Tonight I'm feel like a total failure, I've come to terms tonight that it toom me 5 years to get my 1st collection out there. How ****ing pathetic is that?? 5 years!! Like, omg.
Is there anything you guys can say to make me feel better about this?
I would say congratulations that you had the persistance to stick to your goal and get it done. That takes alot of dedication and you should be proud that you didnt give up and succeeded where others might not have. I dont see why you should feel like a failure when you actually finished what you started.
Well, I been gathering equipment, knowledge and experience for sometime already, and still I haven't launched it yet.
I started on December 12 2006 with this idea.
My wife started thinking this is just another of my hobbies.
as long as you don't give up... you're not a failure... When you do make it... you will look back at your first few years and laugh about all the things you wen't through to get to where you are now...
I really don't know why you'd get down on yourself for taking 5 years. I wish I had taken more time before I got going.
When you say that it took you 5 years, it makes me think right away that you've put in the time and effort to really flesh out your plan before just jumping into it. Also that your product,website,ad campaigns and anything else that you do will have the same level of care and attention to detail as this first collection of yours.
What I would have rather done was while I was in high school, train on how to put my line out, then my 1st year out put out my intro line, which would have had a few pieces from a few collections, then for the next 4 years put out 5 complete, full lines.
INSTEAD
I took my sweet **** time, and wasited a good portion of my life.
Like a herion addict waking up and realizing, wow I wasited my life.
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Originally Posted by Randall
Wouldn't you rather spend 5 years to launch your line, then never doing it and regretting that later?
I think sometimes it can be somewhat discouraging to think that if you are taking too long to launch, and it's easier to be negative. I can attest to the fact of how frustrating it can be, when you get in a rut, or you don't have any capital to work with. We didn't have great personal credit, and that transferred into not having great business credit, so it was EXTREMELY difficult to get things rolling. We stuck with it and pulled money from our savings, as well as sacrificed being away from our loved ones to work in far away places to earn money to fund our business. My husband went up to Alaska to work 6-8 weeks at a time with only a week at a time home to earn money for our business. It's important to live a dream. Our business started out as a hobby, but then it quickly became a fantastic reality that we could possibly make a lot of money. I've always had the idea, that I will NEVER make the kind of money that I want, working for someone else. Stick it out...and congratulations on making it so far!!!
What I would have rather done was while I was in high school, train on how to put my line out, then my 1st year out put out my intro line, which would have had a few pieces from a few collections, then for the next 4 years put out 5 complete, full lines.
INSTEAD
I took my sweet **** time, and wasited a good portion of my life.
Like a herion addict waking up and realizing, wow I wasited my life.
Ok, Cody time to man up and move on my friend. So you didn't do it right the first time. So what. Do it right this time. You've got a great place to learn everything you need to know about the business, and the places to go, things to do in order to be successful.
So dry your cheeks off, pick yourself back up and start getting the answers you need to succeed now, instead of worrying about what you've accomplished or haven't to this point.
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Hard labor kills, make t-shirts instead.
I am impressed that you are still into it!
What it takes to make it in any business is desire, fortitude, and vast interest in what you are doing.
You have shown us all that, I hope that in 5 years I will still be interested and carrying on the message I am trying to convey. I am in month 6 1/2 and still have not launched.
Also look at "Life Is Good" they said it took them years to come up with their lil stick man. And now what are they doing like 150 million a year or something crazy?
So good luck, keep at it. Good things always come to hard workers.
And remember it is the journey that matters most not the end.
how many years before you launched? 
