Make the Final Months of the Year Count

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Ever glance at the calendar in August and feel that gut-punch realization that the year is nearly over? You're not alone. In this candid conversation, we tackle that universal moment when time catches you by surprise and the year's final stretch suddenly looms ahead.

We dive into what happens when those January goals no longer excite you—and why that's completely normal. Goals should evolve as you do. The remarkable insight? You don't need to wait until January to reset. We share our personal experiences of rewriting goals mid-year and how that simple shift can reignite motivation when you need it most.

The conversation takes an honest turn as we explore the difference between feeling busy and being productive. Many of us fall into the trap of constant activity without meaningful progress. We unpack strategies for breaking through business ceilings, building team culture that energizes rather than drains, and creating those critical "sprint" celebrations that keep momentum alive during long projects.

Perhaps most valuable is our discussion about presence. Rather than chasing the myth of perfect work-life balance, we suggest focusing on being fully engaged wherever you are. When you're at work, be at work. When you're home, be home. This deceptively simple approach transforms both professional output and personal relationships.

As the episode closes, we challenge you to identify your ONE focus for the remaining months—the thing that will make everything else either easier or unnecessary. Because while time stops for no one, how you use these final months is entirely within your control. Listen in, then ask yourself: what will you choose to focus on before the year ends?

Episode Transcript

George (00:01):
apologies, my voice is a little bit croaky today.
I don't know if you can tell.
Can you tell?

Robby (00:06):
I feel like I can tell oh , dude, I'm gonna gonna call you
greg.

George (00:10):
No, george, it sounds like I'm talking to someone else
yes, a little bit under theweather, but still here fucking
nice and early grinding.
You didn't take sick leave.
No, come on.
No, it's funny, like if I Do,you have sick days built up.
I would, yeah, I'm an employeeof the business.
I would for sure.

(00:33):
I have a stupid amount of annualleave.
Yeah, like a stupid amount.
Fun, fun.
Yeah.
What do you do, man?
Just got to roll with thepunches.
I actually don't feel bad inany way, so that's okay.
Just a bit of croaky, that'sall what's going on.

Robby (00:48):
Living life, 7.30 am on a .

George (00:49):
Tuesday.
That's it.
Before we get cracking, we havethe Builder Summit coming up.
We do.
It's a one-day intensive eventfor all builders and trades
where we're going to go deep andteach you everything you need
to know about running asuccessful construction business
, from tendering, attractingquality clients, your branding
and marketing, which is yourexpertise and it's a fantastic

(01:12):
day.
We haven't done the BuilderSummit in a little while.
It's been over 12 monthsactually, since we've done the
last Builder Summit, which is aspecial event.
It's the first one we ever didand we got a great result from
the very first event that weever did, and now it's about
time we bring it back.
We're doing a few otherdifferent events trying the
market, testing it out, seeingwhat people like, and I reckon

(01:34):
it's time to bring it backbecause it was such a powerful
training.
So if you are interested andyou are a builder or a trade, go
onto our website, our socials,you'll be able to find it.
You'll be able to find iteverywhere.
Click the link.
It's on bios.
You've probably got an email inyour inbox.
You probably have an email Ifyou follow us and know about us
or been to any previous events.
100% you have got an emailabout it.

(01:56):
Yeah, and if you don't send usan email, send us an email
Abusive email as well saying Ican't believe you're failing at
your branding and marketing.

Robby (02:05):
Yeah, send us an email.
Crack is what you preach.
Info at milliondollardayscomau.
Send us an email.

George (02:11):
And we hope to see you there and, for the first time
ever, it's free.
First time ever.
This is normally a paid eventwhere we get a room full of you
know, close to 100 people, andthey pay to be in the room full
of you know, close to 100 peopleand they've paid to be in the
room.
But this time we're doing itfree because we want people to
come and get the change thatthey need.

Robby (02:30):
Come learn something, engage, meet people in a day.

George (02:35):
So powerful, like 100 people in the room.

Robby (02:37):
Yeah, for sure, it's very powerful, very powerful stuff.
It could change your year.
Fuck, it could change your life.
It could change your year.
Fuck, it could change your life.
It could change your life.
Look, I was trying to play itdown, come on.

George (02:53):
But it could.
Honestly it will, man, I knowpeople that have been at that
event have then gone on and donetraining with me and it's
changed their life, changedtheir business, changed the
connections that they had withother people in the room.
So it's very true.
But like anything you do,you're only going to get out of
it what you put in.
I know it's a bit of a clichethere, but if you go in there

(03:15):
with the right attitude, wantingto connect, wanting to learn,
you're going to get the most outof the day.
If you go in there going, ohthis is shit, what a waste of my
time, I've got to be back atwork, I've got to do this, I've
got to do this Well, that's whatyou're going to get out of it
as well.

Robby (03:27):
What's the biggest thing you've ever gotten out of those
rooms?

George (03:29):
Out of a training like that, yeah, I think on the
actual day or post the day, bothOkay, everything, all inclusive
, say.
On the actual day, I'd saythere's a level of motivation
and belief that I can do thosethings that are being taught on

(03:49):
stage, like I have a genuinebelief, like, okay, cool, maybe
that was a wake-up call that Ineeded, maybe that was the thing
that I needed to know or learnor get.
It hasn't necessarily been onthat specific day I go.
I met robbie.
He was a legend, we're gonna bebest friends.
Like that hasn't happened.
Not, it didn't happen, not onthat day.
Sorry, bro.
Sorry, it took time, mate.
Yeah, I had to.

Robby (04:06):
I needed a few dives, still comfortable, yeah, yeah.

George (04:11):
But following would definitely be the fact that the
people that I've connected with,I reckon more than anything
Definitely be the people thatI've connected with the lessons
too.

Robby (04:23):
If you had to give a, specific lesson, like if you had
to share, like this, one thingI learned.
This time, like with, like,obviously, with keeping it
concise, don't give us a onehour lesson.
You have to come to the buildersummer for that, absolutely.
But you know what's?
What's the thing where you'relike hey, man, like I learned
this one thing about timemanagement.
I learned this one thing abouttime management, for example.

(04:43):
Yep, and I learned that thingand it admitted to this, and now
I blah, blah, blah.

George (04:48):
Okay, I'd say the one thing specific yeah, yeah,
Absolutely Speaking on stage.
It would have to be the onething I look at and go.
That was career changing, ifnot life changing as well,
because it's given me theability to now go stand up in
front of hundreds of people andspeak with confidence, speak
with purpose.
Like the nerves are kind ofgone too.
Do you still get nervousstanding up on stage?

Robby (05:11):
I get nervous just standing up.

George (05:13):
in general, that's a challenge that most people have.
Yeah, sorry that not manypeople have Very unique to you,
but you know that skill set andthen how that transponded into
confidence in other areas.
So even me having aconversation with a person
one-on-one the team, thispodcast, it's led onto so many

(05:37):
things.
There's been a flow and effect.
Arguably, actually, thispodcast would never have existed
had it not been for thattraining which we were both in
and we said, hey, we should do apodcast.
So, yes, it did happen sixmonths later, it didn't happen
that next week, but it did cometogether and we're doing this
podcast now.
So from that one training, therewas that lesson that I learned

(05:57):
to how to speak on stage, orthat course where we learned to
speak on stage.
I thought that was prettyimpactful and influential for me
.
And then again, the connectionwith people like yourself is
probably the main one, given ourfriendship, given our business,
partnership and everything thatwe're doing.
We see each other pretty muchevery day and then other people
as well you know that we've donebusiness with in those groups,

(06:18):
in those circles.
The connections, the even justplain simple.
If I've got nothing out of themother than a friendship like
that's great too, so that was mypersonal biggest thing.
I got out of a lot of thetraining I did.
How about yourself?

Robby (06:36):
um, there's a lot, but I know I had to try.

George (06:39):
And yeah, if I had to try and sorry and, mind you,
this isn't just the ones we'vedone together.

Robby (06:46):
Yeah, yeah, tony Robbins course, it would probably be
like if I had to think of a realsignificant one.
I recall doing the date withdestiny with Tony Robbins and I
remember getting to the end andit's six days, yeah, yeah, 16
hour days.
It's like full on.
Like at the end of it you'relike, well, where have I been?
What's happened in the world,like.
And I remember getting to theend and thinking to myself how

(07:10):
the fuck was I walking around,not knowing this shit, like how
it was?
What was I doing before?
Walking around blindly, notknowing what was driving human
behavior?
And like, had you asked mebefore, I would have said no,
I've got this yeah, I've got apretty good concept on things
and it's like it was just awhole another level of

(07:31):
uncovering things, where it'slike, yeah, it was just learning
new stuff.
You know, I I've got a fear,but I feel like I can never get
that again.
I feel like that leap was sosignificant that it's like
probably never going to get aleap that significant again,
like you know what.

George (07:52):
I mean it's like yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
I go to trainings now and I'mlooking at stuff and it's fun
and it's like you might get oneor two things, yeah, and then
you're like, okay, cool.

Robby (08:00):
And you're like, okay cool, yeah, that one thing was
good, but it's like there's nomore trainings where you go now
and it's like 95% of thetraining's new.

George (08:07):
Yeah, or impactful, I think, is probably the word for
me.
I don't go into a traininganymore and go, wow, that was
like fucking amazing.

Robby (08:17):
Yeah, it's um.
I think that's gone.

George (08:20):
Yeah, I think the level of that has dissipated as well.
But that just goes to show howmuch you've come along as an
individual and also a businessowner too.
You've got some runs on theboard now, so it's not that new
and exciting because you comeacross all this stuff.
And what I find as well when Igo to some of these events is
they regurgitate a lot too fromother trainings, from other

(08:42):
people, well-known people,well-known systems, procedures,
and they'll put their own spinon it.
But you're like, oh, that'sTony Robbins through and through
.
Yeah, once you start delvinginto that space as well.

Robby (08:56):
Yeah, well, most things are recycled, most things are
recycled.

George (09:00):
Yeah, it's very rare that it's a brand new concept
that you're being taught.

Robby (09:05):
Well, it's got to be like a scientific discovery, right?
Seriously, it's going to belike a new thing.
That's been otherwise, it'sjust repackaged in some
different way.
But speaking about coming along way, we've come a long way
this year.

George (09:21):
My word.

Robby (09:22):
It's already August.

George (09:23):
Can you believe it Eight months down or in the eighth
month?
I can't believe it yeah man Tobe completely honest, I
completely agree with you.
You know, at the start of theyear I was just like oh, you
know, I've just got to get.
I've just got a busy threemonths and it's just turned into
a busy six months, into a busyseven months.
And now it's like, okay, we'replanning the end of year, we're

(09:45):
planning, okay, by November,december.
We need to be in this position.
We've got to have this projectsecured.
I'm starting to think now forthat.
It's funny I was doing a programthe other day, and a program
for those of you that aren't inthe industry, it's like a
timeline for a project, how longit's going to take to build.
And I have to put in thisprogram all the public holidays

(10:05):
for the year so I can calculatemy working days for the project.
And I was doing it and I'm like, fuck, okay, so I've got to do
it for 2026, because I hadn'tdone that yet.
So I'm Googling 2026 publicholidays, I'm looking at my
Christmas holidays so I canblock all those dates out.
And this particular project's abig one, so it's going to go
for a while, so they have to gointo 2027.
I'm like, fuck, I'm at the pointnow of the year where I've got

(10:27):
to plan almost two years intothe future for these projects
and that was a bit of the wakeup for me.
It's like shit, year's nearlydone, like we.
This is, you're gonna blink andit's gonna be over again.
So mean, eight months down, myquestion yeah, I've got a

(10:48):
question for you.
First, before you ask me haveyou established goals for
yourself?
Did you do that this year?

Robby (10:53):
Yeah.

George (10:55):
How are you tracking with your goals?
Do you feel you've given them anudge?

Robby (11:04):
Yes, yes and no.
I did establish goals, I wrotethem down, but then I scrapped
half of them about three or fourmonths in.

George (11:14):
Is that because your priority changed, or you just
didn't think they weren't.

Robby (11:17):
I just weren't Goals should excite you?
They weren't exciting me.
I had a few different goals.
One of the goals was to go tothe States, which we did.
Ah, fuck man.

George (11:30):
I just forgot that ever happened.
Serious, do you know what Imean?
Like wow, that was asignificant time To go all the
way over there, spend that money, sit down with those people.
That was a significant amountof investment in time and money
and it's like it blinked andit's over.

Robby (11:49):
Yeah, other than that, it's all been like personal
stuff, yeah, which I would sayI've given a pretty good nudge,
yeah, and business stuff likerevenue goals and all that jazz,
yeah, nice, um, but yeah, Iwould say I've, I've still

(12:11):
impatient, still like come on,fuck yeah.

George (12:15):
You know, I get that, I get that fucking daily man, I
get that.
I think about it often, maybenot daily, but I think about it
often.

Robby (12:24):
Yeah, still have that.
But I also feel like I've doneso much under like foundational
stuff that will you know, likethis program we're building,
like I haven't seen this nothingcome back from it yet.
Is it up?

(12:44):
Just come up now.
Yeah, so by the time this airs,it'll be out awesome, so you
can go to cmoplaybookai.
It's 100% free.
We're sharing everything.
We know how we run ads, how wework with our clients, yeah, but
how could anything come back?
if it hasn't launched yet no, no, but like it's because it you
like, you're gonna go and do allthese weights in the gym.
Yeah, you can't look atyourself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you knowwhat I mean?

(13:05):
So it's like I've done all thiswork, all this work.

George (13:07):
Yeah, if I can come in on the weekend to pick something
up.

Robby (13:10):
And you're here recording yeah, yeah, that's like I've
done all this, all this, allthis and that it's like, okay,
like this, this something, itwill come back around eventually
, but it's like I just haven'tseen yet.
So there's been a lot of thatas well, you know, and there was
a lot of that last year too,and it's like, yeah, it's gone

(13:31):
quicker than I had anticipated.

George (13:36):
Yeah, yeah.
I remember thinking like lastyear when we had committed to go
into the States.
I'm like fuck, that's ages away.
Like I want to go now, likelet's go, this is ages away Now
it's ages away Now.

Robby (13:47):
It's ages away Ages in the past.
Yeah, that's right.
What about yourself?
The goals question?

George (13:56):
Yeah, there's definitely been things that I've achieved.
Did you end up setting goals?
Because I know you didn it atthe start?
Yeah, I did, but I I want to.
Normally each year I actuallywrite down my goals and I'll
post it on my page and I'll haveit as like the very first post
and I'll pin it there.
I haven't done that this year.
I, very much like you, Istarted writing goals and I
looked at some of them the otherday and I was like that that's

(14:17):
not really that important to meanymore.
It didn't, as you said, itdidn't really excite me.
Like I've had on there for thelongest time to buy a rolex and
I was just looking at it.
I'm like, why do I want to buya rolex?
Like it's nice, it's there,like is it a status thing?
I felt that it kind of mighthave been more of a status thing
than me actually wanting therolex.
Do you know what I mean?

Robby (14:38):
buzzing yeah, yeah, I can hear that.

George (14:41):
So I felt that that was, yeah, it's cool.
I felt that's what probablyrepresented more than anything.
Yeah, that's stopped now.
Sorry, a bit of technicaldifficulties, ladies and
gentlemen, but yeah, I felt thatit was a status thing and
although I love watches and Iwould love to have a collection,

(15:02):
I didn't think it was somethingthat I needed to aspire to, so
I got rid of that.
I had a few changes come up.
I had goals on there that Ididn't.
I achieved goals that I'vewanted but I didn't have on my
list.
Does that make sense?
What?
Like?
It's a goal of mine overall,but I didn't have it on my list
for this year.
Yeah, like I wanted to buy.

(15:24):
I've always wanted to buy asports car, like a prestige one,
and we did that moved home intoa nice home, so that was
another good goal.
Again, nothing that I had rightthere and then.
But I was like, no, I wanted tomove into a nicer place, so
we've done that.
Went to the States.
That was one of them as well.
Definitely, getting fit was partof my getting into great shape.

(15:47):
It was another goal.
I was on track for that.
Then I had to have an operationthat put me back a little bit.
I still want to.
I still want to be this year.
It's still my intent to startback at the gym.
Probably not this week, maybeprobably next week.
Actually I'll be ready to startback.
I have to start easing into it.
Maybe probably next week.
Actually I'll be ready to startback.
I have to start easing into it.
But when I look back at the yearfrom a business perspective, I

(16:10):
feel that there's been a lot ofI felt busy, not productive.
Does that make sense?
I felt like that a lot thisyear personally, that I've just
been doing the do and justrecently when I say recently,
probably the last month I've hadan opportunity to look back,
reflect, and now I've got a bitmore of a plan for the rest of

(16:32):
the year, which is really goodin the sense of getting the team
together, getting some systems,getting some processes in place
where I can sort of step backinto that ceo role a little bit
more, as opposed to me being onthe tools, let's say, and that's
just purely because we've beenshort-staffed, people on
extended annual leave, people onextended sick leave, project

(16:53):
pressures, a whole range ofthings.
But we're on the back end ofthat now, which is nearly
handing over, or we've handedover one project, close to
handing over the second, and nowsigning up a couple of more.
So now that the new ones arestarting, I really want to start
day one with all theseprocesses that I've built over
the years in place, becausethey've been in place, but it's
a matter of people executingthose and I think, because

(17:14):
everyone's been so busy, we'vesort of stepped away from that a
little bit and now I want tobring the team together.
Next week we're going to,excuse me, have a team meeting
and I'm going to reiterate thatto everyone Expectations, kpis.
We've introduced some newsystems, some new processes.
Like the other day, I goteveryone a chat, gpt
subscription so they can usethat, and I sent an email out to

(17:35):
everyone like hey, guys, likethis is now part of your
day-to-day operations.
You need to be using this.
It's a tool that is going tohelp you and make your job
easier.
It's not there to replace you.
It's a tool that is going tohelp you and make your job
easier.
It's not there to replace you.

Robby (17:54):
It's there to amplify you and, like I would use it every
day, would you use?

George (17:56):
it every day.
Chat or an AI tool?
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, I still use it every day,but not just hey, what's the
weather?
Hey, you know, tell me a funnyjoke.
It's proper stuff, like forbusiness purposes.
I'll jump on and I'll use itand it saves me time and effort.
So the whole purpose of systemsand processes is to streamline
something, to make it easier.
Now, chat is just one of those.

(18:16):
We've got other ones that Iwant the whole team to do.
So, from a business perspective,I don't feel that we've hit the
most efficient targets.
We've finished projects, whichis a great goal.
Like that's really good andthat's something I'm very proud
of with the team, because ourtwo biggest projects that we had
on at the time although westill kind of got on now that

(18:37):
was a real team effort to getthat across the line.
Like I had pretty much everyonein the business at some stage
working on those projects.
So it was a really good teameffort.
And yeah, it was a greatlearning curve for them too,
because some of those it was anapartment project for one of
them and a lot of my team hadnever built apartments before.

(18:58):
I have, but they hadn't, so itwas a good learning experience
for them so that in the future,when we do another apartment
project, they know the thingsthey need to be looking out for
and where they can and will comeup with challenges on the
project.
So so far to date, if I was togive myself a score out of 10,
it'd probably sit around a sixand a half.

(19:20):
But looking forward to the next, what are we?
What's that?
Four months, four months left,five, yeah, five months left.
Four or five months.
I look forward and go okay,there's a lot that can still
happen in that time.

Robby (19:35):
So what's going to?

George (19:36):
change.
I think I need to change alittle bit as in taking that
step back from the business andbeing that more CEO type role.
So that's definitely going tochange.
I want to give my team, I wantto make PASC on a really cool
place to work.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't want it to just be.
I felt like the last six monthsit's been a job for everyone.

(20:00):
You know just challenges everysingle day, battles every single
day, and I want to make thisplace a really nice place to
work, where they get up, they'reexcited, they're motivated,
good team morale, good culture.
That's what I want to work onover the next few months.
How are you going to do that?
I'm going to do that with haveyou thought about it at all?
Yeah, I have, I have.
It's going to start next weekwhen I sit down with everyone

(20:20):
and say where A few of theexpectations of the business?
First of all, right, so go,just going back to a few basics
and you know, from start timesto systems and processes that
we're going to be using tocommunication a whole range of
things and making sureeveryone's on the same thing, be
a bit of an open forum.
Anyone got questions,suggestions?

(20:41):
We'll put it in.
I want to go through and docompany values with the team.
So whether I do that myself orI get a third party to come in
and do that, so I want to putthe values of the business
together, get them theirfeedback or their input sorry,
so they feel a part of thatprocess.
I do want to do probably someleadership training with them as
well, so each one of them canunderstand how each other thinks

(21:02):
, acts, moves probably diskprofiles of some sort.
I think would be reallypowerful for them Investing in
the team a little bit more.
So Then I want to do I'mbreaking up my projects into I'm
going to call it sprints.
We're going to get to a certainstage of the project.
Say, for example, we're goingto get to the frame stage.
When we hit the frame stage ofa project.

(21:23):
We celebrate that sprint, thatsection of the job, and we go
out for a drink, we go out fordinner, we go bowling, we do
something.
Because at the moment myprojects tend to go from
anywhere between eight to 15months to 18 months, depending
how big the project is, and itcan often just feel like a
really long slog and you don'tget those little wins along the

(21:43):
way.
So I want to break it up so weactually get little wins across
throughout the build, not juststart the job.
We win.
Yeah, we're all pumped andexcited at the start of the job
and then by the time you get tothe end, everyone's just tired
and wants to just hand the thingover and fuck off.
I never want to see that jobagain, and that's what I feel
has happened on a couple of thelast projects.
Everyone's just at the stagewhere it's like, oh man, I
cannot wait to get out of here,like why you should be sad to

(22:05):
leave the job.
She's like, oh man, I'm goingto be sad not coming here every
day.
That's how they should be.
And then, on top of that aswell, maybe we do a monthly
catch up or something outside ofthese four walls, or whether it
might be just Friday nightdrinks or something like that
Everyone can come to the officeat 2 o'clock and we have chips

(22:26):
and pizza, or we actuallyorganize a night out, so making
it a more enjoyable place to beworking, potentially looking at,
even on a Friday.
Maybe we wrap it up a littlebit earlier as well, so people
can actually get out a bit early.
I think people work pretty hardhere, which is good, but it's

(22:48):
about rewarding that effort too.
So that's going to be my focusover the next sort of five
months with the business.

Robby (22:55):
Yeah, I make everyone.
Everyone does an extra half anhour Monday to Thursday and they
get out two hours early onFriday.

George (23:01):
Yeah, that's awesome.
I like that.

Robby (23:02):
I think it's a really good hours and it's like
seriously, how much work you'regoing to do in the last two
hours.
Oh yeah, exactly right, exactly, exactly right, like.
So I'm like cool, hang backhalf an hour every day and then
on Fridays you get to finish atthree.

George (23:17):
Do you find uh time Like on a Friday at 3.30?

Robby (23:23):
It depends on what I'm doing.
Yeah, depends on what I've goton.
Sometimes I'm getting smashed,sometimes I'm sometimes
especially with what I do likethe middle of the day can be
very reactive, just gettingblown up in many different ways.
So sometimes, when I know likeclient calls are done, the same

(23:44):
stuff is done, that's the like.
It kind of takes all the loadoff and I'm like cool, friday at
four o'clock, I know thatnothing is relevant anymore,
unless I got to launch acampaign that we're waiting for.
But anything between here andMonday I can do it.
Yep, yeah, I mean it's likethere's nothing tight.
There's the time urgency goesout of it.

(24:06):
You know, even if a clientemails me at 6 pm on a Friday,
there's no obligation to respond.
I most likely will, but there'sno obligation to respond on the
spot.
You know what I mean.
So that kind of takes a lot ofpressure off, but it just
depends.
Sometimes I leave early, man,sometimes I'll take off on a
Friday and be like everyone'sout.

(24:26):
I'm out, Like, let me just,especially if I've had a rough
week or a rough day, I'm likeI'm calling it, man, I'm not
going to sit here and pretend towork yeah, and that's one thing
I think I've done really wellthis year Like, if I'll leave,
yeah, that's good.

George (24:44):
Yeah, instead of wasting my time, I think that's
definitely something I want todo more in the next five months
as well.
So not necessarily leave work,but maybe take my kids to school
once a week, something likethat.
Or leave early, pick them up.
Just do that every now and then, like, for example, today being
a Tuesday, I got my son'sfootball training.

(25:06):
So I leave work early today,every Tuesday, because we'll
have training with everyone andI enjoy that and I think that's
part of me going okay, I'm goingto do something else, not just
work-related.
And the funny thing is you'relike oh, I can't, I've got so
much on, I can't leave early,I've got so much on.
But you always get it done,like even me leaving early today

(25:26):
it's not detrimental to thebusiness.
You know, I'm still leavinghere at 4.30 or whatever time it
is.

Robby (25:32):
I think it makes you prioritise too.

George (25:34):
Yeah, without a doubt, there's certain tasks that need
to get done.
You get them done.
Something will take as long asyou give it.

Robby (25:42):
Parkinson's law yeah, that's right, that's right so do
you feel like there's stuffyou're not getting done?

George (25:50):
uh, yeah, we spoke about this a little while ago.
I feel sometimes Iprocrastinate, in the sense of I
avoid tasks that are difficultfrom time to time.
Still, yeah, yeah, like evennow there's a couple of tasks I
need to do that I probablyshould have done last week and I
still haven't done them.
So I'm actually getting on tothem today because I have to do
them this week.
But that's again something Iwant to eradicate from my

(26:17):
day-to-day operations for sure,and something I've realized that
I do a little bit over the lastsix months too.
So we've spoken about, you know, the things that you have
achieved are the things that arethe things in the last eight
months or seven months that youwant to improve on.

Robby (26:40):
I think there's always going to be things you want to
do Well things that you've seen,that you're like no, no, that
needs to change Off the top ofmy head.
I like there's things,everything's in motion.
Yeah, that's good, you don'thave to find something.

(27:01):
Yeah, yeah, there's nothingwhere I'm like I know I need to
do something about that.
I haven't done anything.
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Yeah, I feel like everythinglike health.
No donuts.
No, I'm actually being prettygood.
Not lately, no, I actually beenpretty good.
Not lately.
No, I've been quite good.
Went to the gym this morning.
Hey, when, when, when?
Oh, yeah, how is it?

(27:22):
Yeah, it's cool man.

George (27:23):
Yeah, I drove past it the other day.

Robby (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like oh, okay.

George (27:28):
I want to check it out.

Robby (27:29):
Yeah, just come down, I'll get you in.

George (27:31):
Oh, will, do you, do you get a free guest for a day or
some shit?
Yeah, maybe I'll do that.

Robby (27:35):
Yeah, maybe next week, you jump in the ice bath.

George (27:37):
Oh relax, man.
I'm going to come and liftweights.
You want me to put an ice bath?
You have to Fuck.

Robby (27:42):
That's the first thing I want to lean on.
Like, get in there.
Get in there, then it's areally cool place, man Cool
place, it's got everything.
Like I did the other night, Idid a hyperbaric chamber.

George (27:58):
Yeah, and it's all inclusive this stuff.
Yeah, all inclusive.
Yeah, yeah, I've got likeInfrared saunas and shit like
that.

Robby (28:04):
Yes, I've got infrared normal ice bath.

George (28:07):
That's what I was going to ask you Parking.

Robby (28:15):
They're sorting it out at the moment.
Yeah, yeah, is that that's fine?
Yeah, but like I'll go prettyearly, so there's no way.
And where do you park on them?
On the road, yeah, oh, okay,there's usually parking there.
Or I've parked at mcdonald's.
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's likeacross the road.
Yeah, just go park, walk over,do what I gotta do, jump back in
the car.

George (28:29):
So if you see me at mcdonald's, I probably haven't
even but if you see me indrive-through I probably yeah,
oh, you're just getting a coffee, that's all right of course,
yeah, I'm just.

Robby (28:39):
I'm just trying to exit the donald's after my workout.
Um, yeah, I just got lost.
Yeah, I ended up with a bananabread and a coffee.
Um, yeah, no, it's really cool,though.
So I've, I've, you know, gotthings in motion there.
Got things in motion for thebusiness, got things in motion
for my personal life?
Um, yeah, I, I can't thinkthere's.

(29:03):
No, I used to always have likea hey man, I need to do
something about this.
I don't have that at the moment.
Like I'm doing doing a lot, um,yeah, the only thing if I had
to think like one thing, Ishould probably do something
about, I should probably book alot.
Yeah, the only thing, if I hadto think like one thing, I
should probably do somethingabout, I should probably book a
trip.

George (29:21):
Oh really, yeah, yeah, time to get out.

Robby (29:24):
No, just book, something Like overseas, or just yeah,
yeah.
Even if it's like next year, Ishould probably book a like trip
for next year to go to Japan orsomething.

George (29:33):
Yeah, that's cool.
I've always wanted to go toJapan or something.

Robby (29:35):
Yeah, that's cool.

George (29:36):
I've always wanted to go to Japan.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah,that's cool.

Robby (29:37):
Um, maybe I'll come with you Go past, that'd be sick.
Japan, yeah, japan, I thinkit'll be sick.
Yeah, I feel like everyone'sgoing to Japan yeah.

George (29:49):
Do you, Don't worry, neither do Greeks.

Robby (29:52):
Okay, I'll learn.
No, I'm not going for the snow.
Yeah, I'm going for the food.

George (29:59):
Oh, food is sick.
Yeah, I love Japanese food.

Robby (30:04):
Yeah, I don't know, but that's the only thing I can
think of, like if I wanted to doanything, it's like cool, maybe
book the trip, maybe I always.
One of the things that Ihaven't actioned at all was I
wanted to go to the Middle EastLike I wanted to go to Lebanon
Never been.

George (30:17):
Wow, yeah, there you go.
Do you know what I mean?
I saw a friend there the otherday, but it's a dangerous part
of the world at the moment.
Yeah, and they were thereduring that time.
Yeah, so I kind of guess how doyou know?

Robby (30:31):
yeah, I, we think like that it's and it's like
obviously it's far fromeverything that's happening, but
like it's still too close forcomfort.
Yeah, this is a much betterthing.

George (30:40):
We're thinking about going to greece next year with
family, so I feel, like you said, that last year though maybe I
did I think there was an intentto go for sure, like we were.
We haven't gone overseas withthe kids yet and it's definitely
something we want to do.
They're probably I thinkthey're at a really good age.
They're not so young thatthey'd complain, although
they'll complain.
They're probably old enough tocomplain.

(31:00):
They're actually pretty good ona plane.

Robby (31:02):
They'll have a memorable.

George (31:03):
Yeah, they'll have a memorable experience.
It'd be like, oh, remember thattime we went here we were this
old and yeah Well, so that'sright On this podcast.
Yeah, well, that was that wewere going to go to Singapore
this year actually, and we'dplanned it, met up with friends,
like we're booking everything,and then it just didn't work out

(31:24):
with work more so because I had, we were so busy at work there
was no way I could have left,there was no way I had people
away that just couldn't take 10days off to go.
And then we're going to do aSeptember holidays this year,
but now we're talking well,let's leave it till next year
and do Europe.
So maybe on the way back I'llmeet you in Japan, if we're
going around the same time.

Robby (31:46):
Yeah, that's the only thing, dude, I can think of.
I'm like I should action that Ihaven't actioned that I should
put something towards that, andobviously it'll be.

George (31:56):
It'll just book a flight .
Yeah, and obviously it'll be,because you're going there for a
training course and foreducational purposes, of course.
Marketing and for businesspurpose?
Sorry, Of course.
Business purposes, without adoubt.

Robby (32:07):
Yeah, no, that's a.
Do you work for the ATO?

George (32:10):
Yeah, that's a side note .
When you spend the Amex onsushi, yeah, what's all the
sushi Like what's?
That's okay, that's a side note.
When you spend the Amex onsushi, yeah, what's all the
sushi Like what's this?

Robby (32:17):
for I bought it for trading For the clients.
What about you?
Is there anything that you'relike?

George (32:23):
for the next six months, or the next four or five months
?

Robby (32:26):
Yeah, yeah, Is there anything that you feel like
you're going to?
You want to nudge or youhaven't nudged?

George (32:36):
Yeah, definitely the trip.
Just doing more tripsholiday-wise with the family.
I want to do a bit more of that, but you know we're pretty good
with that too, because we doover the what's it called like
long holidays, public holidays,so a long weekend or something
like that.
We tend to book to go awayduring that time with friends.
So we'd still go and do stufflocally, interstate or Australia

(32:56):
or wherever it might sorry,local or Australia.
So I'm good with that.
But, similar to you, the mainthing for me is probably doing
that overseas trip with the kids, something that's memorable
with them that they'll love andenjoy.
Is there anything else Personalor business, everything?

(33:20):
Is there anything else?
Uh, personal, business,everything, everything,
everything.
Um, yeah, definitely gettinginto shape.
So you said september youwanted to be.
Is that still the goal?
Yeah, I reckon I'll be good forit.
Yeah, that's sick good on you.
I reckon I'm gonna try givemyself till the end of the year
I reckon you'd laugh.

Robby (33:33):
Yeah, if I took my time off now, you'd freak.
I'd be like it was the same guythat was eating donuts in
America.
Hey, just can I just saysomething?

George (33:40):
The where'd we go?
Sydney?
When did we go to SydneyRecently?
Success conference was it?
Yeah, it was, and we had aSprinkles.
They're the great doughnuts.
I've never had that before,that particular doughnut, it was
the greatest doughnut.

Robby (33:56):
I've ever had the hummus and donut.

George (33:57):
It was the greatest doughnut I've ever had in my
life.
That was the greatest thing.
I couldn't believe how good itwas.

Robby (34:01):
I couldn't believe how good it was.
That was a very good doughnut,my goodness.
Doughnuts are the greatestthing.
Oh man, I are like donuts arethe pizza of the sweet world.
Do you know what I mean?
Like they are that thing.
That's like how do you not likedonuts?
How do you not?
If you don't, what's wrong withyou?
It's like how do you not likepizza?
Someone said to me the otherday I don't like pizza and I was

(34:23):
like stop talking to me and Iwas like yeah, and I was like
why?
and they're like there's nonutritional value.
You an idiot.
Nutritional value, like I'msitting there, like this is
healthy, yeah, getting it forthe like.

George (34:35):
Yeah, I can tell you're getting upset.

Robby (34:38):
You haven't done a pizza review in a little while, yeah,
I know I've had a few peopletell me, yeah, you gotta do it,
it's hard, it's hard.
I'm trying to get a six packand do pizza reviews.
Well, that's the thing, isn'tit.

George (34:45):
Well, just one slice, I'm sure can fit into your
macros and shit like that.
No, okay, I don't believe incalories.
Yeah, I don't believe in you,it's okay.

Robby (35:00):
It's a problem.
I don't believe in calories atall.
Ever since doing the carnivalthing, I'm like how can I eat
this much food?

George (35:07):
and lose that much weight and calories make sense.
It doesn't.
Yeah, there you go, yeah, yeah,but I think by the end of the
year it's definitely something Iwant to be doing too.
Getting into shape I'm at agood weight.
I probably need to drop to getto.
What is it about?
It's anywhere between 9% to 12%body fat, I think.
To get a six pack.
Is that about right?
Depends on the individual, Ithink yeah, it's heavily

(35:28):
dependent.

Robby (35:29):
I don't think I'll get to 12%.
Yeah, yeah that, yeah, yeah,that's a lot Significant.
Yeah, I'd be skinny as if Idropped to 12%.

George (35:35):
Yeah because I actually put it into chat the other day
just out of curiosity, like howmuch would I weigh?
And it's like you would weigh76.
I'm like, fuck man, I haven'tweighed 76 kilos for the longest
time.
I couldn't even rememberjumping on the scales and it
saying 76.
And I look at that and go, well, that to me feels too small.
Do you know what I mean?

Robby (35:55):
I feel like I would be skinny, unhealthy skinny, I just
care for how you feel and howyou look.
Yeah, I don't really care whatthey're-.

George (36:01):
Yeah, I tend to be the same.

Robby (36:03):
The scale says but I've lost a bit of weight.

George (36:05):
Like you said the other day, looking skinny, I'm like,
yeah, I think I something I wantto do by the end of the year.
Health, yeah, yeah, I have justbeen in great shape by the end
of the year and definitelyachievable goal, definitely
achievable goal, especially nowthat I can sort start focusing
on that a bit more, whereas youknow, as I said, the last six
months I've been so consumedwith work that I haven't, and I

(36:27):
was training pre-op, but toppriority, so now I want to make
it more of a priority with thattoo.
Is there anything else thatyou-.
Yeah, work-wise, I want tobreak the ceiling.
Do you know what I mean?
We often talk about?
We get in business, we get to aceiling and it's like, oh,
we've got a good amount of work,but then I want to break the

(36:47):
ceiling.
I want it to get to a pointwhere I've got well, fuck it, I
need to go get more insurance, Ineed to get a bigger office,
like I need to.
I want to break that ceiling.
That's my focus.
So let's just say, fromfinancial year to financial year
, if I had a goal now, it's tobreak that ceiling.

Robby (37:02):
So what would you think you don't have right now that
you'd need to have to break theceiling?

George (37:06):
More projects.

Robby (37:07):
Yeah.

George (37:07):
Yeah, it's definitely that.
It's project wise, then I'dneed more people as well.
So it's a matter of and there'sa level of it too, like we're
already putting things in motion, like we've been doing SEO with
you now for six months,something like that.
Yeah, so there's a level ofinvestment there.
The next thing will be doingdigital ads and going okay, well

(37:31):
, how do we get the market in toactually start attracting
people there too?
And this is where I can startstepping back and looking more
strategically across thebusiness.
Not just I need to process thisinvoice, I need to send out
this order, I need to speak tothis client, and that's right.
Really defining people's rolesin the business will be
important so that I can do that.
I'm starting now to look a lotat what I can delegate to other

(37:53):
people so I don't have to do it.
And now my PA is back, so, asin she's back from extended
leave, so I can put her into alot of that stuff too and start.
You know, and even if I need totrain people up to do the
things that I'm doing, well,cool, that's what we're going to
do.
I need to invest that time inthat space.
But, yeah, I want to break theceiling.
There's always that, like yousaid before, it's like fuck, I

(38:16):
need to do more.
I want to do more.
There's not.
Why aren't things happeningfast enough?
And that's where we're at witha few of the projects Like we
got.
It's funny in construction LikeI feel that you can go overnight
, like you could break theceiling because I might be
tendering five, 10 jobs at atime and if you win all of them,

(38:38):
like you break in the ceilingand that can happen, like you
can win a good percentage ofthose.
The way I market myself and theway I tender it's with the
intent of winning a lot of thoseprojects, because I qualify all
of my clients before they comein.
So I like to think I'm alreadya shoo-in to win a lot of those
projects anyway.
But you don't win them all.
And if it does happen likewe're looking good for a couple

(39:02):
one we're signing contracts thisweek, another one we're meeting
on Wednesday and we shouldprobably be getting the tick of
approval to go ahead with that.
So that's great.
And then there's another onewhich is a large project.
It's probably a.
I would say it's close to 11million.
So it'll be our biggest jobthat we've done.
11?
Yeah, it'd be pretty close tothat 10, anywhere between nine

(39:24):
to 11, somewhere there, andthat'll be one of the biggest
projects that we've secured.
And again, good shot at it.
And that lands, then cool,you're breaking the ceiling.
That project lands.
I need to go out and employmore people, and what I want to
do, though, is land that projectand then be like okay, where's
the next one?

(39:44):
Where's the next one?
Where's the next $11 millionproject?

Robby (39:47):
Will you employ people on a contract basis for a project
like that?
No, no, oh, you'd employ themfull time.
Yeah, you wouldn't do like an18-month contract.

George (39:56):
The risk I find with that is two things.
One is people will start in the15th month.
If they don't see job security,they'll start shopping around
for the next role.
So then I'll lose them in thelast three months of the job
because they'll be like well,I've only got a 15-month project
, I want to look for a jobaround month 12.

(40:19):
Or you offer them a full-timerole at that stage, and then the
next thing will be you'llprobably pay them a bit more too
, because it's a contract, soit's not a full-time role.
The way I see it is, if I'mgoing to put someone on, it's
not with the intent of gettingrid of them in 12 months.
I'd rather put them on, havethem a part of the team, and

(40:39):
then, if, by chance, we don'thave enough work, all right.
We need to cross that bridge.
When we get to it, maybe wereduce their hours or maybe I do
get rid of them.
Sorry, thanks for your time,thanks for your service, but we
don't have the next job for youto go on to.
Yeah, maybe it pushes someoneelse out.

(41:00):
You know, as in, I employ thissupervisor and he's an absolute
fucking superstar and he showsup everyone, and then we get to
that point where we've got lesswork to accommodate everyone, I
said, well, he's a gun, he's notas good.
Sorry, mate, I've got to letyou go.
So you can kind of upskill yourteam in that regard too.

Robby (41:14):
Yeah, it can go many, many different ways.

George (41:17):
Yeah, so I've got no issues employing people
full-time.
I think I prefer that ratherthan a contract, definitely.
I just don't think on contract.
I just feel that people won't.
It's going to be harder forthem to be as loyal yeah.

Robby (41:34):
Yeah, well, it's not reciprocated.

George (41:37):
Yeah, that's what I mean .
I'm not being loyal to them bygiving a full-time contract.

Robby (41:41):
Yeah, but does that?

George (41:41):
matter.
I don't know.
Maybe to some people, maybe tosome people, they don't matter.
They're like no, I want theflexibility to be able to leave
in 18 months.
Or they're like no, 18 months.
I'm going to Europe for sixmonths, so maybe that can suit

(42:02):
people well as well.
Do you like the security?
From what perspective?
Like my security of them havingbeen there?
Yeah, yeah, it's good knowingI've got people there to deliver
.
Yeah, like, imagine you'reliving on a knife's edge going
fuck, is this person going toquit?
Is this person going to quit?
We're in trouble if we do that.
If they do at this stage, yeah,I'd rather them be locked in, I
think.

Robby (42:19):
Okay, what's going to be the focus for the rest of the
year?

George (42:22):
for you.
Well, the two things, the mainthings, will be getting the team
and the culture on track,everyone knowing what they need
to do, everyone being excitedabout working here, and then
personally, it'll just be myhealth and fitness, but then
also just that focus a littlebit more so on home as well,
because I've been you know, I'mmassive.
I hate the term work-lifebalance.

(42:43):
I hate the idea of balancingstuff.
I think it's ridiculous.
Actually, it doesn't work and Iprefer focusing Like it's
either you've got to focus onwork or you have to focus on
family, and the last six monthshave been a huge focus on work
because it's had to be for me.
So now I want to shift thatfocus more so on the family
stuff too.
Yeah, more personal, like whenI say family, I mean myself and

(43:06):
my family Outside of work.

Robby (43:09):
I think, one of the biggest.
This is my perspective on that.
I think it's all about beingpresent wherever you are.
Oh, without a doubt.

George (43:18):
I think that's all about being present wherever you are.
Oh, without a doubt, I thinkthat's really important too.
You know when, if you're onlygoing to spend an hour a week
with your kids, make sure it'sthe best fucking hour on the
planet, yeah, or?

Robby (43:27):
like you know, there's no point going home, in my opinion
.
No point going home, being homeat four 30 and sitting down on
the couch like a robot yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Like if you're there, be there.
And if you're here, be here.
Yeah, and if you're here andyour mind's there, go there, you
know what I mean.

George (43:45):
Massive um, yeah, and I think a lot of people struggle
with that I think that'ssomething I've really learned
this year yeah good, yeah.

Robby (43:52):
And that goes back to the thing I'm saying like when I'm
here, if I'm not here, I'llleave.
Yeah, I'm like, I'm not fucking, like, like there's no point.
Are you sitting here to clockup hours?
Are you paying yourself hourlyrent?
Get out of here.
Get out of here, clear yourhead, come back, start again.

George (44:06):
Yeah, that's really good , and it's good for you to
realize that now, before you'vegot a partner or a family or
anything like that too, becausea lot of people figure that out
through the process and they'llcome back and they'll be like,
oh fuck, I should have done that10 years ago.
So it's good that you canfigure that out from an early
stage.
And these are the sorts ofthings you learn when you come

(44:27):
to trainings and events and goto events and stuff like that,
because you'd be like, oh yeah,you might say it on stage, I
might say it, I'll probably sayit on stage, and it's like
someone that is a bit moreself-aware.
They'll look at that and go.
You know what I fucking do?
That I come home and I'm azombie.
I come home and I'm just tiredand I want to sleep and I want

(44:48):
to just play video games and nottalk to anyone for two hours
Because I've had such a hard dayat work, because I've had so
much at work and the people thatare most important to you-.

Robby (44:59):
You're going to have people pick up on it.

George (45:01):
I think there would be people that pick up on it.
Yeah, I do, I think they would.
They would know that it's themthat they do that for sure.
Now, whether they make thechange, that's a different story
.
Yeah, very, but I think theywould pick up on it.
Yeah, I do that.
I come home and I'm tired, butthen they just feed themselves.
That too.
They let themselves live thatexcuse.

(45:26):
Oh, yeah, but I've workedreally hard.
Yeah, but you don't understandthe pressure I'm under.
Oh, but I was up at 4.30 thismorning.
That's why I'm tired.
Like I went to bed last nightat 8.30.
Seriously, yeah, I was justtired, man, like well, I'm going
to stay up so I can fall asleepon the couch and then go to bed
.
So I went to bed, I watched alittle bit of stuff on my phone,

(45:47):
but I was probably sleeping by9.30ish, I reckon.
Yeah, and I feel good Like Iwoke up 5.30 without the alarm,
like all right, let's go.
So.
And I feel good Like I woke up5.30 without the alarm, like all
right, let's go.
So I was actually.
I felt fresh, and I feel freshnow, apart from the croaky, yes,
aside from that, yeah, somepeople might like it One octave

(46:10):
lower.
What is it?
An octave Like my voice is oneoctave lower.

Robby (46:14):
Is that a?
I don't know, never heard thatterm.

George (46:16):
I've never heard of an octave.
Yeah, just chat to me throughit later.

Robby (46:24):
I'll have to learn something new, all right.
Well, I guess if you'relistening to this and you're
like fuck, it is August, youknow these pricks are right.
You need to ask yourself whatare you going to do?

George (46:37):
Yeah, main review where you've come, like how far you've
come, because you've lived it,the years happened, unless you
were sleeping the whole timeit's happened.
So has it been a massive year?
Has it been great?
Has it been shit?
Like, what needs to change?
What do you need to review?
Or maybe nothing's changing.

Robby (46:56):
Maybe you're just going to continue on your current
trajectory and keep crushing it,or not, if that's what makes
you happy yeah, and if you hadto try and control your focus,
it's like what's the one thingI'm going to push towards for
the last, because before youknow it, it'll be september,
then october.
Then someone asked me last week, last week yeah, they're like,

(47:16):
what are you doing for new years?
I looked at him like what?
I like what are you doing forNew Year's?
I looked at them like what I'mlike what are you doing for New
Year's?
I'm like are you serious?
They're like yeah, it's goingto come around quick.
I'm like don't talk to me aboutthat.
Yeah, so far away.
Yeah, I'm like it is, but itisn't.

George (47:31):
Do you know what I mean?
Have you ever been a New Yeartype of person to celebrate it
Me?
Yes, you're really pumped myfavorite shit ever.
Is it favorite day of the year?
Yeah, more than your birthday.
I got a tattoo of it.
H-n-y.

Robby (47:46):
Yeah, On your back.
No, I'm to be honest with you,couldn't date the last time I
was up at midnight.

George (47:56):
Yeah, I'm the same Because, especially with kids,
we're always in bed by 10o'clock.

Robby (48:01):
I think you'd think it'd be the other way around with
kids.
Yeah, don't?
Your kids want to see thefireworks and that.

George (48:06):
They don't.
They're too tired.
They'll be sleeping by 10o'clock Like it kills them, like
they don't function well.
When they stay up too late thenext day they'll be groggy and
complaining.
And Did you used to say, I'mnot sure when you were a kid?
I feel that I remember stayingup, yeah.

Robby (48:20):
Yeah, I reckon I definitely did.
We used to do like familythings.

George (48:24):
That's right.
We'd go to someone's house andthen you'd be up the whole time
and yeah, yeah, the best thingto do for New.

Robby (48:29):
Year's.
Is you got to have a space?
Yeah, personally, I don't likeif you go to a public place
there's too much happening.
Yeah, but before that comesyou've got four and a half
months.

George (48:42):
Yep to make shit happen.

Robby (48:45):
Make shit happen.

George (48:48):
Would you rewrite?
Sorry, no, I was trying toremember.
Yeah, would you rewrite?
I'm actually going to look atrewriting my goals now.
Why?
Why should I wait till NewYear's?
Do you know what I mean?
What if I've just got rid ofyeah, exactly, it's the law.
I like to break rules.
Yeah, what if I got rid of Isaid earlier, and you said it as

(49:09):
well, there's a few goals therethat you just got rid of.
Well, why not replace them withsomething that excites you?
Like, oh well, I've got fourmonths before I need to rewrite
my goals.
Write them right now, write themtomorrow.
Like, do them, don't wait.
You don't need to wait for acertain date.
You can do it whenever you want.
You can do goals at any stageof your life.
There's not a set time.
You don't have to wait forfinancial year.

(49:30):
You don't have to wait for yourbirthday.
So if that's something that, orif you're in that space, change
it up.
Change it up, get in there andwrite them.
And you know what I'm going tochallenge myself by Monday next
week, I'm going to have my goalsrewritten.

(49:51):
So by the time this airs.

Robby (49:54):
So by the time this, is live.

George (49:55):
Yeah, by the time this is live, my goals will be
rewritten.
How will the audience, keep youaccountable.
They can send an email to infoat milliondollardaves.
They can subscribe.
Actually, that's how they cankeep me accountable Subscribe
and then check in on the nextepisode, which will be Monday
week.

Robby (50:14):
Which will be Monday week , and I'll mention it there.

George (50:16):
Robby's going to say hey , stop fucking around.
Did you rewrite your goals?
Because he'll keep meaccountable.

Robby (50:22):
So then, I can say yes, I have, I will, I know you will.
I'll hold you to that.
Yes, time stops for no man orwoman.
I was going to say it's a bitsexist.
I'm very gender neutral.
You'd be disappointed if youweren't.
I'm all about equality andtreating everyone in the same

(50:46):
way.

George (50:49):
They should be the same, because everyone is the same,
everyone, everyone, all of them,them, all of them, they, them,
they, thems, all, the, they,thems.
They're all the same.
Just going off the rails.
Hey, let's go sideways.
By the way, because I feel likeI need to say this Did you
watch the St Kilda replay theother day?
St Kilda, melbourne?
Oh man, I watched it again lastnight.

(51:11):
I was pumped.
Is it that good?
Oh, I just thought Huh.
Ugly team, I know, but 46points down in the last quarter.

Robby (51:19):
That's great.
Go in the flag.
Huh, go in the flag.
You haven't done it in 50 years, I know right.
At least I won something.
Hard team to follow no, I don'tlike footy, to be honest.

George (51:31):
I'm completely.
Yeah, I remember you saying.

Robby (51:33):
What do you reckon if?

George (51:34):
the Blues started dominating again.
You wouldn't, you wouldn't goback.
No, I find that strange.
You reckon, yeah, a little bit,because you used to me I was a
full-blown member.
That's what I mean.

Robby (51:45):
Yeah, that's what I mean I used to watch.
I used to watch games where Ididn't know like I wouldn't back
for either team.
I'd watch the game yeah, butthat's.

George (51:51):
There's still a level of like if you were that much into
it and you enjoyed it that muchI've.
So I find it surprising thatyou just switch like that.

Robby (52:00):
I was quite surprised as well, but I just can't Like,
even now I'll put on a game andI'm bored, yeah, and I'll sit
there like I can't wait for thisthing to finish.
And do you know what?
I didn't realize how fuckinglong the game goes for.

George (52:11):
Yeah.

Robby (52:11):
Like it is so long, dude, and it's like it's just me not
enjoying it.
Would you go to the?

George (52:16):
footy like as a social thing, like say we were going,
like I had tickets to the footythe other day, oh well, I didn't
.
I got invited.
But say I had a spare and Isaid you want to come, would you
go?
Yeah, like I wouldn't not go.

Robby (52:27):
Yeah, you know, like we went to the hockey, I'm never
going to.

George (52:31):
I haven't watched a hockey game, since there's a
level of entertainment therestill, and it was Blues Hawks as
well.
Funny enough, even though itwasn't a very great game,
there's still a level of okay,this is my team, this is who I
used to support.
Oh yeah, I remember Silvani.

Robby (52:50):
I don't know.
I can't explain it.
I feel like I've lost.
I don't care, couldn't careless.
Carlton wins a flag this year.
I couldn't care, couldn't careless.
Carlton wins a flag this year.
Couldn't care, that won't.
Carlton makes the eight.
Carlton.
Which year was it when they had10 in a row and they made that?
Two years ago?
Yeah, it was recently.
They didn't give a shit.

George (53:05):
Yeah, so it's been a little while that you haven't
watched, that you haven'tfollowed the football.

Robby (53:09):
Yeah, yeah, he got booked Like the Carlton player ran
into his shoulder, literally,yeah, literally, that's what

(53:29):
happened and he got done twoweeks.
Yeah, and what are you supposedto do?
Like, not go for the ball?

George (53:34):
Yeah, like, he did nothing, didn't lift his arm.
There's a huge there's a hugelevel of it being over
adjudicated yeah.

Robby (53:43):
I don't know, I'm not.
I just watch UFC now, that'sall I do.

George (53:48):
Yeah, no rule changes there.

Robby (53:50):
There's, it's the real, it's the real deal.

George (53:53):
Yeah.

Robby (53:54):
There's no one controlling or over-controlling
this one.

George (53:56):
I saw you send me the other day.
You put a comment up and thenyou got smashed About.

Robby (54:03):
UFC fighter fighters.
Yeah, a lot of butt-hurt people.

George (54:08):
They didn't like your point of view.
Sensitive topic yeah,everyone's saying they should be
getting paid more.
You're like, no, they'regetting paid, each they're
stupid.

Robby (54:14):
People don't understand how markets work.
Yeah, people don't understandhow markets work.
Yeah, why would they get paidmore, like they're getting paid
the most?
Why do I have to pay you more?
Oh, because the UFC makes more.
And yeah so if I have a betteryear this year, you want to get
paid more as an employee.
Okay, but if we have a bad year, are you going to take a pay
cut?

George (54:35):
Yeah, like if you're going to, we've got to do a
whole episode on it.

Robby (54:38):
I could do a whole episode on it.
People are victims.
Yeah, you know something ofvictims Entitled.
Yeah, just or like just havethis, you know?
Oh, woe is me.
You know, there was this guythe other day.
He's like he's sitting theresaying, oh, they're forced to do
it, I'm and like they're notforced to do it.
He's like well, what if theycan't make more money anywhere
else?
I said so.

(54:58):
The ufc is giving an opportunityto make more money yeah and
he's like well, you could saythe same thing about forced
prostitution.
And I said that's not the same,dude.
Yeah, and then I said that'snot the same.
You sound like a victim.
He's like maybe you're justchanging the subject because you
sound like a retard.
And I'm like man, why am I eventalking?
Yeah, exactly like.
This is just stupid.
Now you can't tell who theretard is.
Yeah, I'm never allowed to saythat.

(55:18):
Well, you can't.

George (55:21):
You can't.
We just got cancelled.
What's the?
It's taken 94 episodes, but wejust got cancelled.
We haven't discussed anythingcontroversial in a little while.

Robby (55:30):
This is episode 94.
Is it Three Something?
Like that, something like that,but we've got episode 100
coming up, yeah, and I thinkwe've got to do something big.

George (55:41):
Cake Something big.
Can you have the calories Me,of course?
Yeah, absolutely.
We've got to do something coolfor episode 100.
Maybe have a live studioaudience, show the world.

Robby (55:54):
That's it.
It's a big milestone, that is.

George (55:57):
Absolutely it is.
I think that's something youshould.
It's gone quick, hasn't it?

Robby (56:02):
it has.
Everything goes quick.

George (56:05):
It's August but if you had told me at the start, like I
told you at the start, we'regoing to get to episode 100,
that is on episode 1.
That's episode 1.
Well, yes, you said like athousand episode a thousand yeah
, that.

Robby (56:16):
Yes, you said like a thousand Episode, a thousand.
Yeah, that'll take 50 years,yeah.

George (56:18):
At the rate we're going, at the rate, 20 years.

Robby (56:20):
At the rate we're going, sarah, unless we start dropping
it.

George (56:24):
Four episodes, 15 minute episodes.
Yeah, four episodes, yeah.
So that's cool, man, that'scool.
It was funny I keep bringing itback to that Steve Bartlett
comment that he put up when hehad that post where he got 2
billion views or downloads orsome shit like that on his
podcast and he's like, yeah,that's fantastic, really proud

(56:46):
of it, that's awesome.
But I just want to remindeveryone we did this for three
years and we had like 1,500views or 1,500 downloads for
three years.
No one's seen all the work thatgoes in before.
They just see everything thathappens later.
Well, it must be nice havingthat podcast that you guys do.
How lucky.
I would love not to work andjust do a podcast all day and

(57:10):
get paid thousands and millionsof dollars for it.
That's exactly what we do.
That's why the cash rolls in.
Just because it's this neonsign says it all.
The podcast is pretty legit.
Yeah, of course it is.

Robby (57:23):
We are a legit podcast now.

George (57:24):
Someone said to me the other day.

Robby (57:25):
They're like is that a legit podcast or are you just?

George (57:27):
trying to mark yourself.
You're just two podcast bros.
It's pretty legit.
Check it out.

Robby (57:30):
And then they checked it out.
They're like, hey, this islegit as.

George (57:55):
And I say young, early 20s working behind there is of
Indian descent, not to bestereotypical, but he was Indian
and he was listening to stuffin the background, like most of
the time they're listening tomusic or they've got a show.
Like you know, they'll haveNetflix on the corner whilst
they're serving people and it's.
I've noticed that twice thesecond time.
I've noticed it every time I'vewalked in there.
He's listening to a podcast andit's like an educational
podcast, like a good one thathe's.

(58:15):
He's sitting there and he'slike, well, if I'm going to be
here serving, working, I want tolearn.
At the same time, like I wantto listen to something that I
can potentially get out of thisand the next time I'm going to
go put fuel, I'm going tomention it to him.
If he's still there, I'massuming he would be I'm going
to mention this to him.
Which server?
The Port Melbourne BP.

Robby (58:35):
On Bay Street, yeah on.

George (58:37):
Bay Street.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not whereyour gym is, not that far down.
There's the BP on the corner.

Robby (58:43):
No, no, yeah, not that one, yeah, not that one.

George (58:45):
The small one, yeah, the small one, yeah.
So next time we go there I'mgoing to see him, we're going to
have a chat with him.
Say, hey, man, this is thethird time I've come in here.
Listen to Million Dollar Days,all right.

Robby (58:57):
Let me know when you do it, and then I'll go do it after
you yeah, how good.

George (58:59):
How good you listen to Million Dollar Days yet.
So yeah, but I just thoughtthat was cool, like a bit of
breath of fresh air.
You know that you see a youngkid that's trying to
self-educate and, if I had tomake an assumption, he wants
more out of his life than justworking at BP.
That his life than just workingat BP.
That's a fair assumption, it'sambitious, it's wild, it's a

(59:20):
wild thought.
I mean, I know nothing of himother than him taking my money
for the fuel I bought.
But I just thought that was alevel I have just a little bit
impressed that I saw that hepassed pretty low at the moment
he listens to a podcast.
Wow, no, but I mean I don't seethat.
I've never seen that before.
I don't see them listening topodcasts.
They're always something elseOn the phone yeah, on the phone.

(59:44):
Or just music, or whatever.
It might be A show.
They're talking to their mate,you know, they might be talking
to a friend or something whilstthey're serving you.
Yeah, like that sort of stuff.
That's what I.
I just thought it was greatthat he was there and
self-educating whilst he was atwork.

Robby (59:59):
Maybe he's listening.

George (01:00:00):
Sorry, maybe he's listening.
I hope he is.
I hope he is Because I'm givingyou a shout out.
I'm going to learn your name,yeah, and I'll give you a shout
out the next episode.
If he is, what should he do?
He should definitely subscribe.

Robby (01:00:10):
He has to, he has to and so should.
Um, you know this only, uh,this will reach more people by
you sharing this with someone.
Yeah, without a doubt, lettingsomeone know.

George (01:00:22):
Your stories.

Robby (01:00:24):
You can do it across any social platform.
It is August and we're runningout of time and we need to go,
and we need to go now.

George (01:00:32):
You need to do shit, need to get things moving in the
right direction.
It's a 35 next year, you doyeah, fuck Old moving in the
right direction.
It's 35 next year, you do yeah,fuck Old that feels old.
Yeah, 35 is like hey, did yourback just twing a little, like
just a little pain there.

Robby (01:00:44):
It's on its way.
I'm going to book the backsurgery.

George (01:00:50):
Time's flying.

Robby (01:00:51):
You got to do something about it it stops for no one.

George (01:00:54):
That's right.
Make shit happen, guys, becauseno one else is going to do it
for you.

Robby (01:00:59):
So control what you're going to focus on for the next
four months, because it will goquick.
Pick one thing, two things.
Don't try and do 100 things.
Look at your goals list.
Say cool, what's the one thingthat I'm going to move the
needle on?
How can I move it forward?
And I'm going to go right downmy goals right now Execute.
And I'm going to go right to mygoals right now Execute.
Good stuff.

George (01:01:19):
Thanks a lot for tuning in, guys, as always hoping
you're having a million-dollarday and we cannot wait to see
you next time.

Robby (01:01:26):
Thank you, everybody.

George (01:01:27):
Peace out Bye.