learning from mistakes

Mistakes Are Valuable

I’m growing cauliflower
for the first time
this year.

I doubt I’ll harvest
any cauliflower.

I started the plants
at the wrong time.

I didn’t cover them
with insect netting.

I made many, MANY
other mistakes.

And that’s okay.
That should be expected.

When we do anything
for the first time
-start our first business,
produce our first product,
make our first sales call,
etc.
-we WILL make mistakes.

Those mistakes,
if we learn from them,
are valuable.

Knowing what NOT to do
increases our odds
of success
the next time.

Learn from the mistake,
ensure you don’t make it again,
and move on.

Gaze Forward

A loved one
often
replays the bad decisions
in his life.
He dwells on them.

And that is causing him
to make more bad decisions.

While he’s thinking constantly
about the past,
he’s missing opportunities
in the present.

If we drive forward
while
gazing constantly
behind us,
we’ll crash.
We should glance behind us
once or twice
briefly
and then concentrate
on the road before us.

Study the past.
Learn from it.
Then take those lessons
and focus on the present
and
the future.

The End Of One Business Is The Beginning Of Another

I plan to stop writing
Romance Novels
in two years.
That business
will be placed
on maintenance mode only.

It’s the end
of that business.
And that IS sad
in many ways.

I’m grieving it.

But it also means
I’ll have that time
to do something different.

I’ll likely start
another business.
And that is VERY exciting.

Business builders
build businesses.
That’s what we do.

The end of one business
is often the start
of another business.

Adding To Your Project Checklist

I have checklists
of all the things
I need to know
or do
or gather
for each type
of project.

I add to these checklists
during or after
each project.

For example,
I tried growing bell peppers
directly in the garden
this year.
That was a disaster.
The slugs ate them.

So I added
“Grow all bell peppers
in containers.”
to my gardening project checklist.

Before starting a project,
I’ll review the appropriate checklist
for that type of project.

In the Spring,
for example,
I’ll review my gardening checklist.

I’ll see
my note about growing peppers
in containers.
Do that.
And my chances of a great pepper harvest
will greatly increase.

Our lives
are already extremely complicated.

Make projects easier
by keeping checklists.

They will ensure
we learn from mistakes
and that will increase
our probability of success!