I'm going to share a really vulnerable story with you today because I've shared this story

with a few people close to me, other entrepreneurs that expressed that when I shared this

with them, it helped them get through a tough time a lot faster. And if you go down the

entrepreneurial path, you're going to have really hard times. You're going to have times when

you want to quit. You'll have times when you doubt yourself and times you feel like a failure.

And I'm not immune to those. I don't think any entrepreneur is immune to those. And I hope that

by me sharing the story with you, that it allows you to let go of some junk that we have

that held me back a lot longer than I wish it had. And the story goes back a few years ago when I went through a really hard time.

I went through a hard time where a few business projects didn't work out. I lost a few million

dollars, which hurts, by the way. And I started to doubt myself.

And I started to wonder if my successes were lucky breaks.

I started to wonder if maybe I wasn't that good at being an entrepreneur.

And I wondered if my best days as an entrepreneur were behind me. And as a result of going through that

time, I would just call it like a losing record for a while, a slump, if you will, that lasted

about 18 months. I started to doubt all of the projects and all the opportunities that were coming my way. I didn't

realize that my mind was stuck in a negative place until I was driving around the city of Austin

with one of my new team members. And we were driving around the city for about 30 minutes. And

during this mini tour of Austin,

I was sharing with him just some things I observed in the city. I said things like, oh, this is

an office building that I tried to buy a couple years ago. I really wish that I had bought that,

but I got cold feet at the last minute.

And then over here, here's a house that I sold. I wish I had never sold that house.

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