Showing Up for Life

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Jack Butala:                         Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                            Hi.

Jack Butala:                         Welcome to the show today. Entertaining real estate investment talk. I'm Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from sunny Southern California.

Jack Butala:                         Today, Jill and I talk about showing up for life. Such a simple concept, but it's so important, Jill.

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:                         I think we did a show like this a lot of ... well, it was quite some ... this is Show 645.

Jill DeWit:                            That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:                         I can't believe it.

Jill DeWit:                            Yep.

Jack Butala:                         We did a show called ... that's similar to this quite some time ago. It's modeled after a book that Bill Gates, Sr., Bill Gates' father, wrote essentially about how he raised his kids and he literally says right in the forward, "I wrote this book because I'm so tired of explaining this to everybody in the grocery store about how to do get a kid like Bill Gates," you know?

Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Jack Butala:                         That's his answer. You show off for life. In the end, it became an inspirational kind of parenting book. So much of that stuff applies to how you run your company, I think.

Jill DeWit:                            It's interesting because I'm working on my book, and I was describing it in an email last night. It's like you either show up, or you give up. You know what I mean?

Jack Butala:                         Oh yeah.

Jill DeWit:                            I just thought about it. That was kind of what I was trying to say about my book. I was like I'm trying to keep people from giving up. That's really, you know ...

Jack Butala:                         That's so important. Let's talk about that in a second. Before we get into it, we'll take a question posted by one of our members on the JackJill.com online community, it's free.

Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Joe M. asks, "Hi, I am wrapping up my social," ramping up. Excuse me. Not, wrapping up. That would be funny. I'm wrapping up my social media presents. Oh, none of it worked. I have no friends. I have no likes.

Jack Butala:                         I'm wrapping this all up.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. I failed, and everyone thinks I'm stupid. So, that would be so funny wrapping up my social [crosstalk 00:01:52].

Jack Butala:                         I've never, ever heard someone say ...

Jill DeWit:                            That's good. Yeah, that didn't work.

Jack Butala:                         I've heard people say, "I'm so disgusted with this that I'm never going to do it again." I've heard that. I've been one of those people.

Jill DeWit:                            You know what I hear, too?

Jack Butala:                         I've never heard anyone say, "You know what? This didn't work."

Jill DeWit:                            I'm out.

Jack Butala:                         This sucks, it didn't work.

Jill DeWit:                            Exactly.

Jack Butala:                         I haven't reached anybody.

Jill DeWit:                            No, what I hear is people like, "Dude, I gotta stop." It's like people are like it's the needle in the arm. No, I had to take a break. It's kind of funny. That can happen. I totally understand that. So, what Joe is really saying here is, "Hi. I am ramping up my social media presence. Would anyone mind sharing some good Facebook groups to join? Please feel free to share your company page if you would like to connect."

Okay, I have a question, because I don't know.