When unrelenting day-to-day business issues come up, you try to solve them alone or maybe with your sweetheart or business partner. You spend too much time and energy playing in and out of your mind. Not to mention all the second-guessing because we are our own worse critics.

It's the new beginning of a business-killing spiral downward. The more unfocused a business owner is, the more trouble we can get into. Moving forward becomes impossible. Instead, it's like spinning wheels in the mud-you expend a ton of energy to get nowhere. We have seen great business owners fail.