<div class="bbWrapper">It's true.<br />
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I "failed" (Read: paid for many lessons with time and money)<br />
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I started two businesses <i>at the same time</i>, which was silly.<br />
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It's very hard to <i>start</i> two at the same time, though you can manage two at the same time.<br />
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For your benefit, I aim to help you avoid these pitfalls so you can grow faster. I've created this so you can know what to avoid from a mile ahead, instead of in hindsight.<br />
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After all, if we learn from others' mistakes, we can avoid them without the pain and wasted time.<br />
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This time was actually invested into learning a craft, and I'm fine with it!<br />
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Let me know what thoughts you have about my lessons, and if they helped you out in your journey. I'd love to hear the stories you've had.<br />
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<b>1. Nothing is Ever Wasted with the Right Mindset</b><br />
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If you look at each experience as a lesson, and see what you can gain from it, then you haven't failed.<br />
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Each time something goes wrong, you can pick the best parts out of it by looking at what skills or experience you can salvage. This way, you never waste any of your time, and you're always on track to improve.<br />
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The important thing here is to adapt when you realize you've been on the wrong track.<br />
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2. Starting Two Businesses At Once is Insane</b><br />
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Even Elon Musk said it, he would rather rub glass in his eyes than start 3 businesses at once again.<br />
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That demonstrates how hard and how much work is involved when going this route.<br />
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Just start one at a time! I had a super hustler of a mentor who was on a different level, and that influence rubbed off.<br />
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I learned a ton, but I should've just applied that hustle in one direction and it would have been much more simple.<br />
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<b>3. Salvage Lessons From Each Failure</b><br />
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If you take something away from each time you get setback, you catapult forward faster.<br />
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If you just sit in your mistake and waste time, you learn nothing and might even do the same thing again. Life teaches us many lessons when we mess up, and until we learn the lesson, it comes back again and again.<br />
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Don't let past failures keep haunting you. Just learn what they were trying to teach and move forward.<br />
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<b>4. It's Much Easier When You're Obsessed</b><br />
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By becoming obsessed with what you're doing, in a positive way, you can make strides past people who are not interested in what they do. By coming alive with .... dare I say it... passion, for what you're working on, not necessarily YOUR passion, you become charged with the outcome and progress.<br />
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The process is so worth it for you that you enjoy it most of the time. You won't love it every day all day, because it'll get tough, boring, monotonous at times.<br />
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However, by keeping possibilities in front of you and planning your attack, you get excited each day because you're contributing to a big picture game.<br />
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<b>5. Each Business Model Has Qualifications<br />
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You will have to choose the pros and cons of each because they're not all going to evenly stack up to where you want to be.<br />
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Pick a business model that fits the desired lifestyle, and always make your means match your ends of acquiring the goal. Figure out how you can provide valuable things to your market, and build your own life off of your success too!<br />
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That's a Pareto efficiency, or a win-win. <br />
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Look for the win-wins and the models that have the shallowest downsides/cons. This way, you won't waste time like I did, figuring out what type of ground is safe for your empire.<br />
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See the full lessons here: <a href="http://www.motiveinmotion.com/failing-drop-shipping/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="noopener">http://www.motiveinmotion.com/failing-drop-shipping/</a><br />
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What about you? Have you drop shipped? Have you failed other types of businesses? Let me know below!</div>
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