Allow Yourself to Fail

I haven’t written on this blog in a while, and it’s because I wasn’t willing to confront my own failure. I had failed to create written blog content every single day for 100 days in a row, so I stopped entirely for months. It’s so obviously silly when you write it out like that.

I still have draft blog posts that could I could post, but I didn’t want to accept my failure. If I walked away from it I didn’t have to think about it. But I still thought about it, because I had ideas I wanted to post all the time.

What changed?

I started thinking about the content that I had created.

I thought about the work that was building on top of itself, and what that I wasn’t in a sprint to get there. I don’t expect to have millions of views on anything for a long time, maybe never, and both of those actions are totally okay.

I started thinking about all the fun things I could do with my blog, like offering free consulting services to businesses to grow my personal network.

I accepted my failures and it has made all the difference.

The Lemonade Stand (Ep.1 – Origins, Scale & Value)

(Note: If the embedded player above isn’t working CLICK HERE to listen)

This is the first episode of The Lemonade Stand – thank you for joining! Please leave feedback in the comments if you have it. This is a learning experience and I am here to do just that.

In this episode, Chris Stoness, founder and CEO of Lemonade Window Cleaning (and Elite Window Cleaning), goes through the origins of starting out as a window cleaner himself, growing a multi-million dollar business in Canada, and applying that model to the United States.

We also discuss how the business intentionally re-branded, the changes that occur during the process of scale and how to shift your focus accordingly.

We wrap up by talking to the values of Lemonade Window Cleaning and the most important piece of the puzzle – people!

Thank you for reading this far, there are links to several socials as well as the Lemonade website below.

Where does the time go? (#6)

It’s a good question. I’ll dodge the existential side and address the practical instead.

Measure it. Find out.

You will be unimpressed, but you can’t make tangible changes unless you confront hard truths.

If we put our flaws on the table and go to work on them there’s no shame and the only possibility is for growth.

Don’t hide from your own time.