2019 Planning During Down-Time (LA 881)

Transcript:

Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hello.

Steven Butala:                   Welcome to The Land Academy Show. Entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, podcasting from gorgeous southern California.

Steven Butala:                   Today, Jill and I talk about 2019 planning during this holiday season downturn. This is one of my favorite times of the year when it comes to business.

Jill DeWit:                            Is it?

Steven Butala:                   I love the planning part.

Jill DeWit:                            Yes, you do.

Steven Butala:                   I love to take a look at what happened the year before and translating to what's gonna happen next year, you know, adding an uptick and all lines of business. Maybe removing some lines of business that just didn't work out, which always happens. Every single year, that happens. And then a big challenge for me is not to have too many startups the next year.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Steven Butala:                   Which, I'm getting, with age, a little bit better at. I think. I don't know. I'll have to ask our staff. At least, most of them revolve around real estate and Land Academy and House Academy now. They're not some wild offshoot about buying oil wells or something.

Jill DeWit:                            Right.

Steven Butala:                   What do you do during this time? Just totally blow the whole thing off and have fun?

Jill DeWit:                            I wish. That'd be great. No, 'cause as you put these things in place, then I follow. I'm here doing my part. You know? I mean ... we have different tasks in our companies. And as you lead, and you come up with these new companies and some companies, and there's pieces of it that fall on me. So I'm just kind of standing by waiting to see what's coming. I guess that's it.

Steven Butala:                   We're in a situation now where it's just like,