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• 1. Bankrupt? 2. Broke? 3. Difficulty paying bills? 4. Struggling to make ends meet? 5. Can't make payroll? 6. Not enough sales? 7. Employee troubles? 8. In debt? 9. Can't get out of debt? 10. Work all the time?

• 11. Don't like the company? 12. Want to sell the company? 13. Indecision? 14. Too many problems? 15. Really don't care? 16. Working too much? 17. No personal time? 18. Have to do it all yourself? 19. Don't like to sell? 20. Don't like to market?

• 21. Don't like to do PR? 22. Don't like janitorial work? 23. Don't like to keep the books? 24. Tax troubles? 25. Too much taxes? 26. Company at risk? 27. Don't know how to sell? 28. Not good at selling? 29. Hoping it will work? 30. Scared it will fail?

• 31. Pretending it's all ok? 32. Lying about something? 33. Convincing others it's viable? 34. Employees want too much? 35. Partner difficulties? 36. Being lied To? 37. Not told of problems? 38. Telling employees half-truths? 39. Telling customers half-truths? 40. Upset with employees?

• 41. Employees upset with you? 42. Can't trust employees? 43. employees late? 44. Employees absent? 45. Employee demands? 46. Can't find good employees? 47. Old equipment? 48. Equipment not working? 49. No money? 50. Don't control it?

• 51. Not calling the shots? 52. Fear of failure? 53. Fear of rejection? 54. Fear of criticism? 55. Wrong market? 56. Advertising not working? 57. Wasting money on advertising? 58. No budget? 59. No time? 60. Difficulties as a leader?

• 61. Too much to do? 62. Wasting time? 63. Not focused on priorities? 64. Backing off from handling things? 65. Procrastination? 66. Blame? 67. Excuses? 68. Fault-finding? 69. Frustrated at how long it's taking? 70. Problem with employees?

• 71. Did someone almost find out? 72. Not viable business model? 73. Pressure? 74. Alcohol? 75. Drugs? 76. Discouraged? 77. Not willing? 78. Fear of success? 79. Obstacles? 80. Mistakes?

• 81. Misunderstandings? 82. Too ambitious? 83. Too cautious? 84. Idleness? 85. Don't understand business? 86. Resisting success? 87. Too complicated? 88. Too many options? 89. Too rigid? 90. Production problems?

• 91. Not profitable? 92. Too many expenses? 93. Too much overhead? 94. Wrong niche? 95. Protecting your business from something? 96. Avoiding something? 97. Defending your company? 98. Defending employees? 99. Defending your market segment? 100. Manipulation?

• 101. Resistance? 102. Effort? 103. Reluctance? 104. Withholding? 105. Survival of business? 106. Fixing business? 107. Solutions? 108. Problems? 109. Opportunities? 110. Missed opportunities?

• 111. Missed sales? 112. Something wrong with your business? 113. Some personal limitation that interferes with your ability to make the company successful? 114. Want to sell the business? 115. Can't find a buyer for the business? 116. Things you don't know? 117. Guessing instead of knowing? 118. Giving things up for the business? 119. Someone's fault? 120. Some reason the business isn't quite as successful as you want?

• 121. Are you wiling to take 100% responsibility? 122. Are you being of service in your business? 123. Are you being appropriately generous? 124. Some flaw in the business model? 125. Some glitch in implementing the business model? 126. Thwarted intention? 127. Unfulfilled expectation? 128. Undelivered communication? 129. Unacknowledged effort?

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