So there are products I launched for my business that had no response. There were ideas that I thought would be an instant sold-out success but moved v e r y s l o w l y. There were Facebook and Instagram ads with high engagement and lots of clicks but no registrations. And then there were promotions where the crickets were chirping so loudly they almost drowned the self-critical voices in my head.
I can look at these as failures…and stay in that space of criticism and self-pity. (See? You won’t be a success. No one likes you. You’re not really as good as you think you are.)
Or I can shift my thoughts and look at them with pride. Because I had tried.
There is no business without risk as there is no love or life without it. You can fall in love with someone and they won’t reciprocate your passion. You can give your all and still not meet the required standards. You can risk money and time and it’s no guarantee that your audience will respond as you expected.
If I didn’t try, I wouldn’t know. I wouldn’t be able to tweak the idea or learn from it. I wouldn’t find another way through. I wouldn’t have put other ideas out there that did turn out well, that did get sold, that women fell in love with and supported and bought over and over again.
And if I didn’t try, I would still be sitting in a cubicle, wondering “what if?”
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