All right, welcome to today's episode of the Art of Online Business podcast, my friend

Rick Mulready here.

Today, I want to share with you my biggest lessons and takeaways of this year,

of 2022.

And I've had not a ton of them, but some big ones. And I want to share what those

are in today's episode. And then what I'm going to do in the next episode is share with you

what I'm going to be doing instead in 2023 and what my plans are as a result of these lessons and takeaways that I've

learned here in 2022. Now, I wasn't planning on doing this, but I want to start off this episode

with some lessons based on some, a little life update for you. So I'm recording this episode on Friday, December 16th.

And my vacation was supposed to start yesterday.

And I'm off for three weeks.

I took the last couple weeks off of the month, as most people are,

and then the first week of January off.

I am working today because on January off. I am working today

because on Tuesday morning, I was awoken at 440 in the morning. By the way, this is a little bit

of a trigger warning. I'm going to be talking about physical pain here in just a second. So if you

don't want to hear that, skip forward a couple of minutes here. But there are some lessons here that I want to share.

4.40 in the morning, I wake up from this excruciating physical pain in my right

abdomen. And I'm like, what is going on? I'm like, never felt this before. And so I'm trying

to figure out what's going on. And like, oh, is I have an upset stomach or whatever. And eventually I start, I'm trying to figure out what's going on and like, I have an upset stomach or whatever.

And eventually I start, I start vomiting.

And I'm like, something is not right.

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