Following on from my post entitled ‘The value of content’ is this week’s word: ‘Failure’.
This time there is no wikipedia definition to complement the word. The reason being if an individual wants a definition of the word failure they can simply look it up on wikipedia.

Considering the ‘Word of the Week’ category in retrospect, If I am being honest I can see that the category was merely an attempt at making writing new content for the blog easier. I am however cutting my losses as I have on many an occasion, accepting my mistakes, and moving on.
Definitions of words are simply not interesting, not unique, nor original. Furthermore I was extremely arrogant with regards to my wit. I am not THAT clever, nor am I THAT witty, thus ‘Word of the Week’ has absolutely no value to this blog.

A blog that I occasionally read (r-e-d… as in the past tense) recently lost my readership for one simple reason: lack of original content. I wrote a post about this previously, but perhaps I did not emphasize or elaborate as to exactly how important unique content is.
It is so so so so so important. A blog revolves around content. Thus bad content equals bad blog.

The author of the blog in question clearly was having writers block, or simply had nothing interesting to say. So what did he resort to? He posted 2 blog posts entitled somewhere along the lines of ‘I don’t know what to blog about’, and ‘I know why I can’t think of anything to write about’.
Maybe it is just me, but I think that is a kop out, and a bad one at that. The posts were just fillers to make the blog look active when it fact it was not.

My last blog posts have been spread apart by a week. I don’t want that. I want to write daily for you, my readers. If however I can’t, I don’t. Simple as. Hopefully you would agree, it is better to have nothing than something bad.

So back to failure. My failures include (but are not limited to): not selling my LLLL.com portfolio at the top; investing in ccc.net; investing in llll.net; NOT investing in RBS shares when they were at 8p; arguing unnecessarily with potential business partners; getting an A in French GCSE; etc etc
Failure does not have a strict definition, but yet many things can be classed as a failure.

I think the important thing about failure, and what needs to be mentioned, is your response to it. If you fail, and ignore your mistakes you are destined to continue failing. If you act, and respond to the mistake, acknowledge your weaknesses, and grow past it you are destined for success.
I lost loads on LLLL.net, yet I still renewed 100 or so. Big Mistake! I ignored my first failure, and am destined to future failure with regards to these domains. It is a shame to think that although my domain investment returns are in profit, had I not failed here I would have more to reinvest for example.
Another thing to note about failure is NOT to dwell on it. Get over it, move on. It sucks big time, and I myself have not always done this… that does not mean I cannot tell you what I think you should do in such a situation.

At the end of the day, it is good to fail! Whether you like it or not. Just make sure your response is the correct one!