Let’s talk failure.
The big, scary, heart-wrenching, keep-you-up-at-night kind.
Because 20% of all small businesses won’t even make it to their first birthday. And before you start thinking, “Well I’m different,” let’s fast forward: 50% are dead within 5 years.
It’s not just the little guys. Half of the Forbes Fortune 500 will be nothing more than a cautionary tale within a decade.
And here’s the real gut-punch—if you’re an acupuncturist, that number is even higher.
Acupuncture schools are shutting down left and right. Why? Because their graduates are defaulting on student loans, leaving schools without the funding to stay open. And why are they defaulting? Because the clinic they dreamed of, the one they poured their life into after getting their license, didn’t survive. There are very few jobs in the field—so if your practice fails, there’s no safety net.
This isn’t meant to scare you out of the profession. This is meant to wake you up. Because the difference between the ones who make it and the ones who don’t isn’t talent, passion, or how good their needles are.
Ok, so some of you might technically still have a practice after a decade. You might still be standing, still treating patients, still keeping the doors open. But if you’re like most, it’s probably sucking the life out of you.
Not making enough to make a difference, but making just enough to keep you on the hook. Just enough to make you think, “Next year will be different. Next year I’ll figure it all out.”
But next year comes… and nothing changes.
So what’s the deal? Is success just a roll of the dice? A stroke of luck? Some mysterious code only the chosen few crack?
Hell no.
You know who has the lowest failure rate of all time? Fewer than 5% fail.
💡 Franchises.
Wait, what?
Yep. Think about it—McDonald’s, worth $222.12 billion last we checked, is basically run by teenagers. Dunkin’? Worth $54.7 million, and you don’t even need a high school diploma to sling lattes and bagels.
It’s not luck. It’s not magic. It’s SYSTEMS.
🔥 Systems that tell you exactly what to do and when to do it.
🔥 Systems that make success repeatable—down to the way you wrap a damn McDouble.
🔥 Systems that mean the CEO isn’t flipping burgers.
And that’s why our clients aren’t working 60-hour weeks.
It’s why they’re treating more patients than they ever thought possible—without breaking a sweat. It’s why they’re sailing to Portugal for 10 days, attending their kid’s swim meet, getting lunch with their aging parents, and generally enjoying their lives.
They have SYSTEMS.
Do you?
If not, let’s fix that. Hit reply, and let’s talk. Because running a business shouldn’t feel like pushing a boulder up a hill every damn day.
🚀 Let’s make your business work for YOU.
P.S. The ones who get this? They win. The ones who don’t? Well… we already talked about those stats. 🤷🏼♀️