I’d Be a Millionaire If I Did This 5 Years Ago

My broken dreams can be your money machine.

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I missed my millionaire moment, but you can avoid my mistake.

Five years ago (or so), I decided to go all in on my blogging dreams, quit my full-time job, and start writing for a living. It took me 3 to 6 months to find my groove, but I did it.

It’s one of the proudest periods of my life — and the most terrifying.

But then I made a disastrous mistake.

My Very Bad Decision Cost Me a Million Dollars

That’s a weird and sad sentence to write.

It’s an even harder truth to swallow. But it’s almost certainly true. Maybe it’s a million, or maybe it’s a quarter of a million or more. That’s parsing money neither of us probably has right now.

The point is that I’d have made a ton more money if it wasn’t for a reasonable and safe decision that turned out to be a massive mistake. Five years ago, I started not only one website but several. One became two sites that became three, four, five.

I’ve probably started seven sites in total, most of which I sold this year.

Back then, diversifying my risk and starting these “seed” websites that could…