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If you are like me, then every day you wake up and think what do I have to get done today?
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And when you lay your head down at night, you think about what you got done today.
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And if you're like me, if at the end of the day you're feeling you didn't get enough shit done, you don't sleep very well and before you know it you're done counting sheep and you're waking up short on sleep and you're asking yourself all over again what do I have to get done today?
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Well, today, on Share the Struggle Podcast, we are going to tackle g, s, d getting shit done.
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Let me tell you something everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.
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You have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations.
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be back on time.
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We can fight the world.
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We can fight the beat.
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What it do, what it hot diggity do.
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Good Lord, am I so excited to be back with you.
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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.
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I missed you, boo.
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Yeah, I missed you, boo.
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Thank you to each and every one of you, you boo-boos out there that have been continuing to tune in, to dial in, to listen in to the Share the Struggle podcast proudly brought to you by the fine folks over at Aloud Proud American, aka myself, my wife, my mother, my baby, yeah, that's pretty much all the company officials, although there is many part-time employees out there.
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Okay, shout out to all the part-time Aloud Proud American employees out there Appreciate you, appreciate you, love you.
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Thank you so much.
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We are reciprocating appreciation this morning.
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That's what we're doing.
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I'm appreciating you and you're appreciating me by tuning back in.
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You've been tuning in so long.
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Matter of fact, we have arrived at episode 239, and today I'm going to go another full frontal confessional.
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I'm going to lay it all on the line in 239.
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The name of this podcast is Share the Struggle, because everybody struggles, and today I'm going to share with you my current struggle, one that absolutely certainly has me backed in a corner, up against the ropes that most men would probably give in call it quits, pack up their bags and begin something else.
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But maybe I'm just dumb enough to get a shovel and to keep on digging.
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That's part of the problem here, folks.
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A little thing that I deal with called GSD getting shit done.
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I tend to just work and work for something and I often don't see the freight train on the other side of the tunnel with its lights shining oh so bright, laying on that horn, looking to come at me.
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Tonight I often shun those things and say let me tackle what's right here in front of me.
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But we're going to get there today, folks.
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That's where we're headed.
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That's the meat and barreras portion of the show today gsd getting shit done.
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But before we get into the main subject, I must let y'all know I personally feel like crap.
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, I feel like an old dog, an old sick dog out on the porch just soaking up sun, too sick to have a biscuit.
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You know what I mean, god.
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I feel like crap.
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My nose is all stuffy, my head is congested, my throat's all scratchy.
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I feel sore, beat down, run down, tired, pushed around.
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A lot of things adding up, I think the stress of the business and the subject that we're going to get into today, that's a big portion of it.
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Also where I'm from here in the great state of Maine.
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I'm a maniac up here and I'm living on the Northeast.
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We have dodged winter for quite some time.
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Well, it's arrived.
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It's arrived so much so that it seems to be every other day or so.
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I'm out on the tractor starting my day plowing snow, and we have a pretty good sized driveway, parking lot, road to the horse field, all these things, and I got a tractor with a four-foot bucket and I do it all one bucket at a time.
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But I will tell you this Not too long ago, just a short couple of years ago, I used to shovel my entire house by hand.
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That's right, if you're a day one and you've been listening for the whole time, you know I'm a little funky, I'm a little silly and to get by we had blown up a couple of plow trucks, blew up a tractor.
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Didn't have any options, except this guy right here, his old back.
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Ok, are we seeing a trend here?
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Gsd get shit done.
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I used to wake up and go shit.
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We got a lot of snow.
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Well, let me.
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Grab a snow scoop which, for those of you that don't live in the East, it's almost like a toboggan type sled scenario, with a big handle on it and you just scoop up snow.
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You can walk behind it and push snow, but when you have the wet heavy stuff it just fills up.
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So you go two feet, pick it up, dump it.
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Two feet, pick it up, dump it.
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Two feet, pick it up, dump it.
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My driveway is over 300 feet, so you do the math on that.
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Okay, when you get the light, fluffy stuff, you can just get behind it and just push your sweet little ass on the way through it, and it's not too bad.
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Then you got to shovel out the you know random areas, but when you get the wet stuff, that used to be a real pain in the ass.
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So for two winters I shoveled by hand.
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I cleaned our driveway, our walkways, all our land by hand, and then, thankfully, a couple of years ago, I just buckled up and took the plunge into buying a tractor, and maybe I couldn't afford it.
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Maybe that's on tap today, but it needed to be done.
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So to get back to my sickness over the past I don't know man week, two weeks, I don't know what it is.
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It's all a blur right now.
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Blame it on the tussing, okay, blame it on the cold meds we be on, but every it feels like other day or so.
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I am outside, starting my day off with three or four hours on the tractor moving snow.
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It's roughly two and a half to four hours, depending on the storm that I'm out there cleaning snow Usually in the snow, the cold, the wind, the rain, the wet, the whatever.
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Okay, y'all experienced weather before and if you haven't, you probably own a TV.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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So I've gone out there and got all wet and soggy, all wet and soggy and cold and hanging out in the wind.
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And then you go out in the community and you just mingle with other sick folks and this is where you end up at.
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Boys and girls.
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This is what happens.
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You get sick and for the past few days I feel like snot.
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Actually, one of my days of being sick I was outside on the tractor for three hours and spoiler alert, spoiler I didn't have to be on the tractor today and, by all accounts, I won't have to be on the tractor tomorrow, but the very next day I shall be on the tractor.
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According to the forecast here, I'm recording on a tuesday you're gonna hear me on a wednesday but on thursday we got a storm coming, and then on saturday into sunday we get another storm coming.
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So, as I've been telling you every other day or so, you'll find my jolly ass on the seat of a tractor out there moving snow, which is a hell of a lot better than doing it by hand.
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But what I'm here to tell you is, I think the results of this little forecast situation here has provided me with the sickness I am feeling.
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Blessed that it's not COVID or anything like that.
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It's a cold, it's a common cold scenario, but it's adding up.
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I pulled my back the beginning of the week doing barn chores.
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Then you spend all the time on the tractor and then you sprinkle in being sick and you factor in taking care of your five-month-olds and trying to run your business and to take time to be with you.
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Beautiful people here today recording a podcast.
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All that adds up and it all adds up to me to say, lord, I've been tired.
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Okay, I've been tired, actually so tired.
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I was up at 4 am this morning because we're going to get into it.
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Sometimes you don't get enough stuff off that to-do list.
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And doesn't it feel like when you're sick or when other things come up, like, hey, here's what I've got to do today, right, I have to get all this stuff done off my list.
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And you open the little curtains and you peek your little eyes outside and say, shit, I gotta go up there and plow the driveway so the wife can go to work.
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And then all those things on your list get pushed back and that's where we're headed today.
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But I wanted to read this cautionary tale to you before we start the episode to say to you I do not know at what point in time in today's show that cold medicine is going to become unbearable and it's going to put this old grizzly down.
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If I start slurring, if I start snoring, I'm going to pull the plug, all right.
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So I can't promise you a big long episode today.
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What I can guarantee you is I'm ready to bring to you another beautiful, bring to you another beautiful, fabulous, fantastic, just superb, beautiful, special, beautiful little thing here, okay, of a podcast.
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Our consecutive streak will continue 239 beautiful weeks on tap for you.
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Today we just might be sponsored by some old cold meds that I found in the medicine cabinet, you know, when they're old enough to not find an expiration date, when you got nasal spray from 2021, that'll get it done.
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But, truth be told, I can't promise you a long show today.
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But it don't matter, because we're going to cover what's important today.
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Get set Back on time.
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We can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we can fly, we.
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And we're back.
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That's my radio voice right there, if I was on the radio.
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But I'm not on the radio, but technically I am because I'm on your radio, right?
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So I mean, that makes sense.
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Fun fact for you I applied to be on the radio and I didn't even get an interview.
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No, seriously, I actually had a connection to a local country station.
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I put together a beautiful sales pitch I might say so myself outlining the things that I could bring to the station, forwarded that stuff over when they were looking to hire for a morning host and nothing, dude.
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I didn't even get a call back or an interview.
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I actually knew two people.
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The one person that I sent the application to, I mean they responded but I had met them, we'd done mutual business together, and then another person who was actually one of the fellow morning hosts business together, and then another person who was actually one of the fellow morning hosts.
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I had like a pseudo like business relationship where we've crossed paths and help you know things out, whatever.
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I don't remember the whole scenario, but when I was with the dealership we had crossed paths and stuff like that and I was looking to maybe give up selling motorcycles and to take a job on the radio.
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I thought it was a good fit for me and I guess, judging by the podcast, I feel like it's probably been a pretty good fit.
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And if you've been listening on as long as you have, then I guess maybe you'd vouch for me.
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But if you think about it, in my side gig over here, I'm a DJ and I've been podcasting for 239 consecutive weeks.
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I'm a DJ and I've been podcasting for 239 consecutive weeks and I don't think they pay a lot to be a local radio DJ around here morning show, whatever you know, and we have miserable, awful morning shows around here.
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They're crap.
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I actually, if I want to listen to a morning show, I actually use the Odyssey app and I listen to a Texas radio station every single day, so I don't know where the hell that came from.
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Oh, I use my radio voice to start the show.
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That's where that came from.
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I apologize for that little mission.
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We just went off on there, but I do find life funny when you put those things on the table and you think about it.
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I was a sales consultant.
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I was willing to give up my job at the Harley-Davidson dealership to start a career in the radio business when they didn't give me the opportunity of an interview.
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And then, when you fast forward a little bit down the road, I ended up becoming a sales manager, a general manager, marketing manager, events manager, general manager, partner.
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So had I gotten the opportunity to be a disc jockey, radio host, whatever you call them, I would have missed out on all those things, and if I would have taken that opportunity, I might not have ever met my wife, because I met my wife at the dealership.
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So it's crazy how life works out right, and I think that's one of the things that we have to keep in mind, even when we get into our subject today that, no matter what the difficulty level is that we face each day, we've got to remind ourselves that there is a plan.
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Okay, there is a plan and the path that you're on you're on for a reason and that this too shall pass and this will always work out right.
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When you sprinkle time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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And I also am willing to admit, when the difficulty level ramps up, I often feel on the other side of that difficulty is a breakthrough.
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On the other side of that great struggle is amazing triumph.
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So I use that philosophy in pushing through whatever it is that I have to get done today.
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Right, that's the way I look at things.
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Now, if I connect the opening of today's show, the little story we went on about me being on a tractor and getting sick and where we're heading right now, I'm going to put a nice little bow, a fancy little bow on them and I'm going to connect all those right now Because, while being outside preparing to be sick, moving snow around in the tractor, I take advantage of those times by putting good stuff in my ears.
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Now the tractor speakers used to play music.
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Like I have speakers on the tractor, tractor and they work.
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It's great.
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Maybe it's cause it's been so cold up, but they, they sound like shit right now.
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So I keep headphones in and I try to dial into, uh, something motivational, something productive.
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If I'm on the tractor and I have a whole list of things that I should be doing that I can't do, I'm doing, you know, what I have to do.
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I try to at least feel a little more productive by putting something positive in in my dome.
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I try to um, set the day right, motivate myself, because one thing that happens is we all have a tendency to procrastinate and we all have a tendency to just give in to our devices right and our vices.
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And it's real easy to like be on the tractor and then come inside all cold and wet and then change into something warm, maybe get a coffee, sit on the couch and the next thing you know you're drifting off into some show or you're doing whatever, anything beyond working right.
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It's easy to do that.
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So to combat that, I try to put something positive in my ear pods, something like this show okay, I've been known to listen to our shows.
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I've been known to dial them back.
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I've done some plowing in the past couple of weeks and listened to our shows.
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I want to make sure that the message rings through that we're getting things out there that I want to put out there.
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I take pride in what we're doing.
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Y'all I check up on my work, so I encourage you guys to do the same thing.
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If you're out there moving snow, put those positive things in, because you're a hell of a lot less likely to take a break from what your day has to do.
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What you have to get done today when you get off that tractor or you get done with that mundane task you had to do when you've been filling your mind with positivity and knowledge during that time, you're so much more likely to continue that positive production without the rest of your day.
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Right, you just carry it throughout the day and you get things done.
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I find if I'm putting the wrong things in, if I'm just zoned out, listening to like sports talk or whatever, I'm more likely to get off the tractor, procrastinate and not do what I need to do.
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So to combat those things, I put that positive mojo in All right.
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So in doing so, with all the recent snow storms you've had, I've been crushing a new book and really enjoying the book.
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But it's nice to know if I'm going to spend, you know, two to four hours on the tractor moving snow.
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I can crush a good amount of this book and it's making me think.
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Right, I'm doing the routine things but I'm really spiking up conversation and because of that habit, because of that book, we have fueled an entire episode today.
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Two things, number one, I will say the tough thing about being on a tractor or a treadmill or whatever it might be that you're doing and you're listening to a book, is it can become tough to take notes when I'm listening to audible books.
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I like to take notes, go back and re-listen Some of these audible books that you listen to.
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They have little packets you can work through.
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This one, I don't think, had one of those packets.
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So I was like you know what, I'm going to tackle this and if there's something, I'll kind of go back to it.
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I've been known to look at the clock on the book itself and screenshot it.
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So if I need to go back to find that, if I'm at the gym, I keep my note section open and, like in between sets, I would put the information into my notepad, which who am I kidding, I haven't been to the gym since his baby showed up, even before that, so but I'm just giving pro tips to everybody.
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Okay, pro tips Number two I'm sure people are wondering well, what's the damn book you're listening to?
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And it's actually named Buy Back your Time by a fellow named Dan Martell.
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So far, it's really good.
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It's actually above my pay grade in life as far as like where I am right now, and it's about entrepreneurs and different levels of entrepreneurship and how you can become overcome by your business and how to buy back your time.
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And I certainly feel right now that I'm struggling with time.
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I don't have enough time.
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If you guys have been listening, you know the schedule.
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There's twice a week where it's just me and baby and that's great and I love that time and I love that opportunity.
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I love that opportunity and I wouldn't trade that.
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But I need to account for that in my schedule and how I get things done.
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And I'm struggling with that because at the end of the day, when, um, I have beautiful little Paisley rain, I'm kind of worn out by the end of it.
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So, like I'm recording on a on a Tuesday, today I actually got up at 4 am and then I brought my mom, I went to the office, did some work.
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I brought my mom to work.
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I came home, did a little more work, then I spent time with Paisley, go get my mom from work, come home and now I'm recording a podcast.
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I should be going to my office when this is done tonight and working on some stuff, but I'm usually pretty damn drained by the time I turn the microphone off and I go outside and do barn chores.
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So it tends to wear me out and I don't feel as productive when that's the end result.
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So, based off of that struggle and a lot of other struggles that are going on business-wise that we're going to get into, I start looking for things like little glimmers of hope, little fun-filled packs of motivation.
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So when I'm struggling with something or I'm eager to learn something or to better myself in a certain area, I seek out books on those topics, I seek out speeches on those areas and I listen to them and I try to absorb myself in those and I look for little nuggets to help me overcome just what it is I'm going through, aka growing through.
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So I didn't realize I was doing this, I didn't realize I was operating under this GSD philosophy get shit done and in this book, buy Back your Time Dan brings up.
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Entrepreneurs tend to be wired to just get shit done.
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One of the great concepts in his book is as your business grows.
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His whole mantra is you don't need to hire somebody to help grow your business.
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You need to hire somebody to help buy back your time, and I love that concept.
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And the root behind that concept is that there's so many things that you do with your business that you're great at and there's so many tasks in your business that are overtaking your time that you might not be great at or you might not like doing at all, and they're actually counterproductive because really you could be paying somebody to do those things and you're wasting more time and money by doing them yourself.
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If somebody would do those things for $15 an hour and your time is worth $50 an hour and you're spending your $50 an hour working on $15 an hour tasks, then it's counterproductive.
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So don't hire somebody to grow your business.
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Hire somebody to help buy back your time, because when you hire somebody, that creates the time for you, that creates opportunity for you opportunity for you to be with your family, but also opportunity for you to focus on the things in your business that you're great at and then you can excel in and then, in result, your business grows and grows and grows.
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So the whole philosophy of looking at hiring not to grow your business but to buy back your time results in growing your business and rewarding you with more time.
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I love the concept.
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Here's the thing I can't hire nobody, okay, I can't pay myself and in fact, where we're headed today is the business hasn't been paying me in quite some time and that's a problem that has revealed itself over the past couple of months.
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We've had a snag in business towards the end of the year, y'all know we had to take and lighten our schedule up as Paisley rain was arriving.
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And then you know, just holidays, what happens in our business is, after the holidays, people have spent their budget, people have spent their money on gifts, on dinners, on family times, experiences and the whole scenario right.
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And then, if you're in the Northeast, you're spending money on heating oil and all those things.
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So people are tapped out.
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Their money, their disposable income, has been used up.
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They're not necessarily thinking of hey, that's a beautiful, lovely, soft, fantastic feeling, proudly made in USA t-shirt that I need to have.
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People don't have the disposable income right now in my area to just say, hey, I'm going to buy myself, I'm going to treat myself today on some beautiful made in America merchandise.
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I mean, I wish they would all say that.
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But I understand, you're dealing with the holidays, you're dealing with heating oil, you're dealing with the cost of the grocery store, inflation, all those things.
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So it results in me being a little slow.
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The way to counteract this is I have made the decision to head south.
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I have put it on the line that I'm going to go to Florida and we're going to double down and triple down on the business.
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Remember our guiding words this year we're going to be courageous.
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We're going to double down and triple down on the business.
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Remember our guiding words this year we're going to be courageous, we're going to act with courage and we're going to need to sacrifice.
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I need to sacrifice time away from my family and my baby.
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And I got to go south and make this happen, because down south they're not looking at things the same way we are right now.
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They're not dealing with some of the same struggles.
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So everybody's struggling when it comes to inflation.
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Don't get me wrong, but you understand what I'm saying.
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I'm going to bike week.
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These people are on vacation.
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They're spending money.
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Vacation money don't count.
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Okay, that's how this works.
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Now, in heading towards this goal, I have realized it is a major struggle because things aren't coming in at the rate in which they were coming in.
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So we've had a stall, we've had a stop, we've run against a wall here where there's not enough money coming in to.
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Number one sustain the business.
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Number two pay the bills that needs to be paid for the business and for my personal life.
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And number three provide the additional income for me to head south my personal life.
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And number three provide the additional income for me to head south.
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We have run into a brick wall.
