At the beginning of the month, it was my intention to try and write an article per day for publication at HubPages. I started out strong, but then missed a few days. Now it happened because I was working hard (75 hours in one week) and was in no condition to write after spending so much mental energy at my job. This is my most recent example, but I could point to several other instances when I failed to accomplish goals that I had set before me.
If you want to put it into the context of this blog and making extra money each month, then you only have to look at April’s earnings report to see that I actually lost money online because my revenues declined substantially and I had some bigger than normal expenses.
After these setbacks, it would be easy to just give up and not bother working to make money online anymore. But what good would that do? There is no hope for success is there is no effort at all. By at least making an attempt to write a daily Hub, I have been able to make some progress this month. Plus I am able to learn from the experience and improve my efforts the next time around.
So my question for you is, “How do you handle failure?” Do you learn from the experience and try to figure out what you might do to improve your chances for success in the future? Are you looking at problems or opportunities?
Don’t be afraid to try, nor be afraid to fail!
I have learned so much by actually getting out and doing.
I know that you have probably heard it all before, but it is true. Look at each experience as an education and take away those things that work and don’t do those things that don’t. I would never have learned how to make money blogging if I didn’t at least try. Sure there will be ups and downs, but the general trend has been up.
Ultimately, the way you handle failure dictates your success!
Lovely post here, without failure there can not be success, it sure is a learning journey in progress is it not? I was a little disappointed yesterday when someone made a comment “Wow google really doesn’t like your site” and I have no clue what exactly they meant by that. I am not the most computer savvy but I figured it was an opportunity to figure out what they meant and learn from it to improve my site!
I always try to look at it too more of a wow look at all I accomplished this month, rather than look at all what I did Not accomplish, at least with a goal you seem to get much farther ahead even if you don’t reach it than you would without a goal at all!
Keep up the great work!
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It sounds to me like you have the proper attitude that lends itself to success.
I tend to set big (mostly unachievable)goals to push myself – I can get a little lazy at times. Inspired by your hubpages goal I too had hoped to write a hub a day (for 10 days). I didn’t make it. It’s 12 days later and I have 9 hubs. BUT, if you hadn’t set your goal, I wouldn’t have set mine, and I wouldn’t have 9 new hubs earning me income. The way I see it, our failures produced content/earnings we wouldn’t have had without our goals. So there is success even in our failures.
I hope you continue to document your goals – even if you don’t achieve them. I think you’d be surprised how many people you inspire into action!
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Thanks so much. As you know, I didn’t achieve my goal and often miss because I try to stretch as much as possible. But I am able to accomplish quite a bit. I will continue to document and publish what I set out to do and what I end up getting done. Again, thanks for the kind words.
Wow, 75 hours a week? What was that?
As for me, I always try to forget about the failure as soon as possible but I will never forget the lesson from it.
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It was a busy week, that’s for sure. Good advice about forgetting the failure but recalling the lesson.