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So I sat down last night to write my 400 words on my marketing tragedy. It allowed me to really site down and reflect on the last two years of my life… and a bit of 2008. I often find that I don’t site down and reflect on the past enough. I’m always just looking to move forward and forge ahead to the next goal in life. However, with the rain coming down last night in the background… I just thought about what has been. This lead me to really think about what I learned in the last few years and how that applied to my marketing tragedy:

Mind you, I’m getting ahead of myself and should mention my first lesson of 2006. I’m freelancing because you can’t escape office politics. I tried to avoid it but the one person who didn’t like me became my boss and fried me. It was a hard blow to my confidence and made me question myself for weeks to come. However, it taught me a valuable lesson. You need to stand up for what you believe in, even if you are the only one. Anyways,…

This is only a small part of what I learned in those three months in 2006. The lessons learned would stay with me and form part of my manifesto when it comes to freelancing and running Creative Traction. Even this past weekend, I remember one of those lessons and past on a potential project because it conflicted with what I believe in.