April 25, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some
of the most interesting people that have said yes to
opportunities in their life.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We hope that through these stories.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You can learn to treat your own destiny by saying yes.
Along the way, join us as we explored the new series,
governing topics such as passion, integrity, and our work. I'm
your host, Jim Riley, and I hope you enjoyed these
interviews as much as I do.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I believe that everyone has an important message worth hearing.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate podcast. Jim
Riley here with Rode Coots Heyd.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Good morning, Jim Riley. It's always good to see you
on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Feeling more like noon when the sun comes up so
early and goes down so late around here. Not complaining, Yeah,
not at all.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We've still got hours to go, hours to go.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hey, we were talking about, just for a moment offline,
about the tariffs. Yes, and you know if that's affecting
us here in Montana or wherever you're at. I and
I you just said you haven't seen a slow down
at ups.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's busy over.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
There, right, It's busy. It's it's just like last year,
just like the year before, just like the year before that.
The volume is just as heavy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I just think there's a lot of rhetoric out there,
you know. Is there tariffs yes, Will we be affected, yes?
But you know what, and I'm gonna this is why
I brought it up. I want to publicly say that
I am willing to invest my time, energy and money
to see.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How they work.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We've been doing it wrong in this country for a
really really long time, you know, and it's time to
shift back to US made goods and services and bring
that stuff back here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So sorry I can't get something from a foreign country,
I like to say, you know, in the past it
was Japan or but we get stuff from all over
the world that you know, we get it cheaply instead
of it being made here in the US. I like
to see it made.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Here, absolutely and at the very very least it No one,
bar none, should have a problem with reciprocal tariffs, right,
plain and simple. I mean, that's just that's that evens
the playing field. And you know, using tariffs, it's just
like taxes, right you look at your taxes, who who
(02:30):
is benefiting from a tax loophole. Well, who's benefiting from
a tariff loophole? It's not the US.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Not hard to understand. But the rhetoric, you're you're right.
The narrative is that because Donald Trump is pushing this,
it's it's not working and it's not going to work.
Although how many other presidents have threatened in the past
and just didn't do anything. It's it's kind of amazing.
This is Uh, it needs to be done. We need
a major economic correction on Well.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's what we're getting right now. But I guess what
I'm asking people to do, like myself, is just be patient,
let these things pan out a little bit and know
your own truth and cut out, you know, the rhetoric noise,
and don't give that attention because look, these things we
have an opportunity to really do something specially so I
don't want to go down that huge rabbit hole because
(03:25):
this isn't a political show. But I do you know,
we talked about being entrepreneurs. Hey, if you have if
you can start a US company right now, you'd probably
cart it. You would start it, Yes, absolutely, make stuff
here with supplies here. You would do very, very well,
and you'd be smart to get going now.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, and source as many of your materials as you
can from here, and obviously that's not always possible, but
you know, source them from countries that are favorable with
our US government, you know, those who are playing fairly
and do a little homework.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, a little American ingenuity will get the job done,
you know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh, by the way, if you do want to start
a business, we'd love to have you in the Young
Entrepreneur Syndicate. Will help you with your business plan and
your budgets and your marketing, your forecasting, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So come check out what we have to offer and
be a member right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Absolutely you talk about I was just we mentioned this
before we got online here too, and that is helping
people look at their business analytics. What does that mean
if you're in business and you've not done an assessment,
you know, really looking at your business with a fresh
pair of eyes. Let somebody who's been there, done that,
(04:46):
not just on one but several different businesses, just help
you through it, just to look at your business from
a different perspective and see if you can't make some
little changes or maybe even big changes, whatever's necessary. To
make it too the next level so that you're not worried.
And that's the That's the other thing I want to mention,
it's this whole tariff thing is we don't operate in fear.
(05:08):
If you're an entrepreneur and you're operating in fear, you
will not last in the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no way, It'll eat you up.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So stop being fearful.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Stay on the offense. All right. My topic for the day.
You don't like this one.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think we've talked about it before, maybe not in
the show, maybe in the entrepreneur syndicate community calls. The
topic is how you do one thing is how you
do everything?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You're already smiling before I got it all the way
out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So there's a number of areas of my life right
now that I'm interacting with other people in the professional scope,
and I'm just realizing how lazy people can be, or
how many shortcuts they throw in there, or how they
could just be a little bit better, but yet they
choose not to, or how they literally do one thing
(06:04):
and you can expect that everything else in their life
is that way, right, And I see that sometimes in
coaching is that you know, you start going down this
road to their business and then you realize, Wow, your
life is the same way. Your personal life is the
same way. You treat your car, the same way you
treat your house, the same way.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I always love so you guys know, I'm a big
fan of Andy Forsella. In his podcast Real af Andy
talks about if somebody's there for an interview, that he's
going to interview him, and I don't know how little.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Of this is.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He's like, I go outside and look at their car,
look inside their car. If their car is a mess,
they're probably a mess, you know, Like how much do
they care about themselves and their environment? And if you
can't even take care of your car, you know, how
are you going to take care of my business? And
I think there's some truth to that, you know, granted,
(06:54):
like out where I live, maybe not so much in
your neighborhood ride, but like my truck is usually dusty
on the inside, you know, because I live off of
a dirt road and the ranch and all that stuff.
But my car is relatively clean in terms of junk
and clutter and trash and all those other things. You know,
because that I care, and I try to carry that
(07:17):
into my business. You know, my writing skills, or my
how I run my day or how I present myself.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
All these things fall.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Along the lines of how you do one thing is
how you do everything right.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So do you have some examples of that? I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I mean, I've got a bunch, but I'm just like, yeah,
do I want to share those? They're a little bit
not personal, but they're relevant right now, and I want
to find a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But do you have some examples?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Gosh, let's start with I've got a ton of examples.
Do you want examples? I'll give you examples. First, I'm
gonna couch this with something I learned I don't know,
but probably from my father, who was a He was
in construction, but he was also a carpenter. So carpenter's
there's a difference, right. You know, you've got builders, but
(08:01):
you've got carpenter's. Carpenters do the finish work, they do
the fine details. And my dad was constantly reprimanding me
for being in a hurry. That the one thing he
always told me to slow down, don't be in such
a hurry. And he didn't say it nicely like that.
He said it with emphasis, and he told me often,
and it's something I still have to pay attention to
(08:25):
because it's part of my I'm always in a rush.
I'm always go, go, go, go go. But with some
things you have to slow down, and especially with detail work,
you have to pay attention to details. But don't just
think that that's the little things, although that's where it starts.
And you mentioned looking at someone's car, and I was
(08:48):
smiling while you were saying that, because as soon as
I get off this call, I'm going out to wash
my wife's car.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, good today for her.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
She's tied up and so that's already on on the list.
But do you make your bed? There's actually a I
think it was an admiral, a Navy admiral, who did
a talk one time and it's you know, make your
bed and look it up online, google it YouTube video.
But great talk. It's a great talk. And he gave
(09:18):
that talk. I don't know if you know this, like
two days after he found out his son was killed
in action, you know, and he still stands up and delivers.
But do you make your bed every day? Do you
put the toilet seat down, if you live in a
household with women. I mean, it's little things, but those
are details. Do you put the cap on the toothpaste.
(09:41):
I've been in people's homes where they leave their cupboard
doors open after they get the spices out or something,
and the cupboard doors are open. It's just like it
looks messy. Do you pick up after yourself? You know,
it's all those things, and it's stuff that we owe
to other people around us to pick up after yourself.
It's nobody's job to be your mom, and we are
(10:02):
all adults. You're not going to call somebody in to
wipe your butt. Right, Let's just be frank. Let's that's
paying attention to detail. And how you do anything is
how you do everything. Do you do Do you do
a crappy job in your own house, in your in
your office, in your life. You're right, It's it's an
indication of how you do the rest, And if you're
(10:23):
not paying attention to the little stuff, you're going to
miss the big stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah you know what, And maybe I'm cutting you off
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But you told a story on our coaching call this
week about a service call you made for your vehicle.
And I think that that is the perfect example of
how you do one thing is how you do everything,
because you know, if you're not doing the job, you're
missing an opportunity. Do you mind telling that story again?
Because I thought it was really good and relevant.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Sure, I needed to do some service work breakwork on
my wife's vehicle, and I there's also a recall and
open recall on the car that's been there for a
couple of years. But it was something innocuous, and I
didn't want to have to drive to this dealership and
schedule time out of my day to go do something
that's not imperative, right, So I get online and I
(11:15):
looked for the phone number for the service department for
that make a vehicle. So I was I was going
directly too. I didn't want to get run through a
phone tree and you know, go to the sales department
and sure, you know, so I called the service department
number that was listed on the website. When I called
that number and told them that I wanted to schedule,
(11:36):
you know, appointment. I wanted to get a quote and
schedule a recall, and they said, oh, well, hold on,
well we'll send you to the service department for that
make and so I was put on hold. I went
to another phone call, and when they picked up, I
went through the same thing. Okay, this is what I
want to do, and they said, oh, well, let me
(11:57):
get you to the service department for that partic killer mail.
And then so now I'm already perturbed, right, I'm trying
to just go straight to the source, and now this
is my Now I'm getting getting routed to the third one.
Well the third one does happen to be the right one,
but it's a voicemail. And I said, we're with somebody
(12:18):
right now. Please leave a detailed message with your name
and number and we will get back to you. And
I left my name, number and a detailed voicemail what
I wanted. That was over a week ago, Jim, and
I've not received a phone call back still still, so
I'm not going to get the recall done. I'll sell
the car with the open recall. I don't care. It's
(12:38):
you know, it's not something that really matters. But they
lost out. By the time they're done with all this,
over one thousand dollars worth of my business. And I've
now bad mouthed them to you know, now that we're
on this podcast up to eighty thousand people, So you know,
it's how you do those little things. Are you paying
attention to and look at your business is from the
(13:00):
customer's point of view, not your point of view. And
I know what they're doing because that first call got
routed to a customer retention phone line. I realized afterward.
I'm looking at how they I know how they do
business there, and it went to a customer retention because
they're trying to ascertain if they can turn this phone
call into a sale something. Oh, so that's where the
(13:24):
routing happened. But if you're not looking at your business
from the customer's perspective, you're missing out because they lost
business on that one, and they're probably going to lose
more customers or more service calls. That's more revenue. Right
from that, I'm getting the work. The other work, the
break job done from someone else. And by the way,
(13:45):
I actually had one of our mechanics, a race car
owner driver operator from the Young Entrepreneur syndicate. He said,
next time, he said, I will fly out there and
do your brakes for you for what you paid for it.
And he lives on the other. He lives on the
East coast, So you know, that just goes to tell you.
(14:06):
You know, if you've got the right guy and they
know what they're doing, you know you don't have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Speaking of phone calls, I'm curious, mainly because maybe I'm
just out of touch.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So I had a neighbor asked for a referral for.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Somebody in the service industry, okay, And I knew I
know two people in the industry, and I thought, I'll
just give them both names.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And it's been a little while.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Since I spoke to either one of them about the
business that they're in. I reached out to one, I said, Hey,
are you still in this business?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I said, okay, well I want to give you a
referral to my neighbor. Great, thank you so much, boom
the second person. At the same time, I also said, hey,
are you still in this business? That was yesterday at
I don't know, eleven am, okay. I didn't hear back
from that person until this morning at six am, and
it said, yes, I'm still in the business. Is that
(15:00):
an appropriate amount of time for a text response for
a simple question like that, or is that I don't
know not being in tune with their business and opportunity.
What are your thoughts because I was kind of annoyed,
like if it's taking you this long to get back
to me just on a simple hey are you still
in this business?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Like how are you in business? I don't know what
are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Well, it depends on what kind of service business it is. First,
I'll give people grace on some things. There are times
and speaking from my own personal experience, and my situation
is different because I'm like semi retired and there are
times I don't have my phone on me for extended
periods of time. It could be six hours.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Well, let me just say this. This person is young,
trying to relaunch this business. I knew this six months ago.
Young trying to relaunch this business, needs to make money
and is focused on, you know, doing this business.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Last time I talked to.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Them, then then it's an inappropriate amount of time. Yes,
So yeah, I'm one of those If if you're not
like this, this is something I learned a long time ago.
Touch something once, that's it. If it crosses your desk,
don't put it in it to do pile if you
(16:23):
pulled it off and you're looking at it, deal with it.
If it requires a phone call and email, whatever, you
deal with it at that time. And the same is
if you pull your phone out and you look at
a text and you read it, respond to it and
be done and move on. You know, don't read all
your texts and say, well, I'll get back to it.
(16:44):
You're going to forget it, or you're going to have
a delay, yeah, like you you had in this case.
So it would be interesting if you went back and
looked at that and see when he opened that text,
when he looked at yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, And I would love to hear from you know,
you know, I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'd love to hear from listeners opinion on this because
I mean, look to your point, we're we are on our.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Phones all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Especially I'll give you some grace because you are in
that retired mode and I understand a lot about your lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But when you're in the middle of the grind growing
your business in the workforce, I know that you're on
your phone. I'm on my phone all the time. I
know that I look at texts all the time. I
do know that, Rod. Sometimes I'll look at them and
go I'll get it back to them later, and I
forget and I don't, and then I'm embarrassed. Right, But
something like that, if an opportunity comes across your desk
(17:35):
and you're trying to grow your business, a simple yes,
you know, are you still in the business? Yes, I
mean boom, okay, because what my concern is, and this is,
you know, just again goes along with how you do
one thing, is how you do everything. If it took
that long for that person just to say yes too,
I'm still in the business. What happens to my referral?
(17:57):
Right if I give the referral and then this potential
client calls them and they don't hear back from them
for a day or two, Because I'm guessing that question
be a little bit more complex, right, can you do this, this,
and this for me based on your services? I mean,
now I've given a referral to somebody that you know
is either lazy or isn't very communicative, you know, and
(18:17):
the list is probably long in terms of the symptoms
of you know, so you could lose a lot of
business that way.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, that's that's one of those checkups you should be doing.
Absolutely and yeah, there's no excuse for it. Honestly, it's
it's probably bad habits. That's probably really what it is.
It's just a bad habit, and that means you need
to retrain yourself on Okay, and just like I said,
touch it. Once you read it, respond, read it. Respond,
(18:48):
you know, even if it's a long thing, then respond short.
You know, yes, I am, I'll get back to you.
You know, I'm in the middle of a job right now.
I'll call you when I have a chance to get
their information, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, respond yeah, Well, I will say this just
as a lesson to those listening.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm not going to refer that person.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I felt like it was a much longer delay than necessary,
and I don't want to be embarrassed by referring somebody
that is slow to respond in this day and age
of technology and in a normal course of the business day.
If it was like, I don't know, eight o'clock at
night and then they didn't respond till today business hours,
I've been like, okay, but in the middle of a
(19:29):
business day, you know, and you're in the business being business.
So yeah, it's just another one of those examples how
you do one thing is how you do everything.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm in my office ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I was just gonna say, even if if you read
that text and you were busy on a job or something,
then clear those things off by the end of that day.
Don't carry it into the next day. You know, you
said you got to response the next day, right the
next morning, So at least if you are busy with something,
get back to it by the end of that day. Yeah,
(20:01):
I mean that, make that the rule, inn you know,
and even put put the disclaimer on the text. Yeah,
I was busy all day, wanted to get back to you. Yes,
I'm still in business. Yeah, give give some rationale for
the delay.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was going to say, is I'm cleaning my office
today because well you can't see it behind me, but
it's messy back there, and you know that being organized right,
understanding where my documents are at, what I have to
do the next day, what's important for the next week.
You know, that's part of cleaning the office and knowing
where things are at. And so that's maybe that's a
(20:41):
little over the top for some, but for me, that's
part of my process because I want to be good
at all things. Do you have any little quirky habits, right,
that keep you in practice of doing one thing that
leads into the next. For the success you have had
in business.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Other than what I've mentioned already, just quirky little habits. Yeah,
the quirky little habit of you know, touching things once
makes a difference and dealing with clutter. I will say
that because if you looked at my desk, I do
have two different piles on my desk. I have a
(21:21):
working pile and I have an idea pile, right, And
I get to the point where I'll clean those off
like you do, right, and I'll put them in folders
because I'll jot ideas down. Even if I'm having a
conversation with you and it's like, oh, you need to
watch this video or something like that, I put that
on a note, and that note goes somewhere so that
I will get to it, right, And so I have
(21:44):
a pile like that that's a get to down the road.
It's not the important stuff, but the other thing. And
this is a problem I have is I don't like
to throw things away. I've on too many occasions thrown
things away that I've wanted to go back to you know,
a year later and I thought, oh I had this,
(22:06):
So now I make long term folders, you know, the
idea folders, that sort of thing, or just interesting items,
you know, have some folders for it. But I have
thrown too many good ideas away, or the way somebody
has said something that really resonated and it's like, oh
I wrote that down. Oh yeah, I threw that notebook
(22:27):
out right, that sort of thing. So if you're a keeper,
you know, a collector, I don't want to call it hoarding.
You know, there is a difference. You know, one's organized
and with a purpose and intent, and the other is
just you. You can't don't know what to do with it,
and your life's a mess.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah. So yeah, same.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Thing even with you if you've got a messy car,
you know, and you want to keep that stuff in there.
What's in your glove box, you know, the jockey box.
No one has gloves in there anymore, but what's in there?
You know, if there's stuff there, they make all kinds
of great behind the seat organizers and stuff like that.
Get organized, you know, be professional, get organized in both
your personal life and your business life. And my children,
(23:10):
my family knows that I like gadgets, and I like
organizational things. So I get lots of things like that
gifted to me that make my life easier, you know,
and try new things. Well, let's looking for look for solutions.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Let's wrap this conversation up with suggestions on creating habits
that will help you do one thing that will lead
into the next. So and started thinking about this as
you talked about being organized and having systems in place,
you know a lot of times creating little habits like
(23:49):
for example, and this might seem silly to some you're
walking through a parking lot, or you're walking, you know,
down the road for exercise, and you pick up trash
along the way. Right a, you're helping the environment because
somebody was lazy and through their trash out the door. Right,
But you're you're showing others that you care, and you're
(24:11):
creating a habit of paying attention to the smaller things,
are the non selfish things. Right, You're picking up trash
that somebody else left, and you're in tune to the
impact of that.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So, all of a sudden, you start developing these habits
and patterns to think beyond. And I love habit forming
ideas or activities that grow into business and in your
personal life, right, And so that you know, that's one
example of many, many things that are habit forming that
(24:46):
develop into something else, just like the seventy five hard program,
you know, drinking a gallon of water every day, reading,
you know, ten pages of a good book every day.
I have been reading consistently the last six years since
I did my first seventy four five hard run that
got me in the habit of reading again. I forgot
how much I loved it, right, and that habit has
(25:09):
grown my knowledge not only in personal but in business right.
And it's also taught me, you know, how I do
one thing, and which is the discipline of reading, is
how I'm going to do other things. And so what
I want to recommend is find things that will generate
habit forming activities that are positive in the direction that
you want to go.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Absolutely, it's a great idea, and I like your thing
on reading too. It reminds me of the ten thousand
hour What does it take to become a professional in
any profession? Ten thousand hours?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, And if you're.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Reading and reading and reading and reading, think what you
could have multiple professions in a matter of three, four, five,
six years. Right, So here's here's a tip for everyone
out there. Simple, if you're not already doing it, make
make grocery lists, and not just grocery lists, but shopping lists.
And I'll do a quick example of something I had.
(26:02):
I've been a home Depot card holder for fifteen, twenty, twenty, thirty,
twenty five years, something like that, and I don't use
credit cards other than for convenience. And they, you know,
Home Depot has these things where they do if you
buy a big item, you get twenty four months with
no interest, right, so you can leverage other people's money.
(26:26):
So I like those sorts of things and credit cards
for getting sky miles. And I've got another credit card
that pays me cash back, so I'll put things on
there and then pay the bill right away, just like
you know, an American Express pay it off. But I had,
I had this special from home Depot that was you
get fifteen percent off of everything up to a certain amount,
(26:48):
and I have I had a lot of spring projects
coming up, right, lots of projects, you know, and like
staying for the fence, and I mean just the list
was getting lengthy. So I made a list and I
started going through it. What are all the projects I
need to get done for the summer, all these things.
I made this big list and then I went to
(27:10):
the home Depot to do my shopping and I got
all of it in one And to get the discount,
you had to use the card. And I just paid
the bill yesterday, you know, because the bill came due.
I just paid it off in cash, which is not
what they like, of course, but I got this great discount,
you know, on six seven hundred dollars worth of just stuff.
I'm going to need to take care of my lawn.
(27:32):
But if you're organized and thinking ahead, just making lists
will save you money. Making a list and go to
the store and sticking to the list will save you money.
And it's a detail. But how you do that, that's
if you start making lists and say, Okay, my goals
for the day are this, and you're going to check
that list off. Man. That's again, how you do anything
(27:53):
is how you do everything. So start giving yourself written goals.
Start there and watch what it can do, because you
can use it in every area of your life.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I'm going to give one more example just because it
struck me as you were talking last week. I went
on a bear hunt and I went with a friend.
He goes he goes out a lot for every season
he's out there hunting, and I said, well, what I
need to bring is don't worry, I got mostly covered,
you know, bring your camel and your rifle.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So I follow him out there.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well, we start setting up camp and he's got a
wall tent, beautiful wall tenant.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He's got a woodburning stove that goes inside of it. Right,
we had that thing set up in under thirty minutes.
It's almost a house.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You got walls, you got a stove, you got cots,
you got tables, you got you know, all the things
that you would need to have a successful campground.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But the observation that I made was everything.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He had was very organized, and he had it all
in different boxes that came out of his truck. Everything
was clean, cords were wrapped, you know, cinched down with
you know, little ties and stuff like that. And that
is what made us very effective in setting up his camp.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay, and everything was clean.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And by doing that, by being that effective, we spent
less than thirty minutes to set up camp.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
What does that do for us, gives.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Us more time to go out and hunt or enjoy
what we were there for because he was organized. And
then I asked him, he said, well how long? Because
I left early.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He stayed an extra day.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I said, well, how long did it take you to
tear everything down? He goes, Oh, it goes by fast
because everything has a place, you know, and he has
a system you know, to tear down and fold and
put away, and all the tools and the supplies to
facilitate that system. And if you think about that as
it relates to your workday or your personal life, by
(29:50):
having a little bit of discipline to be organized, have
a system, you will buy back, in this case, valuable
time that you can enjoy or make more money or
do that. Is that what you intend to do?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's like, huh, this is a business lesson, but it's
through this camping experience, right, So Derek, thanks for the
great trip, but also the lesson that you gave me
and how to be more organized even in recreation.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
So absolutely I thought I did with that one because
I was like, huh, buying time back is one of
our most important You can't get more time, right, save
time to do what you want to be doing.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You win all day long.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
And that's that's leverage for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That's leverage. Perfect you camp.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I know you've seen people show up to the campground. Hey,
this is me. I'm sitting in my chair drinking a
beer in the campground. I'm watching somebody new pull up
and they're setting up for hours.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, you know, it's like, wow, really.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Took you a long time to get all set up
right here. We were full on house set up in
the middle of nowhere with a heated stove within thirty minutes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So yeah, by time back be organized. I love it
all right.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Well, if you like these lessons, thank you, share the show.
If you want to learn more, feel free to jump
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kinds of soft skilled topics as it relates to business
in life, and hopefully you learn something other than what
you might get at the college.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I guarantee it, Yeah, guarantee.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And you can catch Rod, myself and Rachel at Montana
Camp May twenty first, twenty second, twenty third.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
We're speaking on day two.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
The topics for the for the event are Faith, Family, Fitness,
and Finance.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I'm adding one. I'm gonna throw it out there. What's
that Philanthropy?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Doesn't that start with a P?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It does, but it's a sound Phonetically, it's a it's
the f SE.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So okay, let me give it.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
You know me, I break rules, but I do it
with intention.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I love it. I love it right on. Well, thanks
for tuning in. Appreciate everybody
Welcome to the Answers Yes Podcast, where we interview some
of the most interesting people that have said yes to
opportunities in their life.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We hope that through these stories.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You can learn to treat your own destiny by saying yes.
Along the way, join us as we explored the new series,
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your host, Jim Riley, and I hope you enjoyed these
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
I believe that everyone has an important message worth hearing.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hello and welcome to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate podcast. Jim
Riley here with Rode Coots Heyd.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Good morning, Jim Riley. It's always good to see you
on a Thursday morning.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Feeling more like noon when the sun comes up so
early and goes down so late around here. Not complaining, Yeah,
not at all.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We've still got hours to go, hours to go.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Hey, we were talking about, just for a moment offline,
about the tariffs. Yes, and you know if that's affecting
us here in Montana or wherever you're at. I and
I you just said you haven't seen a slow down
at ups.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's busy over.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
There, right, It's busy. It's it's just like last year,
just like the year before, just like the year before that.
The volume is just as heavy.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I just think there's a lot of rhetoric out there,
you know. Is there tariffs yes, Will we be affected, yes?
But you know what, and I'm gonna this is why
I brought it up. I want to publicly say that
I am willing to invest my time, energy and money
to see.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How they work.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We've been doing it wrong in this country for a
really really long time, you know, and it's time to
shift back to US made goods and services and bring
that stuff back here.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So sorry I can't get something from a foreign country,
I like to say, you know, in the past it
was Japan or but we get stuff from all over
the world that you know, we get it cheaply instead
of it being made here in the US. I like
to see it made.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Here, absolutely and at the very very least it No one,
bar none, should have a problem with reciprocal tariffs, right,
plain and simple. I mean, that's just that's that evens
the playing field. And you know, using tariffs, it's just
like taxes, right you look at your taxes, who who
(02:30):
is benefiting from a tax loophole. Well, who's benefiting from
a tariff loophole? It's not the US.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is this is.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Not hard to understand. But the rhetoric, you're you're right.
The narrative is that because Donald Trump is pushing this,
it's it's not working and it's not going to work.
Although how many other presidents have threatened in the past
and just didn't do anything. It's it's kind of amazing.
This is Uh, it needs to be done. We need
a major economic correction on Well.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's what we're getting right now. But I guess what
I'm asking people to do, like myself, is just be patient,
let these things pan out a little bit and know
your own truth and cut out, you know, the rhetoric noise,
and don't give that attention because look, these things we
have an opportunity to really do something specially so I
don't want to go down that huge rabbit hole because
(03:25):
this isn't a political show. But I do you know,
we talked about being entrepreneurs. Hey, if you have if
you can start a US company right now, you'd probably
cart it. You would start it, Yes, absolutely, make stuff
here with supplies here. You would do very, very well,
and you'd be smart to get going now.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, and source as many of your materials as you
can from here, and obviously that's not always possible, but
you know, source them from countries that are favorable with
our US government, you know, those who are playing fairly
and do a little homework.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, a little American ingenuity will get the job done,
you know.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh, by the way, if you do want to start
a business, we'd love to have you in the Young
Entrepreneur Syndicate. Will help you with your business plan and
your budgets and your marketing, your forecasting, all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So come check out what we have to offer and
be a member right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Absolutely you talk about I was just we mentioned this
before we got online here too, and that is helping
people look at their business analytics. What does that mean
if you're in business and you've not done an assessment,
you know, really looking at your business with a fresh
pair of eyes. Let somebody who's been there, done that,
(04:46):
not just on one but several different businesses, just help
you through it, just to look at your business from
a different perspective and see if you can't make some
little changes or maybe even big changes, whatever's necessary. To
make it too the next level so that you're not worried.
And that's the That's the other thing I want to mention,
it's this whole tariff thing is we don't operate in fear.
(05:08):
If you're an entrepreneur and you're operating in fear, you
will not last in the marketplace.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no way, It'll eat you up.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So stop being fearful.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Stay on the offense. All right. My topic for the day.
You don't like this one.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think we've talked about it before, maybe not in
the show, maybe in the entrepreneur syndicate community calls. The
topic is how you do one thing is how you
do everything?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
One of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You're already smiling before I got it all the way
out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So there's a number of areas of my life right
now that I'm interacting with other people in the professional scope,
and I'm just realizing how lazy people can be, or
how many shortcuts they throw in there, or how they
could just be a little bit better, but yet they
choose not to, or how they literally do one thing
(06:04):
and you can expect that everything else in their life
is that way, right, And I see that sometimes in
coaching is that you know, you start going down this
road to their business and then you realize, Wow, your
life is the same way. Your personal life is the
same way. You treat your car, the same way you
treat your house, the same way.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I always love so you guys know, I'm a big
fan of Andy Forsella. In his podcast Real af Andy
talks about if somebody's there for an interview, that he's
going to interview him, and I don't know how little.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Of this is.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He's like, I go outside and look at their car,
look inside their car. If their car is a mess,
they're probably a mess, you know, Like how much do
they care about themselves and their environment? And if you
can't even take care of your car, you know, how
are you going to take care of my business? And
I think there's some truth to that, you know, granted,
(06:54):
like out where I live, maybe not so much in
your neighborhood ride, but like my truck is usually dusty
on the inside, you know, because I live off of
a dirt road and the ranch and all that stuff.
But my car is relatively clean in terms of junk
and clutter and trash and all those other things. You know,
because that I care, and I try to carry that
(07:17):
into my business. You know, my writing skills, or my
how I run my day or how I present myself.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
All these things fall.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Along the lines of how you do one thing is
how you do everything right.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So do you have some examples of that? I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I mean, I've got a bunch, but I'm just like, yeah,
do I want to share those? They're a little bit
not personal, but they're relevant right now, and I want
to find a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
But do you have some examples?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Gosh, let's start with I've got a ton of examples.
Do you want examples? I'll give you examples. First, I'm
gonna couch this with something I learned I don't know,
but probably from my father, who was a He was
in construction, but he was also a carpenter. So carpenter's
there's a difference, right. You know, you've got builders, but
(08:01):
you've got carpenter's. Carpenters do the finish work, they do
the fine details. And my dad was constantly reprimanding me
for being in a hurry. That the one thing he
always told me to slow down, don't be in such
a hurry. And he didn't say it nicely like that.
He said it with emphasis, and he told me often,
and it's something I still have to pay attention to
(08:25):
because it's part of my I'm always in a rush.
I'm always go, go, go, go go. But with some
things you have to slow down, and especially with detail work,
you have to pay attention to details. But don't just
think that that's the little things, although that's where it starts.
And you mentioned looking at someone's car, and I was
(08:48):
smiling while you were saying that, because as soon as
I get off this call, I'm going out to wash
my wife's car.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, good today for her.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
She's tied up and so that's already on on the list.
But do you make your bed? There's actually a I
think it was an admiral, a Navy admiral, who did
a talk one time and it's you know, make your
bed and look it up online, google it YouTube video.
But great talk. It's a great talk. And he gave
(09:18):
that talk. I don't know if you know this, like
two days after he found out his son was killed
in action, you know, and he still stands up and delivers.
But do you make your bed every day? Do you
put the toilet seat down, if you live in a
household with women. I mean, it's little things, but those
are details. Do you put the cap on the toothpaste.
(09:41):
I've been in people's homes where they leave their cupboard
doors open after they get the spices out or something,
and the cupboard doors are open. It's just like it
looks messy. Do you pick up after yourself? You know,
it's all those things, and it's stuff that we owe
to other people around us to pick up after yourself.
It's nobody's job to be your mom, and we are
(10:02):
all adults. You're not going to call somebody in to
wipe your butt. Right, Let's just be frank. Let's that's
paying attention to detail. And how you do anything is
how you do everything. Do you do Do you do
a crappy job in your own house, in your in
your office, in your life. You're right, It's it's an
indication of how you do the rest, And if you're
(10:23):
not paying attention to the little stuff, you're going to
miss the big stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah you know what, And maybe I'm cutting you off
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But you told a story on our coaching call this
week about a service call you made for your vehicle.
And I think that that is the perfect example of
how you do one thing is how you do everything,
because you know, if you're not doing the job, you're
missing an opportunity. Do you mind telling that story again?
Because I thought it was really good and relevant.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Sure, I needed to do some service work breakwork on
my wife's vehicle, and I there's also a recall and
open recall on the car that's been there for a
couple of years. But it was something innocuous, and I
didn't want to have to drive to this dealership and
schedule time out of my day to go do something
that's not imperative, right, So I get online and I
(11:15):
looked for the phone number for the service department for
that make a vehicle. So I was I was going
directly too. I didn't want to get run through a
phone tree and you know, go to the sales department
and sure, you know, so I called the service department
number that was listed on the website. When I called
that number and told them that I wanted to schedule,
(11:36):
you know, appointment. I wanted to get a quote and
schedule a recall, and they said, oh, well, hold on,
well we'll send you to the service department for that
make and so I was put on hold. I went
to another phone call, and when they picked up, I
went through the same thing. Okay, this is what I
want to do, and they said, oh, well, let me
(11:57):
get you to the service department for that partic killer mail.
And then so now I'm already perturbed, right, I'm trying
to just go straight to the source, and now this
is my Now I'm getting getting routed to the third one.
Well the third one does happen to be the right one,
but it's a voicemail. And I said, we're with somebody
(12:18):
right now. Please leave a detailed message with your name
and number and we will get back to you. And
I left my name, number and a detailed voicemail what
I wanted. That was over a week ago, Jim, and
I've not received a phone call back still still, so
I'm not going to get the recall done. I'll sell
the car with the open recall. I don't care. It's
(12:38):
you know, it's not something that really matters. But they
lost out. By the time they're done with all this,
over one thousand dollars worth of my business. And I've
now bad mouthed them to you know, now that we're
on this podcast up to eighty thousand people, So you know,
it's how you do those little things. Are you paying
attention to and look at your business is from the
(13:00):
customer's point of view, not your point of view. And
I know what they're doing because that first call got
routed to a customer retention phone line. I realized afterward.
I'm looking at how they I know how they do
business there, and it went to a customer retention because
they're trying to ascertain if they can turn this phone
call into a sale something. Oh, so that's where the
(13:24):
routing happened. But if you're not looking at your business
from the customer's perspective, you're missing out because they lost
business on that one, and they're probably going to lose
more customers or more service calls. That's more revenue. Right
from that, I'm getting the work. The other work, the
break job done from someone else. And by the way,
(13:45):
I actually had one of our mechanics, a race car
owner driver operator from the Young Entrepreneur syndicate. He said,
next time, he said, I will fly out there and
do your brakes for you for what you paid for it.
And he lives on the other. He lives on the
East coast, So you know, that just goes to tell you.
(14:06):
You know, if you've got the right guy and they
know what they're doing, you know you don't have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Speaking of phone calls, I'm curious, mainly because maybe I'm
just out of touch.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So I had a neighbor asked for a referral for.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Somebody in the service industry, okay, And I knew I
know two people in the industry, and I thought, I'll
just give them both names.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
And it's been a little while.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Since I spoke to either one of them about the
business that they're in. I reached out to one, I said, Hey,
are you still in this business?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I said, okay, well I want to give you a
referral to my neighbor. Great, thank you so much, boom
the second person. At the same time, I also said, hey,
are you still in this business? That was yesterday at
I don't know, eleven am, okay. I didn't hear back
from that person until this morning at six am, and
it said, yes, I'm still in the business. Is that
(15:00):
an appropriate amount of time for a text response for
a simple question like that, or is that I don't
know not being in tune with their business and opportunity.
What are your thoughts because I was kind of annoyed,
like if it's taking you this long to get back
to me just on a simple hey are you still
in this business?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Like how are you in business? I don't know what
are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Well, it depends on what kind of service business it is. First,
I'll give people grace on some things. There are times
and speaking from my own personal experience, and my situation
is different because I'm like semi retired and there are
times I don't have my phone on me for extended
periods of time. It could be six hours.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Well, let me just say this. This person is young,
trying to relaunch this business. I knew this six months ago.
Young trying to relaunch this business, needs to make money
and is focused on, you know, doing this business.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Last time I talked to.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Them, then then it's an inappropriate amount of time. Yes,
So yeah, I'm one of those If if you're not
like this, this is something I learned a long time ago.
Touch something once, that's it. If it crosses your desk,
don't put it in it to do pile if you
(16:23):
pulled it off and you're looking at it, deal with it.
If it requires a phone call and email, whatever, you
deal with it at that time. And the same is
if you pull your phone out and you look at
a text and you read it, respond to it and
be done and move on. You know, don't read all
your texts and say, well, I'll get back to it.
(16:44):
You're going to forget it, or you're going to have
a delay, yeah, like you you had in this case.
So it would be interesting if you went back and
looked at that and see when he opened that text,
when he looked at yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, And I would love to hear from you know,
you know, I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'd love to hear from listeners opinion on this because
I mean, look to your point, we're we are on our.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Phones all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Especially I'll give you some grace because you are in
that retired mode and I understand a lot about your lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But when you're in the middle of the grind growing
your business in the workforce, I know that you're on
your phone. I'm on my phone all the time. I
know that I look at texts all the time. I
do know that, Rod. Sometimes I'll look at them and
go I'll get it back to them later, and I
forget and I don't, and then I'm embarrassed. Right, But
something like that, if an opportunity comes across your desk
(17:35):
and you're trying to grow your business, a simple yes,
you know, are you still in the business? Yes, I
mean boom, okay, because what my concern is, and this is,
you know, just again goes along with how you do
one thing, is how you do everything. If it took
that long for that person just to say yes too,
I'm still in the business. What happens to my referral?
(17:57):
Right if I give the referral and then this potential
client calls them and they don't hear back from them
for a day or two, Because I'm guessing that question
be a little bit more complex, right, can you do this, this,
and this for me based on your services? I mean,
now I've given a referral to somebody that you know
is either lazy or isn't very communicative, you know, and
(18:17):
the list is probably long in terms of the symptoms
of you know, so you could lose a lot of
business that way.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, that's that's one of those checkups you should be doing.
Absolutely and yeah, there's no excuse for it. Honestly, it's
it's probably bad habits. That's probably really what it is.
It's just a bad habit, and that means you need
to retrain yourself on Okay, and just like I said,
touch it. Once you read it, respond, read it. Respond,
(18:48):
you know, even if it's a long thing, then respond short.
You know, yes, I am, I'll get back to you.
You know, I'm in the middle of a job right now.
I'll call you when I have a chance to get
their information, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know, respond yeah, Well, I will say this just
as a lesson to those listening.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm not going to refer that person.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I felt like it was a much longer delay than necessary,
and I don't want to be embarrassed by referring somebody
that is slow to respond in this day and age
of technology and in a normal course of the business day.
If it was like, I don't know, eight o'clock at
night and then they didn't respond till today business hours,
I've been like, okay, but in the middle of a
(19:29):
business day, you know, and you're in the business being business.
So yeah, it's just another one of those examples how
you do one thing is how you do everything.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm in my office ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I was just gonna say, even if if you read
that text and you were busy on a job or something,
then clear those things off by the end of that day.
Don't carry it into the next day. You know, you
said you got to response the next day, right the
next morning, So at least if you are busy with something,
get back to it by the end of that day. Yeah,
(20:01):
I mean that, make that the rule, inn you know,
and even put put the disclaimer on the text. Yeah,
I was busy all day, wanted to get back to you. Yes,
I'm still in business. Yeah, give give some rationale for
the delay.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was going to say, is I'm cleaning my office
today because well you can't see it behind me, but
it's messy back there, and you know that being organized right,
understanding where my documents are at, what I have to
do the next day, what's important for the next week.
You know, that's part of cleaning the office and knowing
where things are at. And so that's maybe that's a
(20:41):
little over the top for some, but for me, that's
part of my process because I want to be good
at all things. Do you have any little quirky habits, right,
that keep you in practice of doing one thing that
leads into the next. For the success you have had
in business.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Other than what I've mentioned already, just quirky little habits. Yeah,
the quirky little habit of you know, touching things once
makes a difference and dealing with clutter. I will say
that because if you looked at my desk, I do
have two different piles on my desk. I have a
(21:21):
working pile and I have an idea pile, right, And
I get to the point where I'll clean those off
like you do, right, and I'll put them in folders
because I'll jot ideas down. Even if I'm having a
conversation with you and it's like, oh, you need to
watch this video or something like that, I put that
on a note, and that note goes somewhere so that
I will get to it, right, And so I have
(21:44):
a pile like that that's a get to down the road.
It's not the important stuff, but the other thing. And
this is a problem I have is I don't like
to throw things away. I've on too many occasions thrown
things away that I've wanted to go back to you know,
a year later and I thought, oh I had this,
(22:06):
So now I make long term folders, you know, the
idea folders, that sort of thing, or just interesting items,
you know, have some folders for it. But I have
thrown too many good ideas away, or the way somebody
has said something that really resonated and it's like, oh
I wrote that down. Oh yeah, I threw that notebook
(22:27):
out right, that sort of thing. So if you're a keeper,
you know, a collector, I don't want to call it hoarding.
You know, there is a difference. You know, one's organized
and with a purpose and intent, and the other is
just you. You can't don't know what to do with it,
and your life's a mess.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah. So yeah, same.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Thing even with you if you've got a messy car,
you know, and you want to keep that stuff in there.
What's in your glove box, you know, the jockey box.
No one has gloves in there anymore, but what's in there?
You know, if there's stuff there, they make all kinds
of great behind the seat organizers and stuff like that.
Get organized, you know, be professional, get organized in both
your personal life and your business life. And my children,
(23:10):
my family knows that I like gadgets, and I like
organizational things. So I get lots of things like that
gifted to me that make my life easier, you know,
and try new things. Well, let's looking for look for solutions.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Let's wrap this conversation up with suggestions on creating habits
that will help you do one thing that will lead
into the next. So and started thinking about this as
you talked about being organized and having systems in place,
you know a lot of times creating little habits like
(23:49):
for example, and this might seem silly to some you're
walking through a parking lot, or you're walking, you know,
down the road for exercise, and you pick up trash
along the way. Right a, you're helping the environment because
somebody was lazy and through their trash out the door. Right,
But you're you're showing others that you care, and you're
(24:11):
creating a habit of paying attention to the smaller things,
are the non selfish things. Right, You're picking up trash
that somebody else left, and you're in tune to the
impact of that.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
So, all of a sudden, you start developing these habits
and patterns to think beyond. And I love habit forming
ideas or activities that grow into business and in your
personal life, right, And so that you know, that's one
example of many, many things that are habit forming that
(24:46):
develop into something else, just like the seventy five hard program,
you know, drinking a gallon of water every day, reading,
you know, ten pages of a good book every day.
I have been reading consistently the last six years since
I did my first seventy four five hard run that
got me in the habit of reading again. I forgot
how much I loved it, right, and that habit has
(25:09):
grown my knowledge not only in personal but in business right.
And it's also taught me, you know, how I do
one thing, and which is the discipline of reading, is
how I'm going to do other things. And so what
I want to recommend is find things that will generate
habit forming activities that are positive in the direction that
you want to go.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Absolutely, it's a great idea, and I like your thing
on reading too. It reminds me of the ten thousand
hour What does it take to become a professional in
any profession? Ten thousand hours?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, And if you're.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Reading and reading and reading and reading, think what you
could have multiple professions in a matter of three, four, five,
six years. Right, So here's here's a tip for everyone
out there. Simple, if you're not already doing it, make
make grocery lists, and not just grocery lists, but shopping lists.
And I'll do a quick example of something I had.
(26:02):
I've been a home Depot card holder for fifteen, twenty, twenty, thirty,
twenty five years, something like that, and I don't use
credit cards other than for convenience. And they, you know,
Home Depot has these things where they do if you
buy a big item, you get twenty four months with
no interest, right, so you can leverage other people's money.
(26:26):
So I like those sorts of things and credit cards
for getting sky miles. And I've got another credit card
that pays me cash back, so I'll put things on
there and then pay the bill right away, just like
you know, an American Express pay it off. But I had,
I had this special from home Depot that was you
get fifteen percent off of everything up to a certain amount,
(26:48):
and I have I had a lot of spring projects
coming up, right, lots of projects, you know, and like
staying for the fence, and I mean just the list
was getting lengthy. So I made a list and I
started going through it. What are all the projects I
need to get done for the summer, all these things.
I made this big list and then I went to
(27:10):
the home Depot to do my shopping and I got
all of it in one And to get the discount,
you had to use the card. And I just paid
the bill yesterday, you know, because the bill came due.
I just paid it off in cash, which is not
what they like, of course, but I got this great discount,
you know, on six seven hundred dollars worth of just stuff.
I'm going to need to take care of my lawn.
(27:32):
But if you're organized and thinking ahead, just making lists
will save you money. Making a list and go to
the store and sticking to the list will save you money.
And it's a detail. But how you do that, that's
if you start making lists and say, Okay, my goals
for the day are this, and you're going to check
that list off. Man. That's again, how you do anything
(27:53):
is how you do everything. So start giving yourself written goals.
Start there and watch what it can do, because you
can use it in every area of your life.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I'm going to give one more example just because it
struck me as you were talking last week. I went
on a bear hunt and I went with a friend.
He goes he goes out a lot for every season
he's out there hunting, and I said, well, what I
need to bring is don't worry, I got mostly covered,
you know, bring your camel and your rifle.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So I follow him out there.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well, we start setting up camp and he's got a
wall tent, beautiful wall tenant.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He's got a woodburning stove that goes inside of it. Right,
we had that thing set up in under thirty minutes.
It's almost a house.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You got walls, you got a stove, you got cots,
you got tables, you got you know, all the things
that you would need to have a successful campground.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But the observation that I made was everything.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
He had was very organized, and he had it all
in different boxes that came out of his truck. Everything
was clean, cords were wrapped, you know, cinched down with
you know, little ties and stuff like that. And that
is what made us very effective in setting up his camp.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay, and everything was clean.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And by doing that, by being that effective, we spent
less than thirty minutes to set up camp.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
What does that do for us, gives.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Us more time to go out and hunt or enjoy
what we were there for because he was organized. And
then I asked him, he said, well how long? Because
I left early.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
He stayed an extra day.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
I said, well, how long did it take you to
tear everything down? He goes, Oh, it goes by fast
because everything has a place, you know, and he has
a system you know, to tear down and fold and
put away, and all the tools and the supplies to
facilitate that system. And if you think about that as
it relates to your workday or your personal life, by
(29:50):
having a little bit of discipline to be organized, have
a system, you will buy back, in this case, valuable
time that you can enjoy or make more money or
do that. Is that what you intend to do?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's like, huh, this is a business lesson, but it's
through this camping experience, right, So Derek, thanks for the
great trip, but also the lesson that you gave me
and how to be more organized even in recreation.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
So absolutely I thought I did with that one because
I was like, huh, buying time back is one of
our most important You can't get more time, right, save
time to do what you want to be doing.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
You win all day long.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
And that's that's leverage for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That's leverage. Perfect you camp.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I know you've seen people show up to the campground. Hey,
this is me. I'm sitting in my chair drinking a
beer in the campground. I'm watching somebody new pull up
and they're setting up for hours.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, you know, it's like, wow, really.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Took you a long time to get all set up
right here. We were full on house set up in
the middle of nowhere with a heated stove within thirty minutes,
you know.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
So yeah, by time back be organized. I love it
all right.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Well, if you like these lessons, thank you, share the show.
If you want to learn more, feel free to jump
on to the Young Entrepreneur Syndicate dot com website. Love
to have you in our community. We go through all
kinds of soft skilled topics as it relates to business
in life, and hopefully you learn something other than what
you might get at the college.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I guarantee it, Yeah, guarantee.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And you can catch Rod, myself and Rachel at Montana
Camp May twenty first, twenty second, twenty third.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
We're speaking on day two.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
The topics for the for the event are Faith, Family, Fitness,
and Finance.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I'm adding one. I'm gonna throw it out there. What's
that Philanthropy?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Doesn't that start with a P?
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It does, but it's a sound Phonetically, it's a it's
the f SE.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
So okay, let me give it.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
You know me, I break rules, but I do it
with intention.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I love it. I love it right on. Well, thanks
for tuning in. Appreciate everybody
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