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Learning From Online Business Failures
remember reading a book and giving up. The ability to
on Judo a long time ago. It fail "the right way" goes a long
advised that to be a good way in helping us avoid the
martial arts practitioner one number one enemy of success
must learn how to fall. It made a in the real world--quitting.
lot of sense since if a person is Quitting is the sure fire way to
trying to learn Judo and doesn't lose at anything. You have
learn to minimize one's fall, effectively stopped the clock.
great injury is probably bound to Game over. By learning to fail
happen. As a small online "the right way" we try to plant
entrepreneur, I wasn't aware at the seeds of success borne by
the time that this same wise learning from our failures.
advice can also apply to running
your own online business. In I don't claim to be a super
order to be a good success in what I do but I have
businessperson, you have to learn learned a couple of things along
how to fail. the way. Hopefully, you'll find
them useful. The best way to
Failure is endemic in everything illustrate failing "the right
we do. The world is uncertain and way" is to analyze ways to fail
many of the best laid plans don't "the wrong way."
always bear fruit. At best, many
of them do not bear the kind of Wrong Way Number One: Take things
fruit we expected. People should personally
expect disappointments and
obstacles since they are part of Many things happen to webmasters
life. However, expecting that are out of their control.
obstacles and being ready to Servers crash. Traffic fails to
learn from them are very appear. Old ways of making
different from expecting to fail income/generating traffic change.
Content delivery/quality gets the wrong way." Notice the
botched up. Subcontractors flake difference? The "I" in these
out. The list is endless. One of statements are in control. If you
the worst things a webmaster can decided to do something, then you
do is to take things personally can decide to do something else
and say to themselves "Maybe I'm or fine tune that action. The "I"
just not cut out for this." in this situation is in a
Another variant is "Maybe I'm too position of control. This is
dumb" or "I don't have 'touch' similar in operation to the old
for this." Or "I don't have the saying that "losers" ask 'what
connections." Or "I started too happened?' and "winners" MAKE it
late in the game." By focusing on happen. Your perception of
the "I" in these silent whether you are in control goes a
statements and assessments of long way in determining your
what has gone wrong, webmasters success.
let their disappointments OWN
them. Your disappointment does Wrong Way Number Two: Blame
not OWN you--you are more than someone else
just a website that was laid out
or promoted wrong. You are more Failure and disappointment are
than an income statement. everywhere. That's the way it has
However, by saying the negative been, the way it is, and the way
statements above, you make your it will continue to be. Many of
identity indistinguishable from the successful people in this
your failure. world didn't hit it big with
their first try. Many of the most
A better way to state failure is successful businesspeople in the
to take ownership and control of world only became a success with
them. "I designed my site wrong." their second, third, even
Or "I chose to pursue my niche thirtieth venture. However, they
still became successful because and just sulking and pointing the
they realized that finger at the responsible party
ultimately--THEY were in control does not absolve you of taking
of their own success. Many people action to correct your personal
choose to fail because they blame situation.
other people for their failures. Wrong Way Number Three: Habit vs.
This may take the form of hosting Evolution
deals gone bad or designs that
failed to produce the desired There's a reason people laughed
effect. The problem with blaming at Columbus because he thought
others for failures that beset us the world was round. Or at
is that it takes US out of the Copernicus because he argued that
equation. By being out of the the Earth revolved around the
picture, it absolves us of having Sun. People have a mental habit
to take action. This is a huge of how the world and the things
problem because it breeds in it should be and how they
personal complacency and just should operate. We all have
gives us an excuse. mental habits. However, by
failing to break past these
Don't get me wrong--there are mental barriers, we are only
many instances when, rightly, limiting ourselves to what is
others are to blame. However, possible with what we currently
when we are feeling so cheated have. If conditions change (and
and so defeated by others' mess they always do), we are left only
ups, it is really only up to us with our assumptions and
to get up and try again. Partners disappointment. Break your
will steal. People will lie. habits. Question why you do the
Government agencies will make things you do. Question whether
adverse rules. That's just part you are settling for the results
of life. However, by giving up you get. Obviously, someone out
there is generating more results there are people that go to the
than you. Learn from them. next level, because they are
Challenge your personal limits FORCED to. There's no right
and attitude to accommodate what answer here--you are either one
they do. type, the other, or a mix of
both. However, it's up to you to
There are two main types of realize what motivates you and to
people. On the one hand, there break your mental habits so you
are people that naturally can evolve to the next level of
gravitate towards a higher level your personal journey to greater
because they are curious and have success.
a strong sense of
possibility/wonder. On the other,
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