Hi. This is Mike Crow, and I run home inspection business.
Speaker:In fact, I've run a couple of home inspection businesses.
Speaker:You know, true joy for me, though, has been helping literally
Speaker:thousands of home inspectors build really solid home inspection business as well.
Speaker:We can help a single man operation be able to do over $300,000 a year,
Speaker:maybe all the way up to $400,000 a year as a single inspector operation.
Speaker:Even better for me is the 80 plus companies that we have helped
Speaker:be able to build million dollar home inspection businesses.
Speaker:I would like to help you be able to do the same thing
Speaker:Too often we focus on the wrong things
Speaker:like worrying about your competition or where you are in your life right now.
Speaker:If that statement confuses you, pay attention to this episode.
Speaker:If you have
Speaker:any questions for Mike or want to know how we can help you grow your business,
Speaker:you can email us at Hello at Coach Blueprint dot com
Speaker:You have four parts of your body.
Speaker:You have four lives to live.
Speaker:You have a physical you have a mental.
Speaker:You have a social and a spiritual.
Speaker:Each side that is developed
Speaker:in turn stimulates the other three sides, all for one and one for all.
Speaker:Kind of like the Musketeers.
Speaker:A man must play work love and worship to get the most out of life.
Speaker:You have to do all four parts to get the most.
Speaker:When you understand this, you actually realize you have four lives to live.
Speaker:Then the more you pour out, the more you have to pour.
Speaker:In other words, the more you share with others, the more you have yourself.
Speaker:We say that again, the more
Speaker:you share with others, the more you have yourself.
Speaker:You know, we have a poster back here that says The more money you make,
Speaker:the more people you can help.
Speaker:But I'm going to tell you, the more people you help,
Speaker:the more you grow as a person as well.
Speaker:It's kind of a cool, cool thing.
Speaker:Okay, so do this real quick.
Speaker:Take a piece of paper and draw this graph.
Speaker:And I just want you to grade yourself, and I'm not going to ask to see anybody's.
Speaker:I'm going to show you kind of mine here in a second, but take a look on the graph.
Speaker:So if you have spiritual, you have mental, physical, social
Speaker:and all of those grades yourself on a one to ten,
Speaker:how strong are you in those different areas?
Speaker:And I'm going to tell you a very big secret here
Speaker:because people have been lying to you about this as well.
Speaker:Even this book has a little bit of
Speaker:difficulty with this.
Speaker:So physical, let's say physical is the one on the. Yep.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So I'm about a six I'm about a six out of ten.
Speaker:Because quite honestly, I don't exercise as much as I should.
Speaker:Robyn, Michelle, they go running every morning and I
Speaker:look at them and I go, wow, that's invigorating.
Speaker:Let me go get some breakfast.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And then on the spiritual,
Speaker:I'm going to tell you that I'm probably out of ten.
Speaker:I am probably one of the most faith driven people you'll ever run into
Speaker:because I see myself as a conduit
Speaker:for our Heavenly Father to use me to reach other people.
Speaker:And it's one of my biggest,
Speaker:biggest secrets to my success.
Speaker:And then then there's social.
Speaker:And I'm going to tell you, social is one of my weak spots.
Speaker:And I'm about a four
Speaker:because I'm an introvert.
Speaker:I know you don't believe that
Speaker:in seeing me up here and watching me get around and talking with everybody.
Speaker:The honest truth is, I would love to stay up my room
Speaker:as much as I could and just come down when I have to be on stage.
Speaker:And if I didn't have to be on stage, I wouldn't be up here.
Speaker:But I have learned
Speaker:that to do what I need to do on the spiritual side,
Speaker:I have to be available to people and I have to help people succeed as well.
Speaker:So it forces me to be a better social person.
Speaker:And then on the other one is mental Now, can I tell you guys a secret?
Speaker:And Susan hates us. Susan, are you back there? Yep, she has. Good.
Speaker:I want to make sure I say it in front of her.
Speaker:Susan's the smart one in the family.
Speaker:I'm the go getter.
Speaker:I'm the doer.
Speaker:But Susan was actually valedictorian of her class, and so I call Susan.
Speaker:I joke a little bit, but I'm serious.
Speaker:I call Susan my little intellect, because if I need to know anything, I ask her.
Speaker:And we have this little church group that comes to our house,
Speaker:and there's this other guy, and he's an intellect,
Speaker:and I just love watching him and Susan talk
Speaker:about all kinds of things that I have absolutely zero interest in.
Speaker:But the bottom line is, what is your what is your mental level?
Speaker:I will also tell you that my mental level improves
Speaker:because I'm hanging around you guys and you guys are forcing me.
Speaker:And it's probably an eight for me because I am fully engaged
Speaker:mentally on preparing to try to help you guys.
Speaker:So now take a look. This is my box.
Speaker:Is not a nice square box.
Speaker:So here's the thing that everybody lies to you about.
Speaker:They tell you you need to be a balanced person.
Speaker:They tell you you need to have it all basically at ten years.
Speaker:And I'm going to tell you something and
Speaker:I'm going to tell you the real version that is completely bogus.
Speaker:Now, every time I say bogus, you guys know what I'm telling you.
Speaker:But people want to tell you, you should have it all balanced out,
Speaker:successful people never have a full square.
Speaker:You just don't.
Speaker:And you're flexing all the time.
Speaker:And if you don't flex, you don't grow.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I don't know what your box looks at, but here's what I will tell you.
Speaker:When I look at the box, I go, ooh, a 600 to work on that,
Speaker:and I'll get it and I'll start exercising.
Speaker:I'll do 25 30 pushups in the morning and I'll do crunches and I'll do this
Speaker:and I'll do that. And I have to £10
Speaker:barbells, whatever you call
Speaker:them, dumb waiters, whatever I don't know
Speaker:man. And I'll, and I'll sit there and do 50 crunches
Speaker:and so I work out and I do that for about a month or two and then I quit
Speaker:and I might go up to a ten and I go back down to a six
Speaker:and it depends on what I'm trying to get done.
Speaker:Now the day of defending your present possessions is gone.
Speaker:I don't care where you are right now.
Speaker:I don't care what you have right now.
Speaker:What I want is for you to start
Speaker:working on where you want to be in the future,
Speaker:not worrying about what your competition's doing.
Speaker:I want you to understand the competition is not a problem.
Speaker:Competition is something in your brain.
Speaker:My dad used to tell me all the time, son, don't worry about the competition.
Speaker:And I think he was right.
Speaker:Now I pay attention to what they do in some different things.
Speaker:But don't worry about your competition.
Speaker:You're going to wake up in the morning thinking of new ways to do things
Speaker:rather than reasons why they can't be done.
Speaker:And I'm going to tell you, this is one of my new sayings.
Speaker:Don't worry about your competition.
Speaker:Let them worry about you.
Speaker:That's their problem.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:And I have competition.
Speaker:I have like six other million plus dollar companies in my area
Speaker:that every day I know they get up.
Speaker:And part of their game plan is what is Texans backed up to today.
Speaker:And their marketing people will bash us
Speaker:publicly.
Speaker:Some people will tell them that
Speaker:we're doing things wrong illegally.
Speaker:Some people will tell them that, oh, we we don't do this or whatever.
Speaker:I don't want you to know. I don't care
Speaker:it doesn't
Speaker:behoove me to focus on that.
Speaker:Let's just go kick their butt.
Speaker:And so actually, we sat down with Jonathan,
Speaker:and Kristen said, So what's the next thing in our file
Speaker:that he doesn't know about that we can put into place?
Speaker:Because I am the king of backups.
Speaker:Call it the Bismarck factor.
Speaker:I am the king of backups.
Speaker:So we went to our file
Speaker:and Jonathan and Kristen, I pulled out the internal marketing program
Speaker:that we've been developing for years and we fully implemented it
Speaker:and we crushed
Speaker:we crushed it.
Speaker:You're going to be surrounded by that 95%
Speaker:that wants you to give more attention
Speaker:to garbage than to success.
Speaker:Which do you want to focus on?
Speaker:Because, one, it's easy because it goes downhill
Speaker:and the other one is uphill okay.
Speaker:So be strong.
Speaker:You know, wealth can't really buy health, by the way.
Speaker:I'm not sure that's true, but in the book it says wealth cannot buy health.
Speaker:Health will make you wealthy if you will use your energies in the right directions.
Speaker:And I will tell you, energy is important.
Speaker:So here's a couple of questions you should ask yourself.
Speaker:Do I have a capacity for hard work?
Speaker:My dad taught me there's dad standing in the back door back there.
Speaker:My dad taught me this.
Speaker:He taught me you have to have capacity for hard work.
Speaker:You have to be able to turn it on and leave it on until you're done.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Can I keep everlasting at it?
Speaker:Can I have that sustained pep and punch?
Speaker:Can I maintain a high batting average?
Speaker:And what is my ability to spurt?
Speaker:I will tell you in business, you have to have the ability to spurt.
Speaker:You have to have that ability to run as fast as you can.
Speaker:That 100 yard dash you've got to have that ability.
Speaker:So most people do things they enjoy.
Speaker:Most people do things they enjoy,
Speaker:and people will tell you one of the biggest,
Speaker:biggest lies and I love Brian yesterday because he really pointed out to you
Speaker:that you're being lied to every single day.
Speaker:The media I want you to know the media, the radio, the advertisements.
Speaker:Everything's designed
Speaker:to make you one of the 95%
Speaker:that's what they want is for you
Speaker:to be one of the 95%
Speaker:the movies I go and see make rich guys
Speaker:the evil people
Speaker:and they and it is just mind boggling me.
Speaker:But that's where they want you because they can sell more to you.
Speaker:They can put you in debt.
Speaker:They can make you do things
Speaker:you really shouldn't do that are not in the best interest for you.
Speaker:Most people do things
Speaker:they enjoy and people tell you, do what you enjoy.
Speaker:And the money will follow.
Speaker:And I want you to know that's completely bogus.
Speaker:Here's what the real secret is
Speaker:Make yourself enjoy doing the things you don't like to do.
Speaker:That's what successful people do.
Speaker:I can not tell you the number of times my dad asked me to do something
Speaker:I did not want to do.
Speaker:But it's also the reason I'm standing up here and I'm successful
Speaker:is because he taught me
Speaker:to do the things even when I didn't enjoy doing them.
Speaker:And you need to know that you've got two voices you don't really need to exercise.
Speaker:It's kind of a waste of energy. Boy, I hear that voice a lot.
Speaker:Okay, now is your opportunity to start the biggest day of the week,
Speaker:and a strong body is necessary for you to tackle that bigger job.
Speaker:Are you willing to get up and exercise a little bit?
Speaker:I will tell you when I get up, exercise my whole day is better.
Speaker:Just don't, don't don't beat me up on that next time, okay?
Speaker:But my whole day is better.
Speaker:And. Okay, so what weakness will you have to overcome this year to be stronger?