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How I failed but still suceeded - the beauty of online!

rwagener

Published on January 19, 2015

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Christmas in New Zealand is all about the family, the beach and long summer holidays - and this one has been among the best. Brilliant weather and a good NZ cricket team has helped make this a great holiday period.

Family, beach, fishing and sun!

Spending time rejuvenating with family and friends - fishing, playing on the beach, cricket games on the lawn, sitting around chatting - all make for a wonderful time.

The intention over this period was to keep my website developing - posting at least every week and charging through more WA training. But this time - just not too be.

This is where I failed

I had planned to blog, write articles and build my online business more.

I had intended to keep building my social media profile

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I had definitely intended to get a whole lot further through the WA training

My website health has dropped and no doubt Google has not been impressed either!

But I succeeded

Over the past month of little activity I have succeeded however:

I still earned some affiliate commission from my website - so the business is working

I spent wonderful time with the family - the most important

I got on top of various projects around the home

Things return to normal again the first week of February when our 4 children return to school. Our summer holidays this year started mid-December, so a long break. My 3rd child starts school as she turns 5 in February. Our youngest will start some mornings at pre-school in April when she turns 3. Life will become more flexible for me this year and we'll just continue to slowly and steadily build the online business!

Ah - Summer!

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