1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,400 What's up guys? 2 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,800 Welcome back to the Homework Assignment Podcast. 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:23,200 Yet again, it is our assignment today to find the balance between home life and work life. 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,560 I'm your host, RJ Patino. 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,760 Today we decided to get some questions from people that we work with, people that watch 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,480 our podcast and really dive into these questions. 7 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:35,880 We've got a great show for you today. 8 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,020 And so yeah, let's let's get to it. 9 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:39,020 Question number one. 10 00:00:39,020 --> 00:00:48,120 Question number one is, what is your definition of success? 11 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,440 That's a great question. 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:57,720 I think it varies for everybody and I think it also varies on each level you are, wherever 13 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,200 you are in your life or on your path to success, whatever career you're building or whether 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,000 it's at home and again in work. 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:12,160 For me, I think success, the definition of success is really driven by results. 16 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:17,680 You know, we especially here in our construction company, we're contractors and so there's 17 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,400 a lot of moving parts. 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,480 There's a lot of things and objectives that need to get done on a daily basis. 19 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,480 For example, we have a remodel, say it's going to take two months. 20 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,680 Well, having a schedule and deadlines is really important. 21 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:36,480 And the way we stay successful is by hitting those deadlines, getting the jobs done and 22 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,080 keeping great quality. 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,880 And when we don't get those things done, it creates problems. 24 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,160 I've experienced like in the beginning phases of the company and every now and then we still 25 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,160 deal with this. 26 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:48,160 We're not perfect. 27 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:54,640 But when you, it's easy to start really strong in our company with the project. 28 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,280 It's easy to start strong, get all the stuff in the beginning going good. 29 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:04,760 And the hardest and toughest part is the cosmetic and the final push through, you know, fourth 30 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,360 quarter type of work that really just kind of finishes the project off. 31 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:16,640 And what I experienced a lot in the past is, you know, we would do so good and be successful 32 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:19,920 and be giving results and clients could see progress. 33 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:23,200 We could see everything moving forward, moving smoothly. 34 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,720 We were able to find solutions to problems and then that fourth quarter would arrive. 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,080 And what would happen in that fourth quarter? 36 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,800 Well, we would have a huge punch list. 37 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:36,080 We'd have little things and that weren't getting done, didn't get done, or we had poor prep 38 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,320 during some of the beginning steps, which caused problems later on. 39 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:47,520 And it didn't matter if that six weeks in the before this phase, we crushed it, we killed 40 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:48,960 it. 41 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,000 And then we got to the last two weeks or the last phase and we dragged it out and there 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,280 was constant problems and trying to get these little knickknacks done. 43 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,040 And then that created even more problems. 44 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,720 So all this greatness that we did, all this happiness that we provided the great five 45 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:11,720 star experience, our customers was completely ruined by not even a quarter of the time that 46 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,240 it took to actually get the project done. 47 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,920 And so I think for me, success and like I said, I think it varies in a lot of different 48 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:20,920 aspects of life. 49 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:24,280 You know, if we talk about business for me, success is results. 50 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,720 I think at home as well, success is results. 51 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,320 You know, being a successful parent, what does it mean to me? 52 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,360 Like, OK, well, I'm going to find out as the years go by and I watch my kids grow up. 53 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,560 Did I teach them right? 54 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,880 Did I show them how to eat healthy? 55 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,280 Did I show them how to be active? 56 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,600 Did I show them how to be kind, how to be loving? 57 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,480 And I think once I get into their teenage years and that actually starts to display 58 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:52,120 itself in them, the teachings that my wife and I have taught them, I'm going to know 59 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,000 if I was a good dad, if I was successful. 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Same thing that goes with my wife. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,080 We've been married four years and I know there's that saying that like, hey, the worst 62 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,520 years in a marriage and maybe maybe I'm the one who's heard this. 63 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,280 I don't know, but I've always heard and I've heard repetitively that year number one is 64 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,480 a terrible year. 65 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:12,880 I think that goes into, hey, you're just married. 66 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,720 You got to learn how to live with each other. 67 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,880 I think circumstances in life when you get married to meet your spouse do play a big 68 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,160 role in that first year. 69 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,640 But I did hear a lot of hey, you're number one and you're number seven. 70 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:26,640 You're number seven. 71 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,620 I haven't gotten there yet, so I'm not sure why they say that. 72 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:32,720 But I can tell you that, you know, you're number one for us. 73 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,720 It was a little difficult. 74 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:34,720 It wasn't the worst. 75 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,720 I don't even know if we've had the worst yet, but I don't plan on it. 76 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,040 I could tell you that much. 77 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:49,720 And I think that comes down to striving for success in my marriage, striving to be a result 78 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:55,360 driven husband, meaning, hey, when my wife has an issue with something, it's not, OK, 79 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:56,360 I'm going to work on it. 80 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,360 OK, I'm going to work on it. 81 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,920 Like you can only say that so many times until it doesn't matter. 82 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:03,440 Yeah, I'm going to work on it because you're not giving results. 83 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:04,440 No. 84 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,400 So she's saying that, hey, you know, I asked you to take your shoes off before you came 85 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,400 in the house. 86 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,400 OK, I work on it. 87 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,800 Two months later, you're still walking in the house with your shoes. 88 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,160 OK, well, what what does any of that do for you or her? 89 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,360 Nothing, because you're not you may be saying it. 90 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,900 You may be talking the talk, but you're not walking the walk. 91 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:25,960 So I think for me, results in every aspect is is really what success is, because you 92 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,560 can do a lot of things. 93 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,680 But if you don't put action and you don't get results every all the work you're putting 94 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,160 in, all the training, all the learning, whatever it is, if there's no results, it's absolutely 95 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,360 worthless because you didn't you didn't bear the fruits or get the fruits from from all 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:40,600 that work you put in. 97 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,760 So that would be definitely my definition. 98 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,200 Your definition of success is results, results. 99 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,200 All right. 100 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:55,360 And second question is what is the toughest part of entrepreneurship to you? 101 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,840 Everything, haha 102 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:03,160 I think I talk about this topic a lot with my wife. 103 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:04,360 We go on evening walks. 104 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,560 We're currently doing seventy five hard, which for those of you that don't know, it's a program 105 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,600 that I actually really, really like a lot. 106 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,000 And I've been able to pursue it for a little while now. 107 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,960 I've failed quite a few times, but long story short, it's, you know, two workouts a day, 108 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,880 45 minutes, drink a gallon of water, read self-help books, take a progress pick. 109 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,960 One of those workouts need to be outside minimum. 110 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,920 One workout has to be outside and. 111 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,440 And then eating a healthy diet. 112 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,440 So we've been doing that. 113 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,040 And so for a night we go on walks and we've picked up the pace. 114 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,040 You know, we're we're progressing on our walks. 115 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,280 But during those walks, it's great because we get time to talk. 116 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:51,200 And it always ends up we always end up talking about basically some of the just the hardships 117 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,200 we're going through. 118 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:59,040 We also get time to actually look back the last four years of where we started and. 119 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,040 It's still hard. 120 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:04,560 I mean, the the challenges are a little bit different now because we're a little bit more 121 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:10,120 established and hey, back when we first began, I hardly had anything to myself or in my name. 122 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,680 So we had extra challenges of making sure we could pay rent, making sure we could afford 123 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:15,680 our bills. 124 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,240 Well, now we don't so much have that problem. 125 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,160 But now we have new problems. 126 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:27,320 And I think number one, if you're an entrepreneur, if you're building or scaling a business, 127 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,520 problems are important. 128 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:34,200 You want new problems because if you're getting new problems, that means you're moving forward 129 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:35,200 and not backwards. 130 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,560 That means you're discovering new things that you haven't ran into before. 131 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,240 And that should be a good thing. 132 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:42,240 Then you got to solve them. 133 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,640 But problems are going to come along the entire process. 134 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:51,760 And I think one of the hardest things about being an entrepreneur for me is it goes into 135 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:57,200 time management between my work and my my home life. 136 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,560 The last few weeks, especially this is episode number three. 137 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,360 So we obviously started a podcast. 138 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,860 And on top of that, we've really implemented a lot of new systems and a lot of stuff in 139 00:08:07,860 --> 00:08:09,080 our company. 140 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:15,080 And I have had two days, a few days last week and a few days this week. 141 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,800 And I think it might be some of the first times in both my daughter's lives. 142 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,960 My oldest is three that there's been days where I wake up in the morning, I see him 143 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,000 before or I wake up, go to the gym, come home, I see him for a few minutes, get ready for 144 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,080 work and I leave. 145 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,360 And then the next time I see him is the following morning. 146 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:38,160 So I'm gone doing stuff, working, you know, putting all the work I can in doing my absolute 147 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,160 best. 148 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,240 And then by the time I get home, they're already asleep. 149 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:46,040 And for me, that's really hard because that's they're they're mainly my motivation. 150 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:50,720 And I mean, I'm doing everything I'm doing now for my family, for my daughters. 151 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:59,080 And so that would probably be one of the toughest things is trying to find the balance in time 152 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,720 management as from being an entrepreneur and also having kids and being a part of your 153 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:04,720 kids' lives. 154 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,920 I firmly believe now's the time. 155 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,720 I mean, like our kids are young and it's important to have obviously an impact on them. 156 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,880 But I think that's that's where my wife comes in. 157 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:13,880 I'm here. 158 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:18,580 I'm able to trust her being at home and I'm able to know that she's providing every single 159 00:09:18,580 --> 00:09:23,080 thing that the that my kids need right now while they're developing. 160 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,600 And my goal at this point is to build something so successful that by the time they're in 161 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:35,120 junior high, you know, 10, 12 years old and my personal time with them is even more important. 162 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,320 I want to be able to have that time. 163 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:43,760 And so I want to grind now and be able to do that later rather than sacrifice work and 164 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:49,640 be able to spend more times with them, watching them grow up at this age and then not be able 165 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:54,480 to do that when you know, in those years, which I in my opinion are way more important 166 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,880 for development when you're learning about the real world, when you're going into high 167 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,160 school and you're learning how to drive and all this kind of stuff. 168 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,800 I want time to be there for that. 169 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:07,240 So you know, it's really the sacrifices and that's the number one sacrifice for me is 170 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:08,320 it's time of the family. 171 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,680 So I think that's probably for me right now, at least I think it changes as you move through 172 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,200 your business life and your home life progresses. 173 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,200 Things change a little bit. 174 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,460 Like I said in the beginning, it was money. 175 00:10:19,460 --> 00:10:22,160 Now it's not, fortunately. 176 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,040 But yeah, now it's it's family time. 177 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:29,580 So so to sum it up, what is the toughest part of your what is the toughest part of entrepreneurship 178 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:35,960 to you and your answers balancing work and home life, which is the assignment, find it 179 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,880 is pretty synchronized with the next question, which is well, and real quick notice guys 180 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:46,680 that this podcast is, you know, in our intro, it's our assignment to find. 181 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:51,120 So that should tell you right there that we haven't fully found the balance. 182 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,800 OK, so as we progress and as we you know, this podcast moves forward, the goal is to 183 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,560 find that at some point. 184 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:02,200 I know we will and I know it's an ongoing battle and it may take years. 185 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:08,360 And you know, listening to some podcasts like Ed Mylett this morning, he had a podcast with 186 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,840 I forget the guy's name, but they were talking about that. 187 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,960 They're talking about their marriage and how how working and building a business out of 188 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:19,720 their 500 square foot home, him and his wife and trying to make time to not talk about 189 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,840 their business at the dinner table to make sure they had time for themselves. 190 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,100 Like it's it's an ongoing process. 191 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:29,120 So you know, you guys are on this journey with us to find this balance, which I think 192 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:30,680 is really important to recognize. 193 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:31,680 All right. 194 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:37,720 And so the next question goes pretty well with the last one with your answer for the 195 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:38,720 last one. 196 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,520 How have you been attempting to balance home life and work life? 197 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,000 So what have you been implementing? 198 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,160 Maybe some results. 199 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:56,600 I think I think attempt is honestly the key word because I think I'm constantly at least 200 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,080 my wife and I were constantly trying to find new things like today before I even came to 201 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,080 to record today. 202 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,720 I was talking to my wife and you know, she's just like, yeah, it's been a little hard at 203 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:06,720 home. 204 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,600 The kids are going a little bit crazier than normal. 205 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,920 We just got a new puppy and that has been really exciting. 206 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:14,440 The puppy is really well behaved. 207 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:20,480 She's her name's Mania, which is we have a kind of thing for like Greek mythology and 208 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,480 stuff like that. 209 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,040 So Mania is a goddess of insanity. 210 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,040 She's a goddess of the dead. 211 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:30,400 So we love the name and she's she literally pretty much came to us potty trained right 212 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,200 out the litter ringing the bell to go outside. 213 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,800 So that's been a lot more helpful. 214 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,600 But our daughters, they yeah, they're a little bit more crazy right now. 215 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,920 I think also they're they're you know, they're toddlers and one's three, one's almost two. 216 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,480 So that whole phase is beginning and I can tell my wife's really stressed out. 217 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:53,280 And you know, so I told her today, I was like, hey, why don't we go do a staycation at a 218 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:58,120 resort for a couple of nights just to get away and kind of get more to get her way. 219 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,120 I'm already away. 220 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,360 Last thing I want to do is sacrifice more time with my children. 221 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:08,160 But without me, my wife being on the same page and our relationship being strong, that's 222 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,000 not going to do any good for our daughters. 223 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,880 So like my main priority is my wife and my relationship with her, because our daughters 224 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:20,920 will see that they'll feel that and we'll be a lot better in a better position, we'll be 225 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:24,080 a lot stronger mentally, a lot more patient, we'll be on the same page. 226 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:30,200 Like it's just it'll trickle down to where it even though we may not be spending so much 227 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,720 time with them, they're going to be able to see our strong relationship and they're going 228 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,000 to be able to feel that love from us. 229 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,720 And we're going to be able to provide even more of ourselves to them rather than if we're 230 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,000 not on the same page, if we're struggling and our relationship is not good, that's only 231 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,720 going to be worse for our kids. 232 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:46,720 It would be better off of them. 233 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,480 It's better that they have less time with us so we can work on ourselves and them having 234 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:55,680 all the time in the world with us and us not being me and my wife not being on a good page. 235 00:13:55,680 --> 00:14:03,800 So I going back into the topic of how am I trying to balance work life and home life. 236 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:04,800 I'm trying. 237 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,440 I think that's just the real thing. 238 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,240 We're obviously trying to schedule better or I'm trying to schedule better my work stuff 239 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,280 so I can make sure I'm at home at a certain time. 240 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,280 I'm having to give up time on Saturdays. 241 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,960 Like right now I'm here recording instead of being at home my family. 242 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,920 So I want to make sure that like the time I do have with them, like when I go home, 243 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:24,920 it's also organized. 244 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:25,920 Like I got plans. 245 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:26,920 We got stuff that we're doing. 246 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:32,280 It's no no phone trying to make sure I'm giving them my full attention completely. 247 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:40,320 And on top of that, my wife is doing a better job at what as well as organizing the home. 248 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,240 So by the time I get home, she doesn't have to clean do all of her cleaning then she doesn't 249 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,760 have to go running around doing all these errands. 250 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,600 She tries to get that done during the day. 251 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,960 And luckily, unfortunately for us, like if you guys watch our previous podcasts where 252 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,260 we were the caregivers of my younger brother and sister Bella and Gunnar. 253 00:14:56,260 --> 00:14:58,680 So they're they've been a great help being able to babysit a little bit. 254 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:03,880 But that's also created time so that like me and Ashtyn, we both can be there with our 255 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,600 daughters. 256 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:11,180 So I think I think it really comes down to organization and it comes down to priorities. 257 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:14,560 And like I said, right now, business is a priority scaling this business building it 258 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,520 so that I can have the time later on when it's even more crucial to be with them is 259 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,520 important. 260 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,280 But that doesn't mean I'm going to be non-existent at home. 261 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:26,880 So organizing time and you know, going to the gym has been great. 262 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,560 Getting more energy, being able to stay up a little bit later with my wife and do more 263 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:32,880 activities with my girls. 264 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:39,720 I remember before I went to the gym, I like Saturdays was like a relax day for me. 265 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:45,200 And I remember one one weekend there was like the world's biggest like bounce house or something 266 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,280 like that comes to town a couple of times a year. 267 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,120 And I was out here in Chandler and we drove by and I was like, you know, I'm going to 268 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:55,200 take my daughter to that an hour at like 10 a.m. on Saturday being with her. 269 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,480 I was completely done. 270 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,480 I couldn't do it anymore. 271 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:58,480 I was like, OK, we got to go. 272 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,120 Let's get out of here. 273 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,120 And she could hardly walk. 274 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,640 So like I had to carry her around and jump with her. 275 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,880 And now I guarantee I could do that for three hours. 276 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,720 So I can even have now I can have longer memories, better memories and more consistent memories 277 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,840 with my daughters and playing around and stuff because we're going to the gym. 278 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,520 So I think that's really important to on the balance of the work and home life is that 279 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,720 you're able to be more present when you're at home and you're at work. 280 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,000 You're able to be more present as well. 281 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:33,120 So that goes into the gym, which if you watched a little of our podcast last week or episode 282 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,760 two, we talked a little bit about how important fitness and health is. 283 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,080 And I didn't really dive too deep. 284 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,720 We'll dive a little more into it later down the road. 285 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,360 But I think those two things right now are kind of really my focus points on trying to 286 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,120 figure out how to balance homework or home life and work life. 287 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,880 And like I said, it's hard as I'm going to process. 288 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,560 I think I fail every day at trying to figure out the best way to balance that. 289 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:00,200 And I'm hoping to continue to discover more and more aspects to that and actually get 290 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,200 them implemented. 291 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,640 So that's what I would say. 292 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:04,640 All right. 293 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,720 So the question was, how have you been attempting to balance home and home life and work life? 294 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,600 I wrote down a couple of key things you said a lot of time for vacation to focus in with 295 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:19,880 family time only being there for key moments, no phone. 296 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,520 So minimizing the phone, appreciating what your wife provides for the home. 297 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,840 As you mentioned, cleaning and keeping things together, running the home life while you're 298 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,960 at work, organizing time to be more present with your family. 299 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:33,960 Yeah. 300 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,600 And just kind of thinking reviewing that, you know, the more vacations, it's kind of 301 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,200 funny because I feel I don't really care. 302 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,560 And I'm not saying I feel like I'm judged, but I do feel like I've had people comment 303 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:52,320 like, oh, you're going to Mexico a second time or a third time this year. 304 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:53,320 Must be really nice. 305 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,760 And then, you know, I listen to these podcasts and these podcasts like there's people that, 306 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,400 you know, are have really big companies and they're like, yeah, I haven't taken a vacation 307 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,040 in 10 years. 308 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,480 I think there's different ways things can work for everybody, obviously. 309 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,280 And for me, I think it's really important to have these vacations because like, yeah, 310 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,120 I may sacrifice three weeks out of the year and be away from work. 311 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,720 But during those three weeks, I'm solidifying a better relationship with my wife and my 312 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:24,240 family, which helps me operate at a higher capacity when I am at work. 313 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,360 And it is hard to separate the time. 314 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:33,200 Like when I'm at, you know, we just went to Mexico a few, few weeks back and I did. 315 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,240 I had morning meetings from eight to nine. 316 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:39,280 I was going to the gym in the morning before that and I had some phone calls to take during 317 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,280 the day. 318 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:42,400 And so, you know, again, there's a balance there. 319 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:43,760 I wasn't completely gone. 320 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,760 I still had to do some stuff. 321 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,520 But I do think that if I didn't go on these vacations or if I didn't go to the staycation 322 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:57,040 of my wife that I'm planning on to go in a few weeks just for a weekend, that my relationships 323 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:02,700 with the people that are my biggest support would be weaker. 324 00:19:02,700 --> 00:19:10,420 And due to that, I would perform so much worse and at a lesser capacity than I could be. 325 00:19:10,420 --> 00:19:13,320 And so that three weeks is worth the ride. 326 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,000 For example, or I guess the way to compare it is like an investment. 327 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Right. 328 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,920 So like, hey, if you take 500 bucks, you put into a stock that is a great stock. 329 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,600 Sure, you're going to be out that five hundred dollars and you could have maybe used that 330 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,600 to do stuff or to buy stuff that you needed. 331 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,320 But you sacrifice it for two months. 332 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,680 And in the long run, obviously, the payout could be way time, you know, way bigger. 333 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:40,320 And this this way that I do it with the vacations and making time to go out and do stuff with 334 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:46,080 my wife, who is 22 at home with two teenage kids and two toddlers and a new dog, trying 335 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,640 to figure out how to balance that and not lose her mind. 336 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:50,920 I think that's really important. 337 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,360 And I think that helps us operate even more, help us helps us operate better and helps 338 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,720 my wife feel that we're more of a team rather than me being here and her being there and 339 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,720 feeling alone. 340 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,800 And then same thing for me. 341 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:07,800 My wife is able to provide more advice. 342 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,240 And that's this is a tangent I'm going to go on real quick. 343 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:12,240 I don't know. 344 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,800 I've talked about it a lot with my wife and how important it is. 345 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:25,100 But those of you that are building businesses and or are business owner and you're married, 346 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:30,360 I guarantee that you guys could agree with me that your wives play an important role. 347 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:36,240 My wife is not directly involved with my company, but I do consider it our company. 348 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,240 She's not. 349 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:38,240 She doesn't make decisions. 350 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:39,240 She doesn't come here. 351 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,240 She doesn't yell at people. 352 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,240 She doesn't get people organized. 353 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,120 She doesn't run jobs. 354 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,240 She doesn't sell jobs. 355 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:51,440 And her job is to be at home and take care of my of our children. 356 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:58,760 And but when I talk with her and I share my anxiety, I share my stress, I share the stuff 357 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,000 that's going on, the stuff that annoyed me during the day, the stuff that went well during 358 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:08,040 the day, the cells that we got, the progress that we're making, her input is huge. 359 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,800 Her support is huge. 360 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:16,720 And so again, I think I've said it so many dang times in this episode alone on how important 361 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:23,020 that your relationship is with your spouse or the person that you're building your business 362 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:28,040 with or that you have someone at home building your home while you're building a business 363 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:34,040 is that relationship is so dang crucial to, you know, it's going to play a role in how 364 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:40,320 hard your hardships are in entrepreneurship is going to play a role in how motivated and 365 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,880 dedicated you are at work inside outside of the home. 366 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,520 It's going to play a role in literally every aspect. 367 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:47,920 And I don't know. 368 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,500 I remember listening to a podcast and I don't want to say the person's name just in case 369 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:59,960 it's wrong, but it's someone who has a very successful podcast and or has a successful 370 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:00,960 life. 371 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:09,800 And he said, I wish I could go back and find a spouse instead of go about a life of the 372 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,320 single life because I felt like I would have been in it. 373 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,560 And I don't want to butcher this, but it was either he was either going to be more he could 374 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,920 have been more successful than where he is now, or he could have got to where he's at 375 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:27,400 even quicker if he had someone to come home to someone to support him, someone to be by 376 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,400 his side throughout the entire process. 377 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,600 And I believe I guess I will say I believe it was Tate. 378 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,360 What's his last name? 379 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,360 Andrew Tate. 380 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:38,360 Andrew Tate. 381 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:43,600 Yeah, I believe it was Andrew Tate and one of his videos he mentioned that and I'm actually 382 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,080 going to fact check that makes I would love to find that again. 383 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,800 But I that just hit me really hard. 384 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,520 And I think it's really important for those of you that don't have someone to lean on 385 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,520 when you come home. 386 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,400 If you're building a business, you have to at least have a support system. 387 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,680 It is one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life. 388 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:07,760 Next to leaving the country for two years and being jumping into a country where I didn't 389 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,200 speak the language and not being able to fend for myself because I didn't know what anybody was 390 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,520 saying that was really hard. 391 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,840 And I'm sure I'm going to have even, you know, harder things in the future. 392 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,640 But I love adversity because it helps me grow and makes me feel like I'm progressing and 393 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,960 I know it betters me. 394 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:27,240 So anyways, I think that, you know, reiterate and maybe even some of this entire podcast 395 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:33,280 really balancing your relationships with those that are close to those that support you on 396 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:40,200 this journey of business, on this journey of building an amazing home and work life. 397 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:45,560 That person at your right hand is the most important person on this journey. 398 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:50,240 So well, that all the questions? 399 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,240 Yeah that's 400 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,240 Three. 401 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,240 We could ask some more if you want. 402 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,720 Or I think we got some time. 403 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,720 Let's go over one more. 404 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,200 We got one more question actually. 405 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:03,760 And it's what are some moments in your home life and work life that you have found growth 406 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,360 in failure? 407 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:06,520 Repeat that one more time. 408 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:12,280 So what are some moments in your home life and or work life that you have found growth 409 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,280 in failure? 410 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,440 The lessons you've learned from taking an L. 411 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,800 You know, it's a great way to put it. 412 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:27,320 Well, it's funny because a lot of the songs I listen to, they talk about how they don't 413 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,520 get L's and all they get is W's. 414 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:37,680 And I don't I think you do maybe get that at a certain point, but I think failure is 415 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:38,680 a part of life. 416 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:45,800 If you are not failing consistently, then you're really not growing, especially when 417 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,700 you're starting something, especially on a startup. 418 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:54,980 I do have less mistakes in my opinion or less failures on a daily basis than I did four 419 00:24:54,980 --> 00:24:57,480 years ago, but they're not non-existent. 420 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,960 They're still there. 421 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:03,080 And that goes that it doesn't matter whether I'm talking about my business or I'm talking 422 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,120 about at home or even if I'm talking about in the gym. 423 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:10,680 You know, I just we did maxes last week and I could only get I got less than what I wanted 424 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:11,680 to. 425 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,680 That's a failure. 426 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:21,920 But I think some of the most important failures or I guess pinnacle failures in my life with 427 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,960 home and business comes down to and I'm not sure if I talked about this in one of the 428 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,960 other episodes, but I'll dive a little deeper is actually I did talk about it and I was 429 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:31,960 wrong on the year. 430 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,680 I thought it was 2020, the Christmas of 2020, but it was actually the Christmas of 2019. 431 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,440 When I had zero dollars. 432 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,520 Well, actually, you know what? 433 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:46,280 That's like I had like a hundred and twenty seven dollars and some change in my bank account 434 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:47,720 and I had gone a little bit more. 435 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,000 So it's just under two hundred dollars and we were playing. 436 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,320 We had planned a trip. 437 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:57,840 My father-in-law bought a or rented out a cabin up in the mountains of Colorado. 438 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,560 We were going there for Christmas and previously like to that, like the summer and spring before 439 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,840 that I had a lot of work and we had a lot of jobs and things were going pretty smooth 440 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,640 and I was working with my hands as well. 441 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,640 And so but something happened and coming towards October, November when things really slow 442 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,480 down and construction, if you don't have marketing, if you don't have systems in place, if you 443 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,680 don't have something going on, if you're just working with your hands and job after job 444 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,160 and not really trying to scale, though you get slow seasons. 445 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,160 Now I don't believe in slow seasons because of the operations and the systems and the 446 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,360 marketing that's in place. 447 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:36,240 I don't believe in slow system seasons anymore. 448 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,320 But then the way I was operating, there was definitely slow times and that's towards the 449 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,640 end of the year because people are throwing parties for Thanksgiving, Christmas. 450 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:45,640 They're buying Christmas presents. 451 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,960 The last thing they want to do is spend 10 grand on a bathroom remodel. 452 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,120 And even then, it was cheaper than it is now. 453 00:26:53,120 --> 00:27:00,080 So I didn't plan ahead and I didn't anticipate and I didn't have very much work and I did 454 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,840 that Christmas came and I didn't even have money to pay for the gas in my truck to take 455 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,200 my pregnant wife and I up to Colorado. 456 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,760 And so my father in law had to help. 457 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:18,040 I had to get help from family and from my church to pay my rent, pay my auto insurance 458 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,240 and all that kind of stuff. 459 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:28,000 And that was probably one of the top three biggest failures or moments of failure that 460 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:36,680 I felt like, okay, I am literally, I've been beaten down and it comes down to that pivotal 461 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:43,080 moment of like, do I get up or do I stay down and find a different way of going about it? 462 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,600 And I remember a lot of justification went through my mind. 463 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,760 Okay, you know what? 464 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:47,760 It's okay. 465 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:48,840 It's not a big deal. 466 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,160 I can try this again later on down the road. 467 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,880 Why don't I just go get a job here? 468 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,800 Why do I build a little bit of money first, then try again? 469 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:03,120 Why don't I do it a little differently and just stop right now and again, start up later? 470 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:09,160 And all that went through my head and that moment of deciding to keep on moving forward, 471 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:15,640 that was the moment that has built and brought me here and built everything that we have 472 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,080 today. 473 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:26,720 I really think that failure is very important because without that moment, say that moment 474 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,200 didn't happen, say it just was a little slow, I was hurting just a little bit, but I wasn't 475 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,400 completely down to just nothing. 476 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,560 I had a little money in my bank, but I was also in debt. 477 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,560 I owed money. 478 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:43,240 I had credit cards maxed out that I was trying to fund, to fund the business with. 479 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:44,840 And so I was in even more debt. 480 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,080 And so let's say that didn't happen. 481 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,360 Let's say I was doing all right. 482 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,440 I had a job coming up and had a little money. 483 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,840 I was able to go to Colorado and things were okay for the next three years and things got 484 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,720 better and I get here today. 485 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:07,200 I may be, I may have had the opportunity to be the exact same place I am today, but what 486 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:22,880 I learned and the emotions that I felt and the control and mental toughness and the surpassing 487 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,920 the threshold that I thought I had breaking that down and going even further pushing and 488 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,520 believing in myself even more. 489 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,640 All of that I would never have learned. 490 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,920 I do think that would have been a culprit to why I wouldn't have, I wouldn't be where 491 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,640 I'm at today if I had not had that and I still would have kept pushing. 492 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:49,200 I don't think I would have learned those important lessons that really shaped me to become the 493 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,280 the business owner I am today, to become the dad, the friend that I am today. 494 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,640 There's still things that I think I've fallen at, things that I don't think I'm the best 495 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:57,640 at. 496 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:03,400 I just, I have accepted the fact that failure is going to come, right? 497 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,320 And without failure, how can I get better? 498 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,120 If I'm perfect, there's no way to better myself. 499 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,120 There's no way to progress. 500 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,560 There's nothing to progress to. 501 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,520 I don't want that life. 502 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:18,720 That sounds like a very boring life to me because the amount of dopamine, the amount 503 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:26,480 of happiness that I get when I exceed a max, when I, for example, looking back to that 504 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:32,720 Christmas to where I am now, you guys can only imagine how I might feel having been 505 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,280 able to look back and actually say, you know what? 506 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,280 It worked. 507 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,320 I did it. 508 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,960 And I don't feel like I've done it because I do feel like I'm not even close to being 509 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,600 what people consider successful. 510 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,040 Some people can tell me, hey, you have a successful company, great job. 511 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,720 Oh, like look at everything you build. 512 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:50,800 Like, that's great. 513 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,080 But I still feel, I still don't feel that. 514 00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:01,000 And all these failures, like I just want to just get rid of them and make, you know, can 515 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,160 get rid of one at a time and go on to the next one and keep on pushing because I'm excited 516 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:12,300 to get the life lessons, to get the extra mental toughness, to learn more about myself, 517 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:18,520 my dedication, my motivation, pushing myself past levels that I didn't think I could. 518 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:23,480 And I think a lot of that for me comes from sports in high school, playing football that, 519 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:29,760 you know, those days that you couldn't move one more foot, you couldn't do one more play, 520 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,040 couldn't do one more thing where I needed to go get water and not being able to do it, 521 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,960 that created that mental toughness in me. 522 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:42,760 And I think for me, that plays a huge role into why I am the way I am today and why I 523 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:49,040 parent the way I parent and why I treat people the way I treat them, why I believe so much 524 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,320 in people even when they don't believe in themselves. 525 00:31:52,320 --> 00:32:02,240 And I think failures are the mainstream to really become successful. 526 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,120 It's one of the things that you have to go through. 527 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,480 So for those of you that are having failures in your life, for those of you that are at 528 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,720 rock bottom, if you're like me and you're having that moment right now, Christmas of 529 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,160 2019, keep going. 530 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,520 Don't give up. 531 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,080 There's still moments in my life where I'm like, you know, I watch, I want to be so successful 532 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:28,720 on such a high level and there's not very many people that have done the level that 533 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,800 I'm trying to do in construction specifically. 534 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,560 And I have those moments where I'm like, maybe I should continue my company, you know, still 535 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,320 be successful, keep pushing, but maybe I should start something a little bit different. 536 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,920 And that's going to really get me there. 537 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,880 Like maybe I should start a product line or, you know, whatever the case is, something 538 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,280 where clients are not a one time type of a deal, but where they're reoccurring every 539 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,280 30, 60, 90 days. 540 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,280 I think about that a lot and I get that little voice in my head that says, yeah, that's going 541 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,440 to be easier. 542 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,440 Maybe put more focus there. 543 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,720 And this is just something that got you started. 544 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,720 But my passion's here. 545 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,840 And so I have to overcome that every single day, if not multiple times a day that no, 546 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,120 I'm going to break the threshold. 547 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,040 And the reason I feel that way and the reason I believe in myself that I can is because 548 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,240 I broke the threshold multiple times in my life. 549 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,720 So I've been able to develop and practice that. 550 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,040 And now I believe in myself as this is harder than it was in football. 551 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,640 This is harder than it was in 2019. 552 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,340 And so I'm able to continue to really believe in myself to actually get past that. 553 00:33:33,340 --> 00:33:36,520 So I think for those of you who have failures in your life, for those of you that are struggling 554 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:43,840 with stuff, please remember that this is just one moment on the infinite timeline and push 555 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,600 through it because you're not going to regret it. 556 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,520 If you put action in results will come. 557 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:49,520 There is no doubt about it. 558 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,720 I don't care if it's a little bit of action. 559 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,360 You might get a little bit of a reward, but you're still going to get something for what 560 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:56,360 you put in. 561 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,360 That's how life works. 562 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,320 The more action you put in, the more results you're going to get. 563 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:05,160 And so if you're at that moment where you got to break that threshold, put more action 564 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,280 in, stop thinking, go do don't think about it, push it, risk it all, whatever you got 565 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,960 to do, believe in yourself and make it work because you're the only person that can make 566 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:15,960 it work. 567 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:21,680 You're the only person that can even get you close to where you want to be and don't listen 568 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:22,680 to other people. 569 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,680 And again, you're going to have people that care about you, that love you, that really, 570 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,380 truly, truly, truly only want the best for you. 571 00:34:30,380 --> 00:34:34,720 And their opinion of what's the best for you is going to be very different from yours. 572 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:36,800 So make sure you hold your ground. 573 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,880 Make sure you believe in yourself enough to know that, Hey, this sounds great, but I know 574 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,000 I can do this and I'm going to keep pushing and let them know, support me in this. 575 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,920 I'm going, I'm going full, full blown towards the wall. 576 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,720 I'm going to run straight for it. 577 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:52,720 Support me in this. 578 00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:53,720 Okay. 579 00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:55,640 And that's, you're also going to find out the people who do support you, right? 580 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:56,640 Who to surround yourself by. 581 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,840 So anyways, sum it all up. 582 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,720 Failure guys is part of life. 583 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,720 And even if you're not building a company, you're still going to find failure. 584 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:08,680 Even if you give up right now and you go work at McDonald's, you're still going to have 585 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,680 failure. 586 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:10,680 You're still going to screw up an order. 587 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:11,680 Okay. 588 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,240 You're still going to wake up late to go to work. 589 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:17,020 You're still going to, you know, there's failure in everything we do. 590 00:35:17,020 --> 00:35:18,960 You cannot get away from failure. 591 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,960 So why are you going to let failure stop you now? 592 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,040 Because if you stop and you go somewhere else, you're going to find more failure. 593 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,100 So push through it, get through it, keep going. 594 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:31,100 Don't stop believing in yourself. 595 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:34,200 And if you got to wake up and do your affirmation every morning, look in the mirror and say, 596 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,980 I can do this, whatever you got to do, find the way that works and find it quick and go 597 00:35:38,980 --> 00:35:39,980 for it. 598 00:35:39,980 --> 00:35:44,480 So I think, well, yeah, I mean, great questions. 599 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:49,680 So I, I 100% believe in everything that we've talked about today. 600 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:55,020 And I know it works because again, I'm trying to show from my experience and, and it's worked. 601 00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:58,480 So I know if you guys put it to the test, it's absolutely going to work for you. 602 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,440 And again, it may be in different methods, but the principles say the same. 603 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,720 They're universal. 604 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:05,280 So thank you guys so much for the support. 605 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,200 Thank you guys for watching yet another episode. 606 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,720 And stay tuned for episode four that we'll be recording and releasing here soon. 607 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:19,080 And if you haven't followed us on our Instagram or Spotify or Apple podcasts, at the very 608 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,320 end of this video, you'll find all those links, go ahead and click them. 609 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,520 And also if you guys want to leave comments and ask more questions, please do. 610 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,920 We're happy to answer them, whether it's work, life, home life, we got a lot of topics that 611 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,180 we can really dive into. 612 00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:36,880 So thank you guys again for the support and make sure to follow, like our page, and stay 613 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:52,680 tuned for the next episode.