if you can focus more on helping other people, okay, and your mission, then yourself,

you'll find fulfillment. Okay, life becomes a lot simpler, not easier, but simpler.

See, when I say mission driven, I'm driven by my son, my wife, and our team. It's really not

about me anymore. It's about them. And so the only way that I can see and serve them at a high

level is if I do build my own character

daily.

It's not about what we do.

It's who we become.

According to the Mental Health Institute, 62% of business owners feel depressed at least

once a week.

So why is that?

Well, that's what I'm going to attempt to answer in this episode.

All right. To be candid, I'm sharing this because this week I fell myself into a familiar cycle of

sort of anxiety and depression. Last month, January, 2024, we had our second highest

revenue month in business. And then as we get 10, 11 days into February, it's now February 14th,

earlier this week, we were on pace to have a

really bad month. And we had some, you know, problems we're trying to work through. Front end sales

were really down, which, you know, when you have $450,000 in overhead, it can create a lot of

stress and anxiety. You wake up, you know, for me, I was waking up at 2 a.m. with these fleeting, racing thoughts, like, and just unable to fall back asleep, right?

Like, what's going to happen if we can't make payroll? What's going to happen if this all fails and

this crumbles and I'm going to be a failure? And oh my gosh, I don't know if I can take this.

You know, it's like, I've share with you today how you can actually overcome

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