Have you ever wished for something, really given it your all, and just couldn’t get it to work out? Perhaps it was a relationship with another person, or a business you wanted to start or even the result you wanted for a hobby project.
Sometimes when you look back, you’ll see that the time wasn’t right or that it wasn’t quite the right project or even that the relationship would have been a disaster.
Are you bold enough to start paying attention to those signposts in life and act on them?
As I was discussing attraction with other coaches this week, I realized that one of the things that is developing in my life right now as I reinvent myself is a business I tried to start in 2007, with absolutely no success.
I hosted my high school reunion on the web. I found a great little software package, installed it, invited about fifty of my classmates whose whereabouts several of us located, and went from there. The reunion was a screaming success – over 100 people attended, including two of our teachers. What is remarkable about that? It was our fiftieth reunion and our teachers were in their nineties!
That was such a wonderful experience with a community software package that I tried to convince the developer to let me start a new thrust for his business, marketing the software to groups that didn’t have anything like it.
Well, nothing went right with that project. The developer really didn’t want to do it, then his father died. I couldn’t find anyone who could tell me what a reasonable split would be. I decided to develop a better package on my own, custom tailored to my own design, and that never got off the ground either. Finally, I set it aside and went on to other things.
Now, suddenly this year I have discovered Thesis and how it can turn a blog into a website as well. This site has several of the great enhancements you can add with Thesis and I have now developed four other sites.
Soon I hope to be selling Thesis and enhancements to other microenterprises, on a build-as-you-can-afford-it basis. The time is right and everything is going well.
I believe this is a great example of not trying to fit your foot into the wrong shoe. If the attraction is not there, it won’t work.
