Failing Forward!

 I was talking to a friend about all the ideas he sent me in 2004 [Jeeves that is a long time ago!] and I listed off "why" it wasn't y fault that things hadn't progressed!

The plan called for offshore bank accounts - I went to Vanuatu and set those up [but for anybody who would listen I said that after a Australian Federal Police raid - against Vanuatu Law - but when given the chance of reversing the raid or giving up $500 million a year in aid... the vanuatu Government let pragmatism rule, kept getting $500 million and Australian Bank Account holders were sacrificed for the $500 million. I never used those accounts but until recently have held a grudge against the advice to go to Vanuatu.

Also the plan called for setting up our training company overseas - the start was India where after 2 years our licences were on-sold to an American [without our knowledge or permission] for a mouth watering amount of money - I have had an aversion to dealing with Indian Business people since.

We set up in the UK, and after licencing BSUK to a local but hit a brick wall when he died of cancer. [The UK is a place that has dark memories]

We set up in New Zealand, held a number of successful events but New Zealand collapsed when the local partner sided with the NZ Government and sold us out - I would love to holiday there but I am sure how much it would cost a lot to leave!

We had a very lucrative training business in the Middle East but Donald Trump made a deal that pushed our partners towards Turkey and Iran... so Immediately I thought the business went to zero from a minimum of US$10 million lump sum value. Our partner said it would resolve in 6 weeks but that was 4 years ago.

The "forever job" was to be speaking on cruise ships - I did a month on a new vessel [Spectrum of the Sea] from Barcelona to Singapore, but I didn't adjust to the opportunity and felt the month was "wasted" talking to rich old people who weren't interested in new technology [ my subject area] and then Covid-19 hit!

Until very recently I have spent my time blaming everyone for this tale of wow.. rather than seeing that if most things fail [ as they do - Dyson tried over 5000 ways before he perfected the new Vacuum Cleaner] but now I see this as a learning curve and when my friend gave me a revised plan I could see that all these setbacks weren't that if I could see that I was just failing forward!

Plus I feel much better!

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