Of Course There Isn't Enough Money

Some days the growth feels like all spending and no return. I had one of those days this week, and it was set off by nothing dramatic. The guys at the machine shop asked me to buy another machine, and I went and looked at the cash flow, and it did not feel good.This episode is what I needed to hear, so I recorded it. The premise is simple. There is no success story where everything went smoothly. Not one. The discomfort you are trying to get rid of is the actual process, not a sign you did something wrong.I tell three stories to prove it. A man who failed for 65 years before anyone bought his chicken. A cartoonist who went bankrupt at 21, had a nervous breakdown at 29, mortgaged his house at 35, and opened a theme park so disastrous the press called it Black Sunday. And a broke single mother on government benefits who got rejected by twelve publishers, then got rejected again twenty years later under a fake name by a publisher who suggested she take a writing course.If you are in the uncomfortable middle of something right now, this one is for you.Mentioned in this episode: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.