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the icks of growth
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the icks of growth

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soooo one thing i appreciate about myself is that i’m grateful for not making bad decisions. let me rephrase that… i don’t think i missed out.

did i make ick decisions that were considered mistakes? for sure

i made icky mistakes in business… love… life… i missed out on lots of opportunities.. i didn’t write books… i said something hurtful and didn’t make up for it… i didn’t go on trips…didn’t work those extra hours… didn’t write those extra love notes...

there are two obvious ones, like getting married and divorced quickly when i was around 30.  and a venture-funded business failure.

at the time - OMG THE PAIN!!!  

and later… well, if hadn’t made those ‘mistakes’ i wouldn’t be who i am today. doing what i’m doing. with the marriage and family i have.  If i hadn’t had a business fail, i wouldn’t have landed at salesforce.com or ended up writing my books.   maybe bizarro aaron’s life is better, maybe worse, but it’s not mine.  

i can’t imagine having the life i have today without the mistakes i made back then.  so taking away those mistakes makes me feel like i’d lose part of what i value most today. 

still they are not quote “mistakes” unquote. 

these “mistakes”… these “icks” are lessons. 

attempts and opportunities to learn.

icks are okay.

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