{"id":8498,"date":"2011-04-01T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T17:10:17","slug":"wish-me-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-strategy\/wish-me-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish me luck&#8230; (I&#8217;m not kidding)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After putting it off for months, I head in for surgery on my ACL, tomorrow, Saturday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.<\/p>\n<p>I actually tore my ACL back in January but being the stubborn person that I am, I kept skiing until now.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s true, if you\u2019re bull-headed enough, no matter how bad the pain is you can keep going, like I did.<\/p>\n<p>But is that a good idea?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8503\" title=\"SmallBusinessMarketingStrategy55\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SmallBusinessMarketingStrategy55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SmallBusinessMarketingStrategy55.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SmallBusinessMarketingStrategy55-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Now I\u2019m not going to say skiing 27 days with a torn ACL was the smartest thing to do. Actually the truth is I didn\u2019t go to the doctor after I injured my leg because I didn\u2019t even want to know how bad it was. Instead I waited until the end of ski season to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m sure you\u2019d never do anything as silly as that.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s exactly what I see entrepreneurs and business owners doing all the time. Toughing it out with a broken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-strategy\/how-to-profit-from-the-recession-small-business-marketing-tips\/\">marketing strategy<\/a>, one that is crippling their business.<\/p>\n<p>You may be saying to yourself, \u201cCharlie you\u2019re one to talk!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019re right but, it took me three months to admit that I needed surgery but at least I finally faced up to the fact that it wasn\u2019t \u201cjust a flesh wound\u201d as Monty Python would say but it was keeping me from living my life and I\u2019m headed in for surgery.<\/p>\n<p>So wish me luck.<br \/>\nCharlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After putting it off for months, I head in for surgery on my ACL, tomorrow, Saturday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. I actually tore my ACL back in January but being the stubborn person that I am, I kept skiing until now. And it\u2019s true, if you\u2019re bull-headed enough, no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}