I have so many failure stories to share, all are mine, all are legit. why would I do so; because there are already too many people telling their success stories. some true and some not. mostly not. they are mainly the trap to get them richer by tricking public to buy from them.
The best thing to write about failure is, we can learn out of it. we can prevent the same mistake which others do. As Dr. Abdul Kalam says; the best way to learn in life is to learn from people's mistakes. so let's get started.
It was 2009 when I first came into writing online. by the way, i have been a successful freelance writer at upwork ;p. so I started my own blog, at that time the most popular free blogging platform was, you guessed it right, "blogger" or "Blogspot". As I struggled to make my own website as a newbie, I figured out its the right time to help people get through this difficult phase of experimental learning and sharing my knowledge on how to solve blogger issues. understanding how to add widgets and all that HTML stuff. I remember my then blog "blogging-tips-tools.blogspot.com" (it's dead now), starting out aggressive, I managed to grasp the little attention of the BIGGEST search engine and it started sending visitors to my blog.
the problem with aggression is, it exhausts, it lowers and it diminishes with time. this is how it is. you cannot be aggressive on something all your life. So the same happened to me, all that passion and aggression started cooling down as I did not see the success coming in the same proportion.
Now, this is interesting, when you aggressively start your entrepreneurial journey (expect a few talented people) you expect the same pace of the growth and when you don't see it, you start getting demotivated.
Now the guy who started out with me. I won't name him, was consistent, he would post an article a day. In contrast, I would post 3 to 4 articles a day, I managed to somehow keep this pace for a couple weeks and then I went out of ideas but I didn't want to give up, I started copying other people's content and pasting it. (my bad and karma did come to me) my blog was getting a very decent visitors a day rate at that point of time.
it wasn't growing the way I wanted but 50 to 100 visitors a day? (believe me, it is a good number) Nah, it's not for me. I deserve more; I thought. The inner inconsistent being woke up, telling me it's all useless, it's not working out and I trusted it. I left writing all of a sudden for that blog.
Every time I would open up my PC to write something my "inner inconsistent being" would show up and tell me it's better to watch a funny interview on youtube then to waste time here. I would obey it.
Time passed and two things happened. One, because of lack of updating the search engine started giving less priority and second, Karma hit me with the copied content and Google took all the pages out which were plagiarized.
The guy who started off with me went on to become an authority (all my best wishes to him) and I keep on thinking if I was consistent enough to carry out and continue writing for that site. it would have become a good resource I feel.
Take away from this article:
if you want to learn one thing, that would be, whatever are you starting, is it a relationship or a business. Stay consistent and offer that much of your time and energy which you can continue spending. otherwise, motivation will exhaust.
this is one of many failures I saw in life. stay tuned for others.