Being in pain is not a good reason to sell your business.

A lot of people want to sell their business because they want to get out of pain. But here's the thing. Nobody wants to buy a flaming piece of shit. Two years before we sold our business, we had had like our biggest month ever. I think we did almost $4.5 million that month. And I was like, wow, that's amazing. And I hate my life. It felt so painful because I didn't have any strategic leadership. I didn't have anybody that was able to take authority or ownership over an area. And so I was the leader for basically every department. And so it felt very painful to grow my business because I didn't have help. So what I did is rather than sell my business right then, is I said, I've got to get leaders in place because I can't even sell my business for a good number if I'm the main person that's needed here. And so what happened is that by the time my business was ready to sell, I was out of pain. In fact, so much so that when I went into the sale process, I was like, I don't even know if I want to sell the business. You know, I don't really care. Like I'm barely even having to work in it. At that point, I was only working a few hours a week in the business. I wasn't needed anymore. I had operators in place. I had a whole leadership team in place. But that was amazing because then what it meant for people looking to buy my business is this is a good investment.