1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Welcome back to another episode of the Resellers Mindset Podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,000 My name is Mike, also known as the used book guy on YouTube, along with my friend 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,120 and fellow full-time reseller, Johnny B. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,720 We help people start and grow their reselling businesses from the ground up. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,640 We also have a weekly zoom call and private discord for all YouTube members. 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,180 Head on over to youtube.com backslash use book guy to join the channel and gain 7 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:25,480 access to the full length podcast zoom call and private discord today. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,360 Let's get into this week's episode. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:28,320 What is up everybody? 10 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,600 Welcome into episode 20, the last episode where we'll be able to throw our fingers 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,640 up and do the amount of episode number we are at. 12 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,360 It was nice knowing you hands. 13 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,560 No more of this nonsense over for those watching on the YouTube. 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,840 Today's topic is a, I think it's an important one because, you know, it really 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,280 kind of affects your actual health and life. 16 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:53,040 We were going to talk about basically reselling business obsession and, you 17 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,760 know, kind of the rabbit hole. 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,280 A lot of people go down and you see a lot of the, oh, just keep grinding, 19 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,000 comments on social media, everywhere you look, just keep grinding and grinding. 20 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,920 Well, what happens if, you know, what happens if you never, never stop grinding? 21 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:06,200 Right. 22 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,440 How many years of your life are you taking off by, uh, investing all this time? 23 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,640 And this wasn't my idea or Johnny B's idea. 24 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,800 So we're going to credit Terry G over on the YouTube. 25 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,480 He's been around on the YouTube before, you know, I was even anybody, not 26 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,400 that I'm somebody now, but he, you know, he was probably one of my first few 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,000 subscribers and he always has, you know, he used to be a wise crack with his 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,480 comments, but he put a comment out there. 29 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,440 I'll read his comment. 30 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,360 Just kind of give you guys the context of the topic today. 31 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,120 He says, get the impression that many resellers are totally obsessed with their 32 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:43,000 business to the exclusion of everything else involved in having a balanced life. 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,240 This is especially true for a one person solopreneur like myself. 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,240 I hear sellers talking about starting at 5 a.m. 35 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,080 and working until late at night. 36 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,200 Is there anything else in between? 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,520 What about addressing and taking care of one's health, social life, spiritual 38 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,800 life, hobbies, plain old, relax and time travel, et cetera, how to balance all 39 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,280 of these things out, and you're going to get two different sides of the spectrum 40 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,080 here because Johnny B works a lot harder and a lot longer hours than I do. 41 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,760 So I don't want to seem like I'm picking on the guy, but he's going to have a 42 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,160 a little bit more of a, a true, true life, you know, kind of relation to this 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,680 topic than I do because I don't put in the time he does. 44 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,640 So I don't even know where we begin with this. 45 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:33,400 I guess we just begin with what a normal day looks like for you. 46 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:34,680 Me. 47 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,200 Well, I feel like this question is calling me out, but no, I actually 48 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:44,680 responded to this one specifically and he's not wrong at all. 49 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,120 I am trading my time now for more freedom of a balanced life later. 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,880 Because my business is working and it's growing and it's going up. 51 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,320 So I will get my time later. 52 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,600 I've started having employees to free my time up even more able to clock out a 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,000 little earlier these days now. 54 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,040 So it will get easier over time. 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,960 However, let's start at the beginning. 56 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,080 When do I wake up? 57 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,160 I do wake up at 5 a.m. 58 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,400 Just like he said, amazing. 59 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,080 Oh my God. 60 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:15,200 Right. 61 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,480 Don't think we're doing podcasts at 5 a.m. 62 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,040 No chance, buddy. 63 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,680 I mean, if he could start to my day, right? 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,840 I'll be a little groggy. 65 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,480 I don't have a coffee yet, Mike. 66 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,320 Hold on. 67 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:32,680 But no, I have to do it this way because I have to work harder than a typical 68 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,000 nine to five in order to accelerate my business's growth. 69 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,240 And it has worked. 70 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:38,960 That statement is true. 71 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,480 It works just like that. 72 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,000 So maybe I work like the equivalent of two to three people. 73 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,200 And you have to do that as a solo person, just like me. 74 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,720 A solo person, just like he said in his question in order to make it grow faster. 75 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,440 The only real hack in this business is time. 76 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:02,080 You get in what you get out, what you put in, essentially, especially on eBay. 77 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,480 I'm very eBay intensive. 78 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,880 Amazon, I could see a little bit more relaxed in that state. 79 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,360 I mean, other than maybe you have to drive if you're doing the full time Amazon, 80 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,920 literally full time drive along way, have a longer route, all that fun stuff. 81 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,080 Maybe go state to state kind of deal. 82 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,880 I could have seen doing something similar on that. 83 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,960 If I was solely Amazon, I was got a big old truck or maybe a trailer on back or 84 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,640 maybe one of those by my own box truck, do it that way. 85 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:33,800 What do you give up doing this lifestyle? 86 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:34,600 You give up a lot. 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,960 I don't go out on Friday night and hang out and pitch back a few beers with friends. 88 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:39,640 I don't do that. 89 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,320 I prefer to work personally because I know I'm invested in my goals and my dreams 90 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:46,160 that I have. 91 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,600 I call it a purpose driven life. 92 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,840 My purpose is to do this business and get it out of the way in the sense of I built 93 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:56,760 it up enough where I can get to those fun things. 94 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,320 Yeah, I want to travel. 95 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,240 Yeah, I want to have those Friday night beer nights, man. 96 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,280 That sounds like fun. 97 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:03,400 I have no fun right now. 98 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,480 Well, that's not true. 99 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,080 I do have a lot of fun with what I do. 100 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,240 I'm doing a podcast, so there's a little break right there, right? 101 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,920 I think an important thing to preface here is that before we both got into reselling, 102 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:21,760 our previous jobs were 50 plus hour weeks every week on call around the clock. 103 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,800 So that is something to put out there because our experience with work prior to doing 104 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,520 reselling was if the phone rings, you got to pick it up and you got to be at work. 105 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,600 There's no negotiating that. 106 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,360 So when he sits here and says he's putting in these hours, he basically just said, 107 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,960 I'm going to start putting in these hours for myself versus somebody else. 108 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:50,000 So it's not like he went from sitting on his butt doing nothing to working 80 plus hours 109 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:50,520 a week. 110 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,400 This was something we were already doing prior to reselling business. 111 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,160 And we said, wait a minute, if we invest all this time that we're investing in these 112 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:02,040 companies for ourselves, then the potential is unlimited. 113 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,160 We're going to be doing this for the rest of our lives. 114 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:05,800 The potential is unlimited. 115 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,400 We can achieve anything we want to achieve. 116 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,800 I think that has to be said because people, this isn't something where we just decided 117 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,520 to start from nothing. 118 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,480 Like we had no obligations. 119 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,720 But prior to this, we got out of terrible situations where we were working long hours 120 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,760 and just put them on ourself, just put them on our own bank. 121 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,640 We answer the phone to ourself now, not nobody else. 122 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,640 Right. 123 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:29,920 I mean, I spoke about this previously. 124 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,960 I was a partner in one company, had my own side company on the side. 125 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,080 That was my own business, that side thing. 126 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,520 It was OK money. 127 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:41,080 But I would still have to, like you said, pick up the call when it rained because I 128 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,400 was the smallest partner there. 129 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,480 I didn't own the majority share of that company. 130 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,200 So I was pretty much an employee, even though I was a partner. 131 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,760 It didn't matter if it was 3 a.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. 132 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,440 They called, you answered. 133 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,360 It's not like I didn't have fun at that job either, but it's not something I would like 134 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,960 to do for the rest of my life. 135 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:01,320 Here I call the shots. 136 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:07,560 I get the majority of the money and I'm running a successful business, all things considered. 137 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,240 Is it the end of the rainbow on my journey? 138 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,240 No. 139 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,080 I probably got another two, three years before I'm OK. 140 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,600 Somewhere on this rainbow is kind of toward the end. 141 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,520 I've got all the things going. 142 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,000 Maybe I don't get up at 5 a.m. 143 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Well, that's probably not true. 144 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,720 I probably go to bed earlier is what's going to happen. 145 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:31,400 But yeah, instead of like 5 to like 11 or midnight, 5 a.m. to 11 or midnight, maybe 146 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,920 it's 5 a.m. to like 5 p.m. 147 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,680 That sounds good to me, right? 148 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,040 Or 5 a.m. to 4 p.m., 3 p.m. 149 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,040 That kind of thing. 150 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,040 My day's done. 151 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:43,600 I did everything that needed to get done. 152 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,960 All the cogs are in the machine. 153 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,600 They're turning away. 154 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,360 Full on automation, essentially. 155 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:51,560 Get to that point. 156 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,280 That's what I'm growing, too. 157 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,280 That's the appeal, right? 158 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,240 That's the appeal to Amazon, eBay. 159 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,960 We can sit here and say this. 160 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:04,240 I'm confident in saying this statement here is that you're going to get more results on 161 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:08,920 eBay, the more time you put into doing the tasks that eBay requires. 162 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,000 So if I'm listing one a day and you're listing a hundred a day, well, then guess what? 163 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,360 You're going to make 100 times money than I'm going to, right? 164 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,840 In the businesses we have when it comes to media. 165 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,800 If we're comparing apples to apples, I'm not selling Rolex watches and you're selling 166 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,280 crusty old books. 167 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:26,680 We're selling the same thing here, right? 168 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,600 If we were both selling Rolex watches, you would still make 100 times more than I would. 169 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,480 That's just the law of averages, the way things work. 170 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:39,560 So it's time intensive, eBay is, but you're only going to get in what you put out when 171 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:41,400 it comes to eBay, in my opinion. 172 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,200 If it's something where you just... 173 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,440 Part-time eBay does exist, but it's a hard thing to kind of manage because it comes with 174 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,360 all the customer service, a lot of your own packing and shipping. 175 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,280 And I think that's where a lot of people, at least a lot of people, other YouTubers 176 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,600 I see get caught up with just eBay consumes their whole life. 177 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,920 You rarely see kind of Amazon YouTubers where they're consumed by everything going on within 178 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,200 the business because a lot of it's hands off. 179 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:12,760 You just pack it and ship it, source it, pack it, ship it. 180 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:13,760 And you kind of forget about it. 181 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,720 And eBay, like you said, it's an all day event if you want to do this full time, there's 182 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,000 no little hacks to do eBay. 183 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,680 You can't do eBay one or two hours a day and have a full-time eBay business, unlike Amazon, 184 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:29,200 where you probably can get away doing that. 185 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,160 Now that being said, I know people who work really, really hard at eBay, quote unquote 186 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,040 hard, but they're doing it wrong. 187 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,240 And they're doing it wrong because they won't listen to it. 188 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,400 Why is there successful people? 189 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,480 They ask questions, they get an answer and they don't do the answer. 190 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,280 They don't execute how to make their business better. 191 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:53,240 Their content and for whatever reason, doing it wrong and they aren't successful and they've 192 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,680 been doing eBay 20, 25 years, 30 years. 193 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:58,160 And that makes me sad. 194 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:03,280 Now when I get told something by wiser, more successful people than I, I listen to what 195 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:04,880 they have to say. 196 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,600 Do I do 100% of what they say? 197 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,040 I can't say that truthfully. 198 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,440 There's some things where I just don't disagree where it makes sense for their business, but 199 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,360 it doesn't make sense for my business. 200 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,920 But for the majority of the answers I get, I do listen and I follow through with that. 201 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,680 And if they're wrong, they're wrong and I adjust for that wrongness. 202 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,520 But if they're right, I stick to it kind of deal. 203 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,560 I'll at least try what they're saying to see if it works for me. 204 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,320 Whereas others, like I mentioned, sadly, they don't even try. 205 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,240 Burnout, burnout happens a million times faster if you're not seeing results. 206 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:47,280 So if I'm sitting there like you, doing the same exact schedule you have, and I'm using 207 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:53,040 the stock photo, the same description for everything on eBay, I'm going to be burned 208 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,680 out after a week. 209 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:57,720 Now you see results. 210 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,640 So when you see the business actually working the way it should, the burnout kind of, I 211 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,720 would say almost takes a backseat for a while because you're like, hey, look, what I'm doing 212 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,880 is working the money's coming into the business. 213 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,520 I can pay my employees. 214 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,880 I can pay myself. 215 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,480 I got everything in place. 216 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:15,480 Everything's working the way it should. 217 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,920 So burnout really kind of, sure, I'm sure you have days where you're like, man, this 218 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,120 sucks, but it's not as bad as it would be if you weren't getting results. 219 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:24,120 You'd be done. 220 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:25,120 You'd be like, I'm not doing this. 221 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,120 This is stupid. 222 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:27,120 Right. 223 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:32,760 No, I definitely have those days where, man, I do not want to list, but I have to list. 224 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,880 I have to get it done because this is again, my purpose driven life. 225 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:43,040 And part of my purpose, unfortunately, is doing listings every single day, no matter 226 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,040 what. 227 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,440 Just kind of like the post office, except I'm better than post office. 228 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,600 I do remain open when it rains, sleets or snows or hails or tornadoes. 229 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:51,600 Doesn't matter. 230 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,600 Power goes out. 231 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,600 It doesn't matter. 232 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,760 I'll use my phone to do my listings, launch my listings, whatever. 233 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,600 It's a 20, it's an everyday thing. 234 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,080 Amazon's a little bit more forgiving in that fact. 235 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,800 It doesn't have to be an everyday thing. 236 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:09,880 And I'm very envious of the people that can make Amazon their full time business. 237 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:10,880 Could I do that? 238 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:12,880 Do I have to work as hard as I do? 239 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,480 No, I have options. 240 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,920 I could be a full time Amazon guy, but I'm so invested in eBay. 241 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,920 I like, I'm going to say it. 242 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:25,720 I do like eBay and I built up something and it's something I'm very proud of. 243 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,320 And I'm continuing to build with that. 244 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,840 That's what I've chosen to do. 245 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,200 So I'll kind of jump into like health here, right? 246 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:38,960 So before I started YouTube and the membership and everything, I was just kind of, whatever, 247 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:39,960 I just got to get it done. 248 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,880 I'm going to lift up these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pounds to my third floor, 249 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:45,880 carry them back down. 250 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:47,440 And I really didn't really start- 251 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,120 Well, how do you did that for over a year? 252 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:53,880 I didn't really start caring until a bunch of the old guys joined the membership. 253 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,920 And they're like, Hey, you can't keep doing this. 254 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,480 Like your health is the most important thing you've got. 255 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,800 And if you ain't got that, then you don't exist. 256 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,440 You're not here no more. 257 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,120 And health is very, very important. 258 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,000 I think a lot of people kind of overlook it because even if you know, kind of just doing 259 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:16,040 what you're doing, where you go to your warehouse, there's really, you got to stay active with 260 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,040 everything you're doing. 261 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:22,240 If you just sat there in that chair all day, you would be miserable and your body would 262 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:24,280 ache like you wouldn't believe. 263 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:29,640 So it's one of those things where it's a balancing act where you can't be basically killing yourself 264 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:34,320 with what you're doing, but you have to stay active with things, whether that's going out, 265 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,820 going to the thrift stores, bending down, lifting things up. 266 00:13:37,820 --> 00:13:42,960 But there's a fine line where you don't want to be lifting all this weight all the time. 267 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,760 I can tell you right now, I got all those damn mystery boxes from that estate sale. 268 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,120 I didn't know they were in the basement and they all weighed 50 pounds. 269 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,800 So I got to carry them off the steps. 270 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,760 I'm just trying to think to myself, like if maybe an older lady goes in there and doesn't 271 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:02,360 know they're in the basement, there's no way you're going to be able to carry one of those 272 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,640 boxes out rather yet 10 of them. 273 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,480 So that had me thinking a little bit. 274 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:12,400 And I think about it all the time is like, how can I continue to get the inventory I 275 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:18,240 do and the mass amounts that I do without having to carry all the weight? 276 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,960 Because that's the big thing, carrying all the weight. 277 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,840 The storage unit has alleviated a lot of that for me. 278 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:27,320 I'm not carrying stuff up here just to carry it back down and then figure out what to do 279 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:28,580 with it. 280 00:14:28,580 --> 00:14:30,120 But it's something to think about. 281 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,200 I'm curious, what happens if you get real sick in your business? 282 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:39,840 You have a plan here, say if you need to take three days off because you got pneumonia or 283 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,320 bronchitis or something. 284 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,120 I have two answers to this. 285 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:45,960 One I wouldn't take off for those silly illnesses. 286 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:54,320 The only way they're going to get me to take off is if they're trapping me in the hospital. 287 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,520 Well I am serious about the first one too. 288 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,560 I have what it's called a draft bank, meaning I have listings ready to go. 289 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,080 I didn't have one before employees because I knew I would come in for reason A. I'm just 290 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,600 going to come in, don't matter what. 291 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,880 But they are not going to have the same mentality and the same investment I do because they're 292 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:14,880 an employee. 293 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:15,880 They aren't an owner. 294 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:16,880 This isn't their business. 295 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,480 This is just a job to them and that's fine. 296 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:26,120 So now we have a draft bank and that could apply to me too if I get the said bronchitis 297 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:27,120 pneumonia. 298 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,120 It's not people. 299 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,400 I'm still going to come in. 300 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:35,280 But I have the option if I wanted to not come in that day. 301 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,280 Now I'm going to roll back to what you were saying about the health thing issue. 302 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,000 I was chained to this chair with my other two jobs. 303 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,840 I was 60 pounds heavier then, maybe 70. 304 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,680 I weighed myself this week. 305 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,400 But because of this job, I have lost a significant amount of weight. 306 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,160 I was not active before. 307 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,200 I am very active these days. 308 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,480 My diet still isn't the best. 309 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,480 If I switch that up too, I could probably lose another 50, 60 pounds to be honest. 310 00:15:58,480 --> 00:15:59,480 I have plans to. 311 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,680 I just haven't had time to sit down to work out a diet kind of plan. 312 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,520 But I was a much heavier guy. 313 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,240 I really was. 314 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:12,200 The only trade off I'm seeing now is I'm a lot sore because of all the moving stuff around 315 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,240 as heavy stuff. 316 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,440 Those things back there, I lift them myself. 317 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,560 Sometimes I'll get some help doing it these days because I have employees. 318 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,560 But I used to lift everything myself. 319 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:21,560 It sucked. 320 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:28,260 You got 80, 100, 120 pounds, those little tubs back there, depending what's in them. 321 00:16:28,260 --> 00:16:29,260 They're not light, folks. 322 00:16:29,260 --> 00:16:34,120 And then when you got to heave ho them up or heave ho them onto the rolly cart or heave 323 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:39,760 ho them onto the racks, it's a workout. 324 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,800 Social and spiritual life, what kind of social and spiritual life do I have? 325 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:50,120 I would say a lot of my social life, I have friends I grew up with down in Philly that 326 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,320 I talk to all the time. 327 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,560 Sunday is kind of my day off, even though we're recording this and then we have the 328 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,160 YouTube members call after this. 329 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,160 Sunday is my day off. 330 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:01,840 You're not getting off either, Mike. 331 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,420 We have the Discord and YouTube and being around other sellers. 332 00:17:05,420 --> 00:17:07,360 And then I got my friends in the background. 333 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:11,000 One of them is my YouTube editor, kind of try to involve them in everything. 334 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,640 So I do have a social and spiritual life. 335 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:18,160 I haven't drank an ounce of alcohol since my college days. 336 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,880 So that really doesn't concern me. 337 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,840 I'm not excited to go out to do anything or anything like that. 338 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,920 Me and Deb kind of just lay low. 339 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,160 We go for walks as much as we can when it's not freezing cold out. 340 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,480 We just stay active and kind of do different things. 341 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,200 When the kids are in school, we'll go to Dave and Buster's, go to the arcade, play 342 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,120 the arcade when there ain't no kids running around. 343 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,840 We do plenty of different things, but it's different for everybody. 344 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,360 I'm sure Terry G's social life is different than ours. 345 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:49,280 So it's what you want to get out of it. 346 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:55,320 And I agree with Johnny B is like, I'm working hard now so I don't have to in the future. 347 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,400 I'm going to be able to sit back when I'm older and I can't work as hard and be able 348 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,000 to kick back a little bit and relax. 349 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,280 That's another thing for another topic is reselling retirement. 350 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:09,280 What's that look like? 351 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,440 Because you never see resellers talking about putting money into any kind of retirement 352 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,240 funds or things like that. 353 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:15,680 So that'll be another topic. 354 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,520 But social and spiritual life, you make the most of what you can. 355 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:25,520 I don't put in the hours Johnny B does necessarily with the reselling business. 356 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:31,560 My parts are a little bit eBay, a lot Amazon, probably medium time consumption when it comes 357 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,640 to YouTube because I do kind of edit my own things and I have the discord and everything 358 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:36,880 I try to keep up on. 359 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,760 So that's my social and spiritual life. 360 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,960 I'm curious to see what your spiritual life is, mister. 361 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:45,240 I mean, sure. 362 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,160 Here's some background and I mean no offense to anybody I may or may not offend. 363 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,200 No, you better not even say it then. 364 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,000 Okay, fine. 365 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Moving on. 366 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,760 I don't do like churches on the weekends or anything. 367 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:05,520 I can see how that does affect a reseller because a lot of people source yard sales, 368 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:06,640 flea markets on the weekends. 369 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:11,560 So if you're religious, Sundays, I know a lot of people can't make the calls on Sundays 370 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,560 for religious reasons and that's fine. 371 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,760 You just have to figure out, just accept the fact and don't let it beat you up. 372 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,040 It is what it is, faith before your business and that's perfectly fine. 373 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,200 But don't let it eat you up inside like, oh man, I could be at a flea market right now. 374 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,800 Well, if you want to be at the church and that's where you need to be and that's where 375 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:29,960 you got to be at the time. 376 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:30,960 That's no big deal. 377 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:32,680 There's always another sale, right? 378 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,160 There's always somebody else looking to get rid of their stuff. 379 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,880 You just got to be there when the time comes, have some lines out there. 380 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,580 So you don't have to be obligated to rely on that one flea market that's every Sunday 381 00:19:43,580 --> 00:19:48,200 that takes place while you're going to do your religious beliefs or anything like that. 382 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:49,920 There's always something else down the road. 383 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,320 Don't feel like that's the only opportunity. 384 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,000 And there's plenty of times where you walk away from opportunities. 385 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,920 That's never the only opportunity and it's okay to just say, hey, it is what it is. 386 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,680 We'll figure out a better way, different way. 387 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,280 So I thought about it in the minutes he stalled for me. 388 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,200 So here's the most polite way I can put it. 389 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:11,160 I was raised a Southern Baptist person, but I'm very much agnostic. 390 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,600 I have read the Bible. 391 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:13,880 I've read the Koran. 392 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,720 I've led the tenets of Buddha. 393 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,920 I've read them all. 394 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:24,320 Now my personal perspective is I believe that there is something, but I believe I personally 395 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,360 am not smart enough or an enlightened enough individual to know what that supreme being 396 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:30,360 is. 397 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,440 Now, whether I can have a personal connection with that supreme being, I don't know. 398 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,280 And that's why I'm the agnostic king. 399 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,840 I believe there are a lot of good things in all of these scriptures, no matter who you 400 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:47,560 are, Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, doesn't matter, that make you a decent human being at the 401 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:48,720 end of the day. 402 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,160 That's my personal beliefs. 403 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,080 And I do apologize if I offended anyone listening here, but that's this is I'm talking about 404 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,080 me here, people. 405 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,120 So I got to speak from my perspective. 406 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:02,760 This is about as honest and non-offensive as I can try to be about it. 407 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,600 Now as far as my social life, now we're going to segue here. 408 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,440 I have colleagues is what I call them. 409 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,520 I call you a colleague. 410 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520 I do consider you a friend though on top of that. 411 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,920 And I have other people just like that. 412 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,280 But most of the people I interact with these days are other resellers. 413 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,440 That's my social life. 414 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,160 And we get around, we joke around, we talk about some things that have nothing to do 415 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:25,160 with reselling. 416 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,880 But at the end of the day, everybody is a business associate and an acquaintance and 417 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,720 a colleague to me and appear. 418 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,760 And there's friendships amongst that. 419 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:38,800 So that is my current state of social life. 420 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,920 I got something that's going to break the internet. 421 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:47,240 I'm going to start doing a once a week reseller bingo night, right? 422 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,600 We all have the same bingo card and I'll sit here on YouTube and spin it and pick the number 423 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,920 and you know, there'll be millions of us on here playing bingo together. 424 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:56,920 There goes our social life. 425 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,440 You know, you want to drink booze, you want to drink whiskey, you know, you want to smoke 426 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,800 a cigar, do whatever you want, right? 427 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,160 I can create a social life for everybody. 428 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,160 That's what I'm saying. 429 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,840 I'm giving people a utopia here, reseller night bingo. 430 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,560 Love it. 431 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 reseller night movie night. 432 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,560 That's all the book movies. 433 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,600 The Worcester, even The Neverending Store. 434 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,960 We're just going to watch book movies. 435 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,760 On the count of three, everybody hit play. 436 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,960 So we're all watching at the same exact the scene at the same exact time. 437 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,360 Yeah, that's gonna be great, man. 438 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,080 Hobbies and relaxation time are kind of the same thing, you know, comes with the social 439 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,200 part of it for me. 440 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,080 My hobbies, I spend with the people, you know, that I enjoy spending time with. 441 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,120 I do travel. 442 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:44,880 Travel is weird for us. 443 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:50,720 We have our cats and you know, they need around the around the clock. 444 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,800 We have one that needs around the clock medical attention, special needs. 445 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,560 So traveling and staying overnight is not an option for us unless we were to pay somebody 446 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:00,560 a lot of money to take care of the cats. 447 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,040 And then that's a whole ordeal because they got to come into the apartment. 448 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,880 So whenever we take trips, most of our family is either in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. 449 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,000 So opposite sides of Pennsylvania, we just take day trips. 450 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 We'll go for the day. 451 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,520 We'll drive drive to three hours one way, hang out for the day and then drive back at 452 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:17,520 night. 453 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,960 It's not a big deal for me down the road that might change. 454 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:25,520 You know, we always have talked about getting an RV and just traveling, traveling the country 455 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,360 kind of doing a thing. 456 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:28,800 But Deb has her business as well. 457 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:34,320 So we'd have to be able to fit an embroidery machine inside of the thing and run one. 458 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,240 But yeah, so travel isn't a huge thing for us. 459 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,360 But in the future, I can see it being something and there's options, right? 460 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:45,120 So there's options on these platforms, you can put your store on vacation and you can 461 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,080 still sell things on eBay and you know, it'll just say, hey, you're not going to get shipped 462 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,560 until whenever you decide to come back. 463 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,960 So I think I think people maybe have to utilize that option a little bit more vacation mode 464 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,760 on eBay that need time away. 465 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,120 And you know, maybe you just need a week off from it. 466 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:02,120 And that's perfectly fine. 467 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:05,680 Don't think, you know, it's the end of the world if you have to take time off. 468 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,440 You know, it happens all the time. 469 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:12,080 I've been ever since I quit CVS and not being around sick people all the time. 470 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,960 My immune system doesn't exist anymore. 471 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,440 So I've had, you know, solid two months where I was really, really sick and I couldn't function 472 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,560 at all. 473 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,280 And I didn't have a merchant fulfilled an eBay store bill to the point I do now. 474 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,120 But if that happens, I will be putting them on vacation, even though my storage unit is 475 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,240 only, you know, a seven minute drive down the road. 476 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,240 I timed it. 477 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,040 You can listen to Freebird will still be playing. 478 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,720 If it comes on when you leave the storage unit to happen the one night. 479 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,460 And I said, I wonder if I can make it home before Freebird's over. 480 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:43,200 And it was still going by the time I parked. 481 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,280 But I will put it on vacation and kind of focus on getting better, feeling better instead 482 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,800 of dragging myself out to the unit, you know, with bronchitis or something like that. 483 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,120 So that's my take on time off. 484 00:24:55,120 --> 00:25:00,160 And I think people need to utilize it more often to take some days to yourself. 485 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,360 Do you have like a certain day off? 486 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,840 Like, do you have a day off a week? 487 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:05,840 Not necessarily. 488 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,680 I have hours I take off like to do this podcast. 489 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,240 This is a lot of fun for me, guys, if you didn't know, I like enjoy this. 490 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:19,480 I'm not a day off isn't like, you're not there and the employees aren't there. 491 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,760 Or maybe you're there, but you're just doing like little odds and ends because we're always 492 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:23,880 going to be working right. 493 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:30,160 That's every day, you know, customer service is going to pop up or, you know, like tomorrow, 494 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,600 the holiday, I'll just be cleaning up the storage unit, something along those lines. 495 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,560 I mean, it's not really work, but you're still working. 496 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,360 I would say it's Sundays actually, because there's no post office on Sunday. 497 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,640 So it's a lot less. 498 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,880 There's no time sensitive thing that happens on Sundays. 499 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,240 Same for when there's a federal holiday, there's nothing time sensitive other than the listings, 500 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,240 but that's just an everyday thing. 501 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,840 I usually get those done earlier. 502 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,280 It's been later these days because I'm messing with employees and certain things come up 503 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,120 and I have to stop my listings to go handle that. 504 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:05,640 So but normally Sundays on federal holidays and Wednesdays will be Wednesdays because 505 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,000 I'm going to pick up my sourcing again now that I'm getting closer to the Amazon launch 506 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,080 window. 507 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:17,440 So Sundays, Wednesdays and federal holidays are my less intensive work days. 508 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:23,880 And again, when we do the podcast or the group meetups, I also do a media call and an Amazon 509 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,880 call on Thursdays and Friday evenings with my other group. 510 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:32,480 I consider that time away, even though my time away is education or hanging out with 511 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:38,120 other resellers and figuring out ways to do things better along with our call here in 512 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:41,680 the Use Book Guide group on Sundays. 513 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,520 So if we hadn't kind of narrow this down to a list, health is first because if you're 514 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,180 not here, your business doesn't matter. 515 00:26:49,180 --> 00:26:51,720 Your business has to be second. 516 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:58,600 I know some people sit here and argue that social life has to be second and spiritual 517 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,360 life has to be second. 518 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,820 But if you want to have a business and treat it as a business and support yourself from 519 00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:09,400 that business, I guess it would be a full time business. 520 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,880 It has to be second before the social life. 521 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:17,000 Now if you're doing this part time, then maybe you can flip flop the social and spiritual 522 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,000 life with your business as long as you're accepting the fact you're doing this part 523 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,160 time and you're going to get part time results from it. 524 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:30,000 No, no doubt. 525 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,920 So an interesting thing here, you mentioned part time specifically. 526 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,380 I want to break it down even more to the hobbyist, the person that just dabbles here and there. 527 00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:44,640 Maybe they do eBay or Amazon once a week or once every other week kind of deal. 528 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,360 He could even make it your business at the bottom rung of that totem pole, honestly, 529 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:50,360 if you're a hobbyist. 530 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:51,360 Yeah. 531 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,120 I mean, you could forget eBay. 532 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:54,280 You just do Amazon. 533 00:27:54,280 --> 00:28:01,280 You could travel the country and list something, throw it in your RV and if it sells, it sells 534 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,480 or you can send it off to Amazon and not even have to worry about it. 535 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:05,480 So yeah. 536 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,080 I guess somebody like Tommy Boyd. 537 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:08,960 Hey Tommy. 538 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,960 He just travels around for funsies, right? 539 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,920 If he finds books, he ships them in or list them up on eBay. 540 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:14,920 If he doesn't, he doesn't. 541 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,480 But his main thing is travel. 542 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,920 The hobbyist side of it comes in where he just finds a cool thing here or there and 543 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,080 maybe he does it. 544 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,160 And then he does whatever on his trip. 545 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,240 Like, let's say he went up to New York. 546 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:29,720 Maybe he wants to see Niagara Falls. 547 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,840 He strikes me as a Niagara Falls kind of guy, whatever. 548 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,560 And then he could do some book sourcing if he wanted to or not even. 549 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,800 That's what a hobbyist can do. 550 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,640 You have all the options at that point. 551 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,960 So it looks completely different depending where you're at in your business and where 552 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,720 you want it to be. 553 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,960 So I do 100%. 554 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,320 If you're full time, it's got to be your health and then your business. 555 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,180 There's no chance you can throw in social life before your business or travel before 556 00:28:58,180 --> 00:29:01,080 your business if you want to do this full time. 557 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,640 Down the road, maybe there's times where, I mean, even when you start out, if you're 558 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,600 doing this full time, you can plan vacations and things like that. 559 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,040 But I'm talking about priority wise. 560 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,840 Travel can't be a priority over your business. 561 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,360 Social life can't be a priority over your business if you want it to be a full time 562 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,360 thing. 563 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,560 And like we said, that changes from part time to hobbyist and you just find out what works 564 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,560 for you. 565 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,840 There's plenty of people that travel and do Amazon and make lots and lots of money and 566 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,200 have no warehouse, no nothing. 567 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,200 You don't even need it. 568 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,960 You just need an address for Amazon to have on file. 569 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,460 You can never even be in one single location. 570 00:29:36,460 --> 00:29:38,080 You can just continuously travel. 571 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,080 I mean, there's plenty of people do it. 572 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,600 Look at some of these online arbitrage guys. 573 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,540 They're never even in America anymore. 574 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:48,040 They're just living in Colombia and wherever they want to live. 575 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,840 And hey, they have a business that runs for them. 576 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,640 So hey, it is what it is. 577 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,160 It's crazy the opportunities. 578 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,280 And you do see a lot of it on YouTube. 579 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,080 A lot of it is it's grinding content. 580 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,440 A lot of the reselling stuff isn't fun, kind of laid back, easy going. 581 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,800 It's like, well, you got to get out there and do this and this if you want to see these 582 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:09,800 results. 583 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,520 And I would argue that there's always a different way for every single person to get results 584 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,160 in their reselling business. 585 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,800 Just because Johnny B has a warehouse of 10,000 books doesn't mean I need a warehouse of 10,000 586 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,800 books. 587 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:21,800 I don't want that life. 588 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:22,800 And yeah, sure. 589 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,200 If 10,000 books came upon me, I would scan them and get rid of them. 590 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,640 I'd probably send most of them to him. 591 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,040 But it just goes to show that you can have a completely different business model within 592 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,880 a business model to accommodate your time off. 593 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:43,160 And if he's making sales again on the call here, and if it comes down to it, prioritize 594 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:49,380 your health over going to pack an eBay order or Amazon order, you can always message the 595 00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:52,680 customer and say, hey, something came up. 596 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,160 Life happens, right? 597 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,240 Things happen. 598 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,800 And that was one of the big reasons I wanted to get out of CVS was because what happens 599 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,720 if something happens to Deb or one of the cats and I got to go handle it right now or 600 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,760 like, you know, maybe for you as a family member, although I think you should get a 601 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,240 few cats, you know, for the book warehouse there, you know. 602 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,000 I'm allergic to them. 603 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000 I can't. 604 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000 I'll get a dog. 605 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,440 I've been thinking about getting a dog actually. 606 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,200 Listen, you get the cats. 607 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,880 I'll send you a lifetime supply of Benadryl so I don't got to hear you whine about it. 608 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,080 It's only if I touch them to be fair, because I'm actually allergic to their saliva. 609 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,600 So as long as I don't touch them, I can be around them. 610 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,760 No book master, bookkeeper in the history of the universe didn't have any cats. 611 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,640 I mean, that's just rule number one. 612 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,400 I'll keep it in a cage or like a bird cage. 613 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,440 And I guess, yeah, I could do that. 614 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,440 You're not. 615 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,440 You're not. 616 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,960 You know, on the topic of travel, I've actually been thinking about maybe going to some reseller 617 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,800 conferences because there's plenty of them out there. 618 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,560 And again, that's an excuse for me to travel, socialize, interact with people, but still 619 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,720 keep it business related. 620 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,360 Also, I can write it off. 621 00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,360 That's the beautiful part. 622 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,280 But that's how my business mind thinks is, okay, I do want part of a social life and 623 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,680 this is a way to do it while maintaining my business and educating and networking with 624 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:07,680 folks. 625 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,080 I have been thinking about those kind of things. 626 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,160 I can't do it right now because I'm still building infrastructure, getting more employees 627 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,560 and that kind of thing. 628 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,600 But I think maybe next year I could be able to do those kind of things. 629 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,080 I would very much look forward to those kind of things, but I'm not there yet myself. 630 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,520 So Johnny B's a convention guy. 631 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,720 Personally for me, I'm not going to know. 632 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,920 I mean, maybe maybe if it's in my backyard, I'm going to a reseller convention. 633 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,320 If there's a meetup in central Pennsylvania. 634 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,120 But other than that, I don't know. 635 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,440 I hear enough about everybody else's business in my line of work. 636 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,160 So I kind of get the feel I need when it comes to hearing about other people's successes 637 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,160 and downfalls. 638 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,520 And that's kind of just what I see at a convention. 639 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,520 That's what it would be like. 640 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,520 Hey. 641 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,520 All right. 642 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:55,520 All right. 643 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,520 Super nerdy stuff. 644 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,240 I'll talk about my previous job for a moment. 645 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,520 Part of my thing was going to conventions, but those conventions were fun. 646 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,200 A, there was a lot of booze. 647 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,920 B, they were gaming conventions because for those who don't know, I worked for a third 648 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,800 party RPG role playing games. 649 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,600 Not the dirty thing you're thinking about those listening here. 650 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,600 Company. 651 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,840 So we go around and drink all weekend, play games all weekend, and actually do some networking 652 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:24,640 and make some really, really sweet business deals. 653 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,600 Those are the kind of things are fun. 654 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,640 So in a reseller convention, I think the booze would still be there. 655 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,080 Unless it was in Vegas, maybe some games were probably not games, but also some networking 656 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,040 and those deals would still be done. 657 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,960 As far as how do you do this better? 658 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,200 I've been thinking about this. 659 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:45,920 What do you think person A, B, and C I really respect and want your opinion on? 660 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,040 There would have to be slot machines for me to go since I don't drink. 661 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,040 So if Gantling was involved and there was a reseller convention, you'd totally be there. 662 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,040 I hear it. 663 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,840 Yeah, I would just be sitting over at the penny slots though, just spending all my reselling 664 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,880 monies away. 665 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,920 What's the one that you go out in the water? 666 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,440 A cruise? 667 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,440 Yeah, those casino cruise thing. 668 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,000 Well, they don't really go out in the water. 669 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,240 It's kind of like a dock and you just go out in the boat. 670 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:17,240 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 671 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:18,240 Oh man, those are fun. 672 00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:19,840 I've been to a couple of those. 673 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,360 Yeah, so I think you just got to prioritize what means the most to you. 674 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,360 Self is not negotiable. 675 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,800 After that, you kind of can sit here and argue either way. 676 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:30,800 Just depends what you want. 677 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,360 But if you're sick or something, you got to put yourself first. 678 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,360 And especially if you're just doing this solo, right? 679 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,360 You know, Johnny B didn't have any employees. 680 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,880 You know, I don't hear from them for three days. 681 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,160 It's like, what happened to him? 682 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,000 Is he still ticking? 683 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,200 Like it's a little different, right? 684 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:53,640 When you have employees or you have a significant other that you can kind of rely on or just 685 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,480 tell you like, hey, you know, like you look like crap. 686 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,040 You need to pump the brakes. 687 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,840 And I'm sure if you walked in there and you were miserable and you were coughing and you 688 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,720 look crappy, your employees would probably tell you, dude, just go sit down, relax in 689 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:06,720 the corner. 690 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:07,720 Like, well, we'll handle this. 691 00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:11,840 And, you know, you kind of have somebody to watch over you in that essence of it. 692 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,320 But like, if you're just doing it by yourself, I can easily see you just, you just keep pushing 693 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:22,040 yourself to a point where you're going to break sooner or later, your body, your mind, 694 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,040 everything's going to break down. 695 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:28,000 If you don't allow yourself to have time away and time off from the business, whether that's 696 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,880 going for a walk, whether that's, you know, two days off a week, three days off a week, 697 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,400 one day off a week, there has to be certain times where you can step away, do something 698 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,480 you enjoy and not worry about the business. 699 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,800 Now, I think it was Jim Henson. 700 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,520 He died the exact way you're talking about. 701 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:45,520 He got pneumonia. 702 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,600 A, he didn't want to go to the hospital because he didn't want to be an inconvenience to the 703 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,520 people at the hospital and he was working and what he died of pneumonia. 704 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,880 And that was, I respect him Henson a lot for a lot of what he did. 705 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:03,240 And that is a tragic end to a great man in my opinion. 706 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:04,240 So don't be that guy. 707 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:05,240 Don't be Jim Henson. 708 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:06,820 Yeah, don't be that guy. 709 00:36:06,820 --> 00:36:08,080 Put your health over everything. 710 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,080 You'll be fine. 711 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,420 Everything will fall into place from there. 712 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:15,160 Just because Johnny B wants to be up at 5am doesn't mean to use book guys up at 5am. 713 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,880 So now Johnny B is up at 5am. 714 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,840 He'll be thinking like, man, I bet Mike's sleeping in bed right now and he's 100% correct 715 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,800 at least for a few more hours every day. 716 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640 And the second thought caught in my mind, it'd be really fun to call Mike right now 717 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:28,640 at 5am. 718 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,640 Do not disturb dude. 719 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,480 That call ain't getting through no lines. 720 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,120 Thanks for listening to another episode of the resellers mindset podcast. 721 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,560 Today's full episode and all previous episodes are available to all YouTube members along 722 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,280 with the weekly zoom call and private discord. 723 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,600 Head on over to youtube.com backslash to use book guy and consider joining for as little 724 00:36:49,600 --> 00:37:16,600 as $2.99 a month.