All right, welcome to today's episode of The Art of Online Business Podcast.

I'm Rick Mulready.

Happy New Year.

This is the first episode of 2023.

Hope your holidays were awesome.

And I wanted to dive into the show here in the new year with a type of episode that I've done the past few

years and they're always really successful episodes throughout the year. And so, and that is kind of

sharing my thoughts on the upcoming year. I'm not into doing forecasts or predictions or anything

like that. Nothing against people who do. I'm just like, it's so hard to predict anything that's going to happen,

especially what we've seen over the past few years.

And so what I'd rather do and what I'm going to do today is kind of share with you

my thoughts about what I'm seeing in the online space and then also what I see as a matter of working with, you know, 30 different

types of online entrepreneurs in my accelerator coaching program. I have a, you know, I have

access to a lot of different types of businesses and a lot of different types of strategies and

mindsets and all that. in addition to, you know,

my own nine years of success in running an online business. And so I want to share with you

nine thoughts. That's actually 10 because I have a bonus one for you. And I want to start

right out with that bonus one. And this is sort of like, if you don't have this in place, it's going to be very,

very hard to be successful in your business. Or you'll get there, but it's going to take a lot of

time. And I'm saying this from experience. So, and what this is is trusting yourself. Here's what I mean by that.

Years ago, I used to have this, I used to come up with ideas, you know, to do in the business or,

you know, maybe doing something in the business already. And I was like, oh, maybe I tried this.

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