Rejoice in Your Toil: Building Resilience in Business, Life, and Family

[00:00:00] There is no such thing as easy money. I wanted to talk today about my mentality that took me a little while to develop in work, about work. I think that there can be a flawed belief out there that once you get the right training, once you have the right people, once you set up The proper systems that you will not have pain in business.

anymore or you'll have a significantly reduced amount. But from my experience, when you are continuing to push and grow your businesses or continuing to push and grow personally, as soon as you put those systems in place, or as soon as you attain that new level of [00:01:00] expertise or level of confidence, Business, a high performing individual immediately takes more on their plate.

They immediately expand, they immediately push into new uncharted territory. And I think that's where that business adage of, if you're not growing, you're dying. So it is probably possible to get a certain size book of business, to have some techniques and procedures that work well for you. And kind of stay at a certain level in good times.

But when. Bad times come or when market changes happen, new technologies are implemented, new particular competition comes into your market. You will see your business go down. You will see Your personal performance change because things have changed. And I [00:02:00] think that that's where the way that God has wired the universe to work.

Uh, the, the, the same reality that you experience when you're working out, like when you lift, You're getting stronger when you're pushing through the pain, when you're, you know, breaking down that muscle tissue to a certain point and allowing it to regrow stronger, creating that muscle memory that equals more strength.

As long as you're continuing to work out, as long as you're continuing to push, uh, and maintain, maintain. that effort, you will maintain that strength. And then as soon as you slack off on the effort and slack off on the work, your strength is reduced. The same thing happens in business. That is one of the things that I think is a blessing about the way that God has ordered the universe.

is that it is all very consistent throughout. And I, personally, when I switch between business and personal growth, or I switch between, uh, you know, spiritual growth and the [00:03:00] different mentalities, for some reason we think, uh, or at least I think it's different when we get into that different domain. I, I excelled at high levels in the military, And I thought, all right, you know, I, I created a certain level of competence in that particular domain and now that I'm in business, I'm just going to go be excellent at that.

And I, I wasn't saying it out loud, but the way that I was thinking about it and then my emotional reaction when I encountered difficulty in business. This led to the reality, or to me to see this reality, that I thought that because I had developed expertise over here, Because I was in really good shape because I had a particular refined mental capacity for being shot at that.

Then I was going to also be able to experience these financial risks and things. And it, and it did help, did help me because it gave me a framework [00:04:00] for approaching difficult situations that worked, but I still had to put forth the effort to refine that particular tolerance for risk and that particular mentality about physical danger and physical discomfort because I had 14 years of working out to maintain that high level of physical fitness that I had to refine that for business.

Okay. And one of the reasons that's bringing this up for discussion that's top of mind for me today is I have this uh airbnb mansion that we have And we have a check in today. We offered them a 1 p. m. Check in because they are Have a 2 p. m. Golf time My standard procedure is to give somebody up to two hours early check in and then of course course they asked for another hour, uh, you know, and, and it's, it doesn't cost me a whole lot to let them come in early and it's one of those [00:05:00] things it's like, Oh, you know, I want you to pay me a hundred bucks when you're already paying me two grand to stay there for another hour.

So it's, it's, it's kind of easy to go in, update the lock. Yeah. Go ahead and check in early. But I was able to give them the asterisk of the disposal is backed up. And, uh, when I went over to kind of troubleshoot the disposal. Because my plumber was backed up on, on service call works at the time, I noticed that our sewage ejector grinder pump, I think it's a grinder pump, uh, is, uh, was, was messed up.

We had the little alarm light on it. And this happens quarterly, uh, when we forget to send the specific pump. check in that even though we have signs on every toilet that it is not okay to flush anything but natural bodily waste and toilet papers. A couple times ago, uh, we had an applicator tool floating at the top and I'll leave it at [00:06:00] that in case you have young ears in the car and the pump was clogged.

So it's probably been two months or so, three months since we had the, uh, Pump malfunction. I was there till about 8 p. m. Last night because this is a nasty job. Pulled the pump, disassembled the grinder head, pulled all the debris from within the the grading tools and dropped it back in. Still tripping the breaker.

Still, uh, not working and ejecting and grinding the sewage to the street. And I am counting it a blessing because during that I had my son and one of his friends with me during that particular episode and that incident I was saying what is my normal mantra. Those of you that have been around for a while know one of my mantras is rejoice in your toil and that is kind of that little Soundtrack that I play in my head to get my mind right in these situations where [00:07:00] I would rather be building my house I would rather be quoting work for clients.

I'd rather be creating media for y'all And here I am covered in Uh, bodily waste and fishing out flushable wipes that were floating on the top of the tank and getting in there and literally getting nasty and trying to troubleshoot the issue. And I was there with my son. I was there with his friend. You know, I kept it together.

I was saying rejoice in your toil. I was joking with them. You know, oh, I don't really, uh, remember reading about this in Psalms. When the, when the smell of poo hangs heavy on the air, you are there with me, Lord. But that is the reality is that God is there. Uh, it could have been raining. One of the times my son, uh, got his, um, underpants caught in the, uh, the grinder pump and it was during a hurricane.

So I actually had to set up a tent on top of the tank while it was pouring down rain while we were out of power. So I was trying to use the generator to run the sewage, to [00:08:00] keep things going. And, and I've just was able to reframe the situation and be like, you know what, I have the ability, the health, the knowledge, the expertise, the tools, all that stuff to come and troubleshoot this for a cost of my time, a cost of a little bit of fuel back and forth.

I'm able to reach out to my plumber and get some of that expertise to actually know a guy that I met at the Fight Laugh East conference that is a sewage pump, uh, mechanic. Uh, I think that's why I remember it. I was able to send him a Facebook message. Uh, and say, Hey, what we got to, to refurb these pumps.

Cause believe it or not, these pumps are at least. Pre COVID we're, uh, excess to two grand and my, my plumber is saying that they're up to about five grand now. So, potentially working a temporary fix to have sewage work because we have five nights straight booked. Um, [00:09:00] you know, and that brings me, uh, to another one of my mantras, no such thing as easy money.

So, all that. Is that no such thing as easy money, that rejoice in your toil, all those are kind of nested below the rejoice with the overarching principle that I'm talking about today is that you have to exert yourself, you have to apply yourself, you have to continue to push if you want to have success and you need that you use The right mentality, the spiritual optic to keep your emotions in check when times are hard because the Christian knows that all of these particular issues have been ordained.

for our good, to produce righteousness. So I'm at least able to look back and honestly say that I kept my emotions in check, even such that I [00:10:00] was not a jerk to my son, uh, or was not just, you know, this distress. And the reality is, Physiologically, as a man specifically, I know that stress kills men. Stress.

And so, reality is, is if you aren't able to maintain that right mindset while you're exerting yourself and while you're going through, That then you are getting, you're killing yourself. You're actually poisoning, you're doing things to your physiology that make you stressed out, that eat away at your stomach lining, that create this, this physiological state that wears on your body.

If you cannot cultivate that, The joy of the Lord in all circumstances. And so that is, you know, kind of a big dump on things as I'm [00:11:00] a dump on things as I'm going to look at that pun as I'm on my way to fix this, uh, sewage ejector. So, um, you know, that is all to encourage you where you are right now. Fix your mentality, develop some soundtracks, Have the right mindset to, when things get tough, that you can smile.

We would joke about in the military, when it started raining, we're out in the field training, that when you had the first couple drops, go down your back and continue. You know where, that once that happened, once you had gotten that level of wet, You're able to shift your mindset and be like, ah, okay, now I'm, now I'm a certain level of soaked.

It doesn't matter anymore. I'm really in the, in the, in the suck now. And it's okay. Like you actually are able to, when it gets bad enough, you're able to kind of smile about it. And I think that as Christian as a one that has [00:12:00] a disciplined life, a sound mind that's aiming, hitting the mark, life on target.

We're able to very quickly keep, transition our mindset such that it is, um, we're able to very quickly transition our mindset to where we don't have the stress, where we have the joy of the Lord, where we're able to push through difficult circumstances and we're able to perform well under these circumstances and continue to build and grow ourselves, our personal disciplines, our spiritual disciplines, the ability to thrive under pressure, to be anti fragile, and then to pass that on to future generations.

And, uh, I actually, just showed up at the house right now. Those of you that are watching this on video are, um, were able to see me in living color. I'm walking over here. I still have the cinematic mode on the iPhone. So the [00:13:00] background's blurred, but I'm walking over here to the sewage pump. And so you can see that Nate is not blowing smoke.

Nate's not lying about the situation that I'm really and truly Dealing with these situations right now. You can see right there in the background. I think the uh, The red light is on and the tank is here and I have the tools still laid out from when I left the job at 11 or not 11. I left the job about 8 8 30 last night.

I think maybe 7 30 7 30 We felt like it was a lot later because it got dark and uh, so i'm gonna go ahead and sign off Right now. Uh, before I do though, uh, I have been doing, uh, a lot on Telegram. Not a lot. I just started doing a lot on Telegram that we can talk about some of the more nitty gritty stuff about a tactical household.

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