Listen to What Ted Nicholas Has To Say When He Answered the Heroes Question "When Was The Lowest Point In Your Life and How Did You Change Your Life Path To One Of Victory Over the Obstacles You Were Facing at That Time?"
Ted Nicholas: Well, the lowest point of my life, I've been very blessed that I haven’t had any real severe lows, I guess the closest I've come to the lowest point is after many years is when I started my first business at age twenty-one. I was voted outstanding businessman in my state at age twenty-nine and I felt much honored.
A couple of years after that, a long series of events, most of which were out of my control, I was in the candy and ice cream business at the time. Two of my many stores were bypassed and I lost a lot of volume. I couldn't replace it because there were new toll roads that were taking the traffic away from my shops.
I started a franchise business and I basically had to close the business and it was very painful to me because some of my franchisees, some of my suppliers were hurt financially and although they almost all forgave me immediately for the circumstances that caused that, for me, I felt emotionally very low during that period.
So I would say that is kind of the ultimate depth that I felt. I felt that, rock bottom, that many of the things that I believed in and still do were, how do I say it, I questioned some of the things that I so believed in at those moments. I had some questions; I had a lot of thinking and feeling to get through that period.