In 2016 I was staring at a stack of loan documents that would change my life forever.
I was 29 years old and about to sign the biggest loan of my life: $500,000 to buy my first franchise.
The numbers made sense on paper.
The monthly payment was $5,000, and the businesses generated ~$17,000 monthly cash flow.
But all I could think about was the weight of the debt.
If the business had failed, it would have bankrupted my family.
The hardest part isn’t getting approved for the loan. It’s not even making the payments.
The hardest part is trusting that you can handle whatever comes next.
Because something always comes next.
People quit. Equipment breaks. Vendors raise prices. A hurricane rips off a corner of your roof, shutting you down for 2 weeks.
Owning a business means you volunteer to get punched in the face — sometimes daily.
It’s not about avoiding getting hit.
It’s about how you respond.
It’s about doing whatever it takes.
It’s about staying positive no matter what.
I’m positive to a fault but I don’t care. I believe everything happens for a reason and I’ve never been wrong — everything always works out.
That first loan became the seed to a $45M+ per year business I own today.
But none of that would have happened if I hadn’t picked up that pen.
There is no greater investment than your own business.
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Cheers!
Brian