Nick Bare

an endless pursuit of the next thing, more, more, more, and it's never enough.

The next valuable life lesson is to know when to rise and when to dive.

Like I said, in the beginning of this episode, this inspired this entire episode.

As I was listening to a Craig Groeschel podcast,

He was talking about leadership altitude.

And he posed the question, what deserves altitude and what deserves attention?

And you have to know when to rise and when to dive.

In the last five years, five years ago, it was 2021.

My life looked significantly different.

Recently married.

no kids yet.

BPN was much smaller.

In 2021, we maybe had around 10 employees, if I had to guess and remember properly, somewhere around that.

So running the business and the way that I had to lead was much different than

than it is now.

I've learned a lot.

And I've learned a lot through failing, specifically in what I'm about to talk about right here.

Craig Rochelle says that while it is natural to feel that you must be involved in everything, staying too low for too long can cause you to lose perspective while staying too high for too long can cause you to lose connection with your people.

So when you rise, you are working on big picture, visionary, strategy, objectives.

You are leading.