John Gafford

You own a job, right?

Like, cause everything, everything depends on you.

And I can say for probably the first time in 14 years, maybe 15 years, I left for 10 days and I, you know, and look, I've got great people that handle all of my stuff for me and run all of our companies for me.

But I still, I got back and I was still like, okay, I'm jet lagged like crazy, but I'm still going in today because I know I'm going to get the list of the disasters that I got to deal with.

And there was nothing.

Like everything was fine.

Like, I mean, sure things happened while I was gone, but everything got handled.

All the problems were fine.

Everybody was happy, no issues whatsoever.

And I was like, you know what?

Cool.

And that says, and that tells you, you know, you can do this again and it's going to be okay because we have built those systems and processes in place and with great people surrounding me to enable you to do that.

And I think if you're an entrepreneur that's struggling with a lot of what you're talking about,

You got to figure out how to kind of get yourself out of the way so you can have those little mini adventures.

we get in business, especially if you have a big ship with a lot of moving parts, sometimes you fill a hole with somebody and you're like, okay, that spot's good.

I can move on to the next thing.

And even though it might not be the best thing, you leave it there because you get like this, it's easier to leave that person there than try to bring somebody else in.

And I think that was a mistake that I made for years.

And now I'm to the point where

know it's got to be a hell yes or it's hell no and as soon as you and as soon as you get in a maybe if you're maybe for me then you're you're hell no and you got to go um you're nicer than me mine is a yes or no yeah yeah well yeah yeah but you just you have to do that right and and who you choose to surround yourself with is such a it will make your life easy or hard and that's from your spouse to your assistant to your coo to your cfo