Love being successful is hard, but to stay successful is super, super hard.

Matter of fact, just recently I finished the book by Jim Collins,

not good to create a different one that I want to share with everybody.

I think everybody in today's economy has to read this book.

He doesn't talk about the keys to success.

He talks about the five stages that entrepreneurs, business owners,

CEOs go through that eventually causes them to go out of business,

and we're going to talk about that today.

We're about to go out of business.

I'm panicking.

This is how much money I've got in savings.

My employees are complaining about this.

I'm going through that whether it's real estate,

it doesn't matter many different industries that they're calling me,

but the book explains five stages.

Let me share with you what prompted us to want to make this video.

So many business people today that we're consulting or calling us,

talking about Pat, I think we're done.

I don't think we can do anything else right now to save our business.

And I'm telling you right now, 90% of people who say that,

you're not done yet.

Stage number five, for some of you that are there, you are done.

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