Love your haters. Everyone has people who don't like them. It doesn't matter what your station

in life is, but you can't let the haters stop you. Instead, embrace what they say and use it as fuel.

The best way to show the haters not to hate is to stay in your lane and succeed. When you win,

they'll question their views.

They might even join your team.

Don't get caught up in the negativity.

Focus on your own success and teach everyone around you to do the same.

In Chapter 4, I told you when Kevin and I started Power Home Solar,

we had plans to have our former partners at

Power Home Technologies, Ben and Eric, join us. But we had a fallen out. Our deal didn't go through.

They did not believe in solar. We don't want anything to do with solar, Ben said. We're going to stay

with home security, have fun. The falling out

happened at the end of 2014. Then, in February 2015, we were all supposed to attend a

trade show event in Mexico called MoniX. It's an annual gathering for the top alarm dealers that have

broken sales records. It's paid for by Monotronics, which is a national security company

that provides top-rated monitoring services and installations. The four of us had been in their

dealer program before the split. We don't need to go to that, Kevin said. No, we won the trip. We

should go, I told them. I called Monotronics, and we got the okay because we were

part of a home security company when we won, even though we moved on to solar. But we were torn.

Everyone there would still be in home security. We chose to go, but we felt insecure because we were

on our way out of the business. Everyone else there ran

alarm companies, and we had a brand new solar company with five employees and no history or

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