Comments on: How I Screwed Up My Blog in 2009. http://jadecraven.com/how-i-screwed-up-my-blog-in-2009 Blogging and Social Media Tips Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:06:08 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jadecraven http://jadecraven.com/how-i-screwed-up-my-blog-in-2009/comment-page-2#comment-2241 jadecraven Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:00:17 +0000 http://jadecraven.com/?p=1130#comment-2241 Thank you for your comment.<br><br>I'm now in a situation where I'm making money. I'm realizing why I was scared. I do not have the skills to manage it because I was poor for so long. However the more I spend, the more I earn. It's also a new experience. It's weird.<br><br>It changed for me when I co-founded a business with my friend and wanted him to have a nice life because he'd been such an awesome friend to me. I worked harder to earn money so he could get a decent cut. <br><br>I've buried mistakes and felt guilty. I very much prefer being honest. It resonates better with me and helps me work harder.<br><br>- Jade Thank you for your comment.

I'm now in a situation where I'm making money. I'm realizing why I was scared. I do not have the skills to manage it because I was poor for so long. However the more I spend, the more I earn. It's also a new experience. It's weird.

It changed for me when I co-founded a business with my friend and wanted him to have a nice life because he'd been such an awesome friend to me. I worked harder to earn money so he could get a decent cut.

I've buried mistakes and felt guilty. I very much prefer being honest. It resonates better with me and helps me work harder.

- Jade

]]> By: jadecraven http://jadecraven.com/how-i-screwed-up-my-blog-in-2009/comment-page-2#comment-2242 jadecraven Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:54:44 +0000 http://jadecraven.com/?p=1130#comment-2242 Thank you so much :-) You can totally screw up and get others validate you. I was talking to my biz partner/best friend recently about how I missed people saying nice things because I was screwing up however I was still getting the validation in private from friends (by seeking out testimonials).<br><br>I'm friends with a lot of big guns and I get an insight to their screw ups. The only difference between me and them is that I'm honest about them :-) I have the luxury of being honest because I have less to lose. <br><br>As soon as I started embracing the challenges, things started improving. It was amazing. Thank you so much again for the lovely comment :-) Thank you so much :-) You can totally screw up and get others validate you. I was talking to my biz partner/best friend recently about how I missed people saying nice things because I was screwing up however I was still getting the validation in private from friends (by seeking out testimonials).

I'm friends with a lot of big guns and I get an insight to their screw ups. The only difference between me and them is that I'm honest about them :-) I have the luxury of being honest because I have less to lose.

As soon as I started embracing the challenges, things started improving. It was amazing. Thank you so much again for the lovely comment :-)

]]> By: Eoin Meegan http://jadecraven.com/how-i-screwed-up-my-blog-in-2009/comment-page-2#comment-2238 Eoin Meegan Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:17:00 +0000 http://jadecraven.com/?p=1130#comment-2238 Jade, thank you for writing this post. Your honesty and real integrity shines through. Very few have the courage to do that. Instead it's easier to bury mistakes (what I call go unconscious around them) and pretend they didn't happen. <br><br>The other solution is to beat ourselves up, to get on the guilt trip. But the polarities of success and failure are not what we should be measuring ourselves by. They are both illusions. When we realize that can rise above both impostors and be authentic, like you are Jade.<br><br>I was particularly interested in mistake # 4 being too scared to make money. This is one of the greatest ways we have of sabotaging ourselves from creating abundance. It's not that we're afraid of failure, we're afaid of success. We think this will transform my life and maybe I wont be able to handle it, or my old friends will think I've got too big for myself. <br><br>I went through this situation for years, being scared to actually create wealth. It sounds pathetic, it sounds totally crazy! But it's a real factor in so many lives that making money can be REAL SCARY. So you dont do the things that you need to do, and you do things that will actually prevent you achieving your goal. It's incredible how we play out these scripts and scenarios in our own lives. Thahks again Jade for the wonderful post. <br><br>Eoin. Jade, thank you for writing this post. Your honesty and real integrity shines through. Very few have the courage to do that. Instead it's easier to bury mistakes (what I call go unconscious around them) and pretend they didn't happen.

The other solution is to beat ourselves up, to get on the guilt trip. But the polarities of success and failure are not what we should be measuring ourselves by. They are both illusions. When we realize that can rise above both impostors and be authentic, like you are Jade.

I was particularly interested in mistake # 4 being too scared to make money. This is one of the greatest ways we have of sabotaging ourselves from creating abundance. It's not that we're afraid of failure, we're afaid of success. We think this will transform my life and maybe I wont be able to handle it, or my old friends will think I've got too big for myself.

I went through this situation for years, being scared to actually create wealth. It sounds pathetic, it sounds totally crazy! But it's a real factor in so many lives that making money can be REAL SCARY. So you dont do the things that you need to do, and you do things that will actually prevent you achieving your goal. It's incredible how we play out these scripts and scenarios in our own lives. Thahks again Jade for the wonderful post.

Eoin.

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