Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme buckle up your seatbelt because it's podcast time. And I have two cups of coffee next to me because that's just what Monday is today. It's a beautiful, beautiful Americano and an oat milk latte because I'm getting fancy, but today's winning Wednesday. Today's winning Wednesday is going to talk about how we can win now because how I lost and I lost hard in order to understand how to win, but we're going to particularly talk about the one mistake that was costing me $60,000 a month and how you can avoid it.Now, I wish I was joking, like, and I wish this was clickbait. It's not, there was a time, there was a time in my career as an entrepreneur where from the outside, looking in, you would have think that I own 20 houses, 10 cars had it altogether, was working two hours a day and was the happiest that I had ever been. And it couldn't have been further from the truth. My life was completely in shambles. I was disconnected from my business, disconnected from my numbers, making choices based on emotions and other factors I'm going to talk about later today., I was depressed. I was avoiding my feelings. I was avoiding deep connected relationships with my family and it was costing me and at the time I was a food blogger. And I took that business. I got that business up to seven figures by myself and doing what was right in the one thing we're gonna talk about today. And then in  that seven figures, I also created the same amount of expenses. Once I lost focus on the one thing I was supposed to be doing and got distracted.And at one point for a prolonged period of time, like four to five months, I was losing between 40 and $60,000 a month in unnecessary expenses, overhead wasn't generating in revenue. I didn't need any of it and then I was fighting those closest to me, my wife, my accountant, my friends, and my family who knew. And I was in so deep and in such denial that I held on like you're wrong. I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you. And really, I was just more addicted to being right than I was to being authentic and vulnerable and accepting the help. And it costs me a lot. And I was literally losing 40 to $60,000 a month, all because of this one thing.And the one thing was I was looking in the wrong direction. I was spending my days making decisions in reaction to what everybody else was doing. And so basically I was living this life where, like I built a company, I built a business based on my heart, based on my soul.I'm I might cry on this one based on my heart, based on my soul. And then my ego and the pressure of the world that. I was living in that industry took over and I changed my measuring stick to all the wrong things. I was spending my days staring at competitors, looking at what they were doing, thinking that they were doing it better than me, that I could do it better than if I transacted that way. Or if I did it that way, or if I did it this way or five followed that, or if I made this that it will be different. And then I got stuck in the endless game. I would spend most of my days looking at everybody else. Comparing myself, scrolling through the end of the scroll of social ,funnel hacking  everybody like literally I was out collecting evidence that what I had built wasn't good enough. And I was looking for reasons to self-sabotage silently. And I did, I completely self sabotage to the tune of the numbers that I shared with you. All because I lost track of where I was supposed to be looking. And literally I had this belief that if all, if I did was consumed content and look at other people's stuff that my vision was somehow going to build itself.Also simultaneous, mostly believing that I wasn't good enough to build my vision because look at all this evidence I have of all these people that are doing it better. I need to go be like them. I need to go be like, damn, I need to go do it. So I was just stuck. I was literally stuck just sitting there stuck. And it was killing me. I