Here’s to another “Tool in our Tool Belt”

Interesting turn of events today.

And since this is all part of the journey, I’ll share.

I have a business partner in South Dakota. We run several home service businesses over there.

They do okay, not great, but they’ve afforded us the ability to do other things.

My partner has a snow plow business of his own and landed a job with a big time company out there to plow the parking lots.

$270k job contract.

This was going to help fund our lawn care company launch in Southern California.

What could go wrong?

Well, a lot actually.

Big Company said they were terminating the contract and pulled my partners guys from the job

No substantial justification knowing my partner wouldn’t have the fire power to fight it.

He thought,

“ok that sucks, but at least I’ll get the prorated amount for the work performed to pay for the equipment I bought specifically for this…”

Also, a wrong assumption.

Just like when you move out of an apartment, the landlord can add on misc. fees so you don’t get your security deposit back.

Similar thing happened here.

I’m not a lawyer, it wasn’t my job, but it affected some major progress.

He’s now in panic mode (rightfully so) and anything extra is on pause.

I’m sharing this in the moment because this could easily derail our success.

This could be the catalyst that causes us to hang it up and go back to a W2.

This could be a situation that makes us afraid to take any more risks.

But it’s only those things if you LET IT BE.

Here’s to another “tool in our tool belt”