It was during my sixth-grade sleep over at my friend Mark’s house, that I decided I would someday become a successful business owner.
You see, I grew up in a working-class family. My parent’s although extremely hard working always struggled living paycheck to paycheck and relying on excessive use of debt to make ends meet.
Our typical evening meal is what my dad would refer to as “poor do” and consisted of things like fried mush, gravy on toast, or beans. It was a weekly treat when my brother, mother, and myself could split a bottle of Royal Crown Cola three ways.
But that night at Mark’s house introduced me to a whole new world.
Mark’s dad George, had taken us to the local YMCA for a Friday evening swim. Afterwards on our way home we stopped by McDonalds. George told me to get whatever I wanted.
He said…” Mark and I are going to EACH have four cheeseburgers, a pound of fries, and a quart of Coke. You can do the same, or get even more.”
Yep, you heard right. Back in a day the quantities were huge, and common place.
The fact that George was so generous, and I could order anything I wanted, and the cost was not even a consideration, blew my mind!
My parents didn’t have the money to eat out often, and when we did price was always an issue.
So, I ordered what they ordered. Pure heaven to an eleven-year-old.
Back at Mark’s home, we devoured our grub, as I asked Mark what his dad did for work “to be so rich!”?
He was a business owner of a heavy-duty construction company.
I knew right then and there, becoming a business owner was my golden ticket to escape the feeling of being poor and living a famine based lifestyle.
Fast forward eight years and I started my first business, and ran it for ten years, during my college days and beyond. But I made a deadly mistake.
I confused the act of delegating with abdicating. I took my eye off the ball, and like so many entrepreneurs do, fixate on chasing that next bright and shiny opportunity, that I abdicated the responsibility of managing my business to a long-time employee.
Result? Bankrupt, divorced, and homeless.
Now to be clear, I am not blaming my employee for the business failure. I take full responsibility. It was my decisions, ignoring business fundamentals, and abdicating instead of delegating because I was bored.
Totally my fault, and an expensive lesson.
In retrospect, that situation did turn out be to a wonderful gift in strange wrapping paper.
It taught me some valuable lessons, and it forced me to find a creative way to dig myself out, repay my creditors, and discover strategies to build a bigger, better business, and supercharge my wealth building.
Let’s jump ahead for the sake of time, and look back at my journey.
After surviving that crucible experience, I went on to:
And the movie continues as I launch the Bootstrap Billionaire™ adventure . . .
But truly, this is not about me. It’s about you. I am here as a ladder-builder for you.
As ladder-builder, I’m here to help you and other business-owner/entrepreneurs climb the ladder of success one rung at a time and show you the path to create the life of your dreams.
I want to help you live a life of time freedom, financial freedom, and lifestyle freedom.
I’m here so you don’t have to make ALL the mistakes I’ve made, or endure the set-backs and failures I have.
I’m here to show you a better way, to leap frog and leverage your resources so you can achieve bigger, better, faster results in your business and finance.
You see, I’m here to challenge the status quo in my pursuit of finding a better way, a faster way to achieve great results.
I hate mediocrity. I hate normal. I hate the status quo, because that mindset guarantees a life of being average. Being average is boring and selfish.
To have a major life-changing breakthrough requires thinking outside the box, and looking at opportunities and challenges with a new and different perspective . . .
Only then can you achieve what’s truly amazing.
It’s not about working fifty, sixty hours a week or more. You can achieve world-class results working only thirty hours a week, IF you follow a different way of thinking, planning, and doing.
As an entrepreneur, you are destined for greatness and doing something remarkable, or otherwise, you would not have chosen this exciting path. Right?
After surviving that crucible experience, I went on to:
This website exists as the first few rungs of your ladder to help you become a wealthy business owner by providing useful ideas, strategies, concepts, and tactics I’ve learned the hard way.
May I share a secret?
I measure my success by helping others become successful.
Yep, the more success you and other go-getter entrepreneurs achieve, especially when you’re being true to your authentic-self and living your life with freedom, fortune, and fulfillment . . .
The greater my success yardstick grows.
That’s what drives me to jump out of bed each morning with passion and enthusiasm! It’s my passionate desire to serve and make a difference in the lives of generous entrepreneurs.
As a matter of fact, between now and when I pop off the planet, I want to help at least one million business owners succeed and live the life of their dreams. I hope you become one of them.
If I can help you in anyway, just let me know. Thanks’ for stopping by.
– Randy