My First Big Mistake - Being Careful With Missteps, Knowing Your Lack of Experience.
Hello Steemians
I'm going to continue my series of posts that tell the story of my journey, with the idea of sharing and possibly teaching my readers ideas to solve or overcome various difficulties they might be experiencing.
When I got involved with the multimedia market, working with audio for websites and CD-ROMs, other windows of opportunities started to open in my life, and that is how I ended up embracing the technology market, at the turn of the millennium. It was then when I decided to open my third company and decided to make a conglomerate for production services, all connected with technology and development.
This forced me once again to learn new things, even a new language to work in the field of technology. I learned how to program multimedia myself, and started to win the patronage of big companies. The first CD-ROM we launched was an e-commerce project and it was sold to one of the biggest banks in my home country. My life of course started to get incredibly busy, and I had work days with 16 or 17 hours in them.
Easy money does not exist, and if it's easy to get, that means it's also easy to lose. On top of that it's very important that we learn how to deal with making money, and there is an old saying that comes to mind.
"He who does not how to administrate 100 dollars will never be able to administrate a million, he will lose both amounts just the same"
As I worked in this field, I was also responsible for helping 20 recording studios working with computers, here in the gigantic city of Sao Paulo, a city with 20 million inhabitants. I remember how back then all studio owners and engineers believed that a computer would never be able to replace hardware, but we know what happened with that.
Shifting paradigms is very difficult, but it seems like that's been my drive my whole life. I realize that it might not seem like much to those who are born in first world countries, but in Brazil, the difficulty level is much higher.
In Brazil he you literally have to be a circus juggler to get anything to work, and I'm sure I will share more about them on this blog on another opportunity.
But something that I learned really well is that it's very important to learn how to deal with cash, the administration of a business cash flow.
I never had a mentor per say, but I know very well how important they can be, because a good mentor can help you avoid a lot of errors that otherwise you are bound to commit.
Its precisely because I never had a mentor that when I was only 25 years old and inexperienced, I signed a contract with someone who I believe had good intentions, I was so thrilled for the opportunity that I did not see the red flags and it was then that I faced my first big defeat.
Without disclosing many details, the contract had a clause that resulted in me amassing a debt of 600 thousand dollars, and let me remind you, I was only 25 at the time. All that because I did not recognize a dishonest person.
I have to confess that I did not have that kind of money back then, I was beginning to build my life and that did not feel good in the slightest, and also, I did not have the maturity to deal with such a blow, but I had to face it nonetheless.
One more time I had to learn a new world and with incredible adversity. I had to learn how to negotiate debt, how to work with debt, and do so while remaining positive.
When you face these situations, you are given two choices: You can give up or you work even harder looking forward for a solution, believe it or not I got out of that problem with hard work, but I will tell that story at another time.
I wanted to leave two messages with you today:
- Learn to budget your money correctly, and on this very subject I will share many more posts.
- It not only matters what you are living today. Keep positivism in your life, and focus on finding a solution, not just on the problem itself.
I would like to finish by telling everyone that it makes me very happy to see people understanding the requests I've been making, to look at other steemians who are putting effort in the comments, that took their time and reward them. I've seen comments with 7,8,10 upvotes and that feels to me like a community supporting each other, people that respect the investment of time of others.
I hope everyone is has a blessed week
Regards
Dear sir!
The good person is the one who takes lessons from mistakes and again tries to move forward with a better effort. All of us have ever encountered such situations. In the time when these incidents took place with you, you were only 25 years old, meaning you were neither mature nor you had the experience of an investment or environment. People make mistakes in identifying the right person. You were then in a state of learning and then it was natural for you to be mistaken.
The way you came back, it shows your strong mood how quickly you learn from mistakes. Whatever your experience is that we share with people, of course we will do the work of guiding the people.
Thank you Sir for your experience that we shared with all of us.
Thank you for always being present with always pertinent comments. Do not forget the most important message that I try to implement here that you vote among you who take some time to write comments. This has left me very grateful because that is how we can build the true positive network spirit.
Thanks sir. I will do better. Your thinking and suggestions is great.
I applied this at once.now you can see..
We are at learning stage. A lot of mistakes happen on daily basis. But we should learn from mistakes.
As saying of a person
"to do mistake is not called mistake
But to repeat mistake is called a mistake".
Before doing a deal with someone we should be aware from advantages and disadvantages.
The results could varry from our thinking.
Thanks @chbartist , you really are a caring person. Keep on posting such contents to educate folks
Thank You, although some people think that these lessons are banal because they already know I always go here in steemit to write simply for those who still need to know the basic fundamentals so that they do not have financial losses in their lives. Regards
I appreciate your hardwork .
Obviously it will help a lot people to handle financial situation.
A lot of newcomers are always in search of advising material. And I think your opinion and experience has the capability to educate people.
Keep up the good work.
Just give me a call here, I will be always here to support you.
I will do what I can.
Thank you my friend!
You are welcome .
We need to help people in Venezuela. Please be sensible and watch what is unfortunately happening to the people of that country. Please see this post and an upvote on it or listen to what I did if you can.
https://steemit.com/life/@pxmcd/help-me-to-reach-my-money-goal-of-200usd-to-make-my-plans-come-true-ayudame-a-alcanzar-mi-meta-de-200usd . @pxmcd @onestring
You are so sweet, thank you so much! :(( I just read your post and i'm taking notes haha!!! You are always gonna be successful because you are humble and a great person. So happy that still exist people like you<3
Espero que usted pueda tener una vida mejor de aquí en adelante
the truth I hope that everything goes well and since I am from venezuela also the situation that we are all living, I wish you good luck and success!
I gave some love to her post. :)
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Hi @ chbartist
I always follow all your posts. And with every article you posts have something new to know.
Your life is full of up's & down's. And you learnt from your mistakes.
And the important point is you respect money. Weather if it is 1$ or 1000K$.
And from your own life experience only I thing you always ask everyone to help each other. Because at the time when you were struggling no one around you to help.
That is the reason we can see on your posts each and every STEEMIT member upvotes each other’s. And look at you as an ICON.
Thanks for sharing your life experience with us.
Thanks.
Thank you for your kind words and I'm glad you can learn something based on my journey. Regards
It is very unfortunate so hear that somebody scammed you. There are plenty of dishonest people in the world and some are very difficult to spot, especially if they have been scamming a very long time. As a professional economist I have met many insincere people. I find anomalies in behaviour to be the biggest giveaway. I am glad your unfortunate experience has made you more vigilant. We can learn so much from our failures if we open our minds.
I have seen your YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Instagram. You are a very talented musician and singer. When will you perform your music for Steem?
We have DSound and DTube. I am sure your many followers are very eager to see and hear you perform. Music and song can often be more inspiring than just words. considering the low price of Steem, many people here need a lift . Will you soon honour us with a song?
Hi my my friend, thank you for your nice words, It's true we always learn from mistakes when we do not have a mentor. It would make my journey easier if I had one around. You will see further in my publications that I fell again and had to re-establish myself for the second time. But that was the last one because I became an expert in detecting dishonest people. As for your comment of my music thank you very much and yes soon I will make some videos about my gear because many people ask me what gear I use, about my instruments among other things. Have an excellent day!
That's cool ... I have not heard your music yet, so I'll be waiting. :)
I've learnt something from here. Easy money doesnt come easy. If it comes easy, then there's a big possibility that we will waste it. Hard earnd money are used wisely!
Am glad you've learnt from your experience. At least you wont do the same mistake twice.
Thank you for your comment. But believe us that we often err in order to attain wisdom. Believe me, it takes some time to learn and the lightning can go down 2 times in the same place but this I'll write in other posts. Have a nice week
Yea, you are right. It takes some time to learn but nowadays so many people dont want to go through that hastle. They just wanna get things done within a twinkle of an eye which is not possible.
Hello! I am a 28-year-old girl, I have failed twice on my path. And the most painful of all is my friends, are the people I trust and try to share everything with them. But I will not embrace that pain, but I use it as a motivation to change my life better.
Thank you for your article. Wish you have a good week.
Hi, don't worry about having failed on your journey, this is part of life learning but be aware because there are many pitfalls in our path when we try to be successful. Regards
Thank you for your advice
Hi chbartist, I really enjoyed your article. It’s so true every single thing you told; when we were young we took bad decisions, and sometimes we hit to that stone over and over again.
I liked how you solved the problem.
Will, technology is a field constantly in change. And you have to be very update.
I really enjoyed the article. I’m going to vote you, and follow you as well as you follow me.
Great article
Many thanks for your kind comment. Let's move on!
@chbartist as usual you wrote a great motivational article really I appreciate your efforts. You are doing such a great job to support people who lie down there weapon against the Battle of life. You are doing great to encourage people to do there jobs and achieve there targets.
Everytime you choose awesome topics for the blogs. Today's article about maintaining cash flow and have to sty positive really great topics
I'm not writing much more just want to say a single line
Life is a roller coaster we have to take advantage and Joy in every ride.
@ajsharma333
Exactly my friend! Have a great week!