Inspired Insights

January 19th, 2024

Hello my friend,

I honestly cannot believe I'm typing this...

But I just bought a house.

My first home.

This is something that has been going on in the background for the last few months, and on Wednesday afternoon this week, we finally got a call back from the Realter saying:

"Congratulations, you guys got it."

I think the most difficult thing for me to comprehend about this whole situation right now; isn't the fact that I now own my own home.

Or the reality of having a house rather than an apartment for the first time.

What I'm finding most difficult to wrap my head around, is how quickly everything in my life has changed.

Because this dream was completely out of reach just two years ago...

The idea of buying a home might as well have been me landing on the moon.

In July of 2022, after I finished my Ironman, and I decided to give this one last shot:

I was $15k+ in credit card debt because I'd been paying my rent and Ironman expenses on a credit card for the few months leading up to the race.

I was barely even able to get my application accepted for the rental apartment I'm in right now.

I remember the agent, obviously sceptical about my application, calling me and asking:

"So, what income do you have right now?"

Even once I got accepted, the exact quote from the landlord in the acceptance email was, and this is literally verbatim:

"I'm willing to give you a shot."

In the time that Mekealy and I have lived in this apartment, we have gone from budget dinners & Kmart furniture.

To now, less than two years later, buying our first home.

I'm sharing this, to hopefully motivate some of you.

To remind you just how fast everything can change.

You can be working on a goal for half a decade with very little to show for it, only to have all those years of invisible progress manifest in what feels like a single moment.

But that moment only happens if you persevere.

So pivot, shift, take a break, take a job, downsize, whatever the fuck you have to do, do it.

But do not quit.

Your goal is worth far more than the pain it'll take to achieve it.

You might be in a similar spot to where I was just two years ago.

I know how much it fucking sucks.

To know exactly how much work you've put in, and then feel the delta between where you are, and where you want to be.

But I promise, your progress might be invisible, but that does not mean it doesn't exist.

It's there, compounding in the background.

So please, keep going.

I believe in you.

Lesson

"The days can be easy if the years are consistent. You can write a book or get in shape or code a piece of software in 30 minutes per day. But the key is you can't miss a bunch of days." - James Clear.

The word "grind" is used by those who can't see more than exactly what's in front of them.

I prefer the word persevere.

Because when I hear persevere, I think "continue at all cost."

Sometimes, that cost of perseverance will mean slowing down, so you can cover more ground.

It'll mean thinking months and years ahead so time has a chance to compound the results of your actions.

"The days can be easy if the years are consistent."

Resource

Hire the best person for the job.

I know this is more advice than a resource, but screw it, this is my email newsletter.

I haven't had a very productive week with work.

Unsurprisingly, purchasing a home and dealing with a back-and-forth bidding war with another buyer is not massively conducive to a productive work day.

Span that out over a few days, and you're not getting a lot done.

Now, that would normally be okay, but we have cohort six of Time to Build coming up shortly, and things are really ramping up.

So I needed this to be a productive week.

But I had a moment, on Wednesday afternoon where I realized.

I have people working on tasks for this upcoming cohort who are far more skilled in their particular domain than I am.

And their combined output far exceeds what I could even comprehend getting done in my own time.

My business is having a productive week, I'm just not contributing to that productivity.

Sometimes, we, as entrepreneurs, feel as though we need to be the ones moving the needle.

But oftentimes, the best thing we can do, is put the right people in front of the work that needs to be done.

Question

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."

- Winston Churchill

Are you doing what is required or are you looking for a shortcut?

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