00:00:00:01 - 00:00:07:13 Unknown Welcome to fuel your dry. 00:00:07:15 - 00:00:26:23 Unknown What is going on? Everybody? Welcome to fuel your Drive. I am your host, Josh York. We have another amazing, incredible, fantastic high energy, value filled episode. And let's get at it. Let's get after it. You know, before we start, as you know, guys, please like, share, subscribe, tell a friend I want to continue to keep growing the show and I cannot do it without you. 00:00:26:23 - 00:00:56:10 Unknown So thank you all very much. Today's episode I was actually thinking about, and I'm going to start doing some episodes on this things in the past and situations I was in, and I don't really know who needs to hear this, but I know someone probably needs to hear this today. So I'm going to put out an episode and put you in a scenario which, if I take myself back 11 years, ten years ago, I was in the same situation. 00:00:56:12 - 00:01:20:15 Unknown Let's say you're in business. Everything's going great. And for some reason, something happens. You get some slight, some type of slight turn that takes you off the road that you're currently on, and things get real rocky and rough. And I'll give you an example, because things have always got rocky and rough for me over the years. But one perfect example was, look, I, I, I once had something pretty bad happen. 00:01:20:15 - 00:01:43:04 Unknown I'm not gonna get into all the details, but long story short, it put me in a situation where, my God, I think I was, I don't know, -20 some odd thousand dollars in my bank account. And I and most people would say, that's it, it's over. Here's the thing. I want you to put in perspective. 00:01:43:06 - 00:02:00:21 Unknown If I were just to, let's say, give up at that point and quit the next day, what's going to change? I'm still going to be in pain. Things are still hard. This is why I always talk about you can sell yourself out of any bad situation, and all I needed was sales. That was it. That's all I needed was sales. 00:02:00:21 - 00:02:23:02 Unknown And, you know, look, I made a bad hire. I lost some money. Things happen. But also, you know, I took my focus off, you know, areas that were really generating revenue that I shouldn't take my focus off. And that's what caused me to be in that situation at the time. But I was talking to someone who, you know, I used to really look up to one of my mentors back in the day and he said, Josh, he said, it's going to be hard either way. 00:02:23:04 - 00:02:51:09 Unknown So you can you can, you know, let's say you just want to tap out and again, those words never came, came out of my mouth, nor would they ever come out of my mouth because plan B is for losers, as you know, and I've talked about this before, plan A's the only plan. But for me at that time, it was a very, very it was a very, very rough time in, in, my growth phase in business and, I was, I was, I was scared, obviously I was scared and I was very nervous because I didn't know what I was going to do, but I knew it was going to be hard either way. 00:02:51:09 - 00:03:11:00 Unknown And that's why you have to embrace the hard and you have to, you know, push through those moments. And I was able to out sell myself out of that bad situation. And I know some people, you know, obviously could be in bad situations because it's going to happen from time to time. But at the end of the day, it's what you do about those situations and how urgent are you with the action you're going to take to turn it around? 00:03:11:00 - 00:03:32:14 Unknown Right. You know, so I literally acted right away. And from that moment I had that conversation within like an hour, I was out marketing. I was out, you know, building relationships. I was out meeting people. I was doing anything I can to literally get business. And I happened to generate a lot of revenue over the course of seven days, and I was right back at it again. 00:03:32:16 - 00:03:41:11 Unknown Another scenario I want to talk about is, you know, when you need cash and you're in a business and you're, you know, you're especially in your early days because, you know, I can relate to this because I did this, 00:03:41:11 - 00:03:46:16 Unknown I had like, I don't know, I think I was like 20 on credit cards, maxed out, I mean maxed out. 00:03:46:16 - 00:04:01:08 Unknown My credit was so low I didn't even know, like, your credit score can go that low. That's how low it was. And most people at that point would be scared, would be nervous. But I knew it wasn't going to be like that forever, and I knew I was going to turn it around. And how do you get yourself out of that situation? 00:04:01:10 - 00:04:03:02 Unknown You sell yourself out of it. 00:04:03:04 - 00:04:16:09 Unknown And for me, at the time, you know, I needed more money because I needed to, you know, keep the speed going. And everything's about speed. Like, you got to have that speed in business, you know, because if you're not, you know, moving fast, someone else is going to come in and they can take everything from you. 00:04:16:09 - 00:04:19:09 Unknown So you got to be on point with that. And, 00:04:19:11 - 00:04:33:20 Unknown you know, I moved probably a little bit too fast sometimes, which I'm not going to say is my fault or it's a bad thing because I think speed over execution any day of the week. I will tell you that right now, because at the end of the day, you can always, you know, turn around and fix things as you're growing. 00:04:33:20 - 00:04:48:10 Unknown But if you don't move that needle, nothing's going to move. And, you know, because of all those crazy things I've done over the years and the risks I've taken, which have always been calculated risk, which I knew I was going to figure it out no matter what, has gotten me to where I am today. And the same rules apply to you. 00:04:48:15 - 00:05:07:18 Unknown So I just wanted to jump on here quickly. I wanted to share that with you. I hope this is going to help someone because I promise you, if you're having a rough time right now, this too shall pass and all you got to do is sell yourself out of it. But remember, if you stop, it's going to be hard regardless. 00:05:07:20 - 00:05:22:03 Unknown So learn to deal with the hard, enjoy the hard, love the hard. Embrace it. Because hard is going to get you to great. So you guys remember. Fuel your drive. And until next time, share. Like subscribe. See you. 00:05:22:05 - 00:05:35:14 Unknown Login. You know my name? My name is legit.