the pipeline ready to bring in money before doing so.

After having to take a 2 year hiatus away from my businesses because of illness, I’ve decided to streamline my operation and just focus on those business models which interests me.