Decisions That Affect the Rest of Your Life (CFFL 61.2)

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Steven:                Jack Butala here for Land Academy, welcome to our Cash Flow From Land Show. In this episode Jill and I talk about the decisions we’ve made in our lives that lead us to where we are and some of the ones that maybe we would have made differently. Jill, I’m not sure there’s a more important topic than this that we can talk about today at least.

Jill:                          I agree and what’s funny is when I read the title of this I took a different spin on it, so this will be really good. I’ll have to quickly adjust and come up with some things.

Steven:                What did you think it meant? You probably think like most of our listeners.

Jill:                          Do you know what’s funny, I took it as not decisions I have made, I was thinking about going forward.

Steven:                Yeah, okay, that’s what I think.

Jill:                          Okay, cool.

Steven:                It helps to talk about the past and why we’re all standing where we are at the moment. Yeah, I think it’s all about looking forward. I made up a super short mental list of some of the things that I think are so important because our members at Land Academy and a lot of our customers at LandStay, the regular land company, they all get to us … They all have stories by the time they get to us. We have so many customers at LandStay that they’re chucking it all and they’re going to buy 40 acres from us and [inaudible 00:01:17] somehow and that’s always an interesting story.

Jill:                          That’s true.

Steven:                Our Land Academy members just want … They want to improve the situation that they’re in financially and I guess some of them it’s a hobby, but most of them they want to make some more money or set up money on the side or whatever. I think these little tiny decisions that you make all through along that path really affects the decision that you make to either buy property or become a member of something like Land Academy.

I heard somebody describe recently, I think it was a TED Talk and somebody in the audience asked if you were starting all over what would you do. The person who was giving the TED Talk said I would just focus on the thing that’s most important. Sit down and ask yourself what is really, really, really important to me. Is this new sports car important? Should I buy a bigger house, is that important? Or do I want to put a bunch of money in the bank, is that important?

Jill:                          Or people, my family.

Steven:                Yeah, or is everybody on the same page in my family or can I be a better father, all that stuff. Let’s start with you because you’re the one sitting next to me.

Jill:                          Oh, great, great.

Steven:                Let’s look forward. It’s early 2016, what decisions do you want to make this year? What do you want to leave in and cut out or what’s important?

Jill:                          I don’t have any, how do I say this, concrete decisions right now that I need to make, so I was thinking …

Steven:                Oh, that’s nice.

Jill:                          Isn’t it? I’ve kind of already picked out the next car, I’m just waiting for it. No, really, I don’t have … Oh, shucks, I’ve already made the decisions. Now have I acted on them? No.

Steven:                What are the decisions you’ve made?

Jill:                          Oh, the book. I’m going to take care of my transportation issues, I’m going to work on the book. You and I are … I’m going to complete a book,