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Gloria Lybecker posted an update
Try something different
I still remember one night staring at my screen that looked a lot like this.
I’d poured weeks of energy into a new offer—emails written, graphics designed, all the pieces carefully lined up. I hit “publish” with my heart in my throat… and almost nothing happened. No flood of registrations. No excited replies. Just silence.
My first impulse was the old pattern: “You messed up. Clearly you’re not cut out for this.”
I felt that familiar tightness in my chest, the urge to delete everything and hide.Instead, I tried something different.
I softened my shoulders, placed a hand on my heart, and took a few slow breaths. Then I asked myself, “Okay now, what can we learn from this? What’s one thing we can try in a different way?”
I reread my emails with fresh eyes. I realized I hadn’t actually told people “why” this work mattered to me or how it could change their lives. I’d written from my head, not my heart. So I revised the copy, shared more of my story, and reached out personally to a few people I knew would benefit.
The second try didn’t “explode,” but it did something better: the right people showed up. The conversations were deeper. The impact was real. And I started to see “mistakes” not as proof that I’d failed, but as feedback—an invitation to refine, realign, and try again.
If you’re sitting in front of a glowing screen tonight wondering if you’ve blown your chance, you haven’t.
Pause. Breathe. Be kind to yourself. Then ask:What’s one thing I can adjust and try in a different way?
You’re not starting over from scratch—you’re starting again with experience.
