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Betrayal, it can hit you like a load of bricks falling from sky, leaving you with a pit in your stomach that no pill can cure.
Starting your own business is hard enough, however when your inside people are working against you as well, it can make toughest of souls weak at knees.
Let me take you back a few years, and share a little story with you.
There I was, a fledgling in corporate world, I had just quit my (steady) job and sold everything I had to venture out into entrepreneur life, when “it never could happen to me” happened.
My closest friend and business partner wiped out our bank account balance, leaving me with debt up to my eyeballs, and a lesson to be learned.
I come from one of those attitudes that believe that everything happens for a reason, so what could this reason be, I pondered?
It was tough; let me tell you - faced with biggest crossroad of my life.
A failing business with no cash to save me, a close friend’s betrayal, and two roads leading into separate directions.
One, go after person who did me wrong, obviously having a slam dunk case and would win in any court. Or two, use that same precious time and energy to focus in a more positive manner on rebuilding what I once had, and learn from experience, if nothing else, what I would never tolerate again.
What would you do?
For myself, I chose second of two, knowing darned well, that by wasting my thoughts and energy on ways to get back at this person, and how I could make them suffer as I, there would be little left to focus on what really mattered most:
-- > Creating business model and dream that I had began in first place.
What made me take this route, you ask?
There is an old saying that goes ‘many receive good advice, yet few actually profit from it.‘
Since I chose to succeed, I went back and listened to all my old motivational tapes, thumbed through books, and messages, got my focus back and quickly realized that we are all dealt obstacles in this world.
I mean, there will always be stumbling blocks in our lives, that’s just part of life itself.
It’s our “Attitude” toward these events that show world who we are as a person.
For, it’s been said: we learn more about someone on one bad day, than on all their good days put together.
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to always have drama in their lives, while others simply go with flow? Or why one group of people are happy and content most time, while some seem to only attract anger and chaos into their lives?
