this is a question I have personally for
you um and I'll I'll share a quick story
or where the example even came from in
the first place there is a new skate
shop or new war skate shop that opened
maybe six seven months ago um in the
Chino Spectrum called contenders and
there are a small skate shop meaning
I've never heard of them and I've been
skating for a long time so they have to
be like a smaller skate shop uh and so
that means they're probably not making
the most money like a zumies or a Vans
or something like that there's a lady
that goes on people's websites of
different businesses websites and she
checks to see if it's up to date like I
think it said like contenders um and it
said like what is it it's like uh
establish not establish it's like
basically when you have the year that
you're you know what I'm saying like it
was off right it was off a year so we're
in 2023 it said like 2021 or 2022 or
something like that so it wasn't up to
date so she's suing them and they have
to pay all these fees whatever and so
they started to go they started to go
fund me and have to whatever their fees
are comes out to 18 Grand they don't
have it right and so they're like dude
this lady we found out that this is what
she does she goes to different
businesses and she figures out right so
she literally found a loophole where she
could just Sue companies and they're
going to pay her out instead of suing
her or instead of going going to court
exactly that's how that goes it's crazy
and so that's what she bad Human by the
way what a horrible human that woman
dude it's insane it's insane and so I I
I had heard about the story after I saw
a bunch of people stories posting the
gofund like do you got to support him
they're going to go under he doesn't
have the money and the owner is
apparently a cool guy never met him
before but he seems like a cool guy and
so I felt really bad so I know the
answer to that question is kind of like
you know he just got to roll with the
punches right so that's not the question
but the question is how do you
personally cuz I know that you had
situations like that where people you
know maybe people you you think you can
trust they end up [ __ ] you over and
doing something crazy or uh a competing
business is trying to take you out like
how do you mentally weather that storm
cuz that's a lot to be able to you know
go through that and then get back up
again sometimes you want to give up like
how do you mentally get through that it
is and and it and it's it's almost like
the owner of that store Contender um and
by the way guys if you're watching this
and um hey Andrew maybe you can uh you
can drop the link to that GoFundMe on
this um episode in the description box
if it's still around um to help them out
but that is shitty and that happens all
the time sometimes your competition gets
funded yeah because they took on private
Equity
sometimes an internal employee who knows
all your processes and systems that
you've trusted goes and gets a business
partner and creates a competing business
and knows all the inner workings someone
sometimes a business partner does that
by the way you know they'll they'll
split up and the Partnerships will break
up whatever it is like what what this
guy can't do is he can't look at it as
this is a sign from God that I got to
quit in fact we just got done filming a
solo episode here where I talked about
the bear and the Dragon this is just
another bear external resistance the
dragon is internal resistance all your
limiting beliefs are the dragon that
always tries to get you it attacks you
it's your limiting beliefs the things
that you tell yourself that I can't I
don't know how I'm I I'll never make it
the bear is external resistance like
this woman who trolls websites finds a
little discrepancy and then sues but
really doesn't want to make it to court
she just wants to then settle out of
court and get money right and there's a
lot of this sometimes you get an
employee who you've terminated
rightfully but you're in a state like
California New York Michigan New Jersey
Washington that is very employee
friendly
meaning they
will they will scream wolf and say that
they were wrongfully terminated and
there's attorneys out there who will
take their case and you're like do I do
I pay $200,000 to go to court and defend
myself that's what it's going to cost me
or do I just pay them the 50 Grand that
they want and and be done that's
extortion right the bottom line is the
way you develop this mental toughness is
not you can't development in that moment
this is no different than I hear like
all these guys that have YouTube
channels that teach you know
self-defense whether it's hand to hand
or pistol or knife self-defense they're
like if you have a gun if you have a
knife if you think like you bought that
gun and you have it in your nightstand
and the moment you hear a thud
downstairs you're like all right I'm
gonna defend myself and my family with
that gun in that very moment you're not
going to be able to because you haven't
practiced enough to develop proficiency
to know how to use that gun during the
most chaotic and emotionally
overwhelming time of your life right so
maybe if you had gotten practice and
practice and practice and practice and
practice where now you've gotten so
proficient that even in the craziest
emotional distress you can grab the
pistol use good pistol iate clear your
room go down the staircase do whatever
you need to do to do things right that's
what you need to do so this guy he
needed to he needs to and every
entrepreneur you got to build these
mental muscles emotional muscles your
muscles of
self-discipline years and months and
years before you ever have to deal with
the issue cuz in that moment dealing
with the issue if you're like man I've
never experienced any problems and I
didn't think I'd ever going to
experience a problem first time you
experienced a problem if you fold that's
because you haven't developed the mental
and emotional discipline those muscles
to withstand the storm right so the
question is then how do we do that the
answer is you do hard things because if
you've always chosen easy in life like I
know so many people who have chosen to
take the easy path in terms of they
don't work out they don't do hard things
not a nice bath not a cold shower they
don't even go work out they don't go
running they they they don't do hikes
anything that's uncomfortable they don't
do they like to just they go to work
their business and then they go home and
watch TV and they eat and then as they
start making more money they eat better
quality food they have a bigger TV that
they watch they might even buy a bigger
house but sooner or later that guy has
not developed mental and emotional
muscles that are needed for the
inevitable attack on his business that's
going to come and when it does he's
going to be like oh [ __ ] how do I handle
this well you can't you haven't done
hard [ __ ] to develop a hard Mind and
Spirit yeah and therefore or that attack
might take you down and so the answer is
to do hard things so that you become a
hard [ __ ] because business is
one hell of a
Battlefield