Good.

I will tell you right now that I learned very, very quickly that you cannot move as fast as I want to move in the timeframe that I want to move if you're holding back information.

And there's two really good examples of what I learned.

So one is I talked to a friend and he became a really close friend of mine through this journey.

I'd say he's one of the closest people that I've attached myself to, to surround myself around that kind of mindset.

But I met him for the first time I met him in the first meeting.

He just started like... like layering me with questions how much money do you make what are your cogs what's your revenue this and this and that and and it was just like a barrage of very personal information and coming from a w-2 you don't talk about that stuff at least not that openly and uh and then i basically got very defensive and then i told him i'm like hey tell me about your business tell me about this this and that and and he could tell that i was a little little miffed a little angry and he said listen if we're going to be friends, we're going to talk about money and we're going to talk about business and we're going to talk about this stuff because I'm either helping you get to my level or you're helping me get to your level.

and you know it and you know for a fact that like the hypothesis that you have is not like going to work out the way you want it to And you have other ideas, you know? And so like, I hear this and I'm like, what do you gain from the next three months? What changes in the story for you? Yeah,

Right.

And then if you know people can do it, then you know it's possible because I started networking with mentors that did it.

And then I realized that it was possible.

And then once I knew it was possible, it was just a matter of how hard I wanted to work to figure it out.

And then eventually I figured it out.

And it took me a long time, by the way.

It took me two or three years to figure it out.

Yeah, if you don't have the right... system in place which i think i think i love what you're doing because you're putting a system in first i think most small business owners you know part of the problem is they're waiting the first five years to kind of figure out what they're doing and get the cash flowing and then they focus on systems it's like phase three or four where i guess in your case you're putting that in right from the get-go