Hey guys , welcome back to the show . This week Wanted to talk a little bit about personal life and then business life . I've shared in previous episodes that my mom has gone through cancer breast cancer and last week we had our first checkup after all the treatment and so forth , and thank you that her scan came back clean . That's a positive thing .
That's been weighing on me for some time now . They caught it early stage . They called it 1a , I think is the stage , is what they refer to . But cancer cancer is scary and sad and I don't know what to say other than it scares me on a daily basis and fighting for my mom every single day is my number one priority in life .
Thank you God for giving her some extra days and giving her a clean bill of health . So thank you very much . So on the business front , I'm not trying to be down , guys , I'm just it's there's a lot on my head . I've got some concerns and I'm trying to make everything I have work and all I can do is keep asking for help and make things happen .
We're trying to sell the last two new builds on Baird Park . We've got a offer on the second house . It's a cash offer , so it's a little bit less than initially . It was a full ask offer and they came back and I don't know what happened . It was either financing we were working on potentially doing a note .
They came back and turned around and came back with a cash offer a little bit less than our full offer . So I don't know if I'm going to count or not . I'm working on that .
And then we've got the remaining lots on the actual block and we're trying to figure out what to do with those , develop them , co-develop them , sell them to another entity and just work through that process .
I'm just trying to make all the numbers work and sometimes I don't know how else to describe it other than it just like you feel like you're backed into a corner and you have some great thought process and you run it by some people and , next thing , you've got some ideas . So I've got a couple ideas that we're gonna try out and and see what happens .
The the biggest thing that I want to do is one do right by the city for giving us the option to build to the , the residents , because that block is changing .
And three , leave a lasting legacy for what we've done , and it's hard to do all three of those Just for the simple fact is I feel a little bit torn about selling it off to somebody or co-developing , because then it doesn't have our name on it .
By itself that's a little bit of a downer for me , but at the same time it also helps us clear the runway , make sure that we've got what we need to move forward with other projects .
But , by the way , setting up the project for success , we've done decently on the actual project , but I think it needs somebody else that has a potential , local flair , a local interest and pushing forward . I don't know , we'll see where it goes .
I have to look at all the options and discuss it with all parties involved and see where it goes , but it just , in the end it's weighing on me because there's there's other things weighing on me and it's tough to be able to say I've got a exit strategy or I've got a run , a runway for this to make this all happen . I don't , I really don't .
So at the end of the day , we we have to find a way to make it work , because the runway that we're building is starting to gain momentum and the plane is getting ready to start going down the runway . It's just not gotten to full steam yet . And that's where I would say , I'm frustrated . And this is where I preach about instant gratification .
We talk about it quite frequently and I am one to say that I should not be on self-gratification mode , but at the same time , I'm frustrated in my mind about being able to find an idea , a concept that actually works and allows to be a win for everybody . I just I don't know what it's going to look like .
And to relate it all back to businesses frustration I'm a solopreneur . I do have a business partner and I've been trying to do this by myself for too long , and having additional people around me is going to be a great thing . To have additional people around me is going to be a great thing to have . So there's some changes there potentially coming .
But also in everything that I do , I have to make sure that I see all facets of the actual transaction and making sure it's the best play for the business and for whoever we're serving . And that gets back and forth , weighs on my heart , weighs on my mind , weighs on making a judgment call and saying , okay , this is what we're going with .
It's tough as a solopreneur , business owner , and it's not . I'll say it as is . Did I ever think that I would be on this journey , eight years later and where we're at ? No , I thought there'd be other things going on , but along the way there was ups and downs of a roller coaster and have to be able to flatten it out and make it work .
And have to be able to flatten it out and make it work , and I don't know how else to describe it other than I've been very thankful for these experiences that I know that I'm not going to back that up . I've learned from these experiences , but then I can also pass them on to others .
But also , these are learning experiences that I get to grow upon and even though I can view them as failure at times or being knocked down on my knees , it truly is a way to learn and grow as a human being , as a leader , as a son , a family member , whatever the case is .
There's a lot of lessons in here and I think part of being it's not think , I know part of being a business owner is the life experience that you get with it and how you can apply it to different aspects of your life , not just business-wise , personal and when I say just personal , how you can apply it to different aspects of your life , not just business-wise
, personal and when I say just personal , how you interact with your family , your significant other boyfriend , girlfriend , husband , wife , siblings , nieces , nephews , so forth . How you communicate with others that you don't . And here's one that I really focused in on for a while is meeting strangers and just listening .
I love to listen when I meet a stranger or for somebody I'm meeting for the first time , because I don't know who he or she is and they've got so much to offer , so just listening . They say God gave you two ears and one mouth , so guess what ?
Double the time listening , and sometimes I try not to speak at all or very little , because ultimately I want to grow as a human being , I want to grow a business owner , I want to grow as a son , husband , father . I just want to be a better person , and the only way you become a better person day by day if I improve 1% every single day .
The old adage I'm moving myself along is listening and learning to others and talking to people . After you've listened , you're talking to people and picking their mind about things that they've gone through , about things that they're doing , because they have the experience .
There might be people out there you think that don't have the experience and they truly do , but the only way you find out that they have the experience is by listening and learning from them .
And I would say in my younger years I did a lot of talking and not a lot of listening , and now I'm doing a lot of listening and a lot of reflection and interest , being introverted from the inside out to make sure I'm doing what needs to be done to get the job done .
It's hard it really is but I'm thankful for each day that I wake up and I get to be able to make the day better , make things move forward and create better outcomes . All right , guys , that was it . I know it's a little bit somber , but I wanted just to share that information . It's near and dear to my heart and personal .
I hope you guys have a great week . I'll see you guys on the other side .