Do you remember the TV show from the 1970s called the good life?
This was a TV show about a couple who lived in the suburbs of London who decided to become completely self-sufficient.
They quit their jobs and decided to grow all their own food…
This seemed like a completely crackpot thing to do back in the 70s!
However these days it doesn’t seem so strange…
I remember the TV show from reruns in the 1980s…
And I must admit I’ve always liked the idea of being self-sufficient…
Not just growing food but being in control of your own income…
I guess that’s why I’ve always run my own businesses…
And that’s the thing that really drew me to Internet marketing when I first heard about it back in 2008…
One of the things I love about living here in France is growing my own food…
Dave and I are still pretty new at this…
We experiment with all sorts of things….
Some things are great successes other things are total failures…
But it’s all a learning experience….
For instance this year we’ve had an amazing crop of onions…
There are huge!
In fact there much bigger than the onions you can get in the supermarket here in France…
However our potatoes have all come out rather small…
And the cabbages we’ve planted have been eaten by caterpillars!
But it’s all a learning experience…
It’s an amazing rush when you harvest and eat your own vegetables…
I get just the same kind of rush when I make money online…
So what have I been doing this summer…
This year I’ve decided to install a completely off grid solar power system…
I decided I didn’t want to just get some company into install it…
I wanted to build out the entire system myself…
That way if anything ever goes wrong with it I can repair it myself…
After all you don’t get a company in to plant your vegetables and harvest them…
It’s much better to learn these things for yourself….
I’m even building the batteries myself!
I’ve decided to document the entire process of building my solar system on YouTube…
I’ve just started uploading the videos to my new YouTube channel…
If you’re interested you’re welcome to follow my progress on YouTube…
Please bear in mind I’m not a solar power expert, I’m learning along the way….
You’ll see my successes as well as my failures….
Click here to check out the YouTube channel 🙂
I think a lot of people are scared of failure….
But for me….
When something doesn’t work….
Yes it can be frustrating….
But it’s an amazing learning experience…
If I struggle to get something working for days or weeks….
It’s an incredible rush when I finally get it working…..
Exactly the same is true with Internet marketing…
I think a lot of people fall at the first hurdle…
As the Americans say, keep on trucking ….
Don’t give up….
Remember failure leads to success …
I’ve got to go now because I’m in the middle of top balancing one of my new solar batteries!
I’m also halfway through creating a video documenting this process ….
Have a great week whatever you’re doing,
from a very rainy and wet France.
Sarah Staar