So what do you do when the thing that you poured your heart and soul into in your business and created and attempted to sell?

It's just not working out and it just sucks and you're trying all the things. Well, I'm just going to share with you two circumstances where that happened in my business and in my life and this is going to be one of these more personal episodes where you get to know me a little bit

and guess what the name of this podcast is the art of online business and it is an art there's this

ancient book that has this wisdom in it let me read this to you i returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,

nor the battle to the strong, nor bred to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favor

to men of skill. But, and here's something we all know, time and chance, happen to them all.

If you don't know, that came from the Bible, because I'm a Christian.

And here it is in regular English that makes even more sense to me.

The fastest runners and the greatest heroes don't always win races and battles.

Wisdom, intelligence, and skill don't always make you healthy, rich, or popular.

And knowing all of the online business strategies, this is my own paraphrasing, and having listened

to the Pat Flins and the Amy Porterfields and the Rick Mull Reddies and the James

Wedmore's and the Laura Higgins. Shout out to you, Laura.

It would be cool to clap with you on the podcast pretty soon. And the Stu McLareids doesn't always

help your business. As in the strategies that they say don't always work for your business. Can I

hear it? Amen. All right. So we each have our share of bad luck.

And so like, what do you do when your offer doesn't work out?

So two stories.

This is what I did.

So I was in China, and I had a business teaching Chinese, and I loved that business.

Like, with my heart and soul, it was like, quote unquote, what I believe I was meant

to do. Like, it was just ultra-fulfilling to help people learn Mandarin Chinese. And since I lived in

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