You May Fail, And That’s Okay

📚 From a book called The Power of Full Engagement…

Our experience – and considerable research – suggests that setbacks are an intrinsic part of any significant change process. The motivation to make a change, and even the specific plan for doing so, may often just be the first step.

The researcher James Prochaska has found, for example, that people launching a major change in their lives often fail several times before succeeding in a sustaining way.

I’ve experienced that first-hand myself.

When I quit my job in 2010, I was super confident that I’d be earning $10,000+ per month within a year. I’d seen other people doing that just by selling simple ebooks and figured I could do the same 😎

And while I was able to earn a decent living working online for many years – mainly via freelancing – my first $10,000+ month didn’t happen until 2020.

So yeah, I tried and failed for about a decade before reaching that goal 😕

But since reaching it, I’ve only had one month where my business has earned LESS than $10,000 per month. (You can see all my finance reports here, btw)

All that to say: try not to let failure get you down.

Learn from it, pick yourself up, and take another shot.

You’ll hit a big one eventually.