It was the last month of 2023 and I had just finished working on my second business acquisition that I was looking to complete after my first attempt did not succeed a few months prior.

I knew that somehow I could raise the funds to get this deal across the finish line because I knew that it was being sold for a fair price if not a GREAT PRICE, and when there is a great deal on the table it’s not hard to raise the capital. 

The seller’s previous year he did $8.8M in revenue, and $4.4M in profit, however due to losing one of his major clients the business went down significantly by a factor of almost 5x. To make up for it he already replaced the old client with a new one and 3 new campaigns for this company. 

The seller’s business was in the Business Process Outsourcing(BPO) industry in the Philippines servicing clients in the US. 

His asking price was $13M with $2M down up front on closing and the remaining balance we can pay over a certain amount of years which we still had to negotiate.

My initial plan was to partner with a larger company and buy it all cash for $13M and retain a minority stake for putting the deal together, which I already had in place at this point and was getting the capital partner to meet with the seller in Manila, Philippines in the beginning of December. 

When the time came for the capital partner and the seller to meet, the capital partner ended up backing out at the LAST MINUTE and that left me with NO OPTION. 

The seller said he needed to close the sale of his business before Christmas or the end of the year and TIME WAS RUNNING OUT. 

I STAYED COOL and knew that SOMEHOW I would come up with the capital to take this deal down myself. 

A week later a close friend of mine in the private banking sector presented a joint venture opportunity for me to be part of, which required me to raise $100k by December 21st latest, and at the time there was only 11 DAYS LEFT till that date.

If I did raise this capital it would result in MULTIPLE 7 FIGURES IN PROFIT in 2024.

I had completely NO RESISTANCE to the opportunity and it FELT JUST IN LINE and I said to myself, if this deal with the business in the Philippines passes me by and I can’t close on it now, maybe he still may be open to a deal in the following year once I’ve raised the capital.

Once I MADE THE DECISION to raise the $100k, I posted on several dozen Facebook Groups and Whatsapp private groups, and after a couple days there was NOT ONE PERSON who was able to invest alongside me. 

I went to sleep that night with sheer confidence KNOWING that it would be done somehow.

The next day, a friend of mine whom I discussed a business idea with before a month prior and also discussed how I could help him to raise capital for his deals he was working on, reached out to me and said that he had seen one the posts that I had made on the same Facebook Group we are a part of and said, “Why didn’t you reach out to me about this?” 

Fast forward after a series of a few conversations with myself and my friend who offered the opportunity to joint venture alongside him and his group, my friend who was interested in the $100k investment opportunity decides to say yes and we end up becoming business partners on this investment opportunity and the business idea we had discussed in the past. 

On exactly December 21st, 2023 we made it just in time to send the $100k to my friend for the joint venture opportunity and the rest is history. 

Did I end up buying that company I was looking to raise the money for initially?

At the time of this writing no, however that door is not completely closed and ultimately, that deal served its purpose in order to lead me to this 7 and 8 figure joint venture that may not have come up if I wasn’t seeking to raise capital for that deal in the Philippines. 

To some reading this it may seem too good to be true or it may seem like sheer luck that this happened however there are some key principles that I applied here which I continue to apply in my daily life that allow such opportunities to come my way and capitalize on. 

I’ve been studying and applying these principles for the last 10 years of my life and it’s allowed me to continually LIVE POWERFULLY amidst any adversity, setbacks and challenges in my life, ultimately leading me to where I am now and I know I am just getting started!

Now, here’s the 3 basic principles:

• Define clearly what you want, without setting a time limit on when you’ll get it.
• Focus only on the end result without insisting on how it is going to happen
• Focus throughout the day the feeling of how it feels thinking from your own eyes, the fulfillment of what you desire. 

Let’s break these down clearly using the examples I gave in my story…

Define Clearly What You Want, Without Setting a Time Limit

In defining what you want, you must focus on specifically what it is you want and create an imaginary scene, which would imply that you have accomplished what you have sought to accomplish. 

In my story example, I envisioned the feeling that I had successfully raised $100k and told the good news to my friend who introduced the joint venture opportunity to me.

The reason why you want to create a specific scene and seeing it through YOUR OWN EYES is so you could CAPTURE THE FEELING of how it would feel once your goal is accomplished, which would in turn allow you to focus on a SINGULAR GOAL and have everything in your world to focus on the fulfillment of that ONE GOAL. 

Another key point is that you must clearly define a goal or desire that is BIG ENOUGH to EXCITE YOU and SMALL ENOUGH in which you KNOW you can get it, in this case for me, raising the $100k was right in that SWEET SPOT. I was already trying to raise prior to that $2M, so $100k seemed like a way easier goal to accomplish compared to the $2M and the upside to raising the $100k was in the 7 to 8 figures which of course REALLY EXCITED ME. 

The second part to defining your goal or desire, is NOT TO SET A TIME LIMIT on when it will be accomplished or fulfilled. 

Even though there was a deadline of 11 days, I LET GO when the money would be raised. I just focused on the end result knowing that the perfect timing would happen for the money to come into place.

Focus On The End Result Without Insisting On How It Is Going To Happen

In my example, I didn’t know who or how I would raise the $100k in a short period of time, all I knew was that if I SOLELY FOCUSED ON THE END RESULT the ‘how’ would figure itself out. 

The key is to start taking INSPIRED ACTION, meaning whatever form of action you are inclined to do AS SOON AS POSSIBLE especially once you’ve clearly defined what you want and have already constructed that imaginal scene of the end result. 

In my case I crafted a short 3 line Facebook post and put a compelling offer for whoever wanted to be part of investing $100k, and I copied that post and pasted it into several dozen groups, it may have been over 30-50 groups in which I posted and while I was doing this I FELT REALLY GOOD and didn’t care who or how this was going to pan out, I just knew that it would. 

If you remember in my story, after 2 days no one had reached back out to me to give me a solid yes or even any indication that they may be a close candidate to be part of the $100k raise.

Then on the third day, my friend, whom I mentioned in my story that was part of one of the Facebook Groups I posted in, reached out to me directly and asked me why I didn’t go to him directly about this opportunity and he pretty much gave me a solid yes right away!

The HOW, is 99% of the time OFF OUR RADAR SCREEN in terms of what we see are viable options of how our goals or desires could be fulfilled. This is why the show is irrelevant and all the focus is on taking inspired action knowing that somehow, some way it is going to happen and most of the time in ways that we couldn’t even think of or imagine. 

Focus Throughout the Day the Feeling of How it Feels Thinking From Your Own Eyes, the Fulfillment of What You Desire

Earl nightingale released an LP in the 50s called, ‘The Strangest Secret’, and the strangest secret was:

“YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST OF THE TIME”

Whatever you continue to think about MOST OF THE TIME, YOU BECOME. 

This is whether you are conscious of doing this or not. 

Whatever we have in our lives today is a result of the habitual thoughts we continue to think. 

Therefore when you are going about your day and you have this clearly defined goal or desire, take a few seconds, as many times as possible throughout the day THINKING FROM YOUR OWN EYES in your mind the scene that you orchestrated of your desire being accomplished. 

Make sure it is short and it implies that you have accomplished your goal.

The best is narrowing it down to something you would say or someone would say to you, which would imply that you accomplished your goal.

In my case it was me calling my friend that presented the $100K joint venture investment opportunity to me telling him that I secured the $100k, and him saying, “congratulations, great work brother!”

Having this specific scene in my mind and seeing and hearing it from that place, any time there were any setbacks throughout those days of me taking inspired action, I just turned my focus away from what was going on in this world and went into that imaginary scene. 

One of the best times to do this is right when you are drifting off to sleep, when you can still control your thoughts, this way you impress the subconscious mind and whatever you impress unto the subconscious mind it will in turn impact your words, thoughts and actions the following day and cause the world to conspire to have your desire to be fulfilled. 

Even after my friend from that Facebook Group said yes to bringing in the $100k, there were some road bumps coming closer to the deadline of December 21st, and there was a point a few days before the deadline it seemed like my friend was going to back out, however I KEPT FOCUSING on the end result knowing that regardless of what happened IT WAS A DONE DEAL. 

Ultimately my friend did decide to move forward and we had agreed to meet at the bank the day before the deadline on December 21st, to do the wire transfer to my other friend with the joint venture opportunity. 

On that day, when my friend was about to wire the funds to my other friend at the bank, the bank manager was almost going to put a hold on the transaction because he got the address of the bank he was transferring the funds to wrong, my friend transferring the funds was nervous we wouldn’t make the deadline, however I KNEW THAT WE WOULD. 

I called up my other friend to clarify his side of the banking info and I gave that info to my friend transferring the funds, and the bank manager decided to let the funds be wired and released to make it in time for the deadline. 

This entire time, which could have seemed like a stressful time to anyone else, I was in a place of KNOWING that it was a done deal because I was consistently focused on the end result.