The Key to Successs is Failure

Well, I seem to have fallen off the blog-o-sphere. Since my grandmother died, I’ve felt scattered with my work. Time to pick up the pieces! Actually, things are going quite well. Last month I announced the creation of my “Earn Your Worth—Business Support Groups for Self-Employed Women”. The first group filled within three weeks, maxed with ten participants. A second group is now building. How exciting! The process of figuring out what works and doesn’t work in business is endlessly fascinating for me. Last year I announced a different program (it was a teleseminar coaching program) that launched and then promptly crashed. Actually, I don’t think it ever even made it off the ground, so I cancelled it. Painful and frustrating. But I think that one of my strengths in business is that I simply keep trying. I keep looking for what works. When one thing doesn’t work, I try something different. Easy to say, but hard to do. I’ve had seminars I was very excited about and knew where quite powerful, that I had to cancel. I’ve learned to give myself time to “grieve” over the cancelled program. Then I try something new. As they say, if you keep throwing things at the wall, eventually something will stick! I think as business women, we need to be more proud of our failures. It shows we are out there trying! You have to have a certain number of “failures” on the path to success. It’s a rare person who simply “gets it right” the first time around. As Buckminster Fuller said (the famous mathematician and philosopher) “The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.”

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