Learning lessons, early failures make for future successes

Learning Lesson: Don't start something without tracking it from the get go.

Take this blog for instance. I started it with the greatest of intentions. So great that I thought that the momentous occasion of WorldView Blog's inception would be enough for me to remember the pass codes and user IDs associated with it.

But business demands immediately pulled me away from this side-venture long enough that by the time I had time to insert the magic keys to re-entrance - not one combination of the hundreds I tried worked.

I admit it (which is totally in my skill set to do): I screwed up. I took for granted my ability to recall my whole life's craziest details only to realize that: 1) all the numbers I can think of, 2) all the capital and lowercase combinations I might decide, 3) coupled with the names of all the animals I've ever raised IN MY LIFE - add up to a limitless list of possibilities of passcodes even to the inside guesser...Not to mention the plethora of email addresses I've been stockpiling over the years.

Short story: Mission Impossible.

Thank goodness I can hack into Google help - you try it...it's truly a backdoor job to try to get "people help." But true to my form, I figured out how to get in far enough to gain a live assistant who in minutes found my keys and gave them back to me.

Lesson Learned: Failing Now Paves the Path for Future Success.

And it's true. I know I will be much more relentless, and logical, in my documentation especially in areas that aren't yet habit/areas that don't fully make sense-yet.

A new online account like this blog is a fine example. But for practical business purposes, how about those crazy calls we get that seem not to fit now, but we find ourselves searching down later? The company whose grills doubles as a cooler? Or some mom who left a message last winter about her son - some guy named Juan Martin del Potro...