I think I’m going to have to start a blog about my racing, because I just love it so much and this isn’t the right place to blog about it!
Till then, check out these 2 hot pics and there’s a video of it at idle, purring…
It’s wet season here, so I’ve not run it for a while, when I do I’ll grab some new pics and videos…
Failing is the best way to learn something in my opinion. You come out the other end with a better knowledge of the market you entered, you end up knowing the to-dos and not-to-dos, you work out how things work and interact, you should have worked out where you went wrong, people you should have spoken to and deals you should have done.
After you fail you realise every area where you went wrong, and you should sit down and really think about it all, it’ll only better equip you for when you do it again, or something similar.
Starting projects or businesses isn’t just a ‘keep trying and one will eventually work’ situation, it’s more of a learning process, you do a few, fail, learn from it all, keep doing it and failing until you’re in a position to have a good go at something, a real opportunity will present itself and when it does, you’ll have the knowledge and experience from before to make you somewhat of an expert in the area.
Maybe that’s a good idea for a site, submit your failure, write down what you did, where you went wrong and make it public so other people can learn and benefit from your disaster.
Then again, maybe that’ll be a failure too…
Personally I started my first dot com when I was 15, it failed obviously, but not long after I started another, which I sold a long time ago now, that business was profitable, and still is today. I started it when I was 16, ran it till I was 18, employed over 10 people, sold it and moved on to my next venture.
That was my first success in the internet industry, at 16 years of age before the dot com ‘boom’ and its inevitable ‘burst’ later on. Since then I’ve had other successes and many more failures. I think I average about 1 in 10, for every 1 success there’s 10 failures.
I don’t think that’s a bad number, I think it’s a result of starting something with the interest of fun and for something to do – personal interest, rather than trying to start a business to turn a profit. I rarely start a ‘business’ everything I start is a ‘project’ in my eyes, it’s something new and interesting, I’m doing it for some fun, to learn something new, and because I’m really interested in the idea I’ve come up with.
I’m an ideas kind of man, I have a million ideas, brainstorm nonstop, I plan, map, document everything, I’ve researched so many things it’s not funny, my knowledge of the internet is extensive due to the enormity of the things I’ve researched over the years, but I love it, I love doing it, I enjoy starting new projects and watching what happens to them.
I think I can honestly say I rarely care if something fails, I have so many other projects on the go, or in waiting that if one fails, there’s another to fill its gap. I don’t have a fear of something failing as long as my overall net revenue isn’t diminished in the process.
Well it’s the weekend for most 9-5 people, but I try to spend my Saturdays working on personal development.
I try to look away from any client work and do things that benefit my personal business interests and myself, usually more my personal business than myself.
5 days a week like most of us we’re busy with client projects or working a fulltime job, so the only time spare is either after hours or weekends, I work long days as it is so its weekends for me.
Being in Thailand (yes I my office is in Thailand), the work week is a 6 day week, so my office is full of staff who are still doing client work, but I’m in here working on my own personal projects, and today I’m work on my blog, doing some minor updates and writing some articles. Having staff in here is a good motivator, I don’t treat it as the weekend, it’s a working day and I’m putting 100% into what I’m doing just like any other day.
I think it’s important to turn away clients for a day, don’t read your email, don’t answer the phone, just spend a day working on what’s important to you, what makes you feel good and work on your goals.
It’s also important to have personal goals, aside from earning your main revenue from clients, you should have a personal business goal, have a side project to work on and use this day to focus 100% on that project. Plan what you need to do and then every Saturday sit down and tick off items on that list.
That’s one of the ways I approach working on my personal projects, build a list and every Saturday look at the list and attack it like I would any oth
er client project.
I’ve been finding a few quite nicely designed websites the last few weeks and it’s made me want to renovate my own.
I think today might be the day to do it. I’m over client work for the week and I think having some new freshness to the site would be nice, not only for me, but for the visitors.
I’m not going to re-do the whole thing, just make some changes hopefully for the better, it’s going to be a renovation, not a rebuild!
So this is my 2nd post in 2 days, which is a big thing considering I’ve not posted for a few months.
It’s going to be hard to get back into a consistent flow to blogging but I’m going to give it another shot.
One thing that’s going to change is my outlook on the blog, before I was trying to blog about business, marketing and profits, but more of what I’m motivated in is dot com business, and everything to do with it.
So not just running a business and marketing it to product profits, but building, acquiring, selling and developing a dot com business, ideas and thoughts, technology and things like that.
Anyway, I’m going to change some images on the site and wait for this coffee to kick in.
So I’ve been a little slack, very busy and all in all there’s been lots going on – which is the norm in my life, but I’m still keen to blog and I’m now settled in my new office so I think I’ll start pushing some more posts out!
Like any small business there’s lots going on, were in a position now of employing more staff, mostly PHP / MySQL developers and Ruby on Rails developers, which means we need to buy some more PC’s and tables. Urgh.
Anyway, here’s to blogging more!
Ahhh my life is way too hard. So I went on holiday all week. Back now!
And the #1 reason why I haven’t blogged all week is….
Oh and there you have it, I said it mostly because I’ve come back after doing so much, read all my feeds and out of almost 1,000 new posts that I’ve skimmed through there was only about 5 I actually read, the rest was regurgitated crap that I’ve read 1,000 times before.
Yes traffic is the main currency of bloggers not money and no I don’t want to read another self serving bullshit ebook… this is why I read and respect bloggers like Maki over at DoshDosh, he’s made a commitment to deliver real content that you probably haven’t seen or read before, and if you have, it’ll be different and provide something new.
Another reason for this post is that after skimming through them all it kind of pissed me off to see the same crap over and over again and I wanted something easy to get me back into the rhythm of blogging daily again, so there it is.
Sorry everyone, I’ve had 2+ days of internet outage so my posts are a bit behind.
Back up and hopefully it stays that way for a while.
Sorry people, been too busy on holiday in Penang to blog… Going for a jetski now, will be blogging again when I’m back on Monday!
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