Simeon’s Journey Of Redemption

Let’s go back to Simeon…

Simeon and Lisa were the perfect couple.

Their friends laughed at the way they always seemed to finish each other’s sentences.

Things got even better for the couple when after seven years of trying, Lisa finally got pregnant.

She was going to have twins!

And… they were finally going to be parents.

Everything seemed normal when Lisa went into labour, but…

Lisa could tell from the worried look on the midwife’s face that something was wrong.

The midwife had detected a very weak heartbeat.

So, Lisa was wheeled immediately into theatre.

She did not make it out alive.

Neither did one of the twins.

Simeon was devastated.

He cried nonstop for three days, but he had to stop crying because he had one baby boy who needed to be taken of.

On the fourth day, Simeon took his son home.

There was no Lisa.

There was no Kester.

There was just Simeon and Kevin.

Simeon was an Accountant and luckily for him, the Haulage Firm he worked for allowed him to work from home four days a week.

So, Simeon was able to devote most of his life to Kev and he made sure Kev didn’t lack for anything. He tried his best to compensate for Lisa’s absence, and he was doing a great job playing the role of both father and mother to Kev.

Then COVID-19 struck.

Normal life ground to a halt all over the world, and…

The Transportation industry was one of the worst affected.

The company Simeon worked for didn’t survive and Simeon lost his job.

He tried to make ends meet by becoming an Affiliate Marketer.

This required him to spend a lot of money on Facebook Ads, but…

His savings were running out fast!

He couldn’t sleep at night because he was worried sick about his son’s future.

So…

He started taking sleeping pills.

He stopped eating.

He lost 9kg in three weeks.

He had to see a doctor.

In the midst of all this, Kev turned eight.

Simeon couldn’t afford to fulfil his promise and buy a brand-new PS5 for Kev.

So, he snuck out of the house when he heard Kev coming down the stairs.

He sat on the stairs crying silently to himself.

That’s where Kev found him six minutes later.

In a tiny voice, he said, “It’s OK Daddy. I know things are tough right now. You can buy me the PS5 for Christmas or whenever you are ready.”

Simeon was speechless.

Simeon was proud of his son.

Simeon was heartbroken.

Then he stood up slowly, walked to little Kev, picked him up and held him tight.

“You are the best son a father could ever have”, he whispered.

Then he carried little Kev back into the house.

Two days later, Simeon got a call from Tony.

Tony was the COO of a large Manufacturing Business, and was a client of the haulage firm Simeon used to work for.

He told Simeon that COVID-19 had severely disrupted the supply chain and his company was struggling to get raw materials from their suppliers.

They were so desperate that they were looking for other suppliers to work with.

He then asked Simeon if he would be willing to work for his company as an Independent Contractor.

His only job would be to find new suppliers and negotiate prices with them.

It sounded interesting, and Simeon said he’d like to think about it and get back to Tony in a day or two, but…

Tony said Simeon had to make up his mind immediately because his company would go under if they wasted any more time.

To sweeten the offer, Tony told Simeon that he would have access to $50,000 Capital, and that if Simeon was able to buy the raw materials at prices lower than what Tony’s company currently pay then Simeon could pocket the difference.

Tony was basically offering Simeon $50,000 capital that would enable Simeon earn extra money in addition to the generous contractor fees the company would pay him.

That’s how desperate the company was to stay afloat.

It sounded like a no-brainer deal to Simeon.

In fact, it sounded almost too good to be true.

So, Simeon immediately agreed before Tony could change his mind. 🙂

To cut a long story short…

The deal worked out extremely well for both Tony and Simeon. It was a win-win for them.

Tony was able to keep his company afloat.

It was even able to expand operations because some of its competitors did not survive the supply chain disruption, and this created more demand for its services.

And… in virtually every single case, Simeon was able to find raw materials at prices lower than what Tony’s company were paying.

By the third month, the profits Simeon was making from the difference in prices exceeded the contractor fees that Tony’s company paid him.

By the fourth month, Simeon could afford to take Kev on a luxury summer holiday to Cancun.

He took his laptop with him and was still able to work for thirty minutes every day during the holiday.

What pleased Simeon most was that Kev didn’t have to wait till Christmas to get his PS5.

Most solopreneurs find themselves in exactly the same position that Simeon was in before Tony offered him the “too good to be true” deal.

The tragedy is that they don’t have a clue what the real problem is.

If this also applies to you then you are about to have a big “Eureka moment”.

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