Brian shares a personal story that happened today and how keeping your emotions in check can help you solve problems.

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Intuitive business building.

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

Let's talk about intuitive business building, shall we. I've got a story that has nothing to do with business. But it proves a point better than even the business story I had for today.

So I had a I had a really great interview this morning, and I can't wait for it to come out just more than anything, not for what I said in it but what the host that I was with, it was so cool getting to meet him. Finally face to face, we had chatted a little bit back and forth over social media and the admirers from a distance of each other's work. And I really am excited to see what he ends up doing with his company as he moves ahead, can't wait to see more about that.

And I'll tell you more about that in the future. So stay tuned.

But I want to talk with you about something that happened later in the afternoon we had a situation. I've got one of these things where we have certain days of the week that are left a little wide open in the schedule, so that we can fit in little odds and ends of our lifestyle. And Fridays is one of those days in general. Sometimes it's packed in tight, but other times, we leave it a little bit loose just to fit in all the things that we need to do during the day.

I had a situation that I wasn't planning on where I needed to go get a couple of tanks of gasoline, we get this. So in Oregon, they add all the extra stuff to your gasoline. And it's not good for yard tools and so forth.

So I had to go get some of the gasoline that had no additives in it for the yard stuff. And just in case we get in a situation where the electricity goes out, which tends to happen toward the beginning of fall winter, when the rain starts coming in the electrical grid for some reason can't handle it or they use it as an excuse to shut things down.

But we get into a situation where we have no electricity, so you got to have the generator going. So you got to get go get gasoline, so I go in with my empty containers to go get gasoline and it's not that far up the road, it's probably three miles up the road to this gas station. And so I was no big deal.

I tossed my shoes on, I didn't even put real shoes on, I've got these stupid rubber crock things. And so I had those on, I wasn't even planning to wear those there. But I just I've just it's just a quick thing, it wasn't meant to take that long. I go to the gas station, I park. It's an odd situation because it's away from the other gas tanks and so forth.

So it's a different area and I get out of the car and I'm like okay, now I got to go around and open up the other door to pull the tanks out.

So I unlocked the other door, make sure that happens. I set everything down, I go over to the other side. Instead of pushing unlock on the car, I pushed lock on the car, and my keys got locked in, but not just my keys, my phone got locked in, everything got locked in. And I just realized that, you know, since my wife had her phone number change, I never memorized it. I never wrote it down. So I don't even know how to get ahold of my wife and this wasn't supposed to take long.

This was supposed to be a quick since scenario. And so it was one of those things where when we're a ways out in the country, so I'm like, Okay, if I called if I call a locksmith open up the car, that might take a while.