“Dear Steve,
Business consultant and entrepreneur, full of great ideas, very short of contracting work for the past year, currently on state benefits, 50k in debts and growing (mostly credit cards), no assets (sold everything I could to survive), and hardly any income getting in, just bearly making ends meet every month, just about surviving.
Is the solution bankruptcy or is there another less painful way to look at?
Grateful for any help you can spare.
Sandy”
The Answer:
Dear Sandy,
You already know in your heart what you need to do. You’ve hung on to hope for a long time there would be another way, but there isn’t.
While you’ve felt you’ve been making it month to month, you really haven’t. That $50K in “growing” credit card debt is the testimony to that.
It’s time to put an end to the financial mess from hell and give yourself an opportunity to move forward instead of sapping all your strength, creativity, and energy trying to tread water to correct a situation that has imploded.
At this point you’d need to return to your previous income plus some to dig yourself out of this hole. And seriously, how likely is that going to be?
You can sell more stuff if you had it but that just postpones the inevitable at this point, not stops it.
Entrepreneurs are creative people, your best chance of success ahead is going to be from inspiration, not desperation.
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