Don't Fall Off The Tightrope

Hello Everyone

So it's been another week of mainly bad news in the world and sadly it seems to have been a week of bad news here at WA too.

I am saddened that some fine members of WA have felt the need to walk away from the community. They have individually set out their reasons and I am not going to rehash what you can simply read on their individual posts. WA will be a poorer place for the loss of each of them.

I am also saddened by some frankly quite distasteful blog posts (and comments) here in recent days. All I am prepared to say on this subject is that I didn't comment on any of them but I have started to use the "Unfollow" button a lot more recently.

I am not one to tell people what they can or can't blog about here. As a premium member you have paid your subscription and you are entitled to write about whatever you choose (barring politics and religion). The rest of us are free to make a choice to read it and comment if we want - or to just pass on by.

Unkind or critical comments made in public are simply a poor reflection on those who write them.

It is important that we don't allow WA to become a negative place due to the actions of a small minority of members who want to dictate.

The Tightrope

In 1978, Karl Wallenda - who was one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers performed his final and ultimately fatal tightrope walk between 2 hotel towers in Puerto Rico. Halfway across he could be seen struggling and he fell 10 stories to his death.

Why did a man who had successfully completed the same stunt hundreds of times previously come to such a tragic end?

Some time after the accident his wife gave some insight into what happened. She said "All Karl thought about for three months prior to it was falling. It seemed to me he put all his energies into 'not falling', rather than walking the tightrope."

Don't Fall!

As entrepreneurs building a business we will come across many problems along the way. I am currently trying to figure out why I can't get any videos to upload to my YouTube channel. I have discovered a temporary fix by transferring the video onto my laptop and uploading it from there. I just need to work out why they suddenly won't upload from my PC.

It would be easy to just give up and focus on something else instead but I would rather find a solution than let this beat me.

Problems are inevitable but if all you ever think about is what might go wrong rather than what you might achieve then you will never overcome them.

Despite all the bad news we face every day at the minute, and all the negative stuff that has happened here recently, let's try to stay upbeat and work hard to make a success of the businesses we want to create.

Isn't that why you joined WA after all?

Best wishes

Dave