James Wedmore nearly quit around 2009 after comparing himself to a peer who built software and made $90,000. He called his girlfriend saying he was done, but she convinced him to keep going. Eighteen months later, things finally turned around.
Questions this video answers
Around 2009–2010.
$90,000.
About 18 months.
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Can you remember a moment when you almost quit?
Yeah, I remember. I remember the moment I had gone.
To a marketing conference and this is.
Back in like 2009.
2010. And then six months later, I went to another marketing conference and I saw someone there that was at the first marketing conference. And they're like, oh.
My gosh, hey, good to see.
How you been? What have you been up to? And they went first.
And they said.
Well, since I last saw you, I sold my truck, took the money, built.
A piece of software.
And I've made $90,000. First I was like, that's really cool. And then they said, what have you been up to? I had nothing to share. I had no news, no updates, nothing exciting.
I went home so devastated. I remember I called my.
Then girlfriend at the time, now.
My fiance, and.
That'S when I told her, I'm quitting. I'm done.
I did it. I tried it. I did my best.
I'm done.
It helps that she believed it, always believed in me.
She's like, no, I will not let you quit.
You need to understand.
You need to through all of this so that you have the experience, so that you can help other people in the moments when they want to quit.
So it's not going to come easy.
To you, but it will come.
So that was the day I almost.
Gave up and I almost quit.
And it honestly wasn't probably for another 18 months before.
