Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, I'm your host, today on the show I'm going to share with you

one of the biggest financial mistakes that I have made as part of this overall series.

I've got over half a dozen on my personal notes, I'm not sure that I'll share with them,

you all of them, but I will choose some of them to share with you and today I want to

share one that's just simply timely because it actually came from a recent listener, and the

mistake is simply this, one of the biggest financial mistakes that I have made is not selling

aggressively enough, not aggressively selling and marketing, myself, my products and services,

others products and services, and the impetus for today's show came, I was recently communicating

with a listener of the show and he was saying, Joshua, one of the things I really appreciate about

you is that you have been successful without engaging in heavy marketing, you haven't ever

given yourself over to a lot of marketing, and I really appreciate that.

And I responded back and I said, well, I thank you that you appreciate it, but I considered

that one of the biggest mistakes, and it's a mistake that I regret making, and it's a mistake

that I don't intend to make in the future. And while that made surprise you, I want to share with

you because if that one listener thinks that perhaps you yourself might think that this is the

case, and I do not think that the way that I have done things is the way that I should have done

things, and I do not intend that the way that I have done things in the past is the way that I will

do things in the future. So let me share with you some background, some background ideas,

and let me share with you some analysis on this subject, on the topic of selling aggressively,

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