Well I went for it, I changed my life. In the last three years I chose to go in a different direction.

Opening my own business, three years of hard work. With my amazing wife, she was by my side getting to work next to her every day. We had two amazing children while learning and building a business together. It has tested me as a person, it has tested my relationship, who I am as a partner and a father.

There are times when I doubted, myself, my ability, my wife. You fail all the time, you get back up because you are responsible, there is no one else.

This has been my ten round fight physically, mentally and spiritually.

I have loved every minute of it.

On Friday our business partner seized the business, after all the hard work they just came in a took it. Like thugs from a crime lord. It didn’t matter how well the business was doing, they have all the control and will reap all the benefits. All of my employees will lose their jobs. The work family I have built.

Part of me is angry, I’m upset, but maybe a little relieved trying to stay humble. My two year old has grown up running around the store, hangin with employees. Talking to customers. As a father I dreamed of one day working next to her in the family business along with her sister. That is the saddest part for me.

A family business blurs all the lines of home, family, work until it’s just one thing. It consumes you and your loved ones. You can’t turn off or get space. You constantly have to sacrifice something to the business.

So I failed at my dream, I lost the fight. I don’t know what is next. I do know I’m stronger, I have grown, I did things that I never had the chance to do before. I built an amazing family at the same time. We will always be the people who opened that business in our small town.

This letter is to my friends and family who doubted me, yes I failed. Your going to tell me you told me so. But at least I tried, and I’m going to regroup and try again. What did you do……going for your dreams is hard, living on the sidelines is not.