S1E43 If I Could Do It Over Again.... 6 Regrets I Have From Our Homestead Journey
Channel: The Homestead Journey
Date: 2020-08-27

When it comes to our homestead journey, I don’t have a lot of regrets.  That’s not to say that things have always been easy or have gone according to plan.  That’s certainly not the case.  There have been a lot of failures along the way.  Or, actually, I like to look at them as Thomas Edison did when he was accused of failing 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb.  He said, “No, I didn’t fail.  I just learned 10,000 ways it doesn’t work.” 

If you haven’t gathered this by now, that is really how I approach homesteading in general.  It is all a big experiment.  What works for others may not work for me.  And what works for me may not work for others. Generally speaking, whether in homesteading or life in general, I look at failures as learning opportunities.  What can I take away from this so I don’t make the same mistake in the future?  For me, generally it’s not a matter of, “I wish I could go back and do things differently….”  Those flaws, those mistakes, those things that haven’t gone according to plan are what have made me who I am today and are building blocks for the future.

But, there are a handful of things that come to my mind that I really do wish I could go back and do over.  They are lessons I’ve learned, but there’s really not much I can do with those lessons other than share them with other people in the hopes that they won’t make the same mistakes that I have.  And so I share with you 6 of my biggest regrets so far in our homesteading journey.
 
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Brian
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