It's 9AM
Pigeons were once a rich man’s delicacy a hundred years ago.
I forgot where I read that.
But I did.
I do. Read a lot.
I fill my mind with tons of facts that make me a great addition to any trivia team.
It also makes me sound like an authority on a lot of subjects.
But you know my secret.
I’ve shared it with you before.
I know a little bit about a lot of things, which makes me a jack of all trades of sorts.
The problem of which is I am an expert of none.
Though I might argue, few is a better way to say it.
I don’t really know if anyone is an “expert” at anything.
Because everybody makes mistakes
Maybe I’m an expert in making mistakes. It certainly seems like I’ve had my fair share.
Sometimes it feels like more than my fair share.
But a lot of mistakes are made for lack of information.
Not mine, not really. Cause I stack my brain with details and little things.
I think my biggest mistake is knowing so little about so much.
I had 1000 shares of Apple in 1997, and owned a ton of stock in a web based grocery delivery service.
Steve Jobs got ousted and the dot com bubble burst. The grocery delivery service went belly up and I sold Apple when it tanked from $140 per share down to $22. (I still made a little money on it, but…)
Five or so years later, they begged Steve Jobs to come back. He brought back an idea with him. The iPod and you know how that story ends.
And today, during the Covid Quarantine, the grocery delivery service would be king.
I like to think I was ahead of the curve.
I am told though, that I made a mistake. Technically, it’s true. I got in too early on one thing and jumped out too soon on another.
I took my dot com money and invested in real estate. I figured I could flip a couple of houses, sit on some rentals and write on the side.
I still think that.
But people stopped paying rent, and 2008 happened and bam.
I know real estate makes people wealthy for the long term. The mistake was the timing.
The problem with sharing this information with anyone, that I was on the edge more than once, is that it sometimes gets thrown up in my face.
I look at the failing as a learning opportunity, and try to see what I can get out of it.
Often, I am reminded that it is just a failure, in a string of failures, a long line of falling down.
Maybe my biggest mistake is getting up again. Fall down seven. Get up eight.
Fall down nine. Get up ten.
Blame Rocky. Or Grit. Or dumb luck.
Why am I talking about failing today?
Remember when I told you about the Kickstarter campaign?
I missed the goal, so it didn’t fund.
Another failure.
But here’s what I learned.
Communicate daily.
Use video on the KS site AND Youtube
Add more rewards as you go along
Plus, have an even bigger reward for a premium.
My biggest reward for this one? Pledges of $99 become a main character in the Battlefield Z series. I had 3 people back that one.
My biggest mistakes from this KS?
Didn’t communicate enough.
Didn’t do Youtube or Tik Tok.
Built it, and tweeted it, did a couple of letters to you guys about it, but nothing else.
Is it a failure if you learn something?
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