Success Lies within Your Natural State (LA 1296)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Steve and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the land Academy show entertaining land, investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting still from the road, still sitting in Northern California, kind of northern, in the middle.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill and I today talk about how your success lies within your natural state to which-

Jill DeWit:

Not Wisconsin.

Steven Jack Butala:

Jill is constantly confused by my titles.

Jill DeWit:

I am. Aren't you.

Steven Jack Butala:

And if she's confused... This is what I think. If she's confused, the whole listening audience must be like, "What?"

Jill DeWit:

I know.

Steven Jack Butala:

Because she gets me.

Jill DeWit:

Normally.

Steven Jack Butala:

She's a headstart, anyway.

Jill DeWit:

I have a headstart.

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's the whole premise of the show.

Jill DeWit:

I get you and I like to think I complete you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Oh my God.

Jill DeWit:

I'm just kidding because you complete me.

Steven Jack Butala:

It's going to be one of those spiritual shows.

Jill DeWit:

You're the one that wrote it.

Steven Jack Butala:

Here's the deal. Again, I am going to sound like your father. You don't want to fight yourself your whole life. If you hate data and the thought of just sitting in a dark room just nauseates you, which is fine, this business model might not be for you. Or if you're bent on it, find somebody like me to be your business partner. So that's the premise of this. The motivation or inspiration behind me writing this title was Jill. We were forced to do a bunch of stuff. Jill was forced to deal with a bunch of insurance company crap earlier this week, which turned out... Actually, it turned out fine and Jill was in her natural state. She was on the phone for probably three hours talking to insurance companies and car rental companies. And man, we came out way ahead, actually. And so if it were just me dealing with that, I would've gotten through it, but I would have been a pretty angry person.

Jill DeWit:

Oh gosh. [crosstalk 00:01:57].

Steven Jack Butala:

It's not my natural state, so this really translates into being successful at whatever you're doing.

Jill DeWit:

You just touched on something I was going to say real quick. Some people do this. Some people get into a business and a life. It's not their natural state and they suffer through it their whole lives and it makes me sad.

Steven Jack Butala:

It makes me sad too. The profession of a medical doctor comes to mind because the vast majority of medical doctors I've ever seen in a professional setting, not in a social setting, are just so unhappy. I think the academic... That profession, for some reason, the academic part of it and the research part of it is so intriguing, or just for me anyway. And then you got to deal with patients and it's just like...

Jill DeWit:

I know that would be hard for you. Patients and patience, both.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on thelandinvestors.com online community. It's free.

Jill DeWit:

But you have many, many, many, many great qualities, sweetie. I'm not picking on you.

Steven Jack Butala:

I know I don't take it that way.

Jill DeWit:

Okay. All right.

Steven Jack Butala:

I have thick skin, that's one of them. I'm with you.

Jill DeWit:

What?

Steven Jack Butala:

I just got to zing stuff in there once in a while.

Jill DeWit:

What? Okay. Actually we're getting along. It sounds like we're [inaudible 00:03:18]. No, we're good.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill DeWit:

That's funny, because we're not at home. This is great. We're on the road having fun and we're not sick of each other yet.

Steven Jack Butala:

Not yet.

Jill DeWit:

Next week it could change, or tomorrow. Tiffany wrote, "Hello, all. I've got maybe an interesting question.