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Acquiring Minds
The Dream Outcome: From $300k to $5m EBITDA
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Maximum ability, limited mental ability. And he had, you know, things set, like vacation set for those checkpoints and it all fit on a page. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm already through half of that page for my own kids.
And so I said, I've got to make time. And so I had another one of my friends, both of them were in my EO groups Which by the way, EO YPO are great groups to support you if you're a self funded searcher, you're not alone as a sidebar there. But you know, my friend took my calendar, said hey, I'll, I'll help you do your vacations.
And he just started marking all my vacations into my calendar before I scheduled meetings. And he's like done right. And it's like nobody knows where you're at.
If you try to take a meeting and it's blank, they're going to, you're going to fill up that time. So I just filled it up for you for your, your vacation. So that one kind of thing was transformational for me because A, I booked all my vacations for the year a year in advance and that was every six weeks.
We took a vacation every six weeks. But what it also did will was make me realize that if, if I'm going to go on vacation, how do I get myself out of the business for a day? How do I get myself out of the business for a weekend out of a week?
And once you start making those, those kind of, if you start asking those questions and answering them, it doesn't matter if it's a day, a week or a month or two months or three months. You know, you start forming processes and procedures where you don't have to be there at all. And so.
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And so Linh, to be clear, you. Got into search you or you bought a business for yourself because you felt that you weren't getting enough family time and wanted the free. You wanted more freedom.
But then you get into the business, you buy the business, you get into the business. We're going to hear some more about these early days and you're working incredibly hard and in fact, so you're working harder and your family sees you less and your wife has to say, dude, you're, you're actually not present even when you're present. So, so, so you, you actually regressed a little bit once you…
Okay. And then, and then you kind of figured it out that you were, the whole point of why you were here in the first place, you were missing because you were missing family time. And, and now, and now you're extremely focused on that stuff.
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