Reclaiming Your Life: Boundaries For the Lawn Care Business Owner (Part 2)
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What is the purpose of “filling your cup” for lawn‑care business owners?
Hello and welcome to the Green Industry Podcast, your go-to guide for building a more profitable and thriving lawn care and landscaping business. Your host, Paul Jameson, is the author of five bestselling books, including Cut That Grass and Make That Cash, and his latest, Level Up Your Money. All available on Amazon and Audible. Now, get ready for more expert insights and practical strategies. to boost your business and level up your life. Here's Paul Jameson.
Welcome back to the Green Industry Podcast. We are in season two. Episode 105, Paul Jameson here in Florida. Why are we on season two? Season one, we did like 1600 episodes, and I got mad one day because I looked at the um the Apple podcast and it didn't show like this is episode 1624. It just showed 624 because they're they their algorithm thing only had three digits, and we were already doing four digits of episodes. So uh anyways, I'm gonna start a season two and start back at one. Um so anyway, that was a storyline behind that. Well, if you are just tuning in and you missed part one of Ways to Fill Up Your Cup as a small business owner, this is part two. I created a list of 27 things that I like to do personally to fill up my cup.
And we talked about several of those on the previous episode, as well as identifying what empties our cup, what things drain our energy. Because my premise is as a small business owner, you're gonna be at your best to serve your wife. Your children, your team members, and I don't want to say most importantly, but the ones who are paying all of our bills, the oxygen of our cash flow is our customers. So they need to be happy so that they continue paying us money and telling others about how awesome we serve them so more people can pay us money. So the customers need to be happy. Our team members need to be happy because they're the ones serving our customers. And then Whatever your mix of interpersonal relationships are, meaning your spouse, if you have children, your children, if you have uh parents, siblings, relatives, friends, all of them, you you want those relationships to be.
As healthy as optimal as possible. So in the last episode, I introduced this idea of having our cups overflowing where we have more than we can handle of joy. We have more than we can handle financially. We have more than we, I don't want to say handle, but we have more. There's an our cup, it's overflowing with money. Our cup is overflowing with happiness and joy and peace and tranquility and our our stuff is together, right? Our our life is in order. And from that outpouring of the overflow. We run our business. Now You might say, Paul, are you delusional? I will say this. I've run my business where my cup was empty. I literally remember a sod job where I was so Physically. Ill, like I was sick. I was ill, not feeling well.
I mean, my body, I had gigantic bags under my eyes. I felt so tired. Like I need my body was just screaming, you need rest, but I didn't have time to go sleep. I needed to go finish this sod job. And I remember being in this customer's backyard crying. Here I am, a grown man. laying down sod, crying, like There's gotta be more to life than like the the what what am I doing here? I know and and there's more context to this sod job, but I lost thousands of dollars on this sod job. I I installed 10 pallets of sod, my team and I did install ten installed 10 pallets of sod. The customer didn't water it properly, the sod died. He made me re-sod his whole, you know, all the areas that died, which was most of his yard.
So we had to rip out all Now resod his yard. Then we got hit with a historic drought. He didn't water again. That new sod for the second time died. He was a big bully. He made me come back and resod his yard for a third time. And I basically told him, Look, you're too cheap to pay for the water bill, so you're not watering it. That's why it's dying. I'm going to put it in one more time. So, you know, let's say 30 pallets of sod. My already price for the 10 pallets of sod was underpriced. So I I I would have barely broke even if it would if he if he would have properly watered his yard.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the purpose of “filling your cup” for lawn‑care business owners?
0:03–7:56
2
How did a disastrous sod job teach Paul the need for boundaries?
7:56–16:13
3
Why does Paul say an overflowing cup leads to happier customers and more profit?
16:13–22:30
4
What morning rituals (sunrise, walking, audiobooks) help reset your energy?
22:30–25:30
5
How can proper hydration and moisture‑wicking apparel improve field performance?
25:30–28:15
6
Why should lawn‑care crews take a 15‑minute, technology‑free break each day?
28:15–30:03
Speakers
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