I wish I could reword that to, “To make money, it’s easier if you already have money.” - a lot easier!

Love your site, by the way.

Great post, I guess sometimes its an excuse, “To make money you need money”.

Michael

Yeah, the challenge with mistakes is finding what went wrong and not only what we can do to prevent them from happening again, but also how we can improve upon them and make them win . . . which is pretty much what you are saying

I think maybe the more experienced you are the more natural learning comes to you. However, every time I succeed in something my natural reaction is to do a quick analysis of it. It’s just what I do.

By the way, I want to thank you. I accredit much of the popularity of my 8+ Ways To Train Yourself To Be Creative post’s popularity to you. I think you stumbled it and a few days later it took off. So thanks!

Mistakes are different, we have to analyse them - see what went wrong and work out what we can do to prevent the same thing happening in the future.

Cath Lawson’s last blog post..Business Success Is Only A Deathbed Away

Like you, I put a lot of value in learning from my mistakes. They teach us a lot. But if people forget to evaluate their successes they may be missing out not on what created a failure, but what created a success.

Who wouldn’t want that insight? Is it always there? Perhaps not. But the curious seem to have a better batting average than those that are not.

What was that Alanis Moressette song, “Learn.” I loved that song.

But when you can learn from your success — now that’s some powerful stuff.
So why don’t we do that more often? Well - I think in large part you called it out right there.

You had a glaring, wonderful success — and instead of saying, ‘yeah, i’m pretty dang awesome.’ You stepped back and asked questions. The same type of questions you’d ask if you failed.

Why, why, why….you forced yourself to learn from it. Many of us don’t have that discipline so we miss out on the momentum that can be built from incremental success.

We reactively ask those questions when we fail. If we can get in the habit of doing that when we succeed, we’ll really get ready to take off.

Kelly @ Small Business Guru’s last blog post..Can a great idea and some hard work take an entrepreneur from $0 to $100k in one year?

RLD: Taekwondo Happiness’s last blog post..Invincibility