Making Mistakes Doesn’t Have To Suck!

Do you make a mistake and move on? Or do you chew on that mistake until there’s no flavor left, using it as a 2 x4 to beat the crap out of yourself?

The big mistakes I used to chew on endlessly. Not for days but sometimes for years. I’d swim in the guilt or the anger around those mistakes until my fingers looked like a prune.

As I was thinking about this topic, one of my many mistakes popped into view.

A BIG KAHUNA MISTAKE

Several years ago, I purchased a marketing program even though my gut was screaming at me not to do so. It kept trying to tell me that there was something not right about the program. And that the person who created it was not a good fit for me and my practice.

Sadly, my gut didn’t stand a chance against the program promises.

The creator of the program promised that I’d learn more significant ways to put my work out into the world, I’d increase my income, and I’d grow my practice exponentially.

Those promises were persuasive (I guess it didn’t help that I was in a slightly desperate space), so I signed up.

Big mistake. Big. Big. Big.

The program fell way short of what it promised to deliver. A good portion of the content was available for free, and my gut was right. Every month when the payment* would come out of my account, I’d think about that mistake, and I’d flog myself.