Hey guys, welcome back to the homework assignment.
I'm your host RJ Patino and today again we're going to discuss how to find the balance between
work life and home life.
We have a guest here today, Blake Clark with Limitless Reality.
He's agreed to join us and kind of break down really what his business is and how he runs
it and some of the things he's learned along the way about running a magnificent team,
building a team, scaling his business and really getting down kind of to the nitty-gritty on
how he personally is able to balance his home and work life.
So Blake, welcome.
Thanks, appreciate you guys having me, man.
We appreciate you being here. So tell us a little bit about Limitless Reality.
What do you guys got going on?
Yeah, so we've been open just a little over two years.
So when we opened it, I've been in real estate since 2015, started off as a solo agent, started
a team at the end of 2017, going into 2018, did that all the way through 2020, mid-21
that's when we launched Limitless Real Estate and so just passed our two-year mark in May.
Fantastic.
How many have?
Sixty-eight agents as of today that work for us.
That's freaking fantastic.
And like we were just having a conversation, well like two months ago, how many did you
have?
We had 30, 38 I think around there.
Yeah, so it's double.
Yeah, that's phenomenal.
So obviously you've worked in real estate for a while and you've been a part of some
different companies, right?
Yes, I have.
So what made you kind of want to break off and start your own thing?
So it's interesting because like I told everybody when I got into real estate, I had zero intentions
of doing real estate, which is funny because I tell people that.
But I started off because I was working corporate America, had the 401k, had all that stuff.
I lost my job and then I basically found myself kind of doing some freelancing stuff in between.
I was doing some marketing for a chiropractic office.
I was running a phone dialer system for a big call center for a while there.
Did that.
Then I'd started a couple of e-commerce businesses at the time.
So I was kind of doing a little bit of everything, but I didn't have that like retirement and
still being young at that time.
I was in my mid 20s, 25, 26 and I was like, I got to do something.
It's still early enough in time.
So I wanted to basically get into flip properties and rental properties is what it was.
So I got my real estate license solely to just buy properties.
And even then I didn't really know what the hell I was doing.
I did it just because everybody I was watching that was like wealthy, they all seemed to
own real estate.
I didn't even know what it really meant, they were just like, yeah, if you want to be wealthy,
you own real estate.
So I hate to tell people that because I really went into this thing blind.
But when I went into it, it was really good because I am really good with like numbers
and sales.
And the problem with real estate is everybody's really emotionally attached to it.
People buy houses, it's where they raise their families, they raise their kids there.
So it's always an extremely emotional process where for me it's not just an asset.
I've always looked at it that way.
I'm like, it's just a house.
You can buy it, sell it, flip it, turn it into more money, buy something bigger.
Buy something smaller.
So I've always literally looked at things as like just a game of Monopoly.
That's it.
Like how can I buy a property?
How can I improve it?
So Michaela and I, my wife, when we had bought properties, I had bought one that was a foreclosure.
My very first house at 22 years old, picked it up.
It was ugly as all heck and I lived in it and fixed it up and sold it.
When I met her, I'd rented it out for a little while before we sold it, lived in her house,
fixed it up.
We bought one that was a massive fixer-upper.
So we'd gone and flipped about two to three properties that we had personally lived in
before we got to the house we're at now so we could save up enough money for a down payment
for it to make sense.
And then just doing so well from like a numbers perspective, it just naturally turned into
a couple friends reached out to me, did a good job, did a good job.
Threw in a little bit of marketing and consistency and all the things I learned from corporate
America that I structured my personal business.
Because that's the problem.
A lot of entrepreneurs get into real estate.
They don't have any structure.
They just, I'm into it because I'm free.
And in reality, that's actually what makes you fail.
You have to be structured and disciplined and treat it like a job, especially.
Yeah, I mean, they see these guys that have been doing this for 20 years that are on the
beach drinking the pina coladas and they think they can go from point A to point B. So I
never saw things that way.
For there, it just took off.
Just slowly compounded, compounded, compounded.
And by year three, I was ready for a team.
Yeah.
100%.
So that kind of carries into like, yeah, you're talking about your systems where you operate
your company, obviously.
I always kind of tied into football.
I saw a lot of players you know that went to NFL and stuff like that that were great.
And then they would want to coach afterwards and they can't necessarily do it.
They had the talent, they had the skill, but they didn't know how to coach.
They didn't know how to do that.
So running a business is way different than working in a business, in my opinion.
So kind of digging a little deeper to that, we had a conversation a few weeks back where
you talked to me kind of about your background a little bit.
And you mentioned all these other companies you worked for didn't really have a culture.
So you were really wanting to build a culture.
So what is your guys' culture at Limitless?
We have a culture, basically, it's very family centric.
So it's just, you know, I made a rule for myself when I left corporate America and I
decided to start my own business.
I didn't want to walk through the doors and work with people I just didn't like to work
with.
Like, and that's kind of the cool thing about when you build a business, you kind of have
that choice.
Now, you have to be realistic with it.
You can't just say, hey, you know, everybody's just like me.
We do this really stupid exercise.
I tell people all the time, but when people come into my company, we ask them, you know,
what animal are you?
You get four choices.
Are you a lion?
Are you a monkey?
Are you a puppy or are you an owl?
And they always look at me like, what the hell are you talking about?
But one of my business coaches that I had back in the day taught me that question because
he's like, the problem is if you hire a bunch of yous, what's your what are you strong?
So like really, when you lay down on paper, we're all amazing at some things that were
horrible, right?
We fall somewhere in the middle of that spectrum based on what type of a personality profile
we have.
So for me, I'm a high D, high driver, like always very good to go for results.
But the problem is, is somebody like me, I'll stack body bags, right?
Like it's just one of those things like I care about the end result so much.
So one would identify as like a lion, right?
In that scenario, problem is I'm not detailed.
I'm not organized.
I'm not structured.
I'm not really all that analytical.
In most cases, it's just wake up every day.
Here's the end result.
We're going to get that end result.
But if I have a bunch of guys with me, that's great.
We're going to get a lot of sales.
And I did when I back when I first started my first sales team at one of my corporate
jobs, I hired a bunch of guys like me.
Guess what?
Everything customer service sucked, follow up sucked, client retention sucked, conversion
rates sucked.
You know, all that sucked because yeah, we were great at this end, but we didn't have
the back end details.
Every successful business needs both sides of that.
For every person that's a massive driver, you need a little bit of people behind the
scenes that can tie it all together for you and structure it.
You need basically have the visionary and the integrator, right?
That's really what it is.
And I didn't figure that out for a lot of times.
So now when we come in, we really have a clear expectation and idea of, hey, what do I need
in this business?
What are we heavy on?
Are we heavy on drivers?
Do we need a little bit of people to tie behind?
When we look at a position that needs filled, I don't really look at it necessarily as like
I just hired somebody, for example, my personal assistant, but I didn't say, hey, I need a
personal assistant.
I said, here's all the things that I need that I'm lacking in my business.
What would this person look like personality wise that can fill those gaps for me?
And then I basically took the skill set and filled it in there.
And that's how we hire people now.
So we build the culture out based on what we need.
Are we are we high on a bunch of owls right now?
I got a bunch of analytical people sitting around that need some drivers behind them.
OK, let's bring in some drivers.
So when you start to build an organization that way, you really build it more of like
a masterpiece is what it is because you can kind of paint what you need in there instead
of just taking anybody in the door.
You know, yeah 100 percent.
That's fantastic.
You and you mentioned Michaela a second ago so obviously
She's your wife, right?
So how does her being in business with you really affect your home life?
What's your home and work schedule and how does that?
It was a massive struggle.
So when we met, we worked together.
We met at Corporate America.
We had different roles and we were in different departments.
So we never really worked together.
We just rode to work together, which is super cool.
But then when we actually started working together, we used to butt heads a lot.
It was really, really bad for a while.
She's like I'm more of like a driver, not organized, careless type person, big picture
visionary.
She's very much a details, organized structure type person.
And so you guys know how that goes opposite the track.
100 percent.
The problem was where we really struggled in business and this is where I think a lot
of couples is that they always try to overstep their boundaries in business.
So for example, she would try to step in and overtake the trainings and overtake the things
that I was really good at and just frustrate the hell out of me.
I would come in and overtake things that she was really good at like organizing.
I'd be like, oh, that's not important.
Don't worry about it.
And we were just, there was just no gray area.
We had the same talk.
We would sit down a couple of years ago and we said, listen, if we're going to do this,
especially when we open the brokerage up, she wanted to go in and be behind the scenes,
the ops.
And she does really good on sales on her own, by the way, but she's not like the hey, everyday,
get out and kill type guy like I am.
But we basically clearly defined, hey, this is what you're super good at.
This is your role within the business.
Here's what I'm super good at.
This is what's important to me.
I just stay out of her lane now.
I say, hey, this is a you thing.
You know, if you need my input, ask.
And then she does the same for me.
And ever since we had that dynamic of like, this is our roles and I respect your role,
you respect my role and together, it works very well.
Things really smoothed out for us at that point.
So I think that's super important.
Like that took me a while to learn, especially when I was like when we were growing our business
here at Elder trying to figure out like, OK, hey, I want to I need this here and I want
to bring someone in.
And maybe that wasn't their talent.
I don't know.
Having to step back and be like, OK, this is their talent.
If I put them here, they're going to be able to excel even more.
And on top of that, they love what they do.
They know what they're good at.
So their drive is tenfold compared to over here where they may not really like that as
much.
They're not good at it.
So that's a great point.
I was listening to I think was one of your stories on Facebook and or Instagram, whatever
the case is.
And you were talking about your get up at 3 a.m.
Is that right?
So and you were talking about creating that time for yourself.
So why is that important in your life to have that time for yourself?
Well, I mean, here's the thing.
When you start to grow a business and this isn't even for business owners as anybody
six, seven o'clock in the morning, the world needs you.
Like and so I tell people, like at some level, the world needs you.
Your boss is going to need you.
Your job is going to need you.
Your spouse is going to need you.
In my case, kids, all the things I get my kids up from school.
So a lot of people like to make the excuse.
I just can't get up early in the morning.
And then they complain when they don't get to do self-development.
They complain when they don't get to go to the gym.
And really what it is when you look at a lot of people that don't have that balance, like
what we're talking about balance between work and life, it's because they're spending a
lot of time at work and they're spending a lot of time not doing things for themselves.
And a lot of people like, oh, it's selfish to do things for yourself.
What I did was I built it into my schedule where my first three hours a day are my self-time.
It's not taking away from anybody else.
My kids are still asleep.
My wife was still asleep.
As of recently, she's actually been getting up and going to the gym with me early too.
But for the longest time, I would get up at three, go do my morning cardio, do a couple
mile jog in the morning, walk, listen to my podcast, my personal development, listen to
audiobooks.
I'll go do that.
Then go to the gym and lift weights.
So all my fitness, all my personal development, all my me time, I got three hours dedicated
to solely me before the expectation of me giving myself back to the rest of the world.
Now I've got myself taken care of.
I'm in the right frame of mind because truth be told, every day I wake up, I'm not in a
great mood.
Things happen.
You're a business owner.
You're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders every day.
You've got a lot of responsibility as it is as a husband, dad, all the things.
So there's no way that I can't get up in the morning and I'll wake up like a crabby asshole.
I'll be honest, some days I'm just frustrated where after listening to a podcast for an
hour, getting two miles of cardio in, going to the gym, lifting weights, getting cleaned
up, getting a shower, and then my kids wake up, then I'm not already in a good mood.
I got all my personal issues have been completely sorted out within the first two, three hours
of my day and everybody's like, how are you so positive every morning?
Well, I took two to three hours to work on myself every frigging morning.
A lot of people hear that and they're like, oh, it's just a pain in the butt to get up
two hours early.
Well, try giving yourself personal time.
Buy your time back.
Your life will feel a whole lot balanced because now when you have an entire day and you lay
your head down at night, it doesn't feel like I spent my whole day giving it to other people.
I got two, three hours to give to myself.
I felt great.
I got myself aligned with where I needed to be.
I got my attitude.
Now I can focus on the rest of my day giving to everybody else the highest and best version
of myself.
Yeah.
I think that's a lot of things that people like growing up in my business, seeing other
business owners, meeting people that are starting their own type of business stuff, that was
a big portion that was missing.
A lot of the people that I started my business around, they don't have theirs now.
I think a big part of that is the self-development app, creating that time for yourself.
You'll burn out.
You'll burn yourself out real fast.
You'll burn yourself out very quick.
You go to the gym, obviously.
How has that affected your business, being able to go to the gym and actually exercise?
It all ties into everything.
You can't operate from a high place of confidence, self-value if you don't look and feel good
about yourself.
Especially me, I'm in a sales position.
Really, we're all in sales position.
If you work for a company, you got to sell yourself.
You got to sell your skills.
You got to sell your knowledge.
It doesn't matter what you do.
Every day if you wake up and you look in the mirror and you can't be happy or proud with
who you are, whether that's mentally, physically, emotionally, financially, if you can't look
at you as a solid pillar, how do you expect anything around you to be held up?
You're the foundation of everything around you.
You can make a choice and say, I'm going to fix everything.
I'm going to fix myself first because no matter how much you try to fix in your business,
fix everything, you're the pillar of that.
If you can't set aside time to fix that, for example, me going to the gym, staying in shape.
I like having high energy.
I like being... I don't want to be freaking sluggish.
I don't want to be out of shape.
I don't want to be in the doctor's office all the time with high blood pressure or anything
like that.
I want to look at myself in the mirror and say, yeah, I've got high confidence.
I look good.
I'm in shape.
I'm working on my thought process every day.
I'm working on my mindset.
I'm working on my knowledge so that every day I'm basically showing up as the highest
and best version of myself.
That's going to pour into every aspect of your business and life.
Yeah 100%.
I want to understand.
So your kids, I know, what age are your kids?
My oldest is 15.
My youngest right underneath that is 13 and then the youngest below that's nine.
So do they participate with you guys in any exercise or anything like that?
Not necessarily.
They still sleep.
They're teenagers and they're in that super cool lazy phase at the moment.
With that being said, they're all super active though.
Both my daughters are in competitive cheer.
My son plays football and all that.
They're just not on board with the 3 a.m. schedule yet, but they'll get there.
Yeah.
I was asked last week, hey you know, for business owners that are so busy running a business and like for
you, your wife is intertwined with your business and stuff, you know some people are like, okay, you know people
need to be at home taking care of the kids.
Well, in my opinion, the kids can watch their parents.
That example they say and that's what they're really going to feed off of 100% you know.
So I was just curious about that.
Well, that's fantastic.
So for going back to the balance of home and work life, when you were a kid, what was your
vision of your work life and home life growing up?
What was your want and need?
Did you have something figured out?
Is this always what you wanted to do?
No, I didn't.
I wish I could tell people that.
I don't have that story of like, oh, I knew I was going to be in real estate when I grew
up.
So background was just crazy.
It was just, I don't know, it's interesting because I look back at it and everybody likes
to throw all these words around like trauma and all this shit today and it's just life.
I don't get tied up and let that lean on me.
Stuff happens and there's always somebody out there that has a worse story than mine.
Too many people like to get in these competitions and contests today of the woes me and I've
had a worse story.
This shit happens.
Some people are worse, some people are better.
None of that matters.
It really just, hey, where did you pick up the torch at and where do you start running?
That's really what matters.
Work with what tools you got.
So when I grew up, we grew up in Vegas.
That's where I was born and raised at.
My dad, hardworking dude, owned a little concrete business.
Nothing major, like literally one truck and like three of his buddies and they used to
pour concrete and sidewalks and stuff like that.
When I was seven, I have a sister who's one year younger.
She was six and I have a little brother who was four and he ended up passing away.
Basically my dad had an old, it was like a 64, 65 Chevy pickup and we would ride when
my dad would back in the yard every day from coming home from doing concrete work.
We'd jump on his bumper and we'd back in the yard.
He had a little ball hitch, like a two inch ball hitch and my little brother, we were
both standing on the bumper and his foot slipped and he did a face plant on the ball hitch
and the ball hitch went basically through his eye socket.
So I'd saw that and beat on my dad's door and so my dad stops.
And it's crazy because I was seven and I can remember that exactly like it was yesterday.
It was one of my craziest childhood things. You know
So did that, my dad went into a crazy depression because my brother had unfortunately passed
away from that.
We lived in a rental property for six months and got evicted from that and we literally
ended up in Arizona with 500 bucks in our pocket.
My mom was out here back in 96 doing campaigning for a guy.
There was a guy running for state senator.
My mom was like an admin support helping out with that.
So they had an office over off of Indian school.
And so at that time my dad basically didn't even tell her.
He literally had a yard sale.
Everything that didn't sell, we just threw in a U-Haul and we got like 500 bucks from
the yard sale.
It's just what we had left.
Our old 64 Chevy Suburban and this like old, it was like an 86, 87 Cadillac El Dorado.
That's what we had left.
So we literally showed up in Arizona.
Told my mom, my dad's like, we're here.
We're going to figure it out.
We don't know.
And luckily the guy, when we got here that my mom was working for, let us stay in his
office building.
He had a little, it's like a little building in downtown Phoenix and he's like, you guys
can stay there.
So we stayed there for a couple of weeks.
My dad got a job doing underground utilities, digging tractor backhoe type work and stuff
like that.
We ended up in South Phoenix renting a property.
We didn't know South Phoenix was South Phoenix at the time.
So we stayed there.
Had two of our cars stolen within an eight month period.
Nothing fancy.
This one car, we woke up one morning, it was just gone.
They took it and lit it on fire.
Took it for a joyride.
Bought another one.
It was like this old 80, I think it was like an 89 or 90 Buick La Sabre.
Nothing crazy.
Literally four months later they stole that and they found it out in the desert smashed
up with like three other cars.
And then the breaking point, we were at El Prado school, or El Prado Park.
It was right there on like 19th Avenue in Dobbins area.
My sister and I were at a swim meet.
Some gang got in a shootout.
It was like a Saturday morning.
A couple gunshots broke out in the park.
All my parents were like, well, he's got to get the hell out of here.
My dad happened to be doing a job site all the way out in Maricopa, Arizona.
Mind you, this was like back in 96, 97.
Nothing out there.
There was nothing out there. He was doing a job site and he goes, you know, I found this really great deal on this trailer.
It was like a single wide like 6, 700 square foot trailer out there that we could get into
and they were willing to do like an owner finance situation for my dad on like three
acres.
That's where we moved.
Bought this little single wide trailer out there.
I remember them taking me out there because mind you, I grew up in like Vegas at the time.
So it's like, you know, my dad was concrete business and did kind of DJing on the side
of these little dive bars at night to pay the bills to like, we go out there.
And I kid you not going down like the highway, there's a guy on a horse.
I'm like, what the hell is this out here?
This is out in the middle of freaking nowhere.
So we went to school.
That's where we moved.
We grew up.
I moved out there.
I think I was like seventh grade, eighth grade, and we went to a two way school.
Elementary, middle, high school was all there.
My graduating class, I graduated in 03.
I think there was only like 30, 40 of us.
oh wow. Yeah, tiny school, our graduation was over like 30 minutes.
Principal lived across the street.
And yeah, so that's where I grew up.
So you know, to tie all that together, I had a conversation with my friend actually on
the way here.
He grew up out there.
He owns an extremely successful AC company.
He comes from a very similar background.
I grew up out there on his parents work the farms and he grew up in a little house out
there and stuff.
Is he the guy that jut came and fixed your AC?
Yes.
So him and I were literally chatting.
He just called me.
He's like, hey, I was going on the freeway.
I was like, hey, I was going to this Lambo and I was trying to race him.
I thought it was you.
And you know, we started laughing because he's like, it's crazy because we both like,
you know, we're two very successful people that came out of this little town.
And so I was talking to him about it and we got on the topic.
But to really circle back to all of this is that I just got really freaking tired of not
having, you know, I grew up and it was always can't afford this, can't have this.
Got my first job at 12 years old washing airplanes because it was the only thing that was out there.
That's an interesting job.
It was a glider ride place out there.
So it was within three miles of my house.
So I used to get up at five in the morning and ride my bike down there.
And I'd wash airplanes in the morning when I was 12 and I'd stay there.
I worked for two bucks an hour and I got tips on the weekends and then I'd push the airplanes
back.
So I did that.
I picked melons in the melon field, just did whatever I could.
But I got it's just one of those things like I would see people that were successful and
I never really understood.
There was always just seemed like there was this massive gap, you know.
And I truly believe that's why I like who I am today.
I try to pour into so many like kids and stuff like that is just trying to be that bridge
because it's really it was just a matter of I didn't know anybody successful growing up.
I grew up like with people that were just average blue collar.
Like I literally had nobody.
They're like, oh, I make really good money.
This is how you do it.
Right.
They can really show me how to build.
Mentors, yeah.
How to build that bridge from here to here.
Like how do you get from here?
I didn't have that.
And so I just had this crazy relentless drive.
I didn't know what it was going to look like.
You know, I started off doing construction, underground utilities, dirt work.
I got very lucky.
I got a random phone call one day from a lady that I used to go to school with that had
a job at University of Phoenix.
And that was my very first sales job.
Didn't know what I was doing. Oh wow.
She's like, you want a job?
I was like, doing what?
And she was like, just making calls to people.
I'm like, is it in the air conditioning?
I remember I was sitting in Fountain Hills and a frigging backhoe digging a ditch for
cocks putting in fiber optic line.
It was July, hundred and some degrees out.
And I'm like, is it an AC?
She's like, yes.
How much?
She's like 13 bucks an hour or something.
I'm like, done.
I'll try.
I don't even know what I'm doing.
I'll try.
You know, that was the first time I ever even had a pair of dress pants.
Like she's like, you gotta wear dress clothes.
I'm like, I got jeans and work boots and stuff and I thought it was the easiest thing ever.
I'm like, this is a cakewalk job.
Like I used to make 11 bucks an hour digging frigging ditches and laying asphalt.
And you're telling me I could work in the AC and make 35 grand a year and go to school
for free.
So I just killed it.
I'm like, this is so much better.
And so, you know, I guess if I had to really summarize it, you just take opportunities
as it comes.
You know what I mean?
It's really hard to map out.
When I hear these kids that are like 20, you're like, I'm going to go do this.
I don't know.
There's a lot of things I thought I wanted to do and I tried it and it's like, I just
don't love that.
It's just not what I'm good at.
Yeah. Trial and error.
And then now, I mean, it's really true.
You kind of build the life you want.
Like for me, it's just my life's an entire game of Monopoly.
I literally buy houses, sell houses, market houses, buy rental properties, fix them up.
It's a shit ton of fun.
It's so fun to me.
Like, and I love it.
Like I don't get tired of, you know, in the hardest days, you know, I want to go home
and not talk to anybody.
But I finally, but that was never on my radar when I was a kid.
I never grew.
I don't want to be a real estate agent when I grew up and everybody wants to be an astronaut
or a cop or some stuff like that.
It's just opportunity comes and a better opportunity comes and a better opportunity comes and you
find something a little more that you like and a little more of it you like and you really
identify don't like this.
I'm going to go do something different until you find something you just love and happen
to make good money at and you can be really good at it.
I wouldn't even say it's passion because to be honest, like my passion is building cars
and working on cars.
I don't do that for a living.
You know what I mean?
Because eventually I get tired of it, but I'm really good at real estate and it pays
me good.
You know, I'm between the two and here's where I am now.
So now you can use that to build cars.
You got it 100%.
Yeah you're building one right now.
I'm really eager to see what comes from that.
So going back to the hunger aspect.
So you said, Hey, what really drove you?
The hunger that you had was really being sick of not having anything.
So now that you have stuff, now that you've grown a successful company and built yourself
into a seven figure person is what I would call it.
Like what do you do to keep that hunger there?
Keep it, keep it going.
It's not, it's really so motivation changes, right?
Like when I was a kid, it was, I remember I put a Facebook post up.
It's like 22 and I was like, if I could just make a hundred grand a year, I'd be set.
It was the craziest thing.
Like that was, that literally was like my goal.
A hundred grand.
If I can make a hundred G's a year, I'd be set.
It popped up in my memories like three years ago and I laughed.
I was like, if I made a hundred grand right now, like in my position for like what I do,
I literally would consider myself homeless.
So from, from my capabilities, you know what I mean?
And so with that being said, it's, I really have just learned that it's never, there is
not an end game.
It's an infinite game.
A lot of people that get into business, they have this picture painted of I'm going to
do this, this, I'm going to build my company, this, I'm just going to sell my company.
And it never almost ever works out that way.
And it's really, it's a frustrating way when you think about that, because at that point
you always have your eye on a finish line.
At that point, you're always like, okay, I'm just aiming for this, this $10 million valuation
of my business so I can sell it and go sip Pini Coladas on a beach.
But in reality, if you just fall in love with the process of growing every year, right?
Like if you were to ask me when I very first got into real estate, I'll never have a team.
I didn't want one.
Like my first team, I did literally, I had to have it out of necessity because I got
so busy.
My wife literally was like, you're hiring somebody.
I said, no, hell no.
When I left corporate America, I don't want to work for anybody.
I'm working for myself.
Grew a team, grew in successful, found out, you know, I really love taking people that
have a passion for real estate and teaching them how to do a business.
I was good at it. Yeah.
Ran a successful team.
I'll never own a frigging brokerage.
I don't, forget that.
I don't get too much overhead, too much work, too much responsibility.
Here I am.
Right.
So if I were to follow that rule of my whole life's planned out, right, instead of just
having an open mind to things, right, what feels good, what feels right, what opportunities
cross my plate and what's next, I could be doing something completely different in the
next 20 years.
I don't know, you know, but as long as I love what I'm doing and as long as I still see
that there's runway to grow, I'm going to keep doing that.
And I tell people that in business all the time.
I'm like, don't lock yourself into one thing.
There is a thing where you have to stay consistent, right?
There's an opposite side of that where you get these young guys that are like every you
see it every other month, they're doing something new.
I'm selling frigging, you know, this whatever, you know, MLM program and I'm doing this and
I'm doing this and I'm doing this.
And you're like, holy crap, dude, like you're not giving yourself enough time for your seeds
to plant, you know, that you put down.
But at this point in my career, to answer your question, to keep it going, it's an infinite
game.
Like I couldn't even see myself retiring.
I don't even know what that would look like.
It looked to me.
It looks like depressing.
Yeah.
I picture myself like retired and just traveling around and sitting like it doesn't even.
And now could that change?
Maybe.
But right now I'm just more focused on like, hey, how can we continue to grow?
How can we get better?
How can we focus?
And then as long as I keep that mission, naturally things behind me are going to grow.
I don't get tied to a dollar amount.
I don't get tied to a here's my exit plan.
I don't tie to any of that.
It's just every year am I moving forward?
Every year is my income growing.
Every year is my business growing.
Every year am I growing.
And that's all my field goal is, is every year to make sure that it's a little further
and a little further and a little further and where the chips lie in that I'm okay with.
Yeah.
So that's fantastic.
So yeah, that was pretty much every single question that I had.
I mean, we really just want to dig into like what you do and kind of your perspective on
everything.
How can people get ahold of you if they want to buy a home, sell a home?
All over social media, Blake_sells_AZ Facebook, Blake Clark, I'm
all over there, all over the internet.
Just Google it.
Yeah we'll have your links at the bottom page for all of you guys, I want to, you know, like I said, he's a great
realtor.
He's been able to do some work on his house.
And so to be able to see different kinds of side of him, especially from a business aspect
and really kind of working together as a team to kind of make his house come to life.
So it's been fantastic.
He's a great guy.
Like I said, there's nobody else that would be better to sell your home or help you find
a home.
So that's Blake Limitless Realty.
Thank you guys for tuning in to Homework Assignment and stay tuned for the upcoming episodes.
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