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Welcome back to Built in Real Time, where we're building the vision, taking the hits, and documenting the clock.
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Don't fake new talk, just real growth in real time.
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I'm Jason, this is Jesse, and we're back for another episode.
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Oh my god, that's what I did a long time ago, so I have to deal with any of that crap.
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But yeah, man, so uh good week.
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I got the license finally.
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Finally, that's yeah, geez.
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Took long enough, but um it was uh news well received.
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I got a random text message the other day, and I was like, what is this freaking phone number?
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And it was the state, so because you did as much as you could, you know, without the license part.
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Yeah, I mean kind of been stuck for a bit.
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You just push, and it it did give me time though to kind of build out some things on the backside, which was nice, and I can find the the positive in that, the benefit in that, because uh I do have a tendency to just go and work, and that is exactly what I I don't want to repeat the same mistake, where like I've said before, I thought I was good at the the trade, so that means that I could run my own business doing it, but business itself is a whole different set of skills, so it did give me time to set some things up to to kind of help me along the administrative path, and that's gonna come to me now.
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So I do as much as I can complain about it, there's a good side to it too, right?
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You said the law of opposites, um or law of polarity.
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Polarity, there you go.
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Same thing, yeah.
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So the good and the bad come together, but yeah, so I'm excited about that, ready to get going with that.
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We'll um work on some of that website stuff here later to to make that a little bit more efficient and get it fired up and going.
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But yeah, so that's the exciting news from the the painting side of things.
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Now I can get going advertising and hiring and starting to get this thing growing and profitable and try to scale it out a little bit and you know, allow myself that opportunity to actually get better at business because right now I'm wearing all the hats, which means I'm basically a just a painter that owns my own job, but this is the beginning of the path.
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So yeah, no, that's awesome, dude.
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So what do you do first then?
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Now that we have your license.
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Well, so if I walk it all the way out, this is actually something I'm taking some uh some constructive feedback, is uh not that you can't figure it all out on chat GPT, but a little more instructional or how-to is the some of the feedback I've been getting on the podcast.
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Is we we say things but don't explain them enough.
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So I'm gonna work on that for those out there listening that have made that request.
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Uh I started with obviously picking what I want to do for the business, and then went into a kind of like a research mode where I laid it out for myself step by step, and I had to apply.
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I had to fill out all of the appropriate paperwork to get there, um, choose the corporate structure that I wanted to operate under, which I chose to do sole proprietor for now.
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But there's LLC, there's C Corpse, S Corps, partnerships.
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Um, and you have to do the research on what works better for you in your situation.
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And for me, right now, that is sole proprietor.
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So that's the avenue that I went and register with the county.
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Then I needed to purchase uh bonds at a certain point, needed to study and take the test.
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Then you have to fill out the uh it's your proof that you know how to do the job.
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It's uh I can't remember what it's called right now, but it's like a work experience proof type deal.
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And this is all just forms?
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This is all paperwork, forms, red tape, you know, crap you have to you have to get through in order to get to the point of of getting a license.
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So once I had all that done, passed the test, filled in, uh filled, filled all the papers out, mailed them in and all that.
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Um I had to shop for bonds.
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I got the bonds, uh, pay the initial fee, and now they've deemed me after all of these months competent enough to run a painting company.
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So that's where I'm at now.
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And then what comes next?
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Like we were just talking about this.
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Like, this is the balance that you have to maintain, and it always kind of gives you that uh that like butterfly in your stomach feeling like when you're gonna like jump off a cliff or surf or skydive or you know, take off.
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A little nervous about it.
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Yeah, you get that like uh if I do this, then this goes out of balance, if I do this, then that goes out of balance, and where I'm at now is the the backlog of work versus the needing to have employees.
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So if you have too much
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work lined up, customers get mad because you're taking too long, and therefore you need employees.
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But if you get employees and you don't have the work, then you have employees that are out of work.
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So this is the it's basically like you know, when you juggle, there's always that third ball in the air, and that's kind of how it feels.
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If you if you don't keep the machine running, you lose the head of steam, you lose the momentum, you lose the balance.
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So you just kinda just kind of have to jump into it and go, and then take every day one day at a time and do what you need to do to maintain that fight.
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Because when you zoom out and you take the 10,000-foot view, it looks like you're always on the brink of of falling apart, but that's where you actually have to focus in.
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I think I don't know, there's like there's those certain things with business.
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Some things you're better off backing out, and some things you do have to zoom in and and then just kind of throttle that back and forth as each situation comes to you.
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Yeah, I imagine this is like a make or break point, like a lot of people probably realize like shit, maybe I can't do this.
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I think this is a point where people decide if they want to own their own or have their own job that they've created, or if they want to have a business.
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Because it would be really easy at this point to just put a trailer on the back of the truck, slap a wrap around that bad boy, and just keep doing this on my own.
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Just charge an hourly rate like a mechanic and work for myself.
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I could make, I could do every bit as good, if not better, than I'm doing, or I've ever done as a respiratory therapist doing it.
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But if that's as good as I'm gonna do, then why not just stay a respiratory therapist where I'm inside and the air conditioning, the climate controlled, I'm not out in the sun, haul, you know, climbing up and down ladders and all that kind of business.
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But the idea is because of what you could grow it into, right?
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And that's where I want to head, yeah, head with it.
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I would like they say with like I've listened to some business podcasts, they say get out getting out of the bucket, right?
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For painters.
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So um that would be the next step is to hire and to start marketing.
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And which you know came first, the chicken or the egg, like just go for it on both fronts, I think is the the answer there.
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And then you have that responsibility
of having more mouths to feed.
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So if my guys have bills but they don't have work, then I'm failing them as a leader, then I'm not really running a very good business.
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And I think that's a little bit more where the the kind of nervous feeling comes in because your responsibility grows exponentially.
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Yeah, dude.
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I'm a little nervous kind of just hearing you talk about it, like I can't imagine having your first employee.
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Yeah, and I have run into that situation before.
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I had a situation where I was running the business, I didn't have the money in the bank.
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It the business was living paycheck to paycheck.
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And I with an employee.
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What's that?
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With an employee.
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I had yeah, I had a couple at the time.
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And it was payday and my customers check bounced.
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And so I couldn't c I mean I had enough to cover partial payments, you know, but I then this one dude was pissed, and I didn't blame him.
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I'm like, if I fucking worked for two weeks and then my boss was like, sorry, man, I don't have your money.
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He had bills to pay, you know, and he was understanding, you know.
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He's like, dude, I understand that the customer's check didn't clear, but that doesn't change things for me.
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I have you know, and I was like, dude, I felt like the biggest piece of shit.
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That's rough, dude.
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Yeah, and that's now why I want to get I want to get going with that possibility, like knowing that I've already been through that in focus and make sure that the business has enough to live on it, like how you would build your own emergency fund, like build a an emergency fund for the business.
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It'll be a lot easier to do this time because last time that was my main source of income, and this time it's I still have another job, so I don't have to eat off of the business per se.
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So it'd be a little easier to get going, which is good because that'll springboard me for the long run.
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But yeah, definitely it went into my it went into my calculations building the business this time because that that's a scar for me.
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That's a like I've that's a memory that I don't forget that conversation, you know.
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Yeah.
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Did that customer end up paying?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, he made it right.
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It it took, you know, a few days or whatever, but it was it was just one of those moments where you like when you go into business, you you're really excited, like, yeah, man, I'm gonna, you know, I'm my own boss, I'm gonna make money, it can be anything I want it to be.
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And you're not thinking about those things because you're in the hype of it.
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But then when you get into the when you get out there and you start going through these things, now it becomes a point of I don't want to hit that wall again, or I don't want to hit I don't want to touch that hot stove again.
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So now I'm working to make sure that I don't have to.
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And I plan to grow slower this time.
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I'll be able to put more of the business's profits back into the business this time and hopefully avoid any situations like that from ever happening again.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So another check balance is no big deal.
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I'll cover you.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because that ultimately should be my problem, not my employees' problem.
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I'm it's just like everything we've ever learned about leadership, right?
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Like you own the losses and you pass the wins on to your team.
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Like that's the way it's supposed to be.
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So would your next job be with an employee?
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I don't think so.
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I think my next job will probably still be solo.
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Uh but beyond that, I'm hoping I'm hoping because I think that'll take me pretty close to the next maybe three-ish weeks, if I'm, you know, three to four weeks.
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And in that time, I'll be able to get the next job done, hopefully.
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Put that money into the business account untouched, and then from there go on to the um the hiring and the marketing campaigns.
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Because if those need to be financed, hopefully they don't.
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Hopefully I can just through word of mouth find a good employee, through word of mouth, find a job, don't even have to spend the money, keep that building, that would be great.
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But if I don't, that's where I plan to pay for those things from.
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So that'll be um probably in the next 60 days.
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I would like to have somebody on and have at least one to two jobs lined up.
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So I think that's uh more than maintainable and reachable or you know, reachable and maintainable goal.
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Oh, that's cool.
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That's exciting, dude.
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Yeah, and that'll be uh that'll just be things that I've that I've learned from, you know, different podcasts that I've listened to and uh books that I've read as far as specific to business and hiring and marketing and you know, just going through a going through a process that will bring me the best viable candidates and the best viable customers.
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So a lot of that needs to be targeted.
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You you know, I I've seen and I've participated in uh kind of like just casting a wide dragnet and bringing in whatever, and you hit a lot of problems like that.
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So patience is really a virtue on this.
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Like you wanna you wanna narrow down the right the right clients and the right people for employment.
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Um hire slow, fire fast is a concept that I've that I've you know learned listening to things, and um and that so that gives me time to to build this out and to really filter somebody through.
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So hire slow, fire fast.
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Yeah, if you hire fast, that could turn into a nightmare, and employees there are good employees.
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Like I don't like when people say, you know, you can't find any good employees, you can't find any good employees.
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Well, from multiple people that run multiple successful companies, the idea is you build good employees, but um if you just hire somebody for a warm body on the roster, they turn out not to be, you know, and then they're well, I have rights, and they're not being productive, they're costing the company money, but they're trying to cover themselves in all of their like you know, you can't fire me, this, that, and it just turns into a nightmare for the employer.
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And that's not to say that those are not good rights for an employee to have, because there are shitty employers too, but the nightmare works in both directions, is basically the idea.
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So hire slow.
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Um, and one little thing that I picked up off of that was hire for character, train for skill.
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So it doesn't really matter if somebody's good at the job, if they have the right type of character.
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They can learn the job.
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They're gonna learn the job and they're gonna do a good job and they're gonna, you know.
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So take your time, don't, don't be in a rush.
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Like for right now, I'm I'm kind of covering all my bases trying to build in one direction.
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If I can't get a job done in a timely manner, that's already understood at the onset of the job.
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Like, I don't, I don't, I don't take customers who are in a hurry because I can't service that properly.
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So knowing your limitations, knowing who you are, what you can offer, and then building in the right direction, like just because you're not uh just because you're not enjoying the fruits of the labor or the hunt, you know, right now, it does that's not don't jump into it for the wrong thing, and then you end up shooting yourself in the foot.
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You're still learning to hunt, you're still learning the skills, you're learning the like I'm just getting started, so I'm not in a hurry.
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I'll be honest, I'll do jobs a little slower if I have to, until I can train people, and then as I can handle more and less time, I can market that away.
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I can market appropriately then.
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But to like if I rolled up on a job site and I was like, Yeah, I have my contractor's license, you're building this uh you know, 10-story apartment building.
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Yeah, I can do that, and I bid on it and I get the job, and then it takes me a year to paint.
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I don't think they're gonna be very pleased with that, right?
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I mean, you yeah, you do want to land jobs, you do, and it's exciting too.
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Like when you start to the first time I I did this, or even when I would work, I worked for my dad, and I would estimate for him, I would go out and you know, talk to customers and um, you know, draw up bids and stuff like that.
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And when you hit and you hit in the right spot, not because you made a critical error, because I've errored, I've made errors on those too, but um, it does feel good.
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It's kind of a it's a feeling like any other feeling, like if you win a hand of cards or you win, you know, you sink a three-pointer, like it just it feels good.
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So um be careful and and take your time and be slow, like regardless of what your trade is or what your business is.
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Like make sure you're looking at everything, you know, all the way around because that can get costly quick.
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So yeah, that's uh that's where you're at.
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That's what's happening in uh in the painting world.
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I'm I'm excited, I'm I'm ready to get going, and I'm actually probably gonna go put in some time on on a few things after we're done here today recording.
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But uh yeah, it's it's moving now, so no more no more roadblocks, no more excuses.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because this was this was definitely a jam.
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Yeah, it it was getting frustrating, it was getting a little bit disheartening.
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But although I think once that lady told me they cashed my check, I was like, all right, at least I have a fallback now.
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I'm good.
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They're just dragging their feet, but nonetheless, it feels uh it feels good to have the stops pulled out from in front of me and just be able to go.
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Now I can now I can run with it, you know, and see what I can do.
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So from here on out, nobody to blame but myself.
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No, that's cool, man.
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I'm looking forward to the progress.
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Yeah, definitely.
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How uh how about on your end?
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Uh dude, I haven't.
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This is the first time I opened my laptop in a couple days.
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I've kind of been focusing on uh getting some workouts in and trying to feel better.
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Has that been helping?
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Uh getting the workouts in?
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Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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I mean, I I do feel better afterwards, but you know, since I was out of the routine, you know, you feel better and then you're like, oh shit, I'm tired.
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But you just gotta fight through it until it becomes a norm.
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Yeah, and at this age it sucks because if you stop and you start again, you're a lot more likely to hurt yourself.
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Difference, yeah.
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Dude, I mean, I'm 40 years old, but uh yeah, you definitely feel the difference.
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Every time I take a break, I start back light now.
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I never I don't even want to risk something comes out of place, a rib comes out of place.
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I tell, you know, I'm doing the uh was it the Batman?
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Yeah, can't move.
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Yeah, no, that that sucks.
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But I'm glad to hear you're uh you're getting back into it.
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What do you you just been doing uh weights or are you back in jiu-jitsu or what you got going on?
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Um starting off with weights, um not too heavy, about moderate.
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Um trying to focus just on the compound moves, you know, deadlifts, cleans, pull-ups.
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Um, dude, the other day I jumped out on the pull-up bar and um you know how it's like a progression through your pull-up.
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And so I was doing like the first third of the progression and just holding it in place, and all of a sudden my right shoulder popped, and I thought it came out.
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It was loud and it was like a violent
something.
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You're doing some wide pull-ups, yeah.
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But uh, well, I guess just a little bit wider than my shoulders, you know.
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But something popped in there and it scared, dude.
00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:49.359
I drop, I just let go with my arms still bent, and I don't know what it was, whatever it was, it was good.
00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:53.039
Like my range of motion is way better.
00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:57.359
Uh, it's usually kind of sore because I'll sleep on my side, you know.
00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.680
Yeah, ever since that happened, my shoulder feels.
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.640
Hella better.
00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:01.759
So I don't know what I did.
00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:02.960
I don't know what happened.
00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.519
It scared the shit out of me, but it turns out I think it I think something fixed.
00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.559
It's for the better.
00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:09.359
Yeah.
00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:10.640
Yeah.
00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:13.279
But uh yeah, doing that.
00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:19.599
Even at work the other day, I did like 15 minutes of uh pull-ups and dips.
00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.680
Out behind the ER?
00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:26.559
Yeah, in the ER we have a little like I guess squat cage.
00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:27.440
Yeah, that rack.
00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:29.039
Pull-up and a dip bar.
00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:29.759
Yeah.
00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:31.839
Feels like a fucking prison yard.
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:33.920
Yeah, it kind of looks like it too.
00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:35.759
Yeah, it's all dirty out there.
00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:37.759
Have you ever used it before this?
00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:38.480
Or did you just start?
00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:39.519
Yeah, I've used it before.
00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.640
I'll do little like ladders, pull-ups and dips.
00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:42.960
Okay.
00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:44.559
I've never used a barbell.
00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:47.839
But uh I'll do the pull-ups and dips, you know.
00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:48.720
Yeah.
00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:51.759
No, it's not I I like having a pull-up bar around.
00:22:51.839 --> 00:23:05.279
That's something that half the time I'm just decompressing my back, but it's nice just to be able to throw a couple, you know, throw a couple down, and when you walk by it, do like at the end of the day, you can get 20, 25 pull-ups in.
00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:10.960
And if you're doing 25 pull-ups a day, you're gonna have a strong back and you're gonna get better at pull-ups.
00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.079
So yeah, I did about 15 minutes.
00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:17.359
Um, it was kind of slow at work, so I did about 15 minutes.
00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:19.279
I think I got at least 50 pull-ups in.
00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:19.680
Nice.
00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:20.960
100 dips.
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And then that afternoon I was already sore.
00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:25.759
Oh yeah.
00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:26.640
Oh yeah.
00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:40.400
Well, 50 pull-ups and 100 dips if you haven't been working out, like that's a yeah, that's a pretty decent uh I don't want to think it is just because I used to that's like the norm, you know, when I'm in a routine.
00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:41.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:50.160
I well, dude, 50 pull-ups is a lot for I mean, probably 99% of the population, unless you're David Goggins.
00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:51.759
A lot of people can't do pull-ups.
00:23:52.000 --> 00:24:01.599
No, no, I'll do if I even do 25 in like I'm doing like a circuit workout, I consider that pretty pretty decent amount.
00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:05.279
I'm I'm not generally not going out and doing 50 in one workout.
00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:10.240
So yeah, because when I'm in a good routine, dude, I can do a hundred in like 15 minutes.
00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:11.839
I'll just knock through them.
00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:14.319
Not me.
00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:17.279
Yeah, I'm not doing 115 minutes.
00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:28.640
I did uh I did the Murph one year and like just training for it, you know, getting which I've never really stopped doing pull-ups since you know we were in the Marine Corps.
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:30.000
Yeah, yeah, it's a normal thing.
00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:40.559
Um but even when I did it, I broke I broke it down into sets because it's uh was it air squats, pull-ups, and push ups and push-ups.
00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:48.960
Yeah, and I broke it down into sets and pull-ups being the lowest amount per set, you know.
00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:50.160
The hardest too.
00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:51.119
Yeah, exactly.
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:51.680
Exactly.
00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:56.960
And but if I if I had to sit there and try to just do I think it's a hundred, right?
00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:02.720
I think if I had to do a hundred in a row before I could move on to the next thing, or I'd have fucking been there forever.
00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.640
Yeah, I take that takes the longest.
00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.200
Yeah.
00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:15.440
After after like 25 or 30 pull-ups, my sets get considerably smaller to do a proper form, you know, pull-up.
00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.359
I'm not kipping and doing all just like dead hang the way we did them.
00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:20.000
Yeah.
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:25.519
Um, but 100 pull-ups is pretty legit, dude.
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:26.880
Or 50 even.
00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:29.839
So I would imagine you're sore same day.
00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.359
Yeah, I was already feeling it.
00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.440
Um, so I just gotta do it some more.
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.359
But uh yeah, I've done MERS before and I've yeah, dude.
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:43.759
I've I think my best is probably in the 50s, 45 minutes and 50s with the vest.
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:51.759
I I did not do it with a vest, so
I don't remember what my time was.
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:56.240
I know I think it was in the 40s, I think it was in the low to mid forties.
00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:01.440
Um but that was vest free.
00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:04.720
Did you do a you do broken your pull-ups with the vest on too?
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:07.599
Yeah, and I don't break them up, I try to go straight through it.
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:09.519
I think that's how the workout was supposed to be.
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:10.640
Yeah, I think so too.
00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:13.039
Yeah, but I think I was just being a cheater.
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.720
Yeah, no, I mean it was still a hell of a workout.
00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:18.720
Yeah, yeah, it still sucks.
00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.839
The push-ups start to suck really bad after a while.
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.640
Because it's what, three or two hundred push-ups, right?
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:26.160
Yeah, they'll start to get hard.
00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:27.599
And 300 air squats.
00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:32.480
Yeah, the air squats are just air squats were always easy until recently.
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:39.680
I started my knees started hurting, and I haven't completely cleared up whatever the hell's going on in there.
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:46.640
Um I still do squats and I still do air squats, but and it doesn't the pain doesn't stop me.
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.200
It's just, oh, I'm doing this and it fucking hurts.
00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.240
It makes it suck worse.
00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:51.039
Yeah.
00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:59.119
So that's um yeah, that's something I'm doing mostly unweighted right now until I figure out what's going on in there.
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.599
But I also don't want to lose my range of motion.
00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:09.839
I did a pretty good uh stretching session yesterday and this morning, and I was like, dude, why did I ever stop doing this?
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.839
I used to stretch all the time.
00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:17.200
And then like two or three years ago, I just kind of stopped doing it.
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:23.920
Um always bitching about aches and pains and everything, and I was doing some like good deep stretches, and I was like, dude, this feels amazing.
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:28.079
I need to start doing this again because it Bro, I think I'm on the same boat, dude.
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:29.279
I think I have to stretch.
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:32.079
Yeah, I've never stretched, I always hated stretching.
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.799
Well, I think uh David Goggins was saying about um he'll stretch for like two hours.
00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:38.640
Massage and chiropractic.
00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:46.000
He was like, I used to think this was for pussies, but uh you know, like he that's all it was he realized that like, dude, it's it's necessary.
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:56.400
You you have to maintain it's like running your car like a race car and never changing the oil or rotating the tires or you know, do it greasing the joint, nothing.
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:01.279
It's just I um I don't know.
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:07.200
I I think there's a a ton uh it's it's actually at this point it's a necessity, yeah, dude.
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.920
It it's gotta help with the circulatory, makes everything flow better.
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:12.319
Right.
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:18.240
I would always just dynamic warm-up, but uh I fucking hate stretching, so I would never do it.
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.079
But now it's like like you said, a necessity.
00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:21.279
I think it needs to be done.
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:26.400
Yeah, that's sleep, recovery.
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:28.720
Well, sleep is part of recovery, you know.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:41.279
But um when I say recovery, I mean like um mobility, stretching, lightweight bands, um even yoga, dude.
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:47.920
I used to think yoga was super gay, yeah, and I still kind of is when you think about it, but yeah, I get where you're going.
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:49.039
Just do it alone.
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:51.440
Um yeah, no one knows about it.
00:28:51.599 --> 00:29:06.480
Yeah, but I'll put it, I'll put it on YouTube and just try to get through like a 15-minute session, and all that stuff is it really gets in the deep, deep, like the ligaments and the tendons.
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:28.000
You're not just stretch stretching the muscle fibers, you're you're really getting in there, and it can it can suck, it can be painful, it can even be boring, but I do notice at the end of the day when it's all said and done, the next day I'm ready to work out again, and I'm not trying to work out around aches and pains.
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:33.839
Because I think that's a good thing if you like, oh, I have a shoulder injury, all right.
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.920
Well, then I'm gonna do squats, you know, like work out around your aches and pains, stay productive.
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:57.359
But that's like if I have to, because otherwise you're hindering and you're impeding your growth and your, you know, so if you can take care of yourself and maintain yourself better, you're getting in the full benefit of the workouts, you're growing exponentially faster than if you're always competing with an injury.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:10.400
So yeah, it was uh my dad's my dad just turned 60, and the other day I he was holding uh you know Enzo, my son, his grandkid.
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:15.920
He was holding him and he dropped like the milk, and my dad like squatted down with Enzo and he picked up the milk.
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.480
I'm like, fuck, I hope I can still do that when I'm 60.
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:20.000
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.799
Dude, whenever I see old guys getting after it in any way, I think the same thing.
00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:45.519
I'm like, man, I I need to make sure that and I think about
that, like that's gotta be a huge part of the joy of life at that age is to be able to enjoy your grandkids and do the things with them that like, dude, I remember my grandpa would uh go out and throw the football with me for hours.
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:52.400
And I thought that was the cool like I'd at the time, you know, you're a kid, you're like, oh yeah, it's somebody's paying attention to me, not too busy for me, you know.
00:30:52.480 --> 00:31:00.960
But like looking back on it now, I'm like, it's like 10 times cooler than I realized it was at the time, and I hope to be able to do the same thing with my grandkids.
00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:28.559
Yeah, yeah, that was that's actually one of the um the goals that I built into the operator standard was uh I want to be fit and jacked in my 80s, and so it's always guiding me towards like healthy habits, you know, sleep, recovery, the food, the nutrition, like all that is like, and then you know, when you have a conversation that's like, well, if you want to be fit and jacked in your 80s, you know, you gotta so it focuses on that a little more.
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:38.000
So I never lose sight of that as one of my overall goals, like my health and my quality of life in my older years is something that I think about often.
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:47.119
So um, if I can build my goals around that, it certainly improves the odds that I get there in the fashion that I want to get there.
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:56.960
So yeah, um, it's kind of doing the same thing to me because I told it my workout routine, what it usually was, and now it's like trying to get me back there before I do anything else.
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.839
Right.
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:09.519
Like it hasn't even mentioned my projects, or it's mentioned like administrative ship, but not like actually working on projects until I get my physical fitness back on board.
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:18.799
I think that is because your your level of fitness and health is really the alternator to the overall machine.
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:32.559
You know, you can have all the best grand design, strategy, tactics, everything, but if you don't have the energy to put into it to make the machine work, yeah, then it what's it all worth?
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:39.200
You know, you can sell your ideas maybe, but and it's like it's and the concept makes sense, but it just doesn't really hit.
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.480
What do you mean?
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:46.880
Like the way like okay, you gotta get your you know, physical fitness back on board before you do anything else.
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:51.519
Like I get the concept, but it just doesn't like click, you know, like okay, yeah, whatever.
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:52.400
Yeah.
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:59.599
But being on the operator standard now, and I guess the operator standard is like an AI to help with your goals.
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.160
Um really mostly business, right?
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:06.240
Um well for everything.
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:08.079
I mean, look at what it's telling you right now.
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:08.319
Yeah.
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:08.720
Right?
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:16.400
It's like fitness, and when you when you say I'm gonna back up a little bit, when you say it doesn't click.
00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:19.599
I don't see the importance of it.
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:28.160
So like I I would just be like you have to be in operating shape, right?
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:46.240
You have to be in the mental and the physical uh ability to put the effort, not just physical effort, but also the brain power and the brain horsepower that you have to put into stuff like that.
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:51.519
Like if you're not sleeping or you're not in good shape or your your body's not firing correctly.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:54.880
I I think it's kind of like having a misfire in your engine.
00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:02.000
Like you got two spark plugs not not five, like, yeah, you're still gonna get where you're going, but that's how I looked at it.
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:04.400
You're not gonna go over 30 miles an hour getting there.
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:05.920
Yeah, and that's what I'm starting to see.
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:07.200
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:07.759
Yeah.
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:20.000
And and then meanwhile, you're ruining your catalytic converter and you're like, you know, so I think that's the because dude, I'm the same way.
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:31.679
Like, as soon as I fell off board and I started um breaking off my nightly routine, because like my sleep routine I have, right?
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.400
Yeah.
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:49.039
As soon as I broke off of the Live Hard program and took that forced break, and I wasn't hitting all of my workouts, and then slowly I was adding in, you know, a beer and some potato chips, and then my sleep was getting worse.
00:34:49.280 --> 00:35:05.119
And like I was still going to work, I was still working on my stuff, I was still actually the um the administrative stuff is the stuff that I um that I suck the most at.
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:15.039
And I noticed I started avoiding it because I know it takes extra effort for me to sit down, to stay focused, to work through things that I don't understand.
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:18.159
Like it just doesn't s doesn't seem fun.
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:22.239
It doesn't seem interesting, it seems like work, right?
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:30.719
And as my sleep was suffering, as my diet was suffering, as my workouts were suffering, I just naturally started avoiding it.
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:45.760
Like I would go do the the physical labor, I would go do the job that I have to do to make money, I would do the stuff that had to get done, but I wasn't it got to the point where I wasn't putting any extra effort.
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.760
I was now just in maintenance mode.
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:53.920
And then I started realizing it was taking extra effort just to maintain maintenance mode.
00:35:54.400 --> 00:36:09.360
And so it's it's getting away from you, but you don't really see it happening until one day you're just like, why was I doing like ten times more and it felt easier?
00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:12.159
Now I'm doing ten times less and it feels harder.
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:13.280
What the fuck is going on?
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:29.599
Like I know I'm the same person, but it's just it's all those things of like if you want if you want Ferrari performance, you've got to be maintenancing and putting in the fuel that a Ferrari takes, you know.
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:31.360
I think that's the best analogy.
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:33.360
Yeah, you're right, dude.
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.000
So uh that's where I'm at.
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:41.840
Just getting my uh back into the routine with my physical fitness.
00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:49.599
You feeling like you're picking up ahead of steam at all, or do you still feel like you're dragging like extra plates behind you?
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:52.320
I feel like I'm dragging a little bit, but uh, it's getting better.
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:52.719
Good.
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.400
Yeah, seems to benefit.
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:56.400
Shed that weight.
00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:02.559
What um so you're doing you're just doing like uh light to moderate weight?
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:04.960
So yeah, I'll warm up.
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.840
I have a Peloton bike on house.
00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:09.199
Red on kind of gay.
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:11.199
It gets the job done.
00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.119
No, yeah, like they actually have some really good structure.
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.800
It's not gay after 40, well.
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:22.880
They actually they have some really good structured, like like it's the best workout I've gotten on a bike, you know.
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:23.280
Okay.
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:25.280
So they have like a good structured system.
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.159
But uh I'll use that to warm up.
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:34.480
Like if I do a 30-minute workout on there, I average at least 400 calories burned.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.840
Heart rate in the 130s, so it's getting the cardio.
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:38.639
Yeah, it's pretty good.
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:40.639
Your leg is like constantly under tension.
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:41.119
Okay.
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:44.880
And then after that, I'll do some of the movements.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:47.679
Um, like yesterday was just deadlifts, deadlifts and pull-ups.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:49.119
Today maybe it'll be cleans.
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:50.719
Right on.
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.800
Diet clean.
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:55.760
Um clean-ish.
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:56.719
Cleanish.
00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:57.599
Cleanish.
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.599
Uh no, I mean I
can be better on that always.
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:06.800
Yeah, that's um I'll sneak a candy ear or there.
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.719
Drink a soda.
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:11.119
Zero sugar, but you know, still soda.
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:12.159
Right, right.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:24.559
I think actually that's probably one of the best components of of the program for me is the zero sugar and then having to stick to a clean diet.
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:27.039
Because that's one of the first things I'll drift.
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:28.079
I'll eat junk.
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:31.760
If somebody brings in cookies into the apartment, I'll eat two or three.
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.079
If there's pizza, I'll eat it.
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:57.039
If there, you know, um, I'll go for I'll go like a really long time and I'll just be super zoned into whatever I'm doing, whether it's work or whatever, and I won't eat, and then I'll realize like, dude, I'm hungry and it's late and I don't want to cook, and I'll eat something out of a package process, you know, like just whatever.
00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:10.320
So that's one of the best components for me is like it keeps me eating clean, which I hell I notice helps a lot with my levels of energy and want to attack something, you know.
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:17.599
Like I'll be more passive on getting after it and more like conserving my energy.
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:24.320
But if my diet and my sleep are good, I'll be more likely to go out and be like, all right, let's let's take this on, you know.
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.679
Yeah, I think I'm gonna focus just on higher protein for now, at least, you know.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.559
Um, because my protein levels have been shit, dude.
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:35.920
Super low.
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:39.679
That might be part of the reason your workouts have slowed down too, then.
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:41.679
If you're not having what you need to rebuild.
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:42.559
Yeah.
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:43.519
Yeah.
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.199
Um, so I'm gonna try and focus on the higher protein.
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:48.960
Yeah, man.
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:57.119
You gotta get uh you gotta get it in and get that uh get that built up so we can go and uh adventure the mountains.
00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:58.400
Yeah, dude.
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:16.400
I want to go out and uh do a little bit of shooting, bow hunting, bushcraft, like just kinda get out and if James is already kind of laying the laying out the road for us to to kind of have an easy path to get up there and go do something, then we might as well take advantage of it.
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:17.280
Yeah, that'd be cool.
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.800
Yeah, and that's a lot more fun when you're in shape.
00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:27.679
Cause like just whatever climbing, rock climbing, hopping around, you know, doing fishing or hunting or whatever.
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:37.519
There's a lot of it's not like being on a nice cleared out, you know, uh it's hard work taking your pack up there, yeah.
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:48.559
Yeah, so that'll be something to look forward to and something to push uh push us kind of like, you know, like hey, something to train for, I guess that's the best way to put it.
00:40:48.639 --> 00:41:00.079
Because like when I would do climbs, like when I did Mount Whitney or um, you know, other other events that I've wanted to train for, it keeps me where my day-to-day is with that in mind.
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:02.239
Like, okay, I'm doing this for that.
00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.239
So did you summit Mount Whitney?
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:04.960
Yeah, you did?
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:09.679
Did you do it during the snow season or the there was a little bit of snow left up there?
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:11.440
I can't remember what month I went.
00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:14.800
Um, but it wasn't like snow season, no.
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:15.360
No.
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.960
That was uh I don't even remember what year that was.
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.599
I think that was like 2017 or 2018.
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:27.920
I probably I attempted around the same time, but it was like snowy season.
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:30.159
Oh, was it couldn't pass through?
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.760
I got to the to like the summit part a little late in that morning.
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.440
It was already like fuck eight, nine in the morning, so the snow was already melting.
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:41.519
So it was like twice as hard to get up that thing.
00:41:41.760 --> 00:41:42.960
Okay, and it wasn't happening.
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:43.519
Yeah.
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:49.199
I got to I got up to the like the first part of the summit, and I was like, there's no fucking way.
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:50.800
I started feeling sick.
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:57.920
Um, so I just slid my ass back down and looked like the walking dead heading back to the car.
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:03.679
That was where it started to get really, really, really hard to breathe.
00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:12.639
Like I remember um the last probably like the last four or five hundred yards up to the top.
00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:18.639
It was like you would go maybe 40 yards and just stop and catch your breath.
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:19.119
Yeah.
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.480
And then you go another, you know, 40, 50 yards and stop a catcher.
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:24.159
It's like, I can see it right there.
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:25.920
Why is it taking me so long to get there?
00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:29.280
It was the last, it's probably the last thousand meters, yeah.
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:30.639
Right when you get to the summit.
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:31.440
Yeah.
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:35.199
Um, I I had a buddy with me, but he was he wasn't hacking it.
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.480
He didn't even attempt the summit, so he like
just stayed at the base camp.
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:38.960
Yeah.
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:41.039
And I was like, well, fuck it, I'm gonna go try it.
00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:43.519
And yeah, he saw me walking back.
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:45.280
He was like, dude, you look like a zombie.
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:47.840
Yeah, and I was feeling like shit.
00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:50.320
Was that at the bottom of the switchbacks?
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.159
That little lake area right there.
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.480
Um I think it was, isn't it a little further than that?
00:42:58.880 --> 00:42:59.440
I don't know.
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.119
When you said base camp, that's what I was thinking.
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:04.639
There's base camp, and then there's like a big hill, and then that's like the start to the summit.
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:05.679
Okay, isn't it?
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:10.480
So it was snow, so I'm not sure.
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:14.000
It was I remember I imagine it looks a little different when it's dry.
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:32.400
I remember there's a there's like this little uh spot, there's like two little lakes or ponds or whatever, and then you go up the switchbacks and then across and you cross into another park, I think, right somewhere up there, and then you go out and summit.
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:39.519
Um but either way, it was when you get up there, it's hard as hell to breathe.
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:39.760
Yeah.
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:48.079
And um I think I think people camp overnight at the little lakes right there.
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:50.400
And get started super early, like at four in the morning.
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:51.199
Yeah.
00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:55.280
And I start I did the whole thing in a day.
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:56.639
I didn't camp up there.
00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:58.400
Um That's what I tried to do.
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:15.599
Yeah, and it was I remember a lot of it being dark, and I didn't know what a lot of the terrain even looked like until the hike back, which at the end of that was the absolute best tasting hamburger and beer I think I've ever eaten in my life.
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:22.000
But yeah, that was um I I like having stuff like that to do to train for because it keeps me.
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:28.320
There is a personal discipline part that's like I'm gonna do it because I said I'm gonna do it.
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:36.800
But giving myself something cool like that at the end, you know, it I'm doing this because I don't want to show up on that day and look like an idiot that I don't have my shit together.
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:37.679
Yeah.
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:39.199
Yeah.
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:40.800
Uh yeah, I should have gone early.
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:41.840
I didn't I wasn't thinking.
00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:45.840
I've never really done snow, so I had like my pickaxe and crampons.
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:49.679
I didn't realize the snow would be so mushy
by eight in the morning.
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:51.760
Oh, you were in like real snow season then.
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:52.079
Yeah.
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:53.519
Yeah, no, I was not.
00:44:53.599 --> 00:45:01.519
Uh there was still a little bit of snow up there, but it was not even anything to that I had to plan to work around.
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:02.320
Yeah.
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.000
Yeah, I had my crampons.
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:06.320
And it wasn't working.
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:06.719
Yeah.
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:08.719
Sliding down my ass worked pretty good.
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:13.119
Well, it's a pain in the ass to get um permits for it.
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.880
So having all going through like a lottery.
00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:17.280
Yeah.
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:17.519
Right.
00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:24.400
Going through that whole process and then having it be a dud is kind of and I didn't even pick up my permits.
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.440
Oh, you just went?
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.239
I just I had them, but I just ended up going.
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.400
I was like, dude, there's no time, we're already running late.
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:31.440
And that's awesome.
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.639
Luckily, no one stopped us or anything, but yeah.
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:49.199
No, we picked ours up and twisted on the little tags to our packs so that you know if anybody did try to remember on um oh shit, what's the movie called?
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:53.360
With uh Clint Eastwood with uh Gunny Highway.
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:57.599
Uh where he's training the recon Marines.
00:45:57.840 --> 00:45:59.599
Yeah, I don't remember the name.
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:02.880
Bro, we're gonna get roasted by every Marine out there.
00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:03.599
I know.
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:16.639
Um but anyway, he's making them to where they they had to uh they had to know what color shirt he was gonna wear every day, and if they picked the wrong color shirt, then you know he smoked them.
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:20.800
And um Heartbreak Ridge.
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:21.920
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:34.239
Uh but I was thinking that like the the little tags you know that they have for the permits to go out is like just trying to figure out which day of the week or which day of the month they have the tags, and you just twist them on yourself, you don't have to worry about it.
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:36.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.679
I found the tag on the ground.
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:38.480
Oh, there you go.
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:39.440
My buddy picked it up.
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:40.559
He's like, oh, just in case.
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:41.119
Yeah.
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:42.800
It's like, oh, that's from yesterday.
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.119
You get busted for having the wrong tags.
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.280
Have you ever uh you ever checked out the Lost Coast?
00:46:49.519 -->
00:46:50.639
No, I've never done that.
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:51.760
You know what it is, though?
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:52.719
Yeah, dude.
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:54.000
That's a fun one.
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:55.599
That's a super fun one.
00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:57.039
I want to do that again.
00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.159
I did that um pretty close to the same time.
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:02.800
I was doing a lot of different trips back then.
00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.239
Uh but that you need permits for too.
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:11.360
But that's one that I'm actually thinking uh I'm gonna try to put in for here pretty soon.
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:13.519
So if you want to go, let me know.
00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:14.880
Yeah, I'd be down.
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:17.519
That's like a week-long one, too, isn't it?
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:20.159
Uh can you finish it in a weekend?
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.639
Dude, we did it in 48 hours.
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:23.119
Okay.
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:24.800
We were we were moving though.
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:37.119
I mean, we were doing uh part of it at night, and I would say three to four days is probably the fastest you want to do it if you really want to enjoy it.
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:43.360
And um other than that, you're gonna miss part of what it's all about.
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:44.800
But it was super cool, man.
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:58.480
I mean, we had to make fire in the rain, there was freaking bears, there was whales washed up on shore, there was freaking deers and beavers, and like there was all kinds of stuff out there.
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:08.639
It was a cool, um, it was a cool trip, and then there's a lot of places where you can tell people have kind of used driftwood to make little like shelter, like makeshift shelters and stuff like that.
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:22.079
So it's a pretty adventurous, like you're out there with nature, like you're you're living, you gotta we filtered our own water, um plenty of streams coming down out of the the mountains there.
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:27.280
But yeah, yeah, it's a cool um it's a cool backpacking trip to do.
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:32.800
I would if that's something you enjoy doing, that's one that I would definitely recommend.
00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:34.960
We gotta do Shasta at some point.
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:40.800
That's one that Danny and I talked about that we wanted to try and it never came to fruition.
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:41.519
So I'm down.
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:43.679
You can do it in a day too, I believe, right?
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:48.320
Yeah, if you just want to peek, could it's one of the 14,000 footers, yeah.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:48.960
I believe.
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:50.079
Yeah.
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:51.280
I'm down.
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:54.079
I mean, gotta do that, and I gotta go back to Whitney.
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:55.599
Stuff to train for, man.
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:57.119
Stuff to train for.
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:05.679
Just pick one and uh and we'll lock in a date, and then there's no there's no getting out of it, you know.
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:15.679
It's like if we're in the mindset of like, yeah, we're gonna do it, then it's still like, all right, well, I'm gonna skip this workout, or I'm gonna do, you know, but if it's creeping up on you.
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:16.239
Yeah.
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.039
Well, when I did Whitney, I was like doing CrossFit.
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.480
You know, CrossFit's kind of like, oh, if you can do CrossFit, you're ready for anything.
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:23.199
Yeah.
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:23.760
Yeah.
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:25.280
And it seemed to work out.
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:34.239
That's um I mean, you are in pretty good shape if you're if you're competing at you know any type of level in CrossFit.
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:42.159
I still do I never did CrossFit like uh went to a gym, but I would watch what people are doing and then copy it at home.
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:42.719
Yeah.
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.119
And well, that's how I started.
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:45.840
Yeah, it is.
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:48.239
I mean, it's a pretty good mix of strength and endurance.
00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:50.639
So I would say that.
00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:59.039
And then um, if you do just like throw on a pack or like carry kettlebells like farmer carries, you know, I'll do that on the property.
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:01.280
I'll just like grab a kettlebell and just go for a walk.
00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:01.760
Yeah.
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:07.679
And switch hands when my, you know, and try to hang on as long as I can until my grip's given out.
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.079
And I mean you get you get a uh a good good workout, yeah.
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:12.880
Good workout, yeah.
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:17.360
If especially if you're gonna be throwing on a pack and climbing around anything.
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:18.159
Yeah.
00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:22.559
But shit, man, that's almost an hour.
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:23.519
All right.
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:34.960
Well, I think that's uh that's pretty good kind of updates, and we talk a little bit of uh health workouts, you know.
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:42.559
Go pick something that you need to improve on and just start in any direction.
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.440
Go uh go do a quick assessment.
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:46.559
What have you been putting off?
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:49.119
What have you been needing to get after?
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:56.239
Maybe it's your health, maybe it's something with business, maybe it's a phone call you need to make and get out there and get after it.
00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:57.760
All right, stay in the fight.
00:50:57.920 --> 00:50:59.360
All right, stay in the fight.