I sold my company on a Thursday.
Not a system learned. A path walked.
Not because the numbers were bad. Because one morning, sitting in my car, looking at what I had built, I felt nothing I fully recognized as mine. That moment was the beginning of everything.
That morning I was sitting in my car, looking at what I had built, and felt nothing I fully recognized as mine.
That experience, and everything that came after, is what The New Game of Life is built from. Not a system I learned. A path I walked.
I had built a services business that worked. Revenue that grew. And this quiet, completely irrational feeling that the whole thing was running me rather than the other way around.
I didn't tell anyone that at the time. You don't, as an entrepreneur. You perform certainty you don't quite feel. You get very good at that performance. Most of us do.
The real conversation, the one that actually matters, almost never happens.