Thoughts on "early testing times" when attempting to find your way in worklife.

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When planning won't help.

I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo. Live.

I was having a talk today with my friend Patrick and we were he was discussing some things going on in his life and discussing. And he had mentioned that a lot of the strategies and planning and this type of thing we talk about here on this show doesn't really apply.

It's funny, I haven't talked about it for a while but I can get really bogged down in the details when it comes to the conversations we have here and how to go about getting what you want, planning things and everything else.

In reality, I'm a very unorganized person.

And I have gotten slowly started to get good at the things that I've always been worse at, if that makes any sense.

In fact, a whole lot of my business direction has been in the areas that I was horrible at to begin with. Those tended to be the areas that I wanted to learn more about. Because I was drawn to those areas, including the areas of marketing, areas of just the ideas of business structure, and business strategy, and planning, and all that stuff.

These are all areas that are not natural to me and, in fact, earlier today, I was watching a talk by some gentlemen that are real pros at Search Engine Optimization.

I remember, I actually started out in my own business, in the area of search engine optimization that was really the beginning of this tour that took me into marketing, you could watch one of my videos, or podcasts out there about the five excruciating Steps to Becoming a Business Strategist.

And that was before I was referring to myself even as an investor.

So this was this long journey, and I could have easily stuck with…not easily, I could have stuck with search engine optimization. But I was drawn in a different direction in a more broader direction and the specificity of that while I understand it, I never stuck with it. Really got to the details deeper than where I currently was at where I was at that time.

So I moved on, and got more and more involved in the areas that were not natural to me.

Because of that I ended up in this area of investing that I never thought I'd ever end up in. But it's been this, it's been this very unique flow.

I'm at a point now, where I, I finally, finally, to be perfectly honest, finally I am I understand more about what I'm doing and where I'm going than ever before.

Now, there will always be surprises. No doubt next year, I'm going to be in a totally different place than I can ever imagine myself right now.

But it took a whole lot of experimenting and trying things in different directions and thinking, well, maybe I'll go this way.

And maybe I'll go that way and trying things out and experimenting really fast, but not really long in any particular area.

When you don't focus long in any particular area, you don't necessarily have successes that everyone else sees.

In my mind, even the failures are success and that's tough because everyone else sees it as failures.

I don't see myself as being a failure up until now. But I see, I see a little success here and a little success there.

Then I see this point in my life where all these different things are inter intermingling and coming together and pointing a...