Welcome to the Art of Online Business Podcast. My name is Rick Mulready, and I'm an online

business coach, Facebook and Instagram ads expert, lifestyle entrepreneur, and I'm a total

coffee snob as well. Each week, you're going to learn actionable strategies,

mindsets, and tips that take the guesswork out of growing and scaling a profitable online business so that you can truly become an entrepreneur with impact. This podcast

is your secret weapon for fast-tracking the growth of your online business. Let's do this.

What is up, my friend? Welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in today for

another quick tip episode here on the show. This is where I'm going to share a quick tip

with you that is a tip or a strategy that can help you grow your online business

so that you can have a bigger impact in your business and as a result, increase your revenue.

Today is August 14th when this episode comes out anyway, whenever you're listening to this.

Maybe it's like September 27th, 2021 or whatever. But today, as this episode comes out,

it's August 14th. And next week is the 23 year anniversary of my dad's passing. He died at 55

years old from colon cancer, super, super young. And there isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss him

and have conversations with him. And he was the closest person to me ever. But anyway, one thing

that he that has stuck in my brain, my entire life, and not necessarily in a good way,

I'll say, he always used to tell me to lighten up. I took

things very seriously growing up. And he always said lighten up, Rick, lighten up. And also used to

tell me in his, you know, in his dad, father, son conversations, he'd say, remember, this is all a game.

It's all a game. Again, this kind of goes into the whole aligns with the whole lighten up thing. Have more fun, right? It's all a game. Again, this kind of goes into the whole aligns with the whole lighten up

thing. Have more fun, right? It's all a game. And business, and I've been in business now,

I started officially January of 2014. And here we are in August of 2020. So a little over six

and a half years now that for the first few years, and I've talked about it quite a bit here in the show, I didn't have a whole lot of fun in the business. It was really hard to me emotionally, physically, mentally affected my relationships, a lot of anxiety, stress, depression. We got really dark in 2015, which I've talked about here in the show.

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