Brandon Brittingham

And these are long time investors of mine, friends of mine, people that trust me, people that trust me with their money.

I didn't have a choice, right?

And the important part of this is when you have a deadline that you cannot miss,

you can make insane amount of shit happen.

And what happens when we live in a world where everyone's not working on the same deadline, and if you don't put a deadline on things and treat it like it's life or death, then the deadline gets pushed.

You can make insane shit happen when you have a deadline.

Put deadlines on yourself, put deadlines on other people.

Another really important lesson that I learned in December, I had to say no to a lot of things because in order for me to get all this stuff done, what I had said yes to was I gotta get all these properties to settlement for my investors, and you can't imagine the amount of shit that went wrong.

Every damn deal I had, something went wrong.

Because I had to focus on getting all these properties to settlement for my investors, I didn't have time to do anything else.

And what it made me really think about is what are the things that I'm saying yes to in my life that I'm not aligned with, right?

And I'm just saying yes in a vacuum with no intention.

Because as entrepreneurs, we tend to do this.

We tend to say yes.

We tend to say yes.

And understand everything you say yes to, you're saying no to something else.

So in all reality, what is really important that you should be saying yes and you should be saying no to?

What I learned in December was I had another gear that I did not know that I could run at.

But in order for me to run at that gear, there's a lot of shit I had to say no to.

And it really made me think and gave me retrospect about like,