Hey I’m looking for advice. I’m a 30m I had an amazing opportunity that lead to me owning 3 small store fronts in a franchise pre covid. After covid the franchise started putting pressure on me to sell due to a buy out of the company. I was doing very well for myself in comparison to the rest of the company. The new owners of the franchise kept making me offers twice a month to sell and everytime I would turn them down. Services I was able to offer thru the company would “magically” get shut off due to “system” issues until the next meeting where they would make another offer. These services account for 60% or my gross. They were trying to force a sale and eventually they succeeded but they crushed me in the process. How do you bounce back from something like this? I feel like they ruined me and my confidence is destroyed. Im trying to figure out how to get my life back and quit feeling like shit everytime I look in the mirror. I Build those store with my blood, sweat, and tears. It was all stolen from me and I can’t figure out how to move forward. Anybody that’s ever been thru something like this, how did you come back? I feel so lost.
There is a story I heard once that might help.
There was an older gentleman in a Chinese village and his son was the best fighter the best horseback rider. One day he was climbing a tree and fell out of the tree and broke his leg.
All of the other villagers came around and said oh what a shame your son has broken his leg.
Several days later the Chinese army came around looking for young men to be soldiers. They took all the young men in the village except for this man’s son who had a broken leg.
Moral of the story is that you could have a broken leg, or you could have a broken leg. It all depends upon how you look at it.
There may be some economic downturn that you missed out on that could have taken your business down. Or maybe this was a stepping stone so you could learn how to make the product that they were offering and sell it yourself and make more money.