Sustaining Growth Through Continuous Learning and Mentorship

construction business so the construction industry was a different journey in it's different education process I started out by buying houses and flipping them but I would focus on buying houses that needed no structural changes in them because I didn't know how to do structural changes but eventually I would graduated by buying more difficult houses and more difficult houses and then my wife challenged me to the most difficult project ever we found our dream location but the house was horrible literally the only bathroom in the house was a hole in the basement floor that was the toilet and she wanted it and she told me that I could build our dream house I was scared but because she told me I could do it I did it and then I taught myself how to pour a basement I taught myself how to do footings I taught myself how to do the framing and I taught myself using my own equipment how to even build a log house when I had no clue you guys you guys can do it too I know how to build a house from start to finish but Frankie does it all and he doesn't need me Frankie does not need me my lawn care division and my heart scaping business run because of Timmy Tim who's been with me for 20 plus years runs both of those he does not need me he likes to have me around he's the guy that likes to double check technical tim loves to double check his stuff against me and i want to be there for him but i don't need to be there for him another key player my real estate business in Costa Rica I have another partner and that he runs that without me entirely without me I don't even speak Spanish he speaks fluent Spanish he handles all the legal components of it we buy and sell land we divide it up we create developments and he handles all of that dirt monkey university without phil without cali it would not exist it simply would not be there key people you your next step the most important thing that you guys need to do is find key people and the first thing you guys are going to ask me is how do I find those people you develop them yourself you look for character not skill you don't look for people that already know it all you don't want those people the people that come into my business claiming to know everything are usually the most worthless pieces that I've ever had come into the business because you know what they don't know everything they know what they know but they're too stuck in their own ruts they're too stuck in their own ways to become flexible to understand that maybe…