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Welcome back to another episode of the Resellers Mindset Podcast.

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My name is Mike, also known as the used book guy on YouTube, along with my friend

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and fellow full-time reseller, Johnny B.

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We help people start and grow their reselling businesses from the ground up.

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We also have a weekly zoom call and private discord for all YouTube members.

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Head on over to youtube.com backslash use book guy to join the channel and gain

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access to the full length podcast zoom call and private discord today.

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Let's get into this week's episode.

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What is up everybody?

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Welcome into another episode of resellers mindset podcast, Mike, sitting next to

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Mr.

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Reading rainbow over here.

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If you're watching in YouTube, Johnny, look, he's even got the matching

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t-shirt with the background.

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I got to step my game up here.

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I apologize in advance.

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Johnny's got the topic today, so I'm going to sit back and he's going to

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take us right into this.

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Let's go.

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So since we're heading into a new year, 2025, um, law, I think that's an important

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year, we'll be looking back on 2025.

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Uh, we are not going to have any new fees in Amazon.

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So that's exciting.

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Does not mean they're not going to increase existing ones, but there's not

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going to be any new surprise fees that they slap us with.

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Uh, also the new year, I want to talk about schedule routine and regimen.

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Um, I think all three are key to successful business.

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Uh, first one being your schedule.

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So I'm going to, I'm going to assume some of you may be new because what happens

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to January people decide to start getting extra money.

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So what is a proper schedule in reselling to me?

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It is outlining your personal schedule because you're just starting out.

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So I'm going to assume you have a job of some form already.

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Um, and then figuring out where I can slot my, my side hustle in my

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reselling business in, and that's going to be dictated by your, your

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personal and work schedule.

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And you may have to trim things back the work schedule.

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You may not be able to control, but the personal stuff you can juggle around

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to mesh with your new secondary job, your side hustle, essentially.

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So first step outlining your work schedule and then where is your personal

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and then figuring out where to put in your reselling, uh, side hustle

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business within those parameters.

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And again, the personal be able to juggle around.

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If you're able to talk to your boss about getting any more conducive

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schedule for your day to day, or maybe, Hey, if I work a little harder

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during the week, can I have an extra day off?

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Like I'm doing the same hours.

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I just like an extra day off.

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If you have that flexibility, some of you may not have that flexibility.

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And the reason this is important is if everything's different every day, it

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makes it much harder to get through.

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Well, the day, essentially the grind, I'm going to call it it, cause it is going

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to be a grind because we've got work.

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We got personal and now we have side hustle.

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So your, your, your time is going to become more and more precious.

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So we need to maximize our side hustle time as much as we can in order to do

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that, our first two with our personal, our work schedule have to be in line.

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Otherwise you're going to hit it for like a week and then in the next week

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and follows with a chaotic schedule, you're going to crash and burn and

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you're going to get nothing accomplished in my opinion.

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Um, thoughts, Mike.

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I am going to side with all the people who like to fly by the seat of their

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pants and live vicariously through who the hell knows what's going to happen

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today, Johnny, um, I have, you know, I've been that person I'm a little better,

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but I will admit anybody out there listening right now and hear that person's

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like, I'm just kind of go when I can go and I kind of just squeeze it in and I

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kind of do things here and there.

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I'm right there next to you.

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It's it is hard to get yourself down and really narrow your time down and see

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where your time is spent and like I did the, uh, the monthly call schedule the

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other day and I made it up like a preliminary draft and I said to my wife,

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I said, here, take a look at this.

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And I was like, it seemed good to me, Johnny, right?

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I'm like, this looks great.

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And she, I got it like immediately back on my desk.

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Like this is this, what are you thinking?

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It was like colored in red with all your ears.

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I think it's one of those things where we have our own idea in our mind of what

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we think is like works best when it comes to fitting different things in

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timeline wise, when it comes to reselling.

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And it's almost the complete opposite because I do agree resellers waste a lot

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of time and having some type of structure where you can, because Johnny said it

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same way when I was at CBS, it was just what days can I get off and maybe

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sneak in a thrift store run.

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So if you're part-time, it's harder, but it's still is essential because

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you don't have as much time.

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So yes, it's harder because you don't know when you're going to have all, but

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those minutes, those hours you have are more precious to you versus the person

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like me and Johnny, like this is all we do.

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We kind of have more time to work with.

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So we can be a little bit more flexible schedule can sink you really fast.

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And that's probably the reason it took me as many years to build

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this business to what it is.

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I wouldn't say, I mean, it wasn't finding inventory.

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It was just a bad schedule, right?

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Instead of thrifting all day, I would go to one thrift store a day.

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Instead of going to 10 a day, I go to two, two a day and then come back home.

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And I'm driving the same way, like every single day.

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Like why not just hit everything when I drive across the river that way.

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And then I don't have to go back out that way again tomorrow.

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So there's a lot of like concrete proof that the schedule makes sense, but dude,

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I just think for people like me and many, many other resellers, it's tough.

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To be the person to be on the schedule.

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And that's me coming from somebody who worked at CBS for over 10 years as a

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store manager and like, I made everybody else's schedule, including my own.

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And it was tough leaving that world and trying to figure out the world of, okay,

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I'm still making my own schedule, but you got to take so many other things

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into consideration.

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And if you don't have the district manager barren debt, if you don't have

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the Deb over your shoulder, like slamming your schedule back on your desk, dude,

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there's you just do what you want.

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I mean, your schedule is not going to be perfect.

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You think it is, but you're going to actually do it and you're like, this

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doesn't work.

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So it's back to the drawing board.

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You tweak your schedule and it works better than it did.

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And you got to tweak it again the third week than the fourth week.

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And then at some point, some magical point on this journey, your schedule is

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pretty much perfect.

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Now there are going to be outlier things that disrupt you.

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You getting a flat tire is going to Jack Jack up your schedule.

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You having an impromptu guests wanting to stay with you is going to Jack up your

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schedule, an emergency family pets or otherwise, or personal emergency.

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That's going to Jack up your schedule.

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The schedule is going to spill into what we're going to go into next, which is

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routine.

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The schedule is part of the routine, the things on the schedule, your routine.

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Now having the flexibility in your routine for when things go awry, because

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we can only account for so much, unless you're really good at it, you're going

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to have to work so much, unless you're really good at a crystal ball, you can't

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predict everything.

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But when these things happen, if we've scheduled appropriately, we'll have

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enough buffer from all the work we've done where it doesn't impact us as much.

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An example of this, just doing a little bit extra like on your listings or one

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extra box a week.

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So if something happens and you have to miss your listings and or box, it's not

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going to be a huge impact because of all the little extra work you've done in

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the last week or so.

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And yeah, things are just going to come at you like the deal of the century, but

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that deal of the century takes up your whole week and you've lost now a week of

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what was your schedule in your normal routine.

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This comes outside of the routine.

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So the schedule keeps the routine in line until it's broken.

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But if we've done it correctly, again, we will have when it does break, it will

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be as clear as if we were willy-nilly all over the place.

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Yeah, and I think Mike's right.

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It's hard to self-manage yourself because if you're doing this full time, I

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could just sleep in today.

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It's hard to not give into that.

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I mean, you have the option if you need the time off, go for it.

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Also, while doing this, you may figure out I have no extra time.

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I can't get what I want done in a single day.

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Well, the point of this exercise is, well, the one key thing that we all do

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in abundance of, and some people may turn us off right here and right now when

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I say this, is usually what happens is you have to give up sleep either on the

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front end or the back end.

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Either you're getting up earlier or you're staying up a little later to cram

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in your personal goals.

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It's that you dial those personal goals way back if you're unwilling to give up

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the sleep, but the correct answer in my not-so-humble opinion is to give up a

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little sleep either on the front or back end or perhaps both.

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I promise you, just like a regular job, if you have to work a double, well,

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you're sleeping a little less to work that double kind of deal.

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And sometimes you may have to do that on those, like what I mentioned earlier,

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those deals of a lifetime that's going to take a full week of work.

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You're going to have to sleep a little less to get everything in.

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That's just, that's the real hack.

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If you sleep a little less and work a little more.

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I, cause I think over the lifetime, a person sleeps 29 years.

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You're asleep 29 years of time.

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I, I for one, am not giving up sleep, but I don't have the commitments, but I

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know for a fact that commitments are not an excuse because I have, you know,

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coaching calls with people that come from all walks of life that have multiple kids,

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multiple opportunities that are spinning around them, work full-time jobs, and

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they still get it done.

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The idea you don't have time.

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Yes, it can be true to a certain extent, but I think it's kind of spun up in our

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minds too much because we do waste a lot of time, you know, doing things that

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aren't productive, but if you are the person that's working all the time, you

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feel like you're not getting nowhere.

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You still got to change something, right?

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Like I'm not reselling, dude.

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I'm not, I'm not selling on Amazon.

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40 plus hours a week, if the money is not rolling in, like I need to be making

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some serious money, if you're going to have me out of the storage unit in 30

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degree weather around the clock in the thrift stores, source him.

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People have commitments, but that's not an excuse for them.

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You know what those people do?

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They use those time commitments or that's taking care of a family member, raising

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kids, you know, being the head of the household.

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They use that as motivation to what Johnny said is to, okay, well, you

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know what I can, it's okay.

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I can say up an extra hour later.

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I can, you know, not watch squid games, right?

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I just started watching squid games last night.

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Season two, uh, shameless plug.

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I only watched one episode.

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We'll see if I stick with 15 minutes in, then I fell asleep in my defense.

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I've, uh, I built my business to a point where I don't have to be in it that much,

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but you know, this year I do plan on getting out more and kind of seeing

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what I can turn this business into.

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Like what is the potential as a one or two person operation?

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If I can con my wife to come out with me a little bit this year.

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So for me, I fall on the opposite side.

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Like it's funny because Johnny talks about all this structure and I'm

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literally like the complete opposite of it.

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I do have structure.

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I'm much more than I used to be, which is crazy, right?

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I used to just do whatever the hell I wanted.

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Um, but I do fall on the other side of you have to, you have to enjoy life.

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So, right.

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Like if you're miserable reselling, then you probably shouldn't be

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sacrificing your time doing it to begin with.

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So the idea that these people get stuck spending all this time and

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they don't get the results.

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I just don't understand it because if I hated reselling and I was

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spending a lot of time doing it, I would just, I just wouldn't do it.

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But for some reason we continue to drag ourselves and not be productive in

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the hours we give the business is another one, right?

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Like if I'm, if I tell myself I'm going drifting today, Johnny, the only thing

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I'm doing in the thrift store is going in, scanning the media and leaving.

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I'm not shopping around.

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Maybe if Deb wants something or she's looking for something particular,

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maybe she wants a little knickknack or something.

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I'll go run down the aisle real quick and glance.

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But I know that when we go in thrift stores, it's like, it's like

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walking into the fair, right?

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You're like, Oh, there's corn dogs over there.

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It's cotton candy over there.

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I'm like, I'm just here for the fries and I'm out of here.

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Right?

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Like I'm not messing around with nothing else.

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We get so distracted and we waste so much time.

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And it's cheesy to say like you're wasting time at the thrift store, but

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you are thinking about how many more stores you can go to.

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And we scan media.

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We scan tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of media barcodes every

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single year.

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And I know for a fact, people do not scan the majority of items in thrift

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stores.

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They play the stupid game of I can go in and I can look at the shelves

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and I can pick out which ones I think are worth it.

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And it's the reason why I've lasted this long.

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And it's the reason why I've been able to grow the business the way I have

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is because I put the work in Johnny.

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I scan this shit.

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People are like, I don't scan fiction.

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I don't scan kids books.

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I just literally send in a full box of kids books.

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No other bookseller is going to mess around with it.

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The fiction stuff sells super fast.

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We were talking about triggers before this.

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Anything that's going to sell the same day and I'm going to make three,

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four bucks on I'm buying that every single time.

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But for some reason we I don't know.

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It's like we got to take shortcuts and in basically what we're supposed

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to do what our job is.

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Well, I don't know.

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Understand why resellers.

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We always got to be trying to find like a secret hack to make it easier.

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It's not easier.

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It's just work.

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Yeah, I mean there is no easy button in reselling.

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It's it's work.

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Like you said, it's hard work week after week day after day month

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after month year over year because every year we think about how we can

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do better and we're in January here.

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How can I do 2025 better?

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Well, I think a schedule is a great first step than having a

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routine and then the regiment which is very similar to routine.

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It's a plan set of actions you take to accomplish which all start back

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the schedule.

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So what are the actions that are part of our routine and us being

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able to diagnose and pulling out the unimportant actions and putting

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more time or replacing them with impactful profitable actions.

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I think is an art form in and of itself because it's a very

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difficult task because we can work long extreme hours doing dumb stuff

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or ways to time things like I think we're all guilty of this early on

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in the journey.

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We watch way too much YouTube to figure out we're trying to be like

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sponges and get everything right and absorb everything and there's

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nothing wrong with that minus the hours you pump into that do a little

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bit of education.

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And build on that once you got that now take that other thing and

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build on that if you're the person that watches YouTube for six hours

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and does your reselling business one hour that that is a teeter-totter

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that is in proportion.

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It's portion incorrectly.

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So we need to balance out with the regiment in the routine and the

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schedule.

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So yeah, if it part of your schedule you should definitely put in

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education in there when you make it.

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I do think it's important to learn from others very much.

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Knowledge is very much power.

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However, most of our hours need to be pumped into actually doing the

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work part of our business, but we can't do too much work because if

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we have that family bracket in her schedule and that's only 30 minutes

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a day your family is going to be very very upset with you.

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You're working all the time first your day job and when you come home

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when you're supposed to be spending time with me you immediately go

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to the photography room or you immediately go to the Amazon room or

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you're backed out.

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You came in use the restroom grab some coffee and you went off the

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bookstore.

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You didn't even say hello.

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You're a jerk big jerk face at that point and they're right.

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You're wrong in this instance.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Because I mean think about it this way.

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We talked about it many many podcast episode to go but I still think

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it's the truest thing you there has to be sacrifices made but it can't

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be an infinite sacrifice for the rest of your life.

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If I go to Deb and say hey, I want to do XYZ and here's what it's

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going to take for the next three to six months to get to get it where

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it needs to be then that's fine.

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But the idea of week we just we're just always doing it and we're

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never getting nowhere.

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We're never gaining ground.

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Like Johnny said nobody in their right mind is going to deal with

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you.

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If you come home from work, you work 40 50 hours a week.

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We go right to your reselling business.

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You got a significant other you got that is not healthy by any means

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necessary.

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So you got to find other ways to wiggle this in and people are up

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listing at 1 a.m. 2 a.m. because they realize this is a sacrifice

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for a period of time that's going to change my financial future in

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a way that I can't otherwise do so you sacrifice for a period of

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time and it's it's not forever and I think resellers get in this

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trapped up.

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We're never getting anywhere.

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But you feel like you're giving your whole life away to the business.

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No, absolutely.

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And if you have a significant other or you have children, you're

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single parent you need to sit down with either and or both whatever

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your circumstance may be and like I made this schedule myself, but

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I need feedback from you because I want to make sure you people

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that are important to me get your time with me and what you're

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looking at here.

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Is it enough for you or do I need to go back and trim it off and

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well resubmit it to you guys because they need to be on board

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with what you're doing because if you're at odds with each other

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that's going to cause both mental real estate on you or unplanned

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mental real estate when they yell at you for being a bad person

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in life and you are a bad person life if you lack the communication

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skill communications key when you're getting into this in my

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opinion, so start the year off right talk to them make a schedule

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adjust the routine and whatever the marching regimen of your

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planned action course is and and it could be your significant

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other is totally against up first once the money starts rolling

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it.

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You know what honey, you know that two-hour long where we watch

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we're going to cut that down to one.

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I want you making more money for us because we can do more things

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in life that way.

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It's a give-and-take especially in that regard even if you're

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dating get the girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever in line of

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what what makes us work with us still being able to have a

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relationship because this is what I'm thinking, but your input

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is very important to me.

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Even if it's like an early stage relationship and if you don't

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have a significant other you need to have this conversation

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with yourself like 100% so you don't escape this if you're the

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person like well, I don't have no kids.

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I'm by myself.

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No, you're not getting away from us here.

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You need to have this conversation with yourself.

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I think the schedule and understanding this I think you know

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because there's always going to be moving pieces.

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Johnny said earlier like I'll give a perfect example when when

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a state cell company reaches out to me or library reaches out

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to me.

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It's not like it's every second Monday of the month.

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I know I'm going to get it.

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It's usually a I got a state cell going on tomorrow or like

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so there's always going to be moving parts.

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But if you have everything else in line, it's easy to kind of

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shift things around and make it make sense if you have it all

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plotted out.

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Okay, then you can just drag and drop like your whole day,

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right?

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You just drag your Monday to Wednesday and that's a okay and

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you just kind of work it work it that way.

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But if you don't have no idea what's going on and then you

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get the text message.

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Oh, yeah, I need you here tomorrow to go come pick up a

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carload of books your whole week and your whole month is

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blown up because of that.

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So there can be moving parts in your schedule.

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Not everything is going to be all right.

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This is dead set.

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This is exactly how it's going to be.

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There's always going to be moving things going on.

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Right and so we're giving you the baseline, but I'm not going

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to move on to what I've learned and Mike's learned.

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Hopefully he has learned things that he'll share with us about

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how to adjust these when things happen.

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So I'll give you a perfect for instance, like shipping what

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causes you to not move your body while shipping.

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I think that's very important.

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You're taking very little steps either you're turning or you're

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moving your your torso up or down.

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I'm making hand animations.

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If you're listening to me, you cannot see what I'm doing right

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now, but I'm sure I look like a mime even though I'm talking

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but removing steps and it's not a metaphor here.

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It's literal steps like you taking a single step to the left

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or right or ten steps over if your mailers are on the other

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side of the room, you're constantly going back and forth.

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You're doing it wrong.

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Figure out a way where the mailers are in front of you at

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the shipping station where you literally just have to pick it

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up and then do your packaging or whatever that'll save you

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those precious seconds for talking about especially if you're

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just starting this and you got the job and you got the family

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need when you're doing something.

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How do I eliminate physical steps and or the additional steps

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in a secondary stage maybe maybe the second thing I move to

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on for my action or whatever my I'm doing.

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Let's say it's shipping and then I need to do my mail run.

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Well, maybe to save yourself a little bit of time you have

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I don't know a tote beneath you that you're tossing these tubs

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in and then when you pick it up you just clear on out to the

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mail run.

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So figuring out how to eliminate steps or make a next stage

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of your process and your work routine more efficient is very

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vital but you need to do this with everything because every

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minute and this is precious and you working or eliminating time

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to squeeze more time in either personal time or extra reselling

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time or getting a little bit of extra sleep if you need it.

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If you're one of those individuals that needs more sleep,

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I'm a weirdo and I don't need much sleep apparently, but yeah,

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I mean that I think that is a very critical thing.

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Do you have something similar or an example?

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I am yet again on the opposite side of John illness.

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Like I remember when way back when when we first kind of

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were having conversations when we first met back in, you know,

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1990 you were you you've always been this way about like cutting

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seconds out of processes and to me dude at first I'm like you

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too.

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You're talking like one second.

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I got to twist my body like but I do agree.

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I've come a long way since then it adds up quickly, especially

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as you start to scale the business.

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So even right now you might not be the person that's packing

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50 orders a day, right?

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But sooner or later you're going to get there.

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So let's start thinking about plans and ways to make this

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make sense.

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We had we also had podcast episodes talking about shipping

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right and like uniformity and shipping to make your life

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easier.

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Everything's right there in front of you all your stuff's right

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there.

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You're not going to back to this twisting around in my computer

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chair all day long, right?

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I'm not like grabbing one scanning it twisting.

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So there is a lot to be said about processes in your routine

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and your regimen and that's the only reason I've been able to

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cut my time back to you know, the 20 hours a week is because

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I've repeatedly changed the way I process things to a point

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where it is the most time efficient and I still suck at it,

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right?

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There's still space.

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I don't think anybody out there's like that the perfect

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perfect perfect can every second possibly shade every

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single time.

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I don't think that exists.

479
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So there's always room for improvement, but you got to it

480
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,480
adds up and like especially if you're like me and you want

481
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,380
to watch Unsolved Mysteries listen, if this little change is

482
00:24:30,380 --> 00:24:32,580
going to give you an extra episode at the end of the night,

483
00:24:32,980 --> 00:24:36,280
let's you know, like I need to go sit down with Robert stack

484
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,180
when you know watch an episode we need to solve some

485
00:24:38,180 --> 00:24:38,680
mysteries.

486
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,480
I call in the hotline every night like hey, I know what

487
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,480
happened here, right?

488
00:24:43,380 --> 00:24:46,980
There's there's motivation behind it and I think all of

489
00:24:46,980 --> 00:24:51,180
this comes down to the routine of regimen the schedule its

490
00:24:51,180 --> 00:24:53,080
structure in a business.

491
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,780
You are a business as much as you think reselling and flipper

492
00:24:57,980 --> 00:25:01,680
and you know, I'm just as cool girl or guy that just goes

493
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,080
and does things that is how you lose in this game.

494
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,780
You have to treat it like a business and all businesses

495
00:25:07,780 --> 00:25:08,680
have structure.

496
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:09,380
Sure.

497
00:25:09,380 --> 00:25:10,780
It might not seem like from the outside.

498
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:12,580
Just Johnny B, right?

499
00:25:12,580 --> 00:25:14,580
But once you peel back the layers, okay.

500
00:25:14,580 --> 00:25:16,280
Well, here's what he does this day.

501
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,280
Here's what he does this day.

502
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,180
He's off this day.

503
00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:20,280
He's got this relationship that he's got to go take care

504
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:20,580
of.

505
00:25:20,580 --> 00:25:25,280
So everybody has a structure their business structure almost

506
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,080
if you're by yourself, it's just what what is your business

507
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,380
structure look like but we don't think of it that way.

508
00:25:30,380 --> 00:25:33,180
We just think it is well do we're just cool resellers and

509
00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:35,780
we're we're hip over here in the reselling land.

510
00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:37,480
We kind of can just do whatever the hell we want.

511
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,680
Right and it's using the brain case your thinking power to

512
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,780
figure out how to get my time back to go do this.

513
00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:48,080
This can be personal.

514
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,180
This can be sleep related.

515
00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:52,180
This can be a relationship really.

516
00:25:52,180 --> 00:25:56,180
It's just to fuel more minutes to over there wherever over

517
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:59,180
there may be for you another example of this.

518
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,480
I'll use an employee here, but you can do the same thing

519
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,980
if you're just working by yourself.

520
00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:06,980
So if you got an employee you taking a second you've given

521
00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:08,880
them the task you watch them.

522
00:26:09,180 --> 00:26:12,880
What are they doing to waste time quote unquote, they're

523
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,080
unaware of it whether if they're taking photos that

524
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,980
they're constantly putting the camera down.

525
00:26:16,980 --> 00:26:20,180
Okay, like how do you not put the camera down between each

526
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,380
item because that adds up especially if you're doing

527
00:26:23,380 --> 00:26:24,680
hundreds of items at a time.

528
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,380
So well, how do I watch myself because it's just me.

529
00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:32,880
I don't got any employees Johnny you record yourself.

530
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,680
Everybody has well, I'm not going to say everybody.

531
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,880
I'm going to say most people have some kind of recording

532
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,880
device record yourself doing a mundane task.

533
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,780
How can you get through that shit because it's shitty

534
00:26:44,780 --> 00:26:47,080
because it's mundane faster because you want to get through

535
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,080
that as fast as possible whether that shipping whether

536
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,280
that's pulling and packing where that's processing whether

537
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,180
that's unloading the vehicle record yourself.

538
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,880
What are you you'll notice little things that you're

539
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,280
unaware of that you're doing incorrectly or like hey, I

540
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,680
shouldn't be putting this unloading a tub and then pulling

541
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,980
out a single item at a time to reload the tub.

542
00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:09,680
No, just pull the tub out put it on a get a cart to pull

543
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,480
it on out roll it on in simple things like that.

544
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,380
They add up but if you in order for them to add up you

545
00:27:16,380 --> 00:27:20,280
got to analyze all aspects of your business and the and

546
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,580
the one we hate the most the bookkeeping part that needs

547
00:27:24,780 --> 00:27:27,080
that that's very much part of the schedule and routine

548
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:27,780
regimen.

549
00:27:27,780 --> 00:27:30,980
I think as well whether you're doing it weekly or monthly

550
00:27:31,380 --> 00:27:34,180
if you're extra special, maybe you're even doing it daily

551
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,180
just to keep everything in check.

552
00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:42,480
I think you got a I think you got a load the task into

553
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:47,080
time slots that makes sense and I think the idea of doing

554
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,980
it at all at once versus broken down over days wins every

555
00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:52,680
single time at least in my experience, right?

556
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,780
Like I was tell everybody like I packed boxes on Saturdays,

557
00:27:55,780 --> 00:27:56,080
right?

558
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,880
You can't see the boxes because they're hiding behind you

559
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:58,780
in a green screen.

560
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,580
I don't actually it's all fake.

561
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,680
I have everything's fake.

562
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:03,180
This is off.

563
00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:04,480
This is all just a simulation.

564
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,380
I'm not even I'm just AI but I think the idea like bookkeeping

565
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,080
I do, you know, QuickBooks self-employed.

566
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,180
So like I upload all my own receipts and it's Johnny said

567
00:28:15,180 --> 00:28:17,880
I get a little stack here underneath my my computer screen

568
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,980
and just knock them out one day.

569
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,280
I think the people that will lose in this are the people

570
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,480
that try to do every little task every day that doesn't

571
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,680
need to get done every day, right?

572
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,280
So I come back from thrift in I take photos of my receipts

573
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,480
right then and there versus have a pile of my receipts set

574
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,080
a timeout one day of the week and I go do everything.

575
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,580
It's the same with packing boxes.

576
00:28:39,580 --> 00:28:42,680
Now as you scale if you have too much inventory, right?

577
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,580
Like and you can't pack it on one day then yes, you got to

578
00:28:45,580 --> 00:28:48,980
figure out a better another day to work, but I'm not going

579
00:28:48,980 --> 00:28:51,580
thrift in bringing it home peel the stickers and then packing

580
00:28:51,580 --> 00:28:55,580
the box the same day if you set the task for one single day

581
00:28:55,580 --> 00:28:58,580
you can be more focused on what's in front of you and it

582
00:28:58,580 --> 00:29:01,180
actually saves you time by doing that way even though at

583
00:29:01,180 --> 00:29:04,180
the time you're like why just threw I bring up all my like

584
00:29:04,180 --> 00:29:06,480
Ikea bags full of stuff and Deb's like you got all these

585
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,380
bags all over the place.

586
00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:09,780
I'm like, yeah, it'll get taken care of, you know come Friday

587
00:29:09,780 --> 00:29:12,580
Saturday because I usually try to prep a lot of this stuff

588
00:29:12,580 --> 00:29:12,980
Friday.

589
00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:15,380
So Saturday all I'm doing is listing and labeling.

590
00:29:15,780 --> 00:29:18,180
I think that you got to get over that hurdle.

591
00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:21,480
I know a lot of people that resell it's like the OCD brain

592
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,680
where they got it there and it needs to get done right away

593
00:29:24,980 --> 00:29:27,480
and I'm here to tell you it'll get done but doing it right

594
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,680
away is actually costing you more time instead of you just

595
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,580
set a certain day in time frame to get it done then but then

596
00:29:33,580 --> 00:29:34,980
you can get it all done at once.

597
00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:35,880
You're more focused.

598
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,280
Yeah, along these lines.

599
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,680
This is mainly the Amazon people you could pack a box a day

600
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,480
or you could pack seven boxes in one day.

601
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:50,180
I think the seven boxes in one day is doable a full day like

602
00:29:50,180 --> 00:29:52,880
is your day off but you've assigned your day after reselling

603
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,880
because taking a pack in a box does take a little bit of time.

604
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,680
However, the bigger hack I think even on top of that is

605
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,380
depending on the relationship with your ups driver.

606
00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:07,180
We've talked about relationships and plenty of other previous

607
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:09,180
videos to go back and listen to all of those.

608
00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:09,780
It's covered.

609
00:30:09,780 --> 00:30:13,780
I promise you having that guy come in and picking up the seven

610
00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:16,980
boxes instead of you having to go out and if you're at the

611
00:30:16,980 --> 00:30:19,880
point where you're doing multiple boxes a day again having

612
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:26,580
him come out on a single pickup day is optimal because let's

613
00:30:26,580 --> 00:30:28,980
say it's 10 minutes away, but that's 10 minutes away every

614
00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:29,180
day.

615
00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:31,480
That's an hour of your driving time.

616
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,480
It might kind of rushed on this earlier.

617
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,780
Sourcing having a sourcing route.

618
00:30:37,780 --> 00:30:40,080
He was going to a thrift every day and then he just say, you

619
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:40,380
know what?

620
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:42,780
I'm just going to do all the thrifts in this one day and

621
00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:45,780
knock it all out in this one area because this one area I

622
00:30:45,780 --> 00:30:48,580
assume is a fair distance away maybe half an hour or longer.

623
00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:53,980
So doing an hour commute each way seven days versus doing an

624
00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:58,980
hour commute once a week is going to save you a lot of time.

625
00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:01,580
Ladies and gentlemen, it's just simple as that.

626
00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:03,380
So figuring out that kind of stuff.

627
00:31:03,380 --> 00:31:07,180
How can you batch these process together to get knocked out

628
00:31:07,180 --> 00:31:07,980
on a single day?

629
00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:11,180
And if you're at the point of your business where the batch

630
00:31:11,180 --> 00:31:14,580
processing is happening every day, well, you're further along

631
00:31:14,580 --> 00:31:17,680
than probably most of the people that this podcast applies

632
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,180
to 100%.

633
00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:20,480
So we're going to wrap it up here, right?

634
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:26,180
I just I admitted this podcast episode that my structure sucks.

635
00:31:26,180 --> 00:31:28,080
I'm like most of you out there reselling.

636
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,880
We kind of try to figure it out as we go.

637
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,880
You don't have to be the crazy time slaughter like Johnny is

638
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,380
but little changes little tweaks in your schedule a little

639
00:31:36,380 --> 00:31:37,280
bit of structure.

640
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,580
I promise you will go a long way.

641
00:31:39,580 --> 00:31:40,980
So start thinking about this year.

642
00:31:40,980 --> 00:31:41,980
What can I do?

643
00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:44,780
What do I feel like I'm wasting time on or what what task can

644
00:31:44,780 --> 00:31:45,780
I batch together?

645
00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:48,580
That's going to get me some time back, especially if you don't

646
00:31:48,580 --> 00:31:49,380
have a lot of time.

647
00:31:49,380 --> 00:31:51,280
So that's going to do it for this week's episode.

648
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,780
We'll talk to you all next week.

649
00:31:52,780 --> 00:31:55,580
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650
00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:56,780
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651
00:31:56,780 --> 00:31:59,980
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652
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