The Void #14 – Stop Complaining on the Internet – Mar 17, 2022
In this episode, Mitch and David provide some perspective on a trending post being shared on social media. We give you the honest feedback you need when it comes to sharing posts like this one. If this show raised questions you’d like us to answer, please feel free to email them to [email protected] Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing! Enjoy the show!
we wanted to come to you guys today with a different style of show than our typical show
um today we wanted to talk with you guys about a post that we’ve seen shared all
over social media lately and we’ve got some pretty strong opinions about this post so we
wanted to do a show dedicated just to this one specific social media post that
we’ve seen a lot um i am your host mitch smedley and with me as always is david hilton mitch what’s up bud what’s up
dave well we’ve been up here talking and bullshitting for like an hour yeah and mitch has finally calmed down he had a
tough day today and then we started talking about this show in this post and he’s been a real ass hat for a while so
we finally got him calmed down and we’re gonna this is it’s probably gonna get worse i would say before it gets better this pose gets
me fired up yeah every time i don’t understand i mean i know why yeah but i just i’m not on the level of excited as
you are or i shouldn’t say excited as mad as you are well i’m not mad read the i just have expectations leave the
people to post and and we’ll talk about it we’ll let them decide what they think all right so so this post you’ve probably seen it and if
you haven’t because we’re talking about it on this podcast you’ll see it uh it’s just the way social media works but i’m
gonna read to you the entire post this is one of those posts where you like copy and paste it and
try to say it’s your own words but then at the bottom of it it actually says it was copied so here’s the post
it says the unfortunate truth of owning and running a business running a business is really hard what
they don’t tell you is it can cause severe stress and anxiety and drains you
mentally to the point of depression and eat in even the most laid-back
people people will talk about you they’ll compare you to others they’ll use you
they will view you as a service and not as a person anymore family and friends will expect discounts
and people will value you for your hard work or they will they will value you
and your hard work less than the big chain stores
you have to worry about if you forget an email or you forget to message somebody back
are you going or are they going to think it was on purpose did you disappoint them
will they hold that against you when in reality you can’t get to everyone’s
messages and emails starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on a
person’s life and relation on a person’s lives and relationships
many of which fail because there is often no work life balance you need to be the director the
worker the admin the marketing team the accountant the cleaner all while being a parent a husband or a
wife and a family support or a friend there’s a reason you don’t see many
people succeed in small business after five to ten years if they are successful they are
overwhelmed it takes its toll it’s freaking exhausting especially the past
couple of years when so much has been out of our control the post finishes with uh here’s a small
reminder that we’re just normal people with hectic lives be kind be patient
support small business and hopefully more of us will stick around
i copied this from another small business owner that i admire
so that’s the post that is the subject of today’s getting read marcus i mean look at his face
right what’s your thought on that i i got notes like when i get frustrated look at his face
yeah he’s [ __ ] mad at you i want to hear it go ahead when i get frustrated i got to put notes together so i can otherwise i’ll like lose all my thoughts
right yeah that training runs out of your brain when it’s all fired up yeah so
i’m not gonna sit here and act like i’ve got it all together because i don’t i’m still learning new
stuff every day i encounter struggle every day but the difference between me
and this post is my mentality i don’t play the victim role and that’s
exactly what this post is this post is written and shared by people who act
like they are somehow in a worse position because they choose they chose to start
their business and you should now treat them differently because they did so
business is competition and if you’re going to be successful you need to learn
how to win making posts like this is publicly making an excuse for you sucking at
business ownership and you don’t suck so
start doing better hmm very passionate yeah dave
what’s your thoughts i i i understand why he’s upset about a lot
of the things that are said in there and it it does create a misnomer about
you know business ownership what it really takes you know people play the victim a lot
yeah they do it a lot and that is that is your mindset you know we talk
about this in the other episodes the millionaire mindset yeah well this flies in the face of the millionaire mindset
this is uh this is a weak mindset okay so when
when uh when when people write these things down and they use these as excuses
they’re weak mentally and they don’t have that millionaire mindset to i’m gonna grab it by the balls and i’m
just gonna i’m gonna make this happen right okay and if you go into business thinking that
which i think is really one of the reasons that you know mitch gets fired up about this is because
um i’ve almost lost my train of thought there he gets fired up because that is weak mindset yeah you know what
i mean yeah and you’ve just you’re not prepared you don’t know what’s going on you’re
not ready and you use those excuses to not be successful right right so
i’ve seen a lot of friends share this post and and when i say friends they may not be close friends they may be friends
that i’m like facebook friends or friends on social media friend of a friend of a friend right and we chose to
make this episode specifically about this post to help build those people up
like the people that are sharing this post are at a moment of weakness
and you shouldn’t be right the the whole core of this post is
it’s some half-assed excuse for you not living up to people’s expectations
and you just need to do better about putting some systems and processes in place to
fix all of that um the post references you know you know what
references that business ownership is is it causes anxiety and stress well to me
you know what causes anxiety and stress it’s putting in all that effort for somebody else when you should be putting
all of that effort in for yourself on your own business you know what drains you mentally like
the post references business ownership drains you mentally it’s endlessly working for somebody else
who forgets all you’ve done for them over the years and only seems to remember all you’ve done for them lately
like that is mentally draining that is anxiety and stress business ownership is
freedom and if you can’t see that then maybe business ownership isn’t for you
you know we talked about in some of the other episodes about gut check moments right and having those gut check moments
leading up to starting the business okay and that’s why preparation is so important so
you know go back and listen to the first nine episodes we talk about that in order
these steps this is how you prepare if you do the first three beginning steps and those are gut check moments for you
and you realize you know what my anxiety level right now is so high and my stress level right now is so high
it’s only going to get worse from there yeah and we talk about this in those episodes
business ownership may not be for you correct and it’s okay yeah all right you can make a lot of money working for
somebody else and lots of people and and people go through phases in their lives
where um starting their own like in your 20s you start your own business you are on fire
you know and then you get older and your mindset kind of changes you know maybe maybe you sell that business close that
business down like megan said in that on one of our guest shows you know maybe you
go back to working for somebody because you’ve you’ve changed right you know what i mean right but you need to use
those gut check moments before you dive in and and make those experiences happen
right does that make sense yeah no it totally makes sense and and i think anybody who’s listening to our
show that has shared this post needs to do themselves and their family a favor
and actually sit back and realize did i did i share this because i really meant everything that was in this post or did
i share it because it seemed like a well-written excuse for poor performance
because if it’s the latter and it’s poor performance then just fix it like
everyone’s allowed to perform poorly from time to time we all do it the difference is champions
identify that and they fix it and they put a plan in place to where that doesn’t happen again and they don’t
perform poorly in that area again so i’m not i’m not chastising anybody who’s
posted this but i am chastising people who have posted this and actually meant it
because you just shouldn’t be in business if if business ownership is that anxiety and stress written you
shouldn’t be there yeah it’s it’s just that simple you should be working for somebody else and letting somebody else
handle all that anxiety and stress business ownership should be freedom business ownership should be uh the
ability to be in control of your future rather than
feeling like your future is controlled by somebody else yeah and you know life is like that yeah and mitch isn’t saying
that okay so every day if i own my business i should go in and it should just be happy go lucky fun no oh hell no
there are going to be stressful days and there are going to be anxiety filled days but you know what that’s real life yeah you know what i
mean that’s real life if it’s if the if your stress and your anxiety levels are higher than your what happens in regular
day-to-day life then that’s a warning sign yeah okay because you’re gonna you’re gonna wake up one day and your kid’s gonna be sick
and you’re gonna have to call into work or move you know what i mean that creates anxiety yeah and some stress
yeah that’s just real life whether you have to get into your physical boss or whether you have to call your list of customers that day and reschedule them
because of your kids sick it’s the same anxiety it’s just different yeah now that doesn’t mean it as an excuse right
is the real point exactly exactly the one of the things the post reference is that people
are going to talk about you well haters going to hate right uh give them something to freaking talk about
like do so much good in your community that they will talk about you make such an impact that they can’t not talk about
you be undeniable with your impact you know i’ve never seen more [ __ ] talking
than when i was working for somebody else and like all the people that gather around the water cooler and start chit chatting
and clucking like that is some of the worst talking ever and that’s working for somebody else when you’re working
for yourself there is no talking about you and if they are talking about you it’s it’s one of two things
either they want to be like you or you’re making such an impact in the
community they can’t figure out why so they’re not hating on you
it’s just they’re talking about you because you’re doing better than them that’s all it is yeah and it i’ll just
read the first line you know people will talk about you compare you to others use you well that first line people will
talk about you whether you’re good or bad people are going to talk about you whether you’re at your job
whether you are a school teacher whether you are a toll taker it doesn’t matter
that’s a business it’s not a business owner that’s not a life thing it’s a life thing that’s a life exactly and that’s what gets back to don’t use
regular life stuff to be an excuse yep for you to half-ass it right you know
what i mean right that’s like saying i can’t hack it as a teacher because people are talking about me they’re going to talk about you
they’re going to talk about you’re looking at their kids right they have their kids in your classroom right oh well these parents they just
well no [ __ ] right they they’re their kids if they’re talking about you it’s because they have
a good level of expectation for you yeah like that’s good yeah and that’s business is the same way right right the
the the people there are now let’s let me finish this a little bit but there are people that are just going to hate
okay because there is a mentality now especially in the social media [ __ ] world as i call it people hate okay and
and people love to hate success they love to hate failure they love to hate on everything and they’re the best way
to deal with those people is don’t even freaking think about it no don’t care what they’re thinking and and i’m not
even you know don’t let them deter you they’re just hating so the listeners of our podcast
i don’t think they even have haters you you take some high level professionals and there’s enough
jealousy out there in the world that they probably have haters right so like uh one that’s popping into my
head right now is joel olsteen right people love to hate on that guy because
it’s like the popular thing to do well is he the pastor in texas yeah yeah he’s
the big man mega church pastor right so like there are aspects of his life that make it kind of easy to go
i don’t know if i’d do that right however the guy’s done more good than anybody out there hating on him
for sure so that’s just a it’s just a thing that comes with mega success is you’re gonna
have some people who disagree with how you did it but i’ll be one of the only
ones out there to say that i think haters are fake i think people make up haters
because that’s their way of bringing into life that’s so excuse no no seriously
i think that’s that’s people bringing into life the the the uh inadequacies they feel
about themselves get them down so if i if i feel like i’m inadequate in an area
well then i’m gonna make up a hater that that chastises me in that area because it gives me a reason to talk about my
inadequacies in that area we’re we’re talking our listeners are at
a level where there shouldn’t be haters right yeah like haters like there
are haters i’m going to give you a great example of it there are but not at the level our listeners are at is as i guess
what i’m getting at you’re probably true so i have a great example of haters so we i used to i’ve played in a few bands
okay so we go to this club you know i won’t even say what where it was um
it was in westport so we we go down there and we’re playing a little showcase and there was three bands and they had uh they actually had
burlesque dancers that danced like you know why we played and stuff well so the bass players uh parents were
there and at the end of the show you know she comes up to mark and is like oh these
this couple that was sitting at the table next to us were like oh they this band sounds like creed and this you know
and this and they were talking all this smack you know and everything he was all upset and i was like dude who cares right you know i was like who cares
first off we don’t sound like creed right right but anyways but later i find out i know this guy
and who the because i saw him leave you know no big deal i don’t care that stuff doesn’t bother me
come to find out later uh he was the lead singer of a band that i saw perform like this is like two
months later right and they were awful right right well so hey i mean his was obviously coming from jealousy right you
know right it was obviously jealousy and and people they hate when they’re jealous when
they’re what’s another good example of why people are like that well so i i think i
feel like a lot of that is the core jealousy and envious yeah right well it can be but
um i’m gonna i’m gonna borrow some lines from andy frisella because he does a really good job of explaining haters
um he he does a very good job of distinguishing between
haters and critics okay just because somebody criticizes
your work does not make them a hater no of course not a hater is somebody who is
going out of their way to actively and maliciously
hurt your business in one way or another so just because somebody says something bad about you like let’s say you run a
restaurant and somebody comes in and they were like oh i didn’t like their creme brulee or i didn’t like their
omelet that’s not a hater that’s criticism yeah it’s totally different right
so if you’re in a band and they say oh you sound like creed that’s not a hater that’s criticism we
have to look at intentions though right like well no they didn’t come up to us they were just i know i know just you
know you would only say that to your friends and stuff right like in a small group right a hater right a hater is
somebody who is going out and doing things to actively hurt your business so uh it may be
going out outside of your circles and spreading rumors that would cost you ticket sales if you’re a band or it
would be like doing things to like affect your equipment so you didn’t
what’s the definition of hater there there really isn’t one well that’s what i mean so that’s just andy’s
definition of hater it’s his definition but it’s a very real definition that you need to adopt if you think you have
haters because you need to be able to differentiate between a critic and a hater critics are actually good
critics cause you to pause and verify for yourself
are they right does my product need improvement or do they just have a differing opinion but i
know certain people that’ll criticize like a movie or something just because there’s too much hype
around that movie they’re like i want to go the other way because everyone’s going that way well and when i think of possibly when i think of small business
on here and in this setting when you know it says people will talk about you and i bring
up haters so like if you know someone’s
talking about you obviously you do or you didn’t put it in this post right right right okay and then that person
that was talking about you says to three friends uh
say these three friends don’t know you over here and this person says to them oh yeah i wouldn’t do that
right he or she’s stupid this or that well if that costs you three sales that is malicious yeah right and that is call
that is hurting your business right okay so so us even though it is a small thing
it’s it’s a lot less significant than what people think it is right people people
well that’s like okay so that’s like the community involvement work where you um you do one nice thing for somebody
and that person tells three right and then that per each one of those person tells you right it works the other way yeah yeah that hater tells three people
and those three people tell three more people because and they don’t even have the knowledge right of what is actually
going on it’s the same thing it is it is so like uh we recently had fired up well
we recently had a gators man we recently had a guest on this show hasn’t aired yet um but uh shannon who has a hair
salon um she was talking about another salon in town that was doing things that with
malicious intent to hurt her business right well
i had never even heard of this salon until she was mentioning on the podcast i’m friends with shannon and i’ve never
even heard of this other salon but you know what i have heard of all of shannon’s contributions to the community
and in her salon’s contribution so like i i guess that gets back to don’t let it
eat you up right right you know exactly to tie a bow on that it that gets back to don’t let it eat you up just be
better yeah do better yeah and analyze are they are they critic
like is you don’t even have to do if you don’t want to sit down and think about it and do all that just move on yeah
okay there’s some bad stuff bother you there’s some good like being able to understand if they’re criticizing your
work and then like you don’t have to take it personally but you can still analyze it and say okay
they said this about my product whatever your product is if it’s food or if it’s service or whatever they said this about
my product is it true or is it not do i have room to improve or do i not and then you can analyze that for yourself
and then move on like you don’t have to let their opinion weigh on you but you can treat it as an opportunity to say
here’s somebody who thinks differently about my product should i think differently as well or not
and then just leave it at that basic level and then move on the point i wanted to get across with
that is that’s not a hater that’s somebody who’s just got a differing opinion that
that’s not a hater what you’re saying is you have to differentiate between the two that’s the core of what you’re trying to say right right see like i i
don’t have like to my knowledge i don’t have anybody that even has much of a differing opinion about like our company
but well i talk [ __ ] about you all the time well you’re different it’s your friend but like
you know i’m i’m in my mind i’m thinking okay a hater is going to be like a competitor that is like doing things to
hurt our business maybe they’re they’re doing things to our vehicles to like limit our ability to do work or they’re
doing things to our shop i wouldn’t even call that’s not a hater that’s a [ __ ] criminal well totally what about the
people it absolutely is right yeah you’re taking it a little that’s i there are i see what you’re saying
there’s critics there’s haters there’s criminals now you’re getting now we’re going criminals we’re going off the deal
what about the people what’s going on start a company right and they’re like i don’t think you’re gonna be able to do that i wouldn’t do that i wouldn’t
profit on that doubt right would you consider that as well no that’s just a doubter that’s all that is they’re not necessarily hating on you critic doubter
hater vandal well i’m just trying to get the scale right that’s all
that’s where we’re at like there’s so much other things other than hater right so that’s the whole point the whole
point of breaking all that down is it doesn’t matter what it is
identify it either use it or get past it exactly right exactly okay either use it use it
to your benefit or forget about it and that was the whole point of us going into all those stupid tangents about
this and that and that it’s to break it down into those two things right either learn to use it
or just [ __ ] move on right and if you have to get rid of if it’s someone close to you and you’ve got to cut them out of
your life do it yeah well they’re not i mean they’re not paying you any money so why are they taking up rent space in
your head yeah they’re literally taking time out of your day just to make you think about them yeah so right yeah
running rent free right there right um the the post also references family and
friends expecting discounts uh guess what they’re not your friends if they expect
discounts that’s not a them problem either that’s a you problem you need to get new
friends if they’re expecting discounts uh or if your friends think you owe them a discount
they’re paying full price for all their other luxuries in life they should be happy to pay full price or even more to
support their friend and so if they’re not in support of their friend
get new friends yeah it’s that simple that’s yeah that’s right it is absolutely that simple i have a great
example when i first started out a friend of ours tom you used to work with him yep
i don’t want to say his last name just because i don’t know that’s fine cool that’s fine um anyways he calls me one day and his gas valve’s out in his
furnace right and he says hey man i can’t get this it’s a weird deal it’s a honeywell smart valve and they’re a [ __ ] to get sometimes and he said could
you get it for me i said well yeah sure i mean i said give me the number so i call the distributor i go up there
i get it i call them i say hey i got it are you home you know i said i’ll come by and throw it in real quick right
and me being new in business you know not having a lot of savvy i was just gonna go over and throw it in there for free right he didn’t ask me to he didn’t
expect anything you know so i get there and i got it and i go downstairs and he’s like no dude i got it i just wanted
you to get me the valve and he’s pretty handy guy you know he’s very handy yeah he says no no no no i got it
he’s like no really i got it he said how much is the valve and i was like i think it was like 260 bucks
well i he wrote me a check for like 350. right and he gives it to me he’s like that’s just you know for your time i was
like dude 260 is fine no seriously he’s like no seriously you went and got it for me yeah thank you that’s a friend
that’s a friend right who you know i got him the valve i didn’t expect anything and he wanted to help me in my business
yep and i didn’t have to put it in right you know i mean that’s good friends and good family are gonna
do those things for you are they gonna pay you extra no but they’re never gonna expect they’re not gonna take advantage of you
right right so like i look at it like i’m gonna anytime i’m doing work with family or friends i quote them full
price and then i will usually by choice
when the work is done i will usually slide them a discount not because i feel like i owe them that but just because
they are my friend and i appreciate their their friendship right so i will usually do that like on like on purpose
um now however if if i have a friend come to me and they ask me hey what’s
this going to cost and i give them that full price thing and they already start haggling with me i just kind of lock up and i’m like yeah
that’s that’s what it costs and let me know if you want to do it yeah and i just kind of let it go with that yeah it
just is what it is yeah because if they’re gonna haggle with me there then that that sets the tone for the
friendship right right so if if you really have friends asking for a
discount let me give you some some ammo that you can you can put to
that and and nip that in the bud real fast and it’s going to make your friend feel like [ __ ] which they should if
they’re asking you for a discount absolutely you just simply tell them look i thought we were better friends than
that my prices are set so that i can make a living and and
if you were the friend that i thought you were you should enjoy paying that price so that you can participate in
your friend’s success but if you really want a discount then it might be better for you to shop
around if you tell your friend that they’re for one they’re gonna feel like
an asshat they may not they may feel entitled like well and if they do then you just learned a hell of a lot about a
person that you thought was a friend right sure you just learned that okay dave they don’t want to see me
successfully you need some plumbing done right and maybe dave will do his own plumbing yeah okay but if you need hypothetically if
you need it if you need it oh yeah so if so say say i had a club drain and i
called mitch i said dude bring your auger machine over here i cannot do this and he sent me a bill i would not be upset about it right yeah i’d pay the
bill now because i’ve known dave for so long and everything else he’d probably bring the machine over and go
here you go dude fire it up yeah right right i’d probably hand it to him and say that machine costs three beers an
hour yeah we’re different friends than i mean we’re talking more we’re talking those perimeter friends
that all of a sudden come out of the word work when they realize you opened your business right yeah right yeah let’s say you opened a painting business
and they’re like oh i’ve always wanted my house painted let me reach out to the guy that i haven’t talked to since high school yeah hey aren’t we good friends
yeah for three years right or or i love the classic you know i can get you so much work if
you just cut me a deal on this one like yeah really yeah if i cut if i lose money on this one you’ll give me the
opportunity to lose money on more jobs why weren’t you if you were so excited about it why weren’t you funneling me
work before then before right right right you know what i mean so that and that to be all honest that does
not happen at least for me it does not happen near as often as it’s it’s fabled to happen that that that gets tossed
around a lot but it doesn’t really happen that much so um
that’s why we use our trip charge for that right um yeah that trip charge helps nip those
people right out of the way yeah we gotta charge you a hundred dollars to come out right or whatever it is i don’t know what your trip charge is the the
rest of this post talks about uh the crazy hectic busy portions of running a business that can exhaust you well
if that’s the case go back and listen to episodes four five and six where we talk
about how to put systems and processes in place that eliminate that craziness that is the whole purpose of episode
four five and six is so you have like written systems and written processes in
place so that your life isn’t all that crazy and i get that there are busy
times that sometimes put a surge or a strain on those processes but the way
that you need to look at that is that is the time where you’re putting your systems to the test
and if your systems fail when that surge comes in you got a little work to do you can
improve that system if the system can’t handle the surge tweak it yeah modify it make adjustment and improve and that’s
being unprepared yeah you know what i mean and listen we’re underprepared all day like all the time we’re often
underprepared but it’s it’s the ability to adapt and overcome yeah and i’m not saying so like and we’ve talked about this before
when i started my first business i would i had no idea what i was doing right okay and that’s why we have this
show we’re if you’re prepared before you start the business it takes out a lot of
that guesswork hectic time running around like a chicken with your head cut off yeah because you have done the
pre-work before the work really started rolling in yeah yeah i mean and if you’re prepared in in those
senses then you have a a much better grasp of the task at hand to say
you know when you’re going through your day-to-day routine right right so like a real-life example of where we weren’t
i i don’t even say we i wasn’t prepared and i wasn’t adhering to
the system and process we have in place in our company there are times where people will reach
out to me directly to try to schedule a plumbing visit right it may be a friend it may be a facebook friend it may be
an acquaintance right somebody that i don’t know all that well but they’ll message me directly and say hey
i’ve got a plumbing issue can i get on your schedule right well for the first six or eight months of business
i was just doing it yeah i’ll find time i’ll get it on the schedule and i was just doing it right
well we dropped the ball on like two or three of those i promised i looked ahead in
the schedule i saw an opening i promised this person a time didn’t get it on the schedule it’s it’s so our system it’s a
little bit dif i don’t wanna say it’s difficult it’s like two steps harder to book a service call from the field than
it is from the computer and so i like made a note and then i didn’t get it booked and by the time i went to get it
booked my wife who handles all of our other normal calls coming in
she had already filled the slot and so now we’re like double booked right well my wife
god bless her she called me out on it and she says you know mitch and jackass we have a system in place for scheduling
calls so from now on you she she tells me that she took away my scheduling privileges
she says you are no longer allowed to schedule services you have to call if if somebody reaches out to you and says we
need to schedule service you need to tell them to come in on the the two or three channels
that we have to schedule a service call and and go through danielle she has to run my schedule and it’s
you know at the moment it’s kind of like that kind of sucks but but in all reality it’s the right way to do it
mitch is a bit of a control freak that’s why it freaked him out well we have a guarantee he i was like [ __ ] it’s it
really what it is it almost makes you feel fake for a second like like that’s your that’s your
acquaintance that’s somebody like you should they they view your business as small enough that they should be able to reach
out to you and schedule something it makes you feel like you’re brushing them off and you’re not brushing them exactly exactly so like it’s it’s still even to
this day i’ll tell them yeah oh we’d love to handle that for you can you do me a favor and call our main phone
number and schedule that with danielle and and i even like it i feel bad enough
when i because i feel like i’m brushing them off i feel bad enough when i do that that i tell them like flat out i’m
like danielle took away my scheduling privileges because i’m so busy in the field i was dropping a few calls
and and they’re like hahaha no problems i’ll call danielle yeah right so no one cares no they don’t really care i care
because it make like it’s highlighting an inadequacy of mine it’s highlighting an area where i don’t do a good enough
job delegating so um somebody was being lazy yeah i mean if somebody was being lazy
it’s being lazy while being overworked at the same time right like i’m too overworked to book it but um how long i mean how long does it take to
book that if you pulled over and just did it real quick yeah like four minutes yeah it’s
that’s lazy yeah yeah it doesn’t it doesn’t take too long dude we all have we all have issues and i mean i’m not i
mean you hit the nail on the head you like i would be driving and it would come in on the bluetooth you got to stop and just pull over and do it and and i
would be on like if i’m if i’m on city streets it’s no big deal i’ll just pull into a parking lot but if i’m on the highway and the next exit’s not for five
minutes if you wrote it on a little note and then you got off at your next job the first thing you should have done was
write that in there right but but again even that don’t give me your excuses well no even that’s deviating from our
process right we have a process calls come in through three different channels only that’s it and and we handle those
through the office side you know field people don’t book calls it’s just that simple so
um the those are all things that like here
we’re just giving you a very real life example of you know here’s how we here’s how our
business handles not returning a phone call or not booking a call or dropping the ball
right we had to make a decision we had to modify we had to make adjustments and improve and we put a plan in place to fix it i
didn’t go to facebook and whine and gripe and play the victim that i forgot to call three people back this week
i put a plan in place some double booked uh wine that you double booked right i i put a plan in place and i fixed it so it
doesn’t happen again going to facebook and whining and griping about all this crap doesn’t fix anything no it
literally just tells everybody who’s friends with you that sometimes i suck and i’m not gonna have an excuse for it
other than this post so if you’re not okay with that then maybe you shouldn’t do business with me that’s that’s
literally all i hear when i read that yeah so in in our in our pre-show talk makes me
laugh in our pre-show talk dave was hitting on something really really good and and that is
in the era of the pandemic and the era of covid kovet has become the ultimate excuse for
sucking ass at what you do well and that’s the so the last paragraph of that
i’ll read it again here’s a small reminder that we are just normal people with hectic lives be kind be patient support small businesses and hopefully
more of us will stick around and that’s what i brought up that i just hated that that is what’s killing the service
industry that’s what’s killing and when i say service industry i mean our industries uh restaurant industries
it’s killing everything because it has caused a sense of complacency and
and posts like this you know make people sit at a restaurant for an hour and a half to get service
because someone comes out it’s like oh well covid oh well we don’t have that you know oh
this and it has impermeated everything and and things like this
are the root cause of that yeah and it freaking drives me insane right now is coveted affecting things
absolutely but should it affect the quality of service you deliver never
never ever should it affect that right can i can i handle the fact that maybe a
product is going to take longer to get in no there’s nothing i can do for that but i’m not going to blame it on kovid
i’m going to use the same process i always did i’m going to check on the price and availability i’m going to get back with the customer on the price and
the availability i’m not going to throw in the ultimate excuse of covid right yeah if it used to take three days to
get in and now it’s gonna take six the customer doesn’t know any different so i’m just gonna tell them you’re looking at six days and you’re
looking at 300 bucks yeah and whatever whatever the price we’re not just talking about covet you know every so people have taken the covid or they’ve
taken the supply chain issues or whatever and they’ve run with it yeah you know they’ve run with it and they’re just like no this is what this is and it
has just it has just given all all of the man this is gonna get me in trouble all of
the weak minded yeah no no out there it’s true i freaking don’t want to hustle yeah and when i say
hustle i don’t mean like hustle someone hurry but they don’t want to hurry and get the job and get the work and make
customers happy right they just want to use the excuse to buy more time yeah so that they can be on facebook or they can
play freaking video games and they can you know whatever the hell they’re doing so in our business we spend about eight
thousand dollars a week in material okay like and we’re unique it’s not even that much
it’s it’s well we’re still small but in we’re unique in the fact that we pay our
material bill weekly a lot of businesses will pay it monthly right well i look at
it like the customers have already paid me for the job i want to pay you for the material i don’t want to run on these
net 30 or net 60 terms for my material bill so we pay it weekly well we noticed
something happening here recently with our material supplier and they were
often out of stock of stuff and so i had to call up our my sales rep
and and the manager of the branch that we shop at and i had to get on to them
and and they said well and they tried giving me that [ __ ] excuse of well because the kova things are hard to get
in and i said i i don’t accept that and that’s that’s not a smart move for you to play
there i i respect you enough as a business that i expect you should have these in stock and and
i said the reason i know covet is not the responsible factor here is because i can literally go down the street to your
competitor and they have seven of them in stock and you guys have been out of stock for two months yeah so don’t tell
me salesman can be pretty lazy right right so don’t tell me like the vendor or the supplier is having a hard time
getting them to you because the the competitor down the street is buying from the same supplier and he’s got them
in stock at all times yeah again this is my material supplier trying to use covid as an excuse for
their inadequacy and their poor stocking levels well i had an upfront conversation with them it was a
difficult conversation but now all of a sudden their stocking levels are back into where they need to be because i and
and i never i never liked to use leverage but i told them flat out i’m like you guys are a little bit more expensive than everyone else in town but
the reason i shop with you is because you always have it in stock i can drive here knowing you’ll have it and then i
can leave and i’m not driving all over town chasing parts because time is money so i’m okay paying you a little bit more
because you always have it in stock well the moment you don’t have it in stock all of a sudden your competitive
advantage with me just went out the window and when you blame it on kovid i don’t believe it yeah so this freaking
this complacency that has started to set in is just it
it drives me insane yeah yeah it literally drives me insane it it’s it’s
tough to in in the moment like after hearing this show you’re gonna start seeing it you’re gonna if you haven’t
recognized it already you’re gonna start recognizing it everywhere and it’s good use it as fuel for your business on how
you won’t be complacent like our trucks have 2 000 pieces of material on them
that’s so that we can serve our customers without having to use the excuse of covet right yeah we can always
take care of our customers without having to go to a supply shop unless it’s some special order thing but 98 of
the jobs we do we can handle on the truck so that’s i mean we put plans in place to
circumvent that and anybody listening to this show should be doing the same thing for their business yeah so
let’s talk about this other i highlighted a few on here this standing up
starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on personal lives and relationships
of course it does okay but this gets back to you need to be prepared
yeah okay absolutely listen regular work life puts stress on relationships yeah okay
it just it’s what happens yeah it’s regular life don’t let that be an excuse
for being i mean it’s like being prepared as an excuse being unprepared don’t be unprepared yeah okay life is stressful
if you’re gonna start a business okay say you’re a woman you’re gonna start just like
megan she’s a yoga instructor you think she just started it no she talked to her
husband first right okay sit down say okay this is what i think
is gonna happen i’ve i have prepared myself i have prepared the business
or i think my times are going to be these how can we deal with those
and if you’re prepared i’m just like beating a horse to death over here if you’re prepared
those strains are not going to be as bad right okay and don’t just don’t use it
as an excuse right if you have problems in your relationship already don’t let the business be the excuse
you know for why you break up or why you don’t talk to your best friend anymore okay there were probably issues before
that right okay so don’t use it as an excuse right that drives me insane too yeah when people just oh i can’t i get i
got to cut somebody off because my business life is just so come on right come on address the
problem for what it is and it may be a couple of problems maybe you need to square up your business life but maybe you also need to square up
your friendship yeah and they’re not connected either yeah yeah that’s that’s that’s being
emotionally lazy yeah you know what i mean yeah absolutely absolutely the uh you had some other points too
that you wanted to hit on yeah i do um so the paragraph under that you know i wrote um
i underlined it takes a toll it’s freaking exhausting especially the past couple of years when so much has been
out of our control you want to know what’s freaking exhausting i’m just going to give everyone an example of me and my wife
so this this week okay i’m helping a friend out okay so i get
up i’ve been getting up at 5 30 what is today today’s tuesday i’m doing this all week yup this week
get up at 5 30 show up there at 6 30 okay work till
3 30 try to be home by four is my goal right my wife has been getting up at five
okay she gets on her laptop and she’s working doing emails and stuff okay she’s
getting layla up our daughter getting her on the bus and then janine is going to work right okay
then layla gets off the bus layla has soccer three nights a week okay last night was till 8 30. okay
tonight she’s off wednesday she has soccer thursday she has soccer we’re gonna and
then janine didn’t get home tonight until uh about 5 30. right monday night last
night she got home after us right from soccer we got home it was like 8 20. no
yeah 8 20 i said 8 30 it’s about 8 20 when we got home she got home like 8 45 right okay we’re all still we have to
you know down from the day eat do that go to bed that’s exhausting and that has nothing
to do with business ownership that has nothing to do with business ownership this week right i’m helping a guy out
okay that i’ve been friends with for everyone yes i will help you all freaking week this week yeah okay
that’s just real life yeah don’t don’t tell me that other people’s that don’t
own businesses you know i’m just using this as an example because i know people we have one kid
people do this that have three yeah you know and then in three sports and they all play sports and they go to school
and half of them go you know some of them go to private school and they’re moving these and both parents work
it’s all exhausting yeah do not use that as another freaking excuse for why you
suck at your business for why you suck at your business your job anything okay this whole this whole i had to work 60
yeah what would he freaking do right get over it you got a job yeah be grateful you guys be thankful you have a job with
record high unemployment in recent years be grateful you own your business and instead of working 80 hours a week right
for somebody else yeah and making half the money you’re working 80 hours for yourself and making double
the money right hello so over the last few years when we started ours one of the things that i kept thinking was
okay you you would follow the media and you would hear all these timely things about like oh businesses may be forced
to require this or businesses may be forced to mandate this of their employees and and whatever those
requirements or mandates were i was so thankful that i owned a business
because i don’t have to require that i don’t have to force that
i can make the choices i can do what i want to do i can do what’s best for my family that’s freedom
of owning a business right yeah stress and anxiety is not knowing what your
business or your employer may require or mandate you know freedom freedom is
being able to choose that stress and anxiety is thinking man if my employer makes a requirement
that i don’t agree with i may lose my job that’s stress yeah how do you relieve
that stress you start your own company and you can make your own rules yeah so you can do the workarounds that other
companies aren’t willing to do because it takes too much money or too much time or to and and listen we talk we’re talking about
small business here yeah yeah when you’re a small business there’s a lot of workarounds there’s a lot of work around
you got to get creative you got to do certain things you know but there are ways to get past the red
tape and the [ __ ] yeah you know that we’re all used to so back to what i’ve said 17 times don’t make don’t use it as
an excuse yeah to not be successful and to and to and to let your service suck yeah
yeah that’s i mean the people that are sharing this post are the same people that would win the lottery but then
spend more time bitching about the taxes they have to pay on the winnings rather than enjoying the winnings or or spend
it all and then be broke and then [ __ ] the lottery ruined my life yeah are you freaking kidding me yeah i’ll take the
check yeah i’ll take it yeah yeah you said give it to me you know what if the lottery’s so bad next time you win just
give me the check and and i’ll suffer for you right it’s the same thing that’s
that’s that’s the mentality that this post is coming from and and if i have people that i’m friends with on facebook
that have shared this post don’t take it personally take it as me
challenging you to level up take it as me challenging you to analyze why you
posted this and and make the decision that that okay
do i really feel this way or was this really just kind of an excuse for underperforming and listen not everybody
that shared it i’m i look there are days when you get home and you’re smoked mitch was smoked today
when i got i was yeah i came over here i needed a minute before and he was a ball of crybaby crap down there in the chair
just i mean oh he was wore out one of those yeah that’s a so if you if you saw that
if you saw that and you were wore out and you read it and you were like yeah today yeah today yeah today and you
shared it and then now you’re thinking yeah you know what maybe they’re right about don’t feel bad just just move on yeah
just don’t just don’t let that burrow a little hole in the back of your brain
so that you can pull it up and use it as excuses later right right so like as dave’s point now we had a really tough
day at work today in in our business when i got here i was like boo hoo yeah get over it right and and so like if i
were ever going to share a post like this today would have been it but my mentality isn’t even on
publicly complaining about my day my mentality is like okay we failed in like five different
ways today and that was more than i was prepared for for like how to put
resolutions in in place for five different things like i’m all cool putting like coming up with
new resolutions every day for like one or two failures a day but five kind of overloaded me so uh and some of the
failures were a little pricey so that that always sucks too but now listen that’s a
that has nothing to do with this but those happen too yeah and how you handle those happens yeah you’re gonna have
days when one of your guys screws up and it costs you money absolutely okay just
accept the fact that that’s going to happen prepare for it well i was just going to say and you know what if you’re worried about it set money aside for it
yeah yeah it’s called being prepared we i mean you know what i think boy scouts
has taken a big hit like like when i was a kid everyone was a boy scout at least for a while it was something to be proud
of right at least for a while because you know what the number one thing they taught you was preparedness be prepared
always be prepared no matter what yeah i think this we’re getting into generational
other [ __ ] yeah yeah yeah you know the generations after us you know they just 88 and up 89 and up they’re just
it’s tough it’s not prepared man it’s yeah yeah the the internet has weird side tangents they’re preparedness a
little bit but but that’s all right like like you can still make that choice you can still choose to be prepared even
though i don’t even know society says everyone your age isn’t yeah that’s totally fine you can still rise above
that so um i do we do we have any more to talk about i i don’t want to cut you short on
your body no you’re fine i don’t i’ve hit all mine i think i’ve got them all okay so uh guys that that pretty much wraps
up today’s show on do you feel let me ask you do you feel better that you vented now i will say you’re not as red
as when we started the show yeah you know what i mean we got to get it all out yeah yeah
he looks a lot better let me say this i’ll feel better if people and they don’t even have to like reach out and
tell me this i’ll feel better if people after they hear this episode they make a change for themselves and
they realize i’m not a victim i’m not a slave to the business that i started
like i’m the one in control to fix this it’s a mindset so rather than [ __ ] on social media about all my problems
i’m just going to put plans in place and be more successful maybe take some personal responsibility right and get
after it right that’s that’s the whole purpose of today’s show so he had to get the last little yep last little deal got
it you pulled it right