1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 share with me your first last name, your business, and where you're located. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,200 My first and last name, Robert Hunt, and I am located in the Dallas, Fort Worth area. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:19,920 And my business is running CEO peer groups, P E E R peer groups, uh, here in DFW for the last 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:27,920 11 years. And, um, I, my focus this year is on promoting the book. Nobody cares 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,920 until you do. It's a book about accountability. It's about owning your decisions in your life 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,280 and not blaming the world and, uh, having the life you really want. 7 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:41,520 Wow. So that's a book that you have recently wrote. 8 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,640 Yeah, we wrote it in 22 and we released it and then we're like, Hey, we've got it done. 9 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:52,320 But then now what do you do with it? And it just, there's a lot more work to promote it than it is 10 00:00:52,320 --> 00:01:00,640 to write it. Absolutely. Um, so nobody cares until you do. That's the name of the book. 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:07,760 And interesting. How did that get started? Well, a couple of years ago, uh, Salem Thine, 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,400 who's the guy who co-authored the book with me, he shared with me this accountability ladder. 13 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,800 And we started sharing this with our, I started sharing it with my clients and trying to teach 14 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,760 a simple way of understanding what accountability really looks like. And after we talked about 15 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:27,280 it for a couple of years, we kept saying we should write a book and, uh, we finally committed and 16 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,000 hired a publisher and a ghostwriter and got all that done because during the time of COVID, 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,480 it just felt like everybody was angry with everybody and nobody wanted to get along and 18 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,800 everyone wanted to blame everybody and everyone to make excuses for why they weren't doing stuff. 19 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:46,400 And we just felt like the world has lost the idea of accountability. So we want to teach it because 20 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,920 accountability is true freedom and joy and power, but people look at it like a negative thing. 21 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:57,120 It's not, it's a great thing. And where did this vision come from? And I know you said it, 22 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:03,120 it started then, but it seems like there's more to the story. Uh, did you have challenges with, 23 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,960 with being accountable? Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. I think the biggest struggle with accountability 24 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:13,680 is we're not aware where we're playing a victim. And if you say to someone, well, you know, 25 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,840 I've got all this debt and I can't do anything about it. They go, oh yeah, I get it. I get it. 26 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,080 If they say you got to, if you have a problem with your spouse, I got a horrible spouse. Oh yeah. 27 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:27,280 I know what you're talking about. Everyone will commiserate with you and all it does is keep you 28 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:33,680 as a victim longer. Kathy and I had been married for 20 something years and we got into a place 29 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:41,280 where we owed $90,000 in debt, not including the house or the car at cars. And, um, it was killing 30 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:47,440 us. And we had fights and stress and, uh, my relationship with her was struggling. My business 31 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,040 was struggling because I made decisions in a negative mindset, worried, like, well, what if I 32 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,680 lose one customer, I just better do whatever they want. Because if I lose a customer, I'll go broke. 33 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:01,280 And you make all these decisions in a negative mindset. And so everyone feels that is how you 34 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:07,120 work, how you do things. And so by the end of 2019, we just realized we're not going to get any 35 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:13,280 better unless we own this problem. So we decided to sell our house and downsize and start over. 36 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,160 And so we sold our home and it took a while, but we ended up, and this is all lined out in the book. 37 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:24,560 Um, we ended up closing in March of 2020, took all that money and moved into this house where we live 38 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:30,320 now and we rent here and we paid off all of our debt in April of that year and owed nobody 39 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:37,280 anything. And the piece that I had was remarkable. I just, I didn't realize how much I had lost peace 40 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:43,440 until I got it back and I could sense, Oh yeah, this is what peace feels like again. Cause if I 41 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:48,320 worked my butt off seven days a week, I would never get out of debt. And I just felt so hopeless. 42 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:53,760 But when I took ownership over it and I realized nobody cares if I'm broke or not, I got to do 43 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,120 this for me. When I took that ownership and I made the changes, I had such a huge debt, 44 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,720 I had superimposed with my marks. So that was absolutely alone for me. It just services the 45 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,520 agent but it really didn't do us. Our life was temporarily on the edge of closing, so it started 46 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:19,020 and it really was a struggle. And then we носer the 47 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:28,000 life your job was, you know, the house as much as two things would do. So that out erm, 48 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,960 lost weight and got back in shape. And then my business wasn't being run with confidence. And I started looking at it differently. So I 49 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:41,520 approached it differently. And it doubled the first year in 2020. And it doubled in 2021 again, because I had a swagger and a 50 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:49,640 confidence and vision and creativity again. Everything that I was working on got better. They're not all perfect. But 51 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:55,640 everything that I was unhappy with, I started intentionally working on, and they all got better. 52 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:01,400 Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your 53 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:06,960 reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more 54 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,800 engagement as well. We'll invite people to participate in the show. And thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an 55 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:26,440 excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.