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Just wanted to share a recent experience that hopefully will give some of you encouragement.

I recently came to a point in my business that was pretty low.  I was contemplating throwing in the towel and just going back to being a 9-5`er again.  Things weren`t picking up, sales were way down from last year, and to top it off, my spouse was being extremely discouraging as usual.

I felt as though I had gave it my best effort, and that maybe I just wasn`t ready for my own business yet.  I owed creditors money, hadn`t been able to pay my gas cards for months, and I owed one of my suppliers thousands.

I felt like all I had done was bury myself in debt and create stress on my family instead of give them a brighter future.

Well, I continued on.  I kept up my grassroots marketing efforts (mailers, doorhangers) and tried to stay positive in my negative environment and circumstances.  Then I got a call from a referral source...one who gave me my largest job last year.

I visited the home of the referral and got some design concepts together, and then I made the best design I`ve done yet...and the largest.

It wound up taking me 6 weeks to finally pitch my design and estimate to the homeowner.  I just was not going to give up on this one.  He was a very busy guy, so he was often out of town.  Finally, I sent a really nice info pack with pictures of my work to him and his wife.

I got the meeting a few days later... and I sold the largest job to date.  In fact, it was 3 times larger than my previous record.  Even better, the profit will totally bring me current on everything again and leave me some left over for the winter off season.

It just goes to show that in your darkest hour is when you need to re-double your efforts and stick it out.  Just when you think it is all crashing down is when you will often make your largest advances toward success.

Keep with it, and always be very hesitant to throw in the towel... you never know what tomorrow will bring!





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Congratulations on the big contract :-) I don`t believe we can do anything, really, on a conscious level to affect the unknowns. But I do believe that at other levels, the universe is moving along on a plan....like the plot in a story. If you`re going in the right direction, these kinds of serendipitous opportunities come along, just enough to keep you hangin` in there.

On the other hand, you could just as easily have cashed in your chips, looked for a 9-5 job, and stumbled into something that would have changed your life entirely.

Since we have no way of knowing what`s "supposed to happen," and we have no useful communications with "whatever" is running things, it seems to me that we should do what seems like the best idea at the time. At least that brings in some modicum of intuition.

I have been through almost the same scenario!  We actually met with a bankruptcy attorney and then it hit me, don`t just stop.  Now we are sitting on our largest order, we will be current with 60% of debt and we are growing!  WOW what if I had just quit?  You never know.

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one of the biggest things that I have learned being self employed is that there is a definet ebb and flow to money and we have to be strong enough to take the good  with the bad and to be persistant the whole time.

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