Do You Want To Fight Too?

From the archive: originally published February 2012 on the Empower Network blog.

I wanted to share this:

The First Time My Dream Got Torn Away

Over the past few months, I literally have been through hell and back in business.

I don’t know if you understand what it’s like to step inside a dream, a vision that you helped create, and in one phone call, in an instant, it gets taken from you.

I have.

The first time in this industry that I felt like my heart got torn out was in March of 2010. I had just achieved the dream, a multiple six figure residual income, a life on the beach in Costa Rica, freedom, and growth all over the world.

I was earning a huge chunk of my income from a personal development company, and one day, completely out of the blue, the company owner called me, and told me they had made a decision to go out of business.

I was heart broken.

It was the first time I had ever had real success in my life, and I felt like I had made it.

In one moment, from a phone call, it was like my dream was stolen from me.

I don’t know if you know how that feels.

Most people would have sank into a cave of depression, and the truth is, I wanted to.

I had just moved to the beach, was living the dream, and LOVED my company.

First, tears started to come out of my eyes, and it started with just sadness, but I made a decision instead…

…I got back up to fight.

2 days later, I had re-built the income in an entirely new company, and it all came from making a decision, that no one was going to stop me from achieving my dreams, ever.

Then Empower Network Almost Got Shut Down Too

Four months ago, it happened again.

I launched a company that started out with a simple vision of helping ordinary people create leveraged ‘guru’ money at a scale that you can only do if you’re creating info products.

I wanted to help ordinary Moms, Dads, and Grandma’s earn instant cash flow, without having to go through the pain and frustration of what I had learned.

On October 31st, 2011, I launched the Empower Network with my friend and business partner, David Sharpe.

In four weeks, we brought in more than 10,000 paid customers.

It started to grow so fast, and I felt like we were just scratching the surface.

Then, a phone call happened, that once again, my heart was torn out.

The banks shut us down.

We were growing too fast, they said.

Back Up To Fight, Again And Again

I wanted to hide in a closet, shut off the light, curl up into a ball, and just sit there biting at a dog bone, or some other kind of crazy expression of frustration.

I felt like a dirty company owner, who had to call his leaders and tell them that the doors were closed.

But instead, I made a decision.

I got back up to fight.

We got setup again to process transactions after 2 months of grueling pain, putting down a $100,000 reserve, and hundreds of hours of conversations that were so boring…

…a lawyer would die.

Then, a week later, it happened again.

Darkness.

Pain.

Agony.

Reaching Down And Finding Something I Didn’t Know I Had

Words can’t express the frustration, when you KNOW that you can change the world, and the system (society, the ‘Man’) doesn’t want to let you.

I could have curled into a ball.

I could have cried.

I could have quit, right there and then, and decided to not go on.

Instead, I reached down inside myself, and I found something that I didn’t know I had.

I did the unthinkable, round 3 at the count of nine, I rose from the ashes, stumbled to my feet…

…and rose up, swinging.

I got back up to fight.

Now, month four, I refuse, at all costs, to give up on my dream.

And now, as of today, we have 19,689 people in our team.

I could have quit.

I could have been a damned wussy.

I could have called my team and said:

“Sorry guys, I can’t take the pounding”

But…

…I ain’t a damned wussy.

Get Up, Fight Back, And Win

I rose to my feet, sweat down the sides of my face, and lifted my eyes, swinging.

I got back up to fight.

When you go through pain, don’t you ever quit.

Your family deserves better.

YOU deserve better.

Don’t be a damned wussy.

The world needs you, and you need to make a decision.

Get up, fight back, and win.

I’m with you, right now, till the end.

You can do this, trust me.

David Wood
“The Guru Slayer”

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