In a small Greek village we’ve spent the last month, I saw a business die in real time.
There was a restaurant — 30 years in the same family.
Run by a man, his wife, and his brother.
They were crushing it.
Loyal locals.
Repeat tourists with summer homes who came back every year like clockwork.
Their tables were always full.
Then — this year — a sign on the door:
“Business closed to health issue.”
(Mistranslated from Greek with broken English that only added to the sadness.)
What happened?
The owner went in for a routine surgery.
The surgeon screwed up — cut an artery to his intestines.
That mistake killed the intestines and left the man alive… but just barely.
Now he survives on feeding tubes.
His clock is ticking.
The restaurant?
Shut.
No systems. No successors. No sale. No value.
The wife stays home as caretaker.
The brother now waits tables at another restaurant…
Miserable.
And too scared to see a doctor for his own growing health problems.
Three decades of work — gone.
No payout.
No cushion.
No legacy but a rotting sign on a locked door.
If your business can’t survive without you —
You don’t have a business.
You have a job… with overhead.
So I’ll ask you the same brutal question I’ve asked others:
If something happened to you tomorrow —
Would your business take care of your family?
Or just leave behind a sad little sign on the door?
Find out in 60 seconds.
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