Sean: What would be some words that you would want to give to these business owners who are not only frustrated at the government, at some of their people, maybe at their business, but are also in a desperate and depressing situation right now?

Craig: Yeah, it's a great question, and I'll take myself back to that situation in the global financial crisis. So I went 18 months where my lunch was a bread roll and salad that my wife made, it was probably worth less than $1. And I did that for 18 months, and during that time I made some decisions. So the key bit of advice here is, you are at a crossroads in your life where you are required to make some decisions. Are you going to continue to bang your head against the wall like this for however long? Or are you going to make a decision to make a change in your life?

Craig: The decision might be "Ok, this is now I've made my decision that I'm going to move forward and what I need to do. There is a need to grow and evolve. I need to build my mindset. I need to build my skill set. I need to find an opportunity that will allow me to fulfill my true potential.” So low cost, low risk and limited potential opportunity which is what I've done in the Philippines. I used to run events in Makati for thousands and thousands of people would turn out when I would turn up in there. So budgetary wise a low-risk, low-cost opportunity, could be as much as two hundred dollars. And then you get a website and a product and a, you know, this something to help you work. Yes, some business tools, et cetera, that could be the thing.

Craig: But the point is if you keep taking the same skills, the same mindset, the same attitude in the next ten years when the next pandemic comes along with the next global financial crisis comes along, and the next lockdowns, and the next whatever. If you haven't made the change today, you're going to be in the same position again back then.

Craig: So the point is you need to make a decision. Life won't bless you if you don't bless yourself. I think it's good as 'if it is to be, it is up to me.' You know, the 10 two letter words that I heard in my grade 10. When I was leaving Grade 10, I left home from there and it was, the principal said. 'If it is to be, it is up to me. Now go and spread your wings and go and make something of your life. And from that point on, I've made something of my life.

Craig: Your business might be salvageable. You might be passionate about it. I'm not saying you have to quit your business. It might be something temporary and then you can soar like an eagle, but you might if you're in that situation where you go, you know, even if everything opens up, this is a dying industry or I'm not passionate about it or I'm not making enough money out of it, or, you know, it doesn't give me the lifestyle that I want to leave. You know, they're the reasons that this injunction in life should lead you in a new direction.

Craig: I feel that I'm leaving into a new direction myself, again get it to innovate and evolve and what I say to people, what I'm building now is going to make quantum leaps of speed this time. You know, I went up in exponential. Next time is going to be quantum leaps, for sure.

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