Built to Keep: Building a Lifestyle Business and Loving It

so you got a three-legged stool that you just outlined right you have the landscape cars and real estate

How

do you juggle this three-legged stool?

I've had people work with me that we kind of tried to get as a piece of everything.

And it was interesting.

Feedback I got from them was, my brain doesn't work like this.

I need to focus on one thing.

So I think it's just... something that over time I kind of just got used to.

But yeah, there'd be days where phone call one minute about, you know, a landscaping customer and then a car lead and then, you know, a problem at a rental house or something like that.

And kind of got just used to making that shift throughout the day.

I kind of just always considered them different divisions of one overall company so could just kind of partition them off that way the landscaping definitely became the most time-sucking for many reasons so over the last couple years we've kind of phased out of that and left it with the the landscape and the real estate stuff and have a new new baby and another one on the way so like part of that kind of forced okay where where are we gonna you free up some time and some mental space.

So we've got it kind of down to the businesses that are a little more self-sufficient and don't take the manpower behind.

Yeah, that was actually the question.

As everyone's listening, they're like, all of those take an inordinate amount of time and energy.

So how do you think about time and energy and money? Because there's a math equation in there.

How are you doing math?

I'm pretty bad at doing the math like I should as a business owner.

I kind of just look at it in the rearview mirror and There's not a whole lot of planning because it is kind of a lifestyle business.

I just make sure that there's enough money coming in the door and if there's leftover at the year, we go invest in another piece of real estate or look at doing an acquisition on a business or something like that.

So always just run things super tight and frugal, both from a business and a personal.

sense.

And so I'm not probably tracking the way I should.

So that's some of the things I've been working on in our acumen groups.

But yeah, I know enough to kind of see what's going on with the businesses.

I'm very big picture, kind of long-term visionary planning.