Dave Ramsey

It's very difficult to move forward when you're in the fall, when you can't see and you don't know what you don't know.

And it's just, not only do you have all the frustration and the angst of being in business and working your butt off and not knowing, but you can't see where you're going.

So one of the things we attempted to do is to lay out a clear path through the process of business that we've observed in our business.

And back in about the year 2000, we started coaching small businesses, and we've now coached about 10,000 of them.

And as we've coached them, we've watched them go through the same five stages of business, and that's the clear path.

That's the light in the fog.

It is the easiest time, but that doesn't mean it's easy.

That's what it is.

I mean, ease of entry into the world of content creation, as an example.

You can just decide one morning and you have a YouTube channel.

You only have two people watching it, but you can decide and start.

You can start a podcast.

You can start and print a book today very easily.

You can become an author very easily.

The ease of entry into, for instance, your world, my world, is amazingly easy in terms of the actual tactical things.

But starting and running a business is hard.

As soon as you become self-employed, you realize you have a jerk slave driver for a boss.

I mean, your boss will work you to death when you're self-employed because they think about it all the time, and they think about what you should be doing all the time, and you're just consumed with it.

And you do stupid stuff, and it hurts, and you make mistakes, lots of them, and you have to survive them.

So ease, easiest time to start a business is