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Keith, you've spoken a couple of events, hundreds of people.
You're in Dallas and Flower Mound, which is a good sign to me.
I'm like, okay, that's awesome.
And Visions, accredited investors, financial hoopla.
I mean, you've carved quite an awesome life out and you're just really authentic already.
So how the heck, what have you done?
What did you do to get to where you are so far?
Oh, gosh.
Real quickly started my career at Deloitte as a CPA in San Francisco.
It is, it was a lot of work.
Moved out here from Dallas where my wife mostly grew up.
My wife is originally from Honduras.
In time we read a book, Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Real estate's a good time to get in.
And it just so happened.
I'd like to think it was brilliant, but it was also lucky getting in to real estate in
2010.
So started off with rentals, moved on to hotels and apartments.
And my wife was running that side of the business.
I owned a CPA firm and we were sort of living the dream.
Fast forward to 2015, 2016.
I thought I was going to get a divorce because my whole life was wrapped up into the business.
And so, and I also thought the real estate market was going to crash because you know,
and it goes in seven year cycles.
I was so wrong, but we had an exit and spent the next few years traveling the world.
Wow.
That, you already gave me a bunch of resources by the way.
I mean, those of you listening in, Deloitte, look, good, bad, ugly, et cetera.
When you're a name that's known worldwide, you've done some things, right?
Right.
So Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Bain Capital, et cetera.
There's a lot of, it's a hard process to get involved in companies like that.
So you're working there and you got a base.
Rich Dad Poor Dad, phenomenal, phenomenal resource.
That book is, I don't think it could have done entrepreneurship or would have without
having listened to that book and understand what Robert laid out for us.
I stand on his head and shoulders as a giant like all the time.
So that's awesome.
And then just the vulnerability, man.
Like life's hard.
Marriage is difficult.
Being on the same page, then you did the world travels.
This is the type of story that I'm always cautious with as a leader, but it's also the
type of story that I know a lot of people listening in yearn for.
And I was, wow, okay, the marriage stayed intact, the ability to travel and yet the
humility to recognize that the blessing of being able to enter the market at the right
time and you're not professing these external realities as though you're entitled to them
or as though you are the sole purpose and cause of just how great life has been.
I know I went on a tangent.
I'd love to hear your assessment of breaking down what I said.
What do you see in the market with visionaries and entrepreneurs?
And I'm going to say it.
How as entrepreneurs do we get?
How do we become more balanced in our approach of talking about our accolades, our growth
and kind of own the moment of visionary leadership?
Because I see a lot of people pulling the wool over people's eyes in the market and
convincing people to do things that aren't necessarily safe paths.
You might exploring that with us.
Yeah, I think it starts with humility.
And when I feel like I've got everything going for me and I can't make a mistake, that's
often when I make the biggest mistakes.
And it also means surrounding myself with people that can hold me accountable.
And frankly, probably one of my toughest times was after I sold the CPA from I went from
hundreds of what felt like important people needing me all the time to crickets and then
trying to start my new business now in 2019, I had nobody respond for the first three to
six months.
I thought I was just going to put an ad out there and everybody's just going to flock
to see me.
And since then, having working on something new means that there are new lessons to learn
along the way.
And I am still learning, still growing.
And as a leader with employees, it means that there's a balance between showing vision and
also having the humility to share that vision with them and get their feedback and take
hard criticism, critical constructive criticism.
I love that.
That's again, it kind of like it highlights a lot of the things that I see visionaries
overlook constantly.
And I love that.
So one of my friends, Cesar Torres, he talks about the difference in the pretenders in
the market and the contenders and the reality that there are far fewer contenders.
We speak to you, those who lean towards the contenders, those who lean towards this humility.
And I don't want to box you in, but your story just reminded me of one of my favorite Mickey
Mouse cartoons growing up.
What goofy?
Right, right.
There you go.
The Prince and the Popper.
So there's this old story of a prince and a pauper who happen to look identical and
a pauper being a peasant.
And they switched places in life.
And so the prince had the opportunity to see what life was like, not as a prince.
And the peasant had the opportunity to see what life was like as a prince.
And you had this awesome business that was hundreds of employees growing really well.
Then you switch.
You sell the business.
You put a new one and you had an opportunity to see that, oh, it's not like some magic
wand cure, like turn the light on, turn the light off, turn the light on, turn the light
off.
You saw something new.
Most people don't get that experience.
But I'm going to just humbly say I had like five employees and maybe another five to 10
contractors.
So I wasn't I didn't have hundreds.
Okay.
So I thought I heard hundreds on there.
So good.
Thank you for pointing that out.
So you had you have a you had a flowing business.
You had a practice that was just moving.
And then you get introduced to a whole new reality.
And I think a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of professionals that jump into entrepreneurship
go through the same experience.
Right.
And it can be it can be a painful, wide, wide awakening.
And it can also be something that you enjoy.
So did you enjoy that or did you hate it?
And what what's that like to end up in a situation where there's crickets for six months?
How do you overcome that?
One, when I initially sold my my businesses, commercial real estate and the CPA firm, my
identity was largely tied up in that and feeling important because these wealthy people consistently
wanted my attention.
It was really a lot of that growth that happened in that silence with travel and anybody who's
traveled for a long time will likely realize you can only sit on a beach drinking pina coladas
for so long before that gets boring too.
But out of all that came our first born zone, the boost best souvenir we could have gotten
out of our travels.
And so now we got an almost six year old, almost three year old.
And then starting the new business, I still had energy.
I still wanted to do something.
But what that has meant in starting a new business that's a bit out of the box is I
had to iterate and listen and get feedback.
It wasn't just another CPA business anymore.
It was a and and so there I really had to listen to what the audience needs.
And I had to to an extent have an identity that people believed could help them in that
way and that took some time and it is still we're still working on it.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's still a lot of principles of depth and exploration there.
Do you you have a coach mentor people who guide you on this or how did you figure that
out beyond that?
Or was it rich that poor dad and just applying what Robert said?
You know what?
I found that really hopping around between different coaches and groups for ideas is
really valuable.
I'll go be a part of a mastermind.
I'll be a part of I know they want me to stay always and forever and I've got members that
I want to stay always and forever.
But the truth is you pull different ideas and usually within a year or two, you can
pull out 70 80 percent of what you're going to benefit within that short period of time.
And so there's been different groups along the way that have made a difference.
Robert Kiyosaki was one of them when I was first starting off in this business.
There was a coaching group that I was a part of.
Really ultimately where I have now is I've got and who was an executive coach has really
ultimately joined me in the business because he liked what we were doing.
And so in some ways he's become more of a business partner.
But that is part of what I'm looking for next year is where do I need to go?
What are the big things I need to work on and which coaching groups mentors can help
me take that next step?
That's awesome.
And so those of you listening in that want to apply for that right apply for that's
an important reality there.
So this guy behind me, his name is LeBron James, and he's got probably over 100 coaches
in his life, right?
And all sorts of different aspects.
And what Keith's alluding to is not it's not a matter of being disloyal entrepreneurs,
visionaries.
It's a matter of recognizing that different people provide different solutions at different
capacities during different seasons and different moments.
And so you can be loyal while also having healthy boundaries and recognize that there's
lots of different directions to move.
Now you also talked about the golden handcuffs a little bit.
And so for those of you who've never heard of that term, the golden handcuffs, I had
those lifetime fitness.
I had a marble desk.
I was a single man.
The amount of beautiful women who came through and bought gym memberships from me was amazing.
And I had all these things.
I had air conditioning.
It was a $36 million fitness facility.
I was the man of the club, if you will.
That's what it felt like working there.
And when I decided to leave that, to settle in on one potential relationship, I ended
up in door to door security systems, selling security.
And I had done that in Uruguay for two years.
And so I remember that first day, I felt like I was walking with cinder blocks on my feet
because it was hot.
I was like, all right, I'm used to this.
I miss my office.
Okay.
I'll be all right without this office.
Okay.
Like the leads are coming to me.
I hadn't gotten to my first door yet.
It's like, this is totally different.
What am I doing?
Do I really want this?
So it is whenever you're ready to potentially leave a scenario.
I love that you chose the word identity because of a different book.
You can't teach a kid to ride a bike at a seminar.
First chapter of that book is one of my favorite chapters of any book of all time.
And it talks about your role versus your identity and how to value what I feel is most important
in life, which allows us to make those types of jumps to the uncertainties, to the realities
of things that can drive our life to even greater levels of purpose and focus.
And that's really what the visionary path is all about.
So we've never done an intro like this, by the way.
This is very different, Keith, but you've inspired something and that's key.
I follow my intuition on inspiration.
And I just want to honor you for that because you've unlocked something new.
I want to dive into three resources.
So what are three resources that have gotten you to this point in your journey that other
visionary leaders may benefit from?
If I had to pick probably from the biggest things that I'd want anybody else to read,
there's a couple.
There it goes.
Then Martell, so you're also the first person to go to a bookshelf like me on a show.
Thank you.
I'm not alone.
Who Not How?
By Who Not How?
By Dan Sullivan.
This is about how to scale and pick the right person.
By Back Your Time is the book to read before that and really how to hire in a virtual assistant,
somebody who's truly capable and can take care of what you need.
I'm going to interject on that one.
By Back Your Time by Dan Martell.
Do you know what Dan Martell's hiring Bible is?
I don't.
It's this guy right here.
So we're going to level that up.
Hiring On Purpose by Max Hansen and Brian Moore.
Dan Martell and I were in a mastermind session together and he was answering the question
about how to get me to the next level and he's like, Jackson, I love you, man, and you're
BNF and selfish.
He's like, you're ready to grow.
He said, the book you want to read is Hiring On Purpose.
It's my Bible for hiring.
So good.
I'm liking this trend.
What's next?
The last one that made an impact on me was Life and Air by Steve Cook.
So not millionaire, but how to get the most out of life.
And it was really an initial prioritization about me not just going after the money.
So I could have stayed in the CPA role, could have continued to grow real estate, but I
had been around enough eight, nine figure net worth people to know that more money did
not mean more happiness.
And so this was part of what straightened it out is what do I truly want?
So what I'm doing now, yes, I make money, but it's not the primary purpose of what I'm
doing.
If it was, I do things very differently that would yield me a much stronger result.
But my goal now is impact.
And so there's some things I do differently.
So there are no conflicts of interest in the way I do things that allows me to hopefully
have a larger impact on more people.
Awesome.
Okay.
Our overlap now is just nuts, my friend.
And I'm a big fan of what you talked about.
The money is a vehicle, right?
And depending on the amount of money we have, we have a bigger vehicle or a faster one.
And so it's helping us get to different destinations.
But for me and you, it's not the destination.
And Jason Mojo, Dr. Jason Mojo is the life and air guy as well.
So what's his relationship with Steve Cook?
I don't know, but I do know Jason.
Oh, you know, Jason.
Okay.
So Jason, Austin was entrepreneur of the year of, of, um, Oh, what's your name now?
Not infusion soft.
It's now keep.
Yes.
So, and he looks like, um, Mark Wahlberg.
So I gave him a hard time about that on the show.
I was like, dude, I shouldn't say a hard time, you know,
So he works with Steve, Steve Cook in life and error.
So I was in Steve's for a while, personal mastermind for three years.
That helps straighten out some personal stuff and give me a start in some business stuff.
Cool.
All right.
These are fantastic, um, recommendations.
At least I've, I've enjoyed these leaders.
And this is the well, right?
The water that you're getting out of this, the books is big, but who built the well?
These leaders, I highly recommend, um, connecting with them as well.
So Keith, thank you for exploring, uh, those values.
We're going to come back in just a minute.
We'll dive into the vision at large and, um, you can start thinking through in your case,
Keith, I want to give you exploratory command of saying, Jackson, these are the questions
that I wish others would ask me when I'm on these shows because I'm really enjoying the
depth that we're getting to.
So we'll be right back after the break.
Vision pros.
If you've got a question, feel free to throw it in the comments as well.
Even if it's post alive experience, of course, we'll circle back and we'll make sure that
we address those and probably do some loom videos to, uh, to dive into it.
All right.
Welcome in to vision pros live with Jackson Callum.
I'm your show host.
We will be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building fantastic
visions out there.
Hey, what's up everybody.
Welcome into another episode of vision pros live.
I'm your show host, Jackson Callum, founder and CEO of first-class business.
And I'm excited to dive even further into what Keith Blackborg is up to.
Uh, there's, uh, he said it, the key is humility.
Uh, he lives and breeds it.
He has a lot of reasons to not do so.
And most people in his situation, circumstance, uh, environment don't know what humility is.
Don't know how to leverage it.
My friends, it's one of the most misunderstood virtues in our language.
And my hope is that we will inspire you today to dive in deeper into what is it?
How can you, how can you maximize your strengths and your superpowers by understanding how
to cultivate humility in your own lives?
So listen for that as Keith and I continue to talk before I bring him back on stage though,
a couple of other resources that we recommend for you.
One being hardtokill.org with Dave Morrow, uh, hard to kill.
Uh, Dave is on a mission to help a hundred thousand veterans lose 2 million pounds collectively.
Um, he's getting ready to expand and build that goal to the even next level.
If you know somebody who has served, um, in the military, well, when they come back from
their service, life changes dramatically.
They don't have the same routines and the same access to resources.
And Dave's here to help provide a community where they can get back on track with feeling
good, looking good and going about and doing good.
And he's also opened this program now to civilians like myself.
I've benefited tremendously from being able to dive in and work out.
Oh, I've had lots of coaches in my path, the path that have helped inspire me, but I managed
to outdo them in terms of staying the skinny fat guy until Dave Morrow.
Dave Morrow was able to help me realize, um, how to inspire me to take great action and
take care of my health at a higher level.
So I'm, I'm eternally grateful for what he's done for me and my kiddos in relation to that.
There's his new book, Harden the F up, uh, no nonsense fitness insights.
And he also is, um, quite a loving individual for having a book title of that magnitude.
So moving into the next piece, opportunities, opportunities for work for Latinos specifically
and opportunities for Indians and opportunities for Filipinos.
This is our own homegrown platform.
Some people would call it a virtual assistant agency, but we don't promote or endorse VA
relationships.
What do we call that?
Virtual abuse.
I don't believe in it.
I think we need to take care of the individuals who are on our team.
We need to help them get to their next levels.
We need to show them that not only are we asking them to love and be patient and persistent
and consistent and reliable, we need to do that with these relationships.
What we're doing is providing free training to virtual assistants out there or digital
ambassadors as we call them.
And the goal is to help them within a 90 day period become super rock stars when it comes
to helping businesses with growth, but to also know how to recognize companies that
are going to honor their goals and what they're up to and doing.
So if you know, a Latino leader specifically, we do have our show where they can come on
and talk about their inspiring story of how they've gotten to where they are.
And we would love to be connected to other Latino, Filipino, Indian leaders and anybody
else who might want to take this to yet another country abroad.
We're bridging the economic gap between North America, South America and rest of world.
And that's what we live and stand for in our entities.
So then there's the project, the water project, excuse me.
We're not affiliated with the water project, but I do love what they're up to.
They're helping millions of people gain access to clean drinking water, a resource that I've
taken for granted my entire life.
I've never been thirsty, not truly.
And these kids go and fetch water from who knows where for their communities.
While the water project steps in, helps these communities create what's called a sand dam
or borehole well in order to drive clean source of filter sources of water to these communities.
My hope is that you either contribute to this and get to see one of those projects come
to fruition for yourself.
Or if you're not in a position to financially help out, maybe consider having a lunchtime
or dinnertime conversation with the people in your life about what this means.
I see these kids celebrating water the way my kids celebrate Christmas day.
And it reminds me that we've got a billion people out there in this world that help.
So my hope is that you join me in that effort, whether it's spreading the word or contributing
yourself.
And thanks for hearing me out.
Without further ado, let's get back to helping you all on your visions.
Keith Blackboard, thank you so much for being here at Vision Pros Life.
Thanks for having me.
That's a great mission, by the way.
Love their mission.
I love what they're up to.
So thank you for acknowledging that.
I think our mission is a great one too today.
You've carved out certain successes in life and you're gravitating towards principles
that I don't hear people just naturally talk about right off the bat when they meet somebody.
So I want to explore that at depth.
Keith, what are some of the best things we can do to help inspire other visionaries move
forward?
I want to tie that to, guys, finding somebody who understands finances and financial depth
and is building what Keith is building, run towards him.
Figure out how he can help you in your life.
You've got all the links to get access to what he's up to.
So I'm going to let this be kind of an open form topic for you, Keith.
What do we need to be asking you?
What can we learn about financial journeys, founding companies that we may be overlooking
and may not get elsewhere?
You know what's interesting about your question is it naturally makes me the sage on the stage.
And I can be that role.
I do do that role when I'm running my own events.
But really, the role I like to be in is when I get to walk alongside people.
And so the greatest growth is when you are able to have those conversations, meet people
where they're at and understanding their specific challenges.
And some of that is just listening with compassion.
And then beyond that, there's a lot of people that get confused about what their vision
is.
Should I be doing this?
Should I be doing that?
And I think it all starts with having a clear vision.
And once you have that, you can align your wealth growth or your work or whatever it
is along with that vision to help you get there.
And that's really my job is once we know what that vision is, is to help align the wealth
with your desired impact on this world in the next.
Huge, huge, huge, huge.
Have you met Zach Ullman by any chance?
I have not.
You seem super connected to a bunch of people I need to meet.
I need to.
I couldn't I could not win in life without the great people beside me.
And so I meet them through this podcast and other other means in life.
I mean, I can meet somebody at a gas station and find out how one, how can I be a best
service to them?
You know, to do they have something of value that's going to uplift their people in my
life as well?
So I don't naturally turn to gas stations for those opportunities.
But you know, I don't pass up the opportunities as they come.
So I mentioned him.
He is, you know, more or less a direct competitor of yours.
And he's somebody you're both people that I now trust in this conversation where I'm
like, OK.
In the case of my vision, I'm probably going to need a few hundred versions of you and
Zach to bridge that economic gap between North America, South America, rest of the world,
maybe even a few thousand.
You know, that's a big project on the flip side.
I want all you visionaries out there to know how to quickly go find the right people to
interview because Zach and Keith are not a dime a dozen.
It is very hard to find people who are so focused on the principles yet also have the
type of expertise that they have.
So I'm going to end up putting you guys in touch so you guys can like two professors,
you know, like going at it on a chalkboard and seeing how you overlap.
But yeah, that's um, you're like an amazing debate podcast or discussion podcast at some
point we are going to be doing open.
What are those called?
Help me out here.
I'm going to be moderating panels next year.
We're probably going to do one per quarter.
And I think this is one of the most important panels that vision that visionary leaders
can understand because let's just face it.
Visionary leaders, your favorite topic is not finances.
You know, you're not talking about it and you're kind of scared of it.
A lot of times I was I didn't work on becoming a wise steward until very late into the game
and that hurt me many, many times.
So how do we, how do we inspire people, Keith, to not make whimsical decisions, but to think
through what am I thinking about that might be wrong?
I don't even know what question to ask because y'all's expertise is not my expertise.
It's one that comes after my opinion, vision and making sure the vision makes sense.
So help me out.
So let me, let me get one of the most frequent prompts I get, especially from those who are
in the early stages of their wealth journey, financial journey is, Hey, my spouse, my whoever
is spending way too much money.
Can you please go talk to them and discuss the importance of them getting them on a budget?
And I step back from that and realize either somebody's not being intentional or they might
have different goals.
And so it starts with what is that clear vision of what you want?
And once you, you know what you're going towards, your financing finances naturally aligned
towards it.
So I can try and push people, but that's not very effective as a coach.
I can choose somebody out, whatever again, not very effective, but if they know that
they want something else more than what they're currently spending on, what they're currently
putting effort on, that's going to naturally guide behavior over time more so than any
sort of talking to.
And then once you know where you're going, there's different steps along the way we can
talk about putting money, whether getting your finances order, emergency funds on up
to your first investments, early investments, advanced investments, and then into tax strategy
that complements everything along the way.
That's huge.
I'm going to, I'm going to recap what I heard.
Our budgets as a reflection of our intentionality and our goals.
Yeah.
Oh, that's, that's huge.
And so again, if we're not even keeping the budget, right.
Then we got to start there too.
I mean, I've known where are we spending and why are we, we spend on those aspects.
So now let's go to the more advanced side.
Let's skip spectrums, leave that behind where it's at entrepreneurs, visionaries who are
there.
You might turn this episode off and go start working on that right now, having taken away
what you need for your life.
Let's look at the advanced side, Keith, where, where do we even begin for people who are
more where they got those budgets, you know, figured out maybe they're, they're successfully
financially too.
And they've got a pretty good head on their shoulders leadership wise.
What next?
Yeah.
And, and just one point of comment on the budgets, you get to a point where you've got,
you know what I'm spending $20,000 a month or whatever that is, as long as you're in
the range, you might not need a budget anymore, as long as you are able to, to be in certain
realms.
I don't believe everybody needs one, but if you're spending recklessly, you, it's a great
place to start beyond that.
If you're an entrepreneur, then I like to build everything for sell, meaning I begin
with the end in mind.
And there are certain things we can do to make even service based business sellables.
If I'm going to start a business, I'm going to look at what are the exit multiples I can
get on that business.
If it's only going to be one or two times my gross revenue, maybe, and there's, and,
and if you're primarily doing it for financial reasons, that might not be the business to,
you want to start.
But once you're in that business, we're looking at what are the SOPs, the standard operating
procedures, the team, the contracts, the finances, everything in a line.
And when you start putting intentionality behind that, your business becomes worth more,
you make more and you put less time into it.
And so it gives you options.
These are, these are huge, golden valuable.
I don't want to call them oversimplified truth.
So I'll call them pure truths.
Actually that, that I know because of the time that I've searched for this type of clarity,
like it's so just pointed and clear when I come across people like you and Zach and I'm
like, oh my gosh, this is fantastic.
And I know that most entrepreneurs are searching for it.
So I hope you guys hear it.
Those of you listening in right now, we're going to shift gears completely.
We're going to go into one of my favorite questions.
We can always come back to these topics if we want to, but the topic at hand is about
your powerful lessons that you've learned.
And I'm struggling to find my prompt.
There's the one.
So if this is the last chance that you had to speak to the world, Keith, what powerful
lesson can other visionaries learn from your experience?
I think people get so caught up in just doing life, being busy that they miss the opportunity
to become wealthy.
Now wealthy can mean financial and people do get so busy that they miss that opportunity,
but there can also be other forms of wealth, whether that's rich in relationships, spiritual
wealth.
And so getting clear on what you want to leave behind in this world, what kind of impact
you want to leave behind is going to help you get clear on how you want to spend your
time here on this earth.
People get so caught up in life, just being busy that they miss the opportunity to become
wealthy.
Yeah.
And I'm grateful that you also highlighted on that the different realms of wealth.
It's so easy to get caught up in other things.
We live in a world where we have at our fingertips, all sorts of dopamine, right?
All sorts of opportunity to, and one truth that you shared, you said we might not need
a budget.
I have never heard a financial advisor or financial planner say that ever.
Now I don't go around quizzing financial people all day long, right?
But I've been in business long enough, I've seen enough stages, I've heard enough coaches
and gurus, et cetera, talk.
I've never heard somebody give that permission to the audience.
And that to me, it goes back to this quote of becoming wealthy, right?
Figuring out what does wealth represent?
What a blessing too.
Please stop, spend some time thinking through what do I actually want out of life?
What does wealth mean to me?
And then start creating a plan that's not some Harvard scholar who told me to do it
or told me that I had to do it, but what's really right for me?
How do people, how would you recommend people approach wealth, the successful ones, right?
I'm already successful.
I'm in my golden handcuffs.
I may not even feel it or recognize it because things are going so well.
How do we clap to get them to listen and hear?
Do you know what wealth is for yourself?
I think it's that very question is just once again, it coming back to the vision, asking
them if they know if they're living the dream they want to have and sometimes realizing
that life, you only get one life to live and there will always be opportunities.
Costs, but to the extent that you can be intentional about that vision for me, Q4 each year is
when I slowed down.
I'm trying to wrap up.
I'm reflecting on what I want for next year and also getting clarity on who I want to
spend time with.
It's the seasons.
I've got a couple of young boys and reevaluate what I want for next year.
This is, I feel like a marathon, not a sprint.
And so I want to enjoy the journey.
And that's the most important thing for me is enjoying the journey because the destination
is the same for all of us.
Huge chapter five of this book.
This book got lost to the ages.
There's an old book that people actually really do love.
Most of them read it's called as a man thinketh by James Allen and somebody in 2000, it must
have been 2007 when somebody realized that James Allen had written 18 other books that
nobody had ever heard of.
And they compiled one chapter from each into this and chapter five is resolutions.
Most people that you hear out there, if you go look at the meme world or you go look at
Tik Tok and stuff, I see a lot of people talking about goals as being the problem or resolutions
as being the problem.
And they turn a virtue into a negative.
But I love that you're talking about the value of resolution.
I mean, I read this a long, long time ago, but I'm going to revisit it.
I'm going to put it up in my bed.
That way I've got it right here for myself.
And go ahead.
I was going to say, I was going to say goals or vision without any structure often fall
flat.
For me, at least in business, I am on EOS.
So I've got my Corley rocks, the team, there's a weekly rhythm.
And so whether it's business or personal, being on some sort of rhythm, whether it's
in a coaching group, a mastermind, a book, there are infinite ways to do it.
The thing is get yourself on some sort of structure and some put some people around
you that can help you take those next steps.
The biggest thing that has ever helped me has been in small mastermind groups with other
people who are consistently just trying to help each other out.
And that is supercharged my growth more than anything else.
Huge, huge, huge, huge.
I talk when I go on podcasts and speak and ask me what I want to talk about, I say the
most important thing that I believe we can talk about as visionary leaders is infrastructure,
the topic nobody talks about.
You don't see that on the main stage because it's boring, it's scary, it's complex.
So is the human body.
It can be viewed as those things, but you can draw it like a stick figure or you can
study it for 40 years and still not scratch the surface.
So EOS, Gino Wickman, shout out to him for what he's built with that.
Rocket Fuel was a decent book built on the backbone of the E-Myth.
Phenomenal, phenomenal book.
And both of those have granted my entities with upleveling results that we wouldn't have.
Again, without standing on the shoulders of the giants who said, build your infrastructure
out and know your system.
So again, those of you listening in, we got into a lot of the technical sides of visionary
leadership.
I think some of you might be saying, well, how?
And what do we do?
That's for each of you to figure out.
That there is no one size fits all answer.
And if we have that stress and mentality, well, guess what?
We're falling victim of the get rich quick mindset.
Or falling into the bad habit of assuming that it should be easier than it is.
And it's just not.
But that also means that you're focused on a destination and the value of your destination
versus appreciating the journey.
And that's also a dangerous reality for life.
And so Keith, this is a grateful reminder for me.
I'm super grateful for the episode.
I'm glad that you came on and shared the wisdom that you did.
We didn't do any screen sharing today.
We didn't highlight Keith's business models and what's there.
But I know that those of you who are ready to value what Keith has to offer, you know
how to contact him.
Go to LinkedIn.
Go to the websites.
Go see who he's hanging out with and get involved in those circles.
I am actually going to be doing that myself.
And I don't say that for most of our guests.
I don't feel the need to do that most of the time we have a visionary leader on this show.
But in this case, tell Keith tells me to go away.
I find on knocking on his door.
So Keith, anything you want to add before we wrap up today?
Jackson, it's been a pleasure to get to know you.
It's great to meet a kindred soul.
And I love the wisdom you've been sharing.
Thank you.
Visionaries listening in.
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The resources, I'll try to get those as fast as possible together.
Those will be below there as well.
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If you've got a vision to share, come and share it on our show.
And we'll see you guys on the next episode of Vision Pros Live.
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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.
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We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself.