Lessons from 10 years online

I started an online business in 2017, well really 2014. 

It was a total accident. 

I was looking for community, connection, education and understanding. 

My family was facing a health situation and I needed to make sense of the situation. 

So I began a Facebook page, then a blog and then an online business as I sought to find my way along the journey and share everything I learned with others. 

Over the years my business changed and morphed, growing with me as I grew and my life changed. 

I loved the connection, the platform to reach people. I reconnected with the joy I had always felt when speaking, writing, teaching and learning. 

This week I close the chapter.  

I wrap up my online business as I focus on other projects. 

With me I am taking so many lessons from the last 10 or so years. 

And then there’s the lessons that have come full circle in the last few months as I began new projects and created space through less time online. 

Let me share my top 3. 

Lesson 1 

Every skill you learn goes with you into the next project. Sometimes the learning is more important than the completion.  

Lesson 2 

Never underestimate the power of connection with people. Online is great, in person even better, I think. Either way, humans are born with an innate need to connect with others. 

Lesson 3 

In the words of Alexander Graham Bell 

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.  

Here’s to the doors opening.