Jobs are available like never before and yet people are still not going back to work.

Thoughts on starting your own business and a few books to checkout if you're looking to go that direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe7CB1mD8aQ

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Should I own a business?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is a question I get often is, should I own a business?

Maybe it's other people asking me. And yeah, I think it's a question on a lot of people's minds right now.

A lot of people, you know, due to the fact that there's a lot of options out there for employment.

But have you wondered why so many people were at home?

Well, yeah, we've talked about it before, obviously, the fact that unemployment has been extended, and a whole lot of other benefits have been raised, that would allow a person to stay home more comfortably than ever before. I mean, that absolutely helps.

But there's also, I've found in talking to the people that have not gone out and gotten a job, that there's a huge dissatisfied faction with working in general, as an employee.

And if you're a business owner, like me, you know what that's like because it's a reason why you're a business owner, in many cases, is that you just like that better than having a job. And pretty simple to see that.

So if you're in that situation, or if you know somebody that's in that situation, then you might want to pass this video on to them. Because it's a good thing to start this conversation is whether business ownership is right for you because it's not right for everybody, right?

It's not for everybody.

So let's talk about this, let's break it down a little bit.

First off, you got to ask yourself, What are you hoping to accomplish with business ownership, that you can't get with a job?

Because currently, right now, I'm recording this in September of 2021, the job market is wide open, you can get a whole lot that you couldn't get before, and get paid a whole lot more than you couldn't get paid before. In many cases across the board, there are jobs available of all types.

So what are you looking for, you're looking for something probably a little different, you're looking to possibly be your own boss, make your own hours, do anything like that. And there are some misnomers to that.

But if that's the case, if you're looking to make your own hours and do your own thing, and possibly you have an idea that you want to get out there, and you see business ownership as the way of doing it.

That's great, that those are all good starts. But there's a whole bunch of drawbacks to all that that you have to know about right off the bat.

And so I'd highly recommend that before you jump, fully, absolutely engaged into business ownership, get at least a part-time job to pay the bills to help get keep your head above water, especially if you have any form of debt whatsoever, you want to keep paying that down and just keep moving forward even if you have enough.

Currently, having something that kind of takes up most of your time is useful in actuality. And having a little bit of time on the side, in order to begin building a business is going to be great. And I highly encourage you to go into business. If you think that's a good thing.

Couple of things you may want to try out first, try out part-time businesses,

Thoughts on inflation and addressing the concern of raising prices on your products and services in these times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FBQf4MV9Zo

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Inflation and your prices.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today I want to talk about your business. And a common question that I've been getting lately is, Should I raise my prices, especially with inflation going through the roof?

So what's inflation?

Okay, so first off, let's just all get on the same page, when we're talking inflation, when we're talking about is that the value of the dollar is being depressed, and which makes everything go up in price.

So everything all at once is going up in price. So most things are going up higher, you're just paying more for a whole lot. And there's a whole lot of reasons about what goes into that I'm not gonna get into the economics, or all the arguments about what causes it, but it is happening, we are paying more for everything.

So should you feel guilty about raising your prices, because aren't you going along with the process, if that's the case if you can go along without raising prices, and it doesn't make a big deal to your bottom line?

Fine, go for it, that is not an argument. But if you're feeling the crunch, really bad, and it's going to come down to laying people off or doing a whole lot of other things that you just don't want to do that maybe even cutting back on the quality of your product or service.

That's not a negotiation. For me, it is things are prices are going up, prices are going up, you can't take responsibility for the fact that prices are going up.

In the end, it comes out to be a very simple conversation. And this is one of the things that as I started parsing this out, in my mind, I'm like, you know, this really comes out to the most basic concepts.

But it's one of those things that we don't talk about, especially in America, if you're in America, these types of things we usually don't cover. Because it's not seen as good to be raising prices, like we should be really fighting, raising prices.

But you know what, here's how you got to see it as a business owner, and we're going to talk about the consumer. But as the producer, as the person that has something for sale, your job is to make the most amount of profit for yourself, for your investors, for any other owners that you have involved anybody that you owe money to or what have you, your job is to make that money and as much of it as possible for as little resources as possible. resources include time, it includes capital, it includes time for others, and includes employees, all these things, all the things that it takes to make whatever it is that you're selling, your job is to get the most for the least.

And you say, Wow, that's really rude. That's really slimy capitalism and so forth.

But flip it on its head. Okay, let's look at it from the consumer standpoint, nobody ever says that the consumer is greedy, because they want the most amount of resources for the least amount of money.

It's the same thing. It's only in reverse. There's no difference between the people. Because I'm a consumer, in some cases, and in some cases, I'm a producer. In some cases, I'm selling in some cases I'm buying.

And the same with most people, most people are producing something. Now they may not be producing it on a retail level. Most people aren't business owners, they're not producing stuff on a retail level,

Did you know Popeye endorsed more than just good old Spinach?

Brian looks back at an old commercial of Popeye promoting Wheatena cereal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph4SfUPjTr8

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Popeye and your business.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

What does Popeye the sailor man have to do with your business, let's talk about it a little bit, shall we?

Popeye, what's he known for, right?

He's known for being strong to the finish because he eats his spinach. And so his spinach gives him superpowers that allow him to beat up Bluto or whatever bad guy he's up against.

And in a sense, it became a quasi endorsement of spinach even though it was somewhat accidental, and started out in the comic strip.

What's funny is that you look at a little bit of the history of Popeye and I just know a little bit of this weird stuff from other fascinations that I have that I fell into this. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is we were watching Popeye on HBO max with the kids, the old black and white ones, which are fabulous to watch.

But regardless, it reminded me of a lot of this background story and that he didn't start out eating spinach. He actually started out every time he would rub the head of the wiffle hen, which was another character in the comic strip that Popeye started on which was called thimble theatre.

He would give him extreme luck, and that luck ended up becoming more of strength over time. But that's where the concept came from.

Then from there, he would eat spinach once in a while. And they showed that and then they grab that when they started doing cartoons, because Popeye starred in the comic strips, and then he went to the cartoons.

So they started doing that in the cartoons where he would eat spinach. And that would give him his power. And that would allow him and that became the theme in every flippin cartoon every once in a while you see one where they weirdly, don't have it in there. But most, you know, nine times out of 1090, probably 99 times out of 100. Popeye, or sometimes another character will eat spinach and win the day because of that special tie-in.

Now, the fact that this was almost like an endorsement deal was not lost on marketers of the day. And so what they did was they had a radio show that was sponsored by with Wheatena.

Wheatena is a breakfast cereal. You don't see it as much around anymore, at least not not not where I live. But I think the brand is still out there. And what it is it's kind of a whole wheat Cream of Wheat style. Or Farina or Molt-o Meal style thing.

So it's um, it's whole wheat in it, it's got a lot of extra stuff in it. It's a little different, a little more hearty than your typical Farina cereal, and they had a radio show.

And it was Popeye, it was Popeye on the radio. And I don't even think, they had the same people who did the voices and everything but they did the show. They had to change the song because instead of eating spinach, he would eat Wheatena Cereal.

Wheatena is his diet. He asks you to try it with Popeye the sailorman.

And so it's a really funny thing.

So throughout time, Popeye hasn't only eaten spinach, but the same theme came through every time is he get into trouble he's is a good guy who get into a situation he couldn't get out of getting into trouble. Usually, the bad guy was was either picking on or grabbing all of Oilve and taking her against her ...

Brian shares the value of a random day off he had after attending Sketchy Soirée, put on by Sketchy Ideas Podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwqmrMVwk8

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Take one day off?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I asked this as a question is taking one day off an option for you?

If so, if not, it should be hard to find a way to get in a scenario where you can take one, take one day off, and I'm not saying your usual day, I'm saying a day you're not used to taking off. Take that one day off that you're not used to taking off that no one's expecting that you're going to have to reschedule meetings and everything else, take that one day off.

I'm not saying completely waste the day I'm telling you go do something with it, go work in the yard, go for a drive, do something doesn't have to be productive, but doesn't have to not be productive either.

So where this is coming from today was one of those days I had a meeting this morning that I went to that was that was really good, very productive, thought provoking.

And in my and my friends over at the Sketchy Ideas Podcast put it on and you go check out their stuff. It's a great podcast.

It was it's one of those things where all these scenarios happened at the same time where I had, I normally have a day where I work out on my property. And that day, it looks like it's gonna be raining.

The rains coming very early tomorrow morning and I needed to lock a whole bunch of things down. It was not a choice of mine. If it were up to me, I have a whole pile of things that need to get done.

But I took the chance to just go and do it. And it was helpful for me to be able to walk away and do the things that needed to get done.

So I didn't completely blow the day. Not that there's a time for blowing the day but this was not one of those, I got things done that need to get done.

I can exchange time later, if I still have stuff that needs to get done business wise, I can get that done during a time when I would have normally been outside so I can switch things around. It's okay.

And I'm giving you permission to do the same thing. Okay, I'm giving you a blessing to do it. Go do it. It's helpful for you to shake things up once in a while.

I'm not a person that's, that's heavily structured. But any type of structure in my life does tend to take hold after a while habits or habits and sometimes breaking even good habits temporarily.

I just said one day I'm not saying, take all them off, you still got to get work done. But take one day off that you're not expecting to and I think I think you'll be happy with the results. I'd love to hear how it goes for you.

If you ever do this, or if you're planning on doing it come back leave a comment wherever you're watching or listening to this or go to BrianJPombo.com find this post and comment I'd love to hear hear from you. That's all I have for tonight.

Simple idea with the simple things in life that make the biggest difference.

Go check out my book. It's a whole bunch of simple tips, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. Ways that you can overcome competition in your industry.

Whatever it is, go to AmazonProofBook.com for a free copy.

That's all I got for tonight. Hey, have a great one.

We'll see you tomorrow. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Brian talks about a section talking about primary aim in your business from Michael E. Gerber's book, E-Myth Revisited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsaW714L1Rk

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What is your primary aim?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

We'd like to talk about business concepts. But what are business concepts, but people concepts?

So we talk a lot about, yeah, human life and psychology and everything else. And I tried to tie it back into business because I'm a business investor, always looking for new people to work with.

If you're looking for an investor, if you're looking for help in your business, please go look me up, I'd recommend checking out my book. First, it'll kind of give you an idea of my philosophy where I'm coming from.

It's called,9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

You can get yourself a free digital copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

I'd like to welcome you back for those of you who are returning, you can you may notice a little bit of difference, a little different look, today, I've got a brand new phone on which I'm recording these.

And so we've I think we're coming out through and 4k at least we're recording it in that.

If you're listening, you may not notice a difference. But if you're viewing it, you're probably noticing that it's a little brighter and probably a little clearer.

Why am I bringing up primary aim?

Primary aim was a concept. It's a it's a term that was mentioned in this book e myth revisited. I'd like to thank my friend, my new friend, Joel Daniels for the posts the other day he had a LinkedIn discussing chapter 12, which is all about the primary aim you see how yellow these pages are, there's an old book.

I've got this old copy and I love what he says about this, because this is very similar to what we were talking about before, about having dreams and so forth. Having things that you're looking forward to that is this book, The Dream manager, we talked about that a couple episodes ago.

And this is the same concept, it's only talking about in a slightly different way.

And I love just the first few paragraphs, actually, the first few pages of this are great, but I'll read you a couple of the paragraphs from this first.

From the first part of this chapter, he says I doubt that by now, you'd be surprised to find out that I don't believe your business to be the first order of business on our agenda, you are, nor will you be surprised to hear that I don't believe your business is your life.

Though it does and can play a significant important role in your life. Your primary aim is Excuse me, I jumped ahead. But before you can determine what the role will be, you must ask yourself these questions.

What do I value the most?

What kind of life do I want?

What do I want my life to look like to feel like?

Who do I wish to be?

Your primary aim is the answer to all these questions and then he goes on and talks about different questions you can ask yourself in different ways you can identify what your primary aim is, what's the primary aim, it's just the idea of where you're headed, you know, most people, and he discusses this in this chapter, that most people don't have a conscious idea of where they're headed.

And even though they may have something down deep, they're not conscious about it,

Thoughts on system based content marketing and the value of interviews and getting your ideas and thoughts out on recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjulrjknPaY

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System based content marketing.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about how to become more system-based by using content marketing as a measurement, as well as a function I should say.

Now, let's talk a little bit about what this is. So I've got three pillars that make up my business, and that I normally look for that these are the things I look for in a business, they're also the things that I tend to focus on when building a new business or in helping an existing business to go further.

One is relationship reliance, meaning that there is a reliance on relationships within the leadership of the organization, but also within the business itself. So a huge piece of this is one on one interaction, but also, that you have some type of system behind it, which has built-in relationships.

So whether that be an email list, whether that be a direct mail list, whether it be a telephone list, I mean, there's a million different ways that you can quantify this, but really that you have that backing, that list of customers that list of fans and so forth, that's a big piece. So relationship reliant is one of them.

Another one is being reality grounded, so that the business itself and the leadership have been reality grounded that they haven't made decisions based, at least solely on that they haven't been basing them solely on emotions, that they've had some reality behind it both of data and facts and intuitive reality, you know, people with their heads on straight and paying attention, and taking things where it needs to go when it needs to go.

And the third thing is what I want to talk about today is being system based, is that you have some type of system, like I said, a relationship system.

But also beyond that every piece of the business that is relatively predictable, that doesn't need to change is set in place as a system. It's something that you can move people in and out of. But the system stays true, it continues to grow and build in a very predictable manner.

These are huge pieces of building a long term, large, healthy business. How do you go about starting that process, though, I was talking with a friend of mine, this afternoon, and helping her. And we got off of the topic of business. And we started talking about basically a new venture that she was looking at building up, and how she would go about laying that out.

And she mentioned that she had tried before to write it all down and to organize it in that sense. And I said, Have you thought of basically having an interview done, you know, I can do it, or someone else can do it, but basically interview you and ask you the questions because you're good at talking.

And she said, Well, that makes perfect sense. So we've done similar things before with her. And she said that would make sense to be able to do that.

So is a quick tip tonight is if you're looking to build more systems, find the person that knows how things should run is either they're in it, or they helped build it, and sit there, and if they can't lay it out point by point for you. Pull it out of them.

You know, just start interviewing them. Ask them about each and every step, ask them about how it came about.

Talk to the other people that were involved, and what their thoughts are on how the system currently functions ...

In case you missed it, we lost a great comedian this week in Norm MacDonald. Brian shares his thoughts on a very funny man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u8pufepFz0

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Shtick like Norm.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today it was announced that Norm MacDonald, comedian extraordinaire, famous for his time on Saturday Night Live, his television show Norm, many other accomplishments his movie Dirty Deeds.

I mean, he's done a million things that he's passed away from cancer at an early age, I believe he was 61. And it's a funny thing with comedians, I don't always feel as attached to comedians, as everybody else does necessarily, and entertainers in general, I don't connect with all of them.

Norm was one of those that was interesting because he was somebody that I did connect with it early on in my partial career as a comedian and writer and comedic actor. I guess you could say that he was one of the early ones that I would watch on Saturday Night Live and paid very close attention to how the jokes were delivered.

He was a person also who studied the art and a lot of people refer to him as the comedian's comedian. He wasn't as wildly popular as a lot of the other people that he surrounded himself with. But most people who have a comedic tendency, have huge respect for Norm McDonald. Because of what he was able to accomplish.

I just wanted to point out one little thing that you can use in your business, especially in content marketing, one of the things was just one of the lessons that norm did on a regular basis. And you can see it in his work on Saturday Night Live.

So on Saturday Night Live, he played a lot of characters, he did a Burt Reynolds impression, the absurd impression really wasn't Burt Reynolds. But for some reason, everyone went along with that.

But when you can create those type of characters that always has an effect, but the most famous thing he did was Weekend Update, which is the regular news program, a satire news program on Saturday Night Live that's been on forever, and where they oftentimes will pull a piece of news out, and then make a little joke about it, or create an absurd piece of news and put that out there.

So he would do odd things that no other host of Weekend Update had ever done. One of the things that he would do is he would pick an absurd statement and he'd repeated every week, in a very odd way.

So one of the first ones he did was this con, he'd say, or so the Germans wishes to believe. And he saw he would say a piece of news that wasn't funny at all. They turn in the camera would grab him from a different angle and say, or so the Germans wishes to believe. And he'd hold it.

Then there was odd laughter because people didn't understand what it was. But when he repeated it over and over and over again, it became a joke unto itself, because it made absolutely no sense.

Like he said, himself, it's a non sequitur. He had this non sequitur humor, meaning it was something that didn't go anywhere. And it was funny because it didn't go anywhere, because it had no reason for being there.

He would do this with little sayings. He said, he would say, you know, which proves my theory Germans love David Hasselhoff, and he'd say it in odd times. He bring it up every episode every week.

He used these terms, he get obsessed about one thing, like this was during the OJ Simpson trial, and so forth. And so he'd make a joke about OJ Simpson, being a killer on a regular basis,

Value of having activities scheduled to help you get projects done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7vGc4XV7x4

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Schedule growth activities.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I got a haircut, okay. It's a funny story about my haircut.

And I've discussed it before I cut my own hair. So not only do I cut my hair, but I also cut my two sons' hair, I cut their hair also, okay.

And then it's funny how I ended up doing this, it was one of those things where I never liked having to schedule my time to go into town, to find an open barber to go in to go through the whole hassle of sitting there waiting in line to get your haircut.

Sit there, make chit-chat with the person go through this whole rigmarole. It's just I never liked it.

I never liked it ever since I was a kid. Well, when I was a kid we had a lot of really decent barbers for very little, they didn't cost much.

And so I liked doing that but I've never been able to find a barber in this area that I was really super fond on. So I started cutting my own hair years ago, and have kept it up. Another thing is I figured because I was a cheapskate, I would cut my hair more often.

If I didn't have to pay for it, I could just you know, once a week, every other week, whatever, I'll just go through cut my hair, well, it's a little bit more difficult to cut your hair than that in most cases, at least with my hair, my hair is like wire.

So it's not the most manageable and you got to cut it just right otherwise it doesn't work. And even then I it oftentimes does not look that great after I'm done. It grows in and it works out fine. But it's not the best.

And so it's one of these things where I don't cut my hair. As often as I would probably if I had someone else cut it if I found somebody that I liked and could go back over and over again.

But I still keep doing it and but it really comes down to being lazy.

When it comes down to is I don't…because it's all available, you know, I'll do it when I do it. And I put it off and put it off and put it off.

So what's this have to do with business?

What's this have to do with all the things that we talk about here on a nightly basis?

Well, here it is, I find that I don't do things that I don't want to do and will put them off indefinitely as long as I possibly can. Except on two occasions.

Number one, that I schedule it.

The second piece of that is if someone else is depending on me if I've scheduled it with a second person if I have someone else tied to it. The only other way that that happens is if I build that daily habit, well, I'm not daily going to cut my hair.

Then most things you don't do daily, you don't, you can't necessarily make a daily habit out of everything. It's a great thing to do. And we've discussed that here before, but you can't do it out of everything.

So when it comes to cutting my hair, really, it would be helpful if I just pay someone to come to my house and do it. And it's all in the schedule. And it's done. And it happens every two weeks or every month. And it's just like clockwork, it just happens, I would do it, it would get done. It wouldn't be something that I would enjoy as much as doing it myself.

But on the same end at the person was good. And they were quick. I'd be a-okay with it. And it's like that with everything I've ever done in my life.

Reviewing Matthew Kelly's book, The Dream Manager and touching on people's need for purpose in the work they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZaLK8NwC8

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Business book review, The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I am a business investor who I have these talks on a nightly basis. And so most of the time, it's me talking, sometimes I'll have someone with me, sometimes I'll have someone that I'm interviewing, and I'm hardly doing any of the talking at all.

Tonight, I wanted to talk to you about The Dream Manager.

This is a good book. It's a short book, it came out in 2007. And it's one of these that I had never read. I don't think I'd ever heard of it, honestly.

I may have heard a podcast, I believe it was a podcast where I heard Matthew Kelly being interviewed.

There was made mention of this book, I looked it up, I put it on my wish list. And it was just one of these things that eventually I knew I'd, I'd want to purchase. Finally, I ended up purchasing it quick read, it's a really nice read, it's one of these books, if you've read many business books, it's one of these that takes the area of creating kind of a fictional story, to be able to teach the lesson.

The whole concept is that a person in the story is working at a company and trying to overcome the tuition issues with just the fact that they can't keep people in the workplace, which is funny, because it's something that's affecting everybody right now.

They can't keep workers on.

It's a janitorial company and he starts going through how he has this concept of creating a dream manager, having somebody that is hired directly to the company, that their only job is to work with all the employees and see if there's anything that they can do to help them achieve their dreams.

Dreams, what's a dream, right?

It defines it, it goes into it of anything that people are looking for, in the future, you know, anything that they're looking to get out of life, any places they'd like to travel to any things that they'd like to have any careers they'd like to have any experiences they'd like to have.

It's stuff that we all have, but we don't talk about very often, we don't want to get our hopes up. We don't want to overthink this, we may think we deserve all these different concepts.

It's very common in employment circles, if you're employed if you're an employee, you're not going to have a whole lot of people and there goes my book, I'll talk to you about that in a minute.

But you're not going to want to talk to people about where you'd like to go. And a lot of times people will laugh, a lot of times it will seem, you know, outrageous that you would ever want anything like that.

It could be something as simple and as common as owning a home. But if you're making the salary of a janitor, you may not feel like you ever have the ability to do something like that. So they talk about that.

And they talk about the transformation that happens to this company because they start paying attention to each individual's dreams, and helping them to come true in the simplest ways, you know, helping them to budget where necessary and actually map out how long it's going to take for them to be able to achieve what they want.

If it's a financial goal, or a financial-based goal if they're looking to get into I don't even remember all the examples.

A look back at Sep. 11th 2001 and the importance of looking for valuable lessons and understanding during tough times in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8klBcuNqP6A

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Tragedy isn't.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Unlike our normal, regularly scheduled program, this is not necessarily going to be the fun and laughter time, but I want to hit on something very serious that goes along with the serious attitude.

So today, I'm recording this September 11th 2021. This is 20 years past the original date, have one of the worst losses of life all at one time of civilians in the United States ever, possibly in the world, all at once, in a very short span of time, lost over 3000 civilians in an act of war.

At the time, I remember was a very clear understanding that a lot of people referred to it as a tragedy right away and wanted to kind of wallow in the woe is us how horrible and it was horrible. And it should be recognized that it's horrible.

But in the same end, it's a call to action. And there comes those points in your life, whether it's a world-changing situation, like September 11, was whether you're old enough to remember it or not.

There are these world-changing situations that can hit you hard. And then there are personal situations that hit you hard, I'm going to talk about two of them real quick.

The first one happened to me earlier in the year 2000. And I had just recently moved away from town away from my family, a good three hours away…two and a half, three hours, and was off on my own going to college for the first time.

Through a whole series of events that I've discussed before. There was a huge mix-up with the people that I thought were going to be joining me and all these future endeavors that we had all got flushed down the toilet pretty quickly.

Now what ended up happening out of that is I found myself in a town that I really didn't want to be and going to a school I really didn't want to go to, for a degree I really didn't want, for a future that was quite unknown to me at the time that I thought had I had figured out previously.

But everything kind of went down the toilet and so I was left with a scenario.

It was a call to action.

But I knew that there was a reason why I was there at that point at that time. And because of that scenario, I came in contact with somebody through a very thin thread and changed my life very quickly.

This is a six-month period that I happen to be in this one spot work in this one particular job when a complete stranger came up and change my life. Fast forward a little bit, and not long after that, a few months later, I ended up moving to Sacramento, California. And ended up going in a new direction, trying out some new things.

My world had been rocked but I wasn't quite sure to what extent ended up working in the tallest building in Sacramento, which at that time may still be I'm not sure the Wells Fargo building, downtown Sacramento and having a blast having, a very good time doing something very new, working in a very different environment for one of the largest law firms in all Sacramento and having a really good time and then and really not knowing what was next.

I had a past, I had ideas of what things I could do, but not really sure where to take it next. Then September 11 happened one morning. I was used to waking up a little later in the day.

Because I had a job that didn't require me to be in super early I w...