The challenges that you're facing now, the disasters, the chaos, the storms are simply building you up to be able to face the bigger ones down the road because there will be bigger ones.

Seneca once said, we suffer more in our imagination than we do in reality.

And that's going to be the point of this entire episode is to explain how to become a more stable, less emotionally active business owner, but more specifically,

how to discern between just worrying about problems versus intentionally trying to fix problems.

Our brains are more powerful than we can even possibly imagine. All right, we have quite literally

the ability to control our environment with our thoughts. And the problem is when things go wrong

in business,

a lot of times we start to worry to the point

where we create a worse situation than which existed in the first place.

And a phrase that I come back to that I love,

it's like worrying is like a rocking chair.

It makes us feel like we're doing something,

but the reality is we're not actually going anywhere, right?

And I'm recording this because to be transparent

Friday morning I woke up to news that our ad account was hacked all right so for those who

aren't familiar uh we advertise on Facebook and Instagram and it's a big part of our business

it's where we get the majority of our leads uh and we spend roughly $5,000 a day um somewhere around $70,000 to $100,000 a month.

And that's the foundation to which we run this multimillion dollar business in terms of client

acquisition or leads.

We woke up to news that our ad account was hacked and they'd spent tens of thousands of

dollars basically selling like orthopedic snow shoes for like hospital patients, elderly,

and pregnant women. So basically we got

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