Mistaking Detours for Dead Ends: How Your 'Failed' Business Attempts Are Actually Guideposts

"Finding your way in life is like unlocking the combination of a safe. You have to go forwards and backwards. Life is not a direct march from A to B. The twists and turns are progress, not regression. What feels like a setback in the moment is later revealed to have been part of the path all along. Each move was necessary to get to your end goal."

Maybe Scott Adams said it best:

To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose ten pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly con

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Your past "failures" may actually be successful attempts by your authentic self to redirect you. What if those launches that didn't work, those marketing approaches that fell flat, those service offerings that drained you—what if they were all guiding you toward your true path?

I invite you to begin noticing these signs not as problems to fix but as... See more