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Assembling and Empowering a Visionary Team

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How I got started as a farm kid with zero money to running multiple businesses

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In his office, the presenter then emphasizes the shift from individual effort to collective achievement. He highlights that his early work as a 'dump truck driver' was a foundational step, but his end goal was owning an excavating company. He powerfully states, 'Your team builds your dream,' illustrating this concept with old photographs of his team actively working on various excavating projects, including laying bricks and general construction. This step details the necessity of finding, trusting, and empowering key people to contribute to the overall vision and success of the enterprise, and the iterative nature of improving business processes.

Goal: Cultivate a skilled and motivated team to achieve collective business goals.

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very first pieces of equipment truck then I bought a ski I bought a tractor loader backhoe then I bought a skid loader having zero prior experience to operating any of this and having theirs there were no videos there were no tutorials there was nothing out there that let a guy get a feeling for what it took what to look for when you were buying something so you would I would go in blindly buying something and then teaching myself how to operate it I didn't have operators school so I did the best I could figuring it out all on my own which is a lot of the ways that you guys are going to be doing it on your on your own but now you guys there's resources for you guys to use that you don't have to figure it out all by yourself and these resources you guys are gonna put you light years ahead of where I was when I was your age when I was at your stage of the game when I was getting started and I wish I only wish that those resources existed way back then so I started out as a laborer and I graduated this is the graduation process you guys I graduated from a laborer to an equipment operator and then I taught myself how to operate all sorts of equipment tractors out in the field loaders pay loaders excavators mini excavators dump trucks a self-taught 100% everything was self-taught or me asking somebody to show what they were what I well how to operate a piece of equipment and getting minimal instruction at the very best that's how I learned so I'm not a perfect equipment operator and some of these other YouTube channels out there like to go oh yeah blah blah blah and I don't care about them okay so here's a fact you guys don't let anybody stop you and you need to understand they're going to try they're not going to want to see you pass them even when you're you can you can pass them making mistakes and that's what's going to really piss them off you will pass them even when you're doing it wrong because you're willing to work harder you're willing to give it more you're willing to do the things they're not willing to do they're gonna look like they're coasting while you're cruising and even if you're cruising screwing up you're still gonna go further farther and faster and that's when you're gonna get the most haters coming out of the woodwork going after you and just understand it's part of the process don't let it slow you down let it help you build up speed to leave him even further behind their business I learned how to become an equipment operator and then…

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