Speaker 1: People want to ask how do I invest, Like, where
Speaker 1: do I invest, especially in this crazy climate? What do
Speaker 1: I do to build something from myself? And so we're
Speaker 1: going to dig into that today and it's not the
Speaker 1: answer that you thought we're going to give, and it's
Speaker 1: worth hearing. And I think more people need to hear
Speaker 1: about stuff like this because in a climate when there's
Speaker 1: just so much confusion on the Internet and everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to get a piece of everybody, and everyone wants you
Speaker 1: to do something, it's really hard to get an understanding
Speaker 1: on where do I go from here? And I think
Speaker 1: I have the best answer for that. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: saying a lot, but I truly think it is. And
Speaker 1: so today I recruited my brother slash my manager. Sometimes
Speaker 1: he's my only my brother and sometimes he's only my manager,
Speaker 1: depending on the day. In the conversation, Tyler Smith is here.
Speaker 1: We got permission from The Bachelorette to have him on
Speaker 1: here so he could actually talk. He's been handcuffed by
Speaker 1: that show for he wouldn't say that that's my words,
Speaker 1: not his. Since he was on the show, I've been
Speaker 1: wanting to get him on this podcast just because he's
Speaker 1: my brother and I think you guys would love his advice.
Speaker 1: He's a really smart dude. He reads a lot, he
Speaker 1: knows so much about self development, and he could give
Speaker 1: really good advice. He does to me all the time.
Speaker 1: I rely on him for good advice. So it only
Speaker 1: makes sense that we should have him on this podcast.
Speaker 1: So I got him. I got him wrangled in. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about your questions, including what do I
Speaker 1: do with my investment? Like how do I even start?
Speaker 1: Where do I go? We got the answer for you.
Speaker 1: I think it's really good one. I think it's the
Speaker 1: best one. That's my opinion. So welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Ye yee did chant and decent mus and school, long
Speaker 1: line of five, fool of up and down on Back's
Speaker 1: rangy cool wage Yeah you gation. So as long as
Speaker 1: I've been doing this podcast, I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: this elusive guest, and I've been going through all the
Speaker 1: right right channels to try to get you. And finally
Speaker 1: I'm so happy, man, I'm so happy I finally got you.
Speaker 1: Finally said guests to be a guest on this podcast,
Speaker 1: my one and only middle brother, Thank you and Tyler
Speaker 1: what thank you for having me? Yeah? Can we talk
Speaker 1: about the show you're on. Is that something we can't
Speaker 1: talk about? Yeah, I can talk about certain things. Okay,
Speaker 1: Tyler was on recent season of the Bachelorette, and we
Speaker 1: don't have to talk about specifics of that show, and
Speaker 1: you might not even be able to, but that's interesting
Speaker 1: how you went into the Bachelorette, how you were picked
Speaker 1: for the Bachelorette, and how you approached it. And people
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast might not even watch that show,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting how you approached that whole project. And
Speaker 1: for those of you all that don't know, and most
Speaker 1: probably don't, Tyler is just a vocious is that a word? Vocious?
Speaker 1: Ferocious reader? You have? You have an entire wall in
Speaker 1: your office that's nothing but books, and most of the
Speaker 1: books are related to succeeding in life in some way,
Speaker 1: whether that's physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Most of the reading
Speaker 1: right all right? Well? And self yeah, personal development, personal development.
Speaker 1: So because of you read so much, you have become
Speaker 1: just a walking encyclopedia of self help advice. And whenever
Speaker 1: I need something, you'll usually throw out some one liner
Speaker 1: that's I'm like, man, what or did you hear that
Speaker 1: that's incredible. And you'll say, I don't know some one
Speaker 1: of these books. Sometimes you even you don't even remember
Speaker 1: where it came from, which is awesome. You kind of
Speaker 1: like Bernie, who we had last week. You have a
Speaker 1: You're very regimented in your life, and your success has
Speaker 1: come because of the discipline that you grew up with
Speaker 1: playing football. You played college football at Rice, and you
Speaker 1: took that discipline into life in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: and you have a You are very uncommon amongst most
Speaker 1: humans that I know. I promise I'll let you talk.
Speaker 1: But in the ways in terms of you wake up
Speaker 1: at what time? Five? You wake up five every day,
Speaker 1: seven days a week. Yeah, well sometimes on the weekends
Speaker 1: I don't, but I'm trying to. And you go to
Speaker 1: bed at what time? Which is probably what this is
Speaker 1: what makes you more uncommon. It depends. Last yesterday, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, I was really tired, so I went to
Speaker 1: bed at eight. I just listened to my body. But
Speaker 1: usually he went to bed at eight, And usually it's
Speaker 1: usually I'm in bed by nine, fall asleep by nine thirty.
Speaker 1: But it's never when I'm on my routine, it's never
Speaker 1: later than ten. Yeah, so I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone listening to this podcast. I'd be willing to bet
Speaker 1: that anyone besides the people that have a job that
Speaker 1: works all night. I don't think anyone went to bed
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock last night that's listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: except for you. Not unless you're four years old. Three
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, Oneon and Lincoln stay up later than
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, my kids stay awake later than you do.
Speaker 1: So you approached a batcheorette with this mentality of I'm
Speaker 1: going to I'm going to attack this opportunity as a
Speaker 1: as a way to grow as a man, as a person,
Speaker 1: and some people might be listening on what like that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't even make any sense. You can go to
Speaker 1: a bachelorette, this reality show to become a better man,
Speaker 1: and that's not really the way you approached it. You
Speaker 1: approached it as I'm going to I'm going to really
Speaker 1: put myself and test myself at the limits of my
Speaker 1: social capacity in that kind of environment. Right, m So,
Speaker 1: how did you including COVID and the quarantine, how did
Speaker 1: you how did you approach the bachelorette? How did I
Speaker 1: approach it or why did I go well? For for instance,
Speaker 1: I told I told everyone, you're a huge reader. You
Speaker 1: have this schedule, extreme schedule that you keep. You time
Speaker 1: block your day, Like even to get on this podcast,
Speaker 1: like I had to get it to the minute because
Speaker 1: I know you and you you have your time blocked
Speaker 1: and then certain time you you do certain things. And
Speaker 1: so to go into a show where you're not the
Speaker 1: boss of anything was a huge mental challenge for you.
Speaker 1: So you didn't have your books, you didn't have your routine,
Speaker 1: you didn't have your meals you eat the same thing
Speaker 1: every day. You didn't have your everything that you have.
Speaker 1: So how did you how and why did you approach
Speaker 1: it that way? Or why did you even accept it
Speaker 1: at all? I mean, obviously it wasn't a good wife, No,
Speaker 1: that was part of it. Yeah, of course it was.
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm being honest, you know it's I
Speaker 1: went on there because you know, I'm I'm single and
Speaker 1: I'm looking right. So I didn't know Claire who was
Speaker 1: a bachelorette personally obviously, but she was a bachelorette and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, let's go see, like maybe maybe
Speaker 1: this could work, right, So that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I went. But the other main reason I went was
Speaker 1: to get out of my comfort zone and to experience
Speaker 1: and experience, right, you know, experiences in life are a
Speaker 1: big deal to me, and you know, twenty twenty, that
Speaker 1: was my experience, was being on the biggest TV show
Speaker 1: in the world, Right, So I'm looking for that experience
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one, kind of have something that defines
Speaker 1: each year, and that was kind of a big part
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty for me. So that's why I went.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was. I was in the middle, like
Speaker 1: of my longest streak of personal development as far as
Speaker 1: you know, every day five am and working out really
Speaker 1: great shape. And it all had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the Bautrurette. I was just that's just how I was living.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was on like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven days or one hundred and twenty nine days in
Speaker 1: a row on a streak of doing my meditation app
Speaker 1: called Calm, Right, So when they took the phone, that
Speaker 1: was kind of a hard deal for me. I of
Speaker 1: course continue doing meditation, but there's something weird in the
Speaker 1: human mind with streaks. You don't want to break the streak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just weird how that it works. If any of
Speaker 1: y'all listening, or if you ever had a streak of
Speaker 1: doing meditation every day and and you physically actually like
Speaker 1: you know, I think Jerry Seinfeld had like a calendar
Speaker 1: of something he was doing, and his philosophy was, if
Speaker 1: you cross it out every day, you see that visual
Speaker 1: of that streak, and you don't want that streak to stop.
Speaker 1: And so when that stopped, that was a little hard
Speaker 1: for me to break that yeak, you know, when I
Speaker 1: got my phone back and I was like, I got
Speaker 1: to start over from day one, even though I was
Speaker 1: still meditating, it was, Yeah, it was hard. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have a my speaking of day one. You said day one,
Speaker 1: But that's the name of my app I use for journaling,
Speaker 1: and it tells you every time you pull it up
Speaker 1: whenever you finish a journal it says, congrats, you're on
Speaker 1: a forty three day streak and has a little little
Speaker 1: fire emoji. And I have a lot of things that
Speaker 1: do that. My cameo app, like when I do for
Speaker 1: other people, it always tells me. The first thing it
Speaker 1: tells me is the streak I'm on, the streak of
Speaker 1: cameos that I've done without mit letting one skip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on today's day fifty four for seventy five hard
Speaker 1: Andy Forsella's challenge. So what is seventy five hard? I
Speaker 1: think last time I was on the podcast, I was
Speaker 1: doing it, and it's every day for seventy five days.
Speaker 1: It's more of a mental challenge than anything. That's the
Speaker 1: most important thing for people to realize that it's not
Speaker 1: a physical challenge, although you'll definitely see dramatic physical results.
Speaker 1: But it's shout out to Andy Forsella for this. If
Speaker 1: y'all are listening, go check it out. But it's every
Speaker 1: day for seventy five days in a row. You do
Speaker 1: technically six things, technically five, but at six. It's drink
Speaker 1: a gallon of water every day, work out for forty
Speaker 1: five minutes inside every day, work out outside every day
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes, no cheap meals, no alcohol, and
Speaker 1: a progress picture every day and if you skip or
Speaker 1: forget any of those then you have to start over
Speaker 1: from day one. So it's literally it's just a mental
Speaker 1: it's just a mental challenge accountability, you know. So Parker,
Speaker 1: for instance, was on day like fifty and when I
Speaker 1: made him do it, finally got him to do it.
Speaker 1: I can't stress enough that everybody should do it, but
Speaker 1: not everybody will and that's why it's, you know, uncommon.
Speaker 1: But Parker missed his progress pick forgot to take a picture,
Speaker 1: so Hey stopped and I was like, dude, when you
Speaker 1: gonna do it again? You can't just stop at day fifty.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, well, I didn't do it, you know,
Speaker 1: So did he? I don't remember, didn't when he missed it,
Speaker 1: so he had to start over from day one, and
Speaker 1: he didn't start over. So I'm trying to get him
Speaker 1: to do it again. So in order to achieve extraordinary goals,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to do extraordinary things in
Speaker 1: your daily life. Really misunderstood for a lot of people
Speaker 1: just want success or they want to they want to know, like,
Speaker 1: what's the secret to success? Well, it's it's in every
Speaker 1: minute of your day doing things that are uncommon. Why
Speaker 1: do you choose to live like that? Because you've done
Speaker 1: this for years now. Yeah. To someone that would say
Speaker 1: how about this, someone that says, dude, lighting up? Man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just RelA man, have a cheeseburger. Come on, man, live
Speaker 1: a little bit. You ain't living. One of my biggest
Speaker 1: fears is mediocrity and average. It's one of my biggest fears.
Speaker 1: So every day I try to do things. One of
Speaker 1: my ultimate goals, like life purpose is the real, relentless
Speaker 1: pursuit of my ultimate potential to be become everything that
Speaker 1: God intended me to be. So you know, whenever I
Speaker 1: do look and that doesn't mean that I don't know
Speaker 1: how cheeseburgers are sleeping where I'm human and I've gone
Speaker 1: through streaks of doing that. After the Bachelorette. You know,
Speaker 1: it was hard when I came back, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of things emotionally and mentally, like you know, not
Speaker 1: expecting to come back when I did. And you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm I want to win and I want to
Speaker 1: be number one and everything whatever that means. So as
Speaker 1: you're wearing a shirt that says I am second, right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I struggled. I struggled with my ego all the time
Speaker 1: and my faith and Christianity. That's a whole nother conversation
Speaker 1: of trying to put God first always. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's just a decision every day. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get up at five am. It's really hard, right,
Speaker 1: So doing hard things builds self confidence, you know, keeping
Speaker 1: the promises you make to yourself, and belief in yourself,
Speaker 1: and grit and perseverance and consistency and all those things
Speaker 1: that essentially I study, like you said, successful people, you know,
Speaker 1: from Jesus all the way to you know, modern day
Speaker 1: successful businessmen and singers, and I try to. I'm a
Speaker 1: big advocate on habits, good habits and replacing bad habits,
Speaker 1: and just basically, you know, the cheat sheet to life
Speaker 1: is what is that guy doing that I admire and
Speaker 1: copy what he's doing, you know, and then success shows
Speaker 1: up in your life in different ways. Yeah. And I've
Speaker 1: been on the other side too, you know, the drinking
Speaker 1: and that eating whatever I want. And I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that I've done both, and I prefer this version of
Speaker 1: me like so much better. But it's easy. It's like, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could have a drink tonight, and I
Speaker 1: wish I could have three or four drinks right and
Speaker 1: play video games or something. And you know, of course
Speaker 1: I will again, you know, but not right now. I'm
Speaker 1: doing seventy five hard and it's the majority of my life.
Speaker 1: If I can do this, then I'm going to do
Speaker 1: it for sure. Is that kind of what encompasses your
Speaker 1: take a cold shower theory two. Yeah, it's the hard things, man.
Speaker 1: It just really like nobody wants to do a cold shower,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to get up at five or early. And
Speaker 1: if you do it, then that little trigger in your
Speaker 1: minds like I'm doing things that other people aren't doing,
Speaker 1: and so I'm going to get things that other people
Speaker 1: aren't going to get. Right. It's pretty simple. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. That's awesome. I want to answer some questions
Speaker 1: if you can from people, and these aren't specifically to you,
Speaker 1: but I kind of found several that I think are
Speaker 1: relevant to your life. And it's just really cool because
Speaker 1: you know, I sit in here and then do this
Speaker 1: podcast every Monday and answer people's questions, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: it's if you have a question, email Grangersmith podcast at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Anything could be any topic. But it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I sit in here and then the one
Speaker 1: office over is you every day, and you're a guy
Speaker 1: that has so many resources to be able to answer
Speaker 1: all these questions, and it's rare that you're actually on
Speaker 1: the podcast. One you're just uh, you time block and
Speaker 1: you're you're busy and two we we've been kind of
Speaker 1: worried about the Batcheorette for many months. I don't worry,
Speaker 1: just making sure we do the right right protocol and
Speaker 1: and all that. So I need to make sure we
Speaker 1: clear it with them. Yeah, so let's jump into h
Speaker 1: question number one. This comes from Marshall Warren from Tacoma, Washington.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Tacoma, man, I wish I'm missing Tagoma
Speaker 1: Dome was one of Tacoma Dome, man, probably my favorite
Speaker 1: show you've ever done, maybe, so I agree. That was
Speaker 1: just such an incredible venue. Incredible. We were on tour
Speaker 1: with Florida Georgia Line. We had all our buddies there. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: that's when you wrote happens like that. I wrote happens
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it's uh. That was Andy Albert's birthday
Speaker 1: co writer friend. We're in the parking lot, which we
Speaker 1: wrote never too Old and happens like that with Tyler
Speaker 1: Hubbard FG. Yeah, Jordan, Andy and Justin right. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that that venue, Takoma Dome is all wooden, like the
Speaker 1: Wooden Dome, oh man. And it was so loud in there.
Speaker 1: I missed Washington State good fans there. So shout out
Speaker 1: to you, Marshall. Marshall says, I've been a fan for
Speaker 1: a long time and saw you once in Human Claw,
Speaker 1: which was the Wolf Show. Right maybe, so yeah, he says,
Speaker 1: I hope that you get to I hope that I
Speaker 1: get to go see you more. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: for some input. I have a great job, but I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about wanting to make some investments lately. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about just some stocks. I just I
Speaker 1: want to go to more small I want to go
Speaker 1: more into a small business. But I have no idea what.
Speaker 1: I have an eighth month eighth month old son, and
Speaker 1: my fiance is a stay at home mom, So I
Speaker 1: can't just leave my job and take any big risk
Speaker 1: right now. I would love to hear what you have
Speaker 1: to say, thanks, and I hope to hear back from you.
Speaker 1: So he's looking to keep his same job and he's
Speaker 1: wanting to make some investments on the side, and I
Speaker 1: already know what you're gonna say. You do. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent, without a doubt. Books knowledge read
Speaker 1: every day. That's an investment in yourself. It's an eight
Speaker 1: dollars book, twenty dollars book, whatever it is. But it
Speaker 1: could be priceless. I could give you, you know, what
Speaker 1: you'll find in books, you know, not only building all
Speaker 1: those character traits and and you know, belief in yourself
Speaker 1: and self confidence, but you know, seek out what you
Speaker 1: think you might want to do. If it's not stocks,
Speaker 1: if it's real estate, invest in you know, businesses, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Find books that cater to to where you
Speaker 1: think you might be leaning, and just dive in man
Speaker 1: every single day. So where would he start? What book
Speaker 1: would he start with? What? It's hard to tell if
Speaker 1: he if he's not calling out that he wants to
Speaker 1: do real estate or or not, but probably Miracle Morning, right,
Speaker 1: Miracle Morning by how l Rod started it all For me,
Speaker 1: I would definitely I recommend Miracle Morning. Marshall, Poor Marshall's like,
Speaker 1: that is not what I was asking. What investors when
Speaker 1: you make an investment and you're asking me to invest
Speaker 1: in myself. But it's the right advice, right, it's the
Speaker 1: right advice. You invest in yourself first. Yeah, nothing happens
Speaker 1: without you know, investing in yourself first. Yeah, I believe
Speaker 1: Tyler's right. And so it's a backwards way of answering
Speaker 1: your question. I know, it's not the answer you're looking for.
Speaker 1: But if you're here, you are. You got your fiance,
Speaker 1: you got a baby at home, you've got a good job.
Speaker 1: You're probably pretty young. I would assume you're in you're
Speaker 1: in your twenties or low thirties. And Tyler's right. The
Speaker 1: best investment you could make is the time donating time
Speaker 1: back to yourself. So where do you find the time.
Speaker 1: I'm already busy. I go to work at seven am.
Speaker 1: Then you got to wake up at five. That's where.
Speaker 1: That's where the early mornings, and that's why why most
Speaker 1: success askful business people wake up early. The usual reason
Speaker 1: is you're getting up before your your kid and your girl,
Speaker 1: and that's when your phone is not being bombarded by
Speaker 1: text messages yet or phone calls or emails. So you
Speaker 1: have time, uninterrupted quiet time to invest some way or
Speaker 1: form in yourself. So, whether that's literally, whether that's reading
Speaker 1: reading the New Testament, or or studying real estate, or heck,
Speaker 1: even even reading some kind of fiction is good practice
Speaker 1: for you setting aside time and investing time in yourself.
Speaker 1: And then what's going to happen, Marshall, is this opportunity
Speaker 1: that you're asking for financial advice is what I'm thinking
Speaker 1: you're asking for. I know that's what you're asking for.
Speaker 1: So investing in yourself will open doors that you didn't
Speaker 1: even realize. And it might maybe it's real estate. And
Speaker 1: by reading, by reading, or in investing time in yourself,
Speaker 1: suddenly you're going to find the opportunity to meet somebody
Speaker 1: that's maybe the fixer upper or you know, that does
Speaker 1: construction and homes and they're like, man, I got this
Speaker 1: got this apartment complex and I'm looking to looking to
Speaker 1: sell a few units. Would you be interested in investing
Speaker 1: in a few units and then and I could manage
Speaker 1: it for you and I could fix it up anyway.
Speaker 1: That kind of opportunity you could be You could have
Speaker 1: already been reading and preparing and then you go, you
Speaker 1: know what this is. This is exactly what I need
Speaker 1: to be doing right now. So yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: echo Tyler Miracle morning, how you're actually hopefully he's going
Speaker 1: to come out to the farm and shoot some guns.
Speaker 1: I was talking to his buddy, part of a mastermind
Speaker 1: called Go Abundance today and he was telling me how
Speaker 1: he lives in Austin, so hopefully we'll get him out
Speaker 1: here yeah, but it's really quick to add to that.
Speaker 1: It's all about action, like Marshall, Like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I do real estate. Those are the investments that I do,
Speaker 1: some of them, but you know I did. It's all
Speaker 1: about action. You have to take action and you'll figure
Speaker 1: out along the way, along the journey, and never the
Speaker 1: journey never stops. Like you know, I have a commercial
Speaker 1: unit and I have you know, a quadplex and some
Speaker 1: single families and that sort of thing. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't really like commercials, so I'll probably sell it,
Speaker 1: you know, But I didn't know that when I bought it.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't have known that if I didn't buy
Speaker 1: it and take action. So and then the morning, like
Speaker 1: Grangeer was saying, is is important for me because like
Speaker 1: all the all the reasons he mentioned, but also because
Speaker 1: you will power you lose it throughout the day. You know,
Speaker 1: we're all guilty, we're human. You have the most will
Speaker 1: power right when you wake up, right and so that's
Speaker 1: when that's my miracle morning. That's that's the time when
Speaker 1: I'm most productive. You know, when four three, two three,
Speaker 1: four o'clock rolls around and then the end of the
Speaker 1: work day five o'clock dinner. All I want to do,
Speaker 1: and what I do a lot of time is watched
Speaker 1: my favorite show. And then that's why I go to
Speaker 1: bed early, because I know that just watching the next
Speaker 1: episode of Netflix isn't going to be productive for me ultimately,
Speaker 1: so I'd rather go to sleep early and wake up early.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Tyler always kind of pushes me on that too,
Speaker 1: that no decisions should really be made. I would say
Speaker 1: after four pm because your brain is just not it's
Speaker 1: not ready. It's tired. You know, it's a muscle like
Speaker 1: anything else, and it's tired from all the decisions you've
Speaker 1: made during the day, and it takes more effort to
Speaker 1: make decisions after four pm. So you'll do yourself a
Speaker 1: favor if you actually set set guidelines for yourself and
Speaker 1: saying hey, whether it's your boss, your friends, coworkers, whatever,
Speaker 1: just say hey, after X time. It could be five o'clock,
Speaker 1: could be six o'clock, could be four o'clock after it
Speaker 1: could be noon. If you get all the stuff you
Speaker 1: need to get done for the day, it could be noon.
Speaker 1: So after that time, I'm sorry to take calls. It's
Speaker 1: not rude, that's looking after yourself. So that you could
Speaker 1: be better for everyone else. We're building amor and I
Speaker 1: are building a house right now. And my project manager, Rob,
Speaker 1: who manages the whole building process, he told me in
Speaker 1: the first conversation when I met him, he said, you
Speaker 1: could text me, call me, email me anytime. I'll be
Speaker 1: available to you to help you from nine am or
Speaker 1: excuse me, eight am until six pm Monday through Friday.
Speaker 1: After six pm, I don't answer. I don't return calls,
Speaker 1: I don't text. And this guy has a job that
Speaker 1: he's in demand, and they have ten or twelve homes
Speaker 1: they are working on, and people will have emergencies, they
Speaker 1: have things they need, and he just sets the boundary
Speaker 1: right at the beginning, like, hey, I'm very available, that's
Speaker 1: my job to be available to you. But after six pm,
Speaker 1: it's family time, it's Rob time. Everything shut off. And
Speaker 1: guess what, since he told me that, I never forget.
Speaker 1: I've never forgotten that he told me that, And every
Speaker 1: once in a while, I'm thinking, Oh, are they bringing
Speaker 1: the whatever materials tomorrow? I need to be able to
Speaker 1: meet them to open the gate. I look at my
Speaker 1: watch and it's six o four, and I guess what,
Speaker 1: I don't text him because I remember the dude set boundaries,
Speaker 1: and so instead of texting him at six o four,
Speaker 1: now I got to text him at eight am because
Speaker 1: that's the rule. That's what he established. And I don't
Speaker 1: dislike him because of that, you know, I actually respect
Speaker 1: and respect him more. Yeah, and he doesn't have that's
Speaker 1: great that he told you to that. But you don't
Speaker 1: even have to tell people that. You just set the standard,
Speaker 1: like you just don't respond. Yeah, and they get the
Speaker 1: hint after a while that, hey, I can't call Tyler
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Speaker 1: questions here that are that don't take much discussion. This
Speaker 1: one says, Hey, Granger, my name is Laura Nick from Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Shout out to New Mexico, says I love
Speaker 1: your family. My husband Kevin and I have been married
Speaker 1: twenty two years, three kids, twenty nine one sixteen. My
Speaker 1: question is, are you and your two brothers, Tyler and
Speaker 1: Parker all named for Texas towns? We love your T
Speaker 1: shirt of the month, Thank you very much, Lord Nicks,
Speaker 1: Ye think so. Yeah, but Parker's a county. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Parker's a county in Texas. Tyler and Granger are both
Speaker 1: towns and Texas for us. Yeah so, mom, Mom, and dad.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's why they got her names, but
Speaker 1: it just happens to be. We're all towns. So and actually,
Speaker 1: funny thing is Tyler is in Tyler, Texas is in
Speaker 1: Smith County. Yeah, so Tyler and Smith County, so your
Speaker 1: whole name's covered. And then by chance, amb and I
Speaker 1: ended up moving close to Granger, Texas, so of all
Speaker 1: the places in Texas, and by Martlett, yeah, One town
Speaker 1: is Bartley, which is Amber's maiden name. In one town
Speaker 1: is Granger, which is very I could get there in
Speaker 1: ten minutes. And so when you're in the town of Granger,
Speaker 1: you see, like the all the fire trucks say Granger,
Speaker 1: and the water tower and everything's Granger. It's cool. Here's
Speaker 1: a question from Mason that says, Hey, my name is
Speaker 1: Mason from Wisconsin. Just wondering about two of your albums,
Speaker 1: Pockets of Pesos and Don't listen to the radio. I
Speaker 1: want to add them to my collection, but they're not
Speaker 1: available on your website. I'll definitely take your advice from
Speaker 1: the yege Nation livestream and buy them from I won't
Speaker 1: buy them from Amazon or anywhere else that's not you.
Speaker 1: When will us hEDS be available again? And this is
Speaker 1: a great question for Tyler, because you're kind of in
Speaker 1: charge of all my inventory. That's up to you. I
Speaker 1: don't really know. We had so many for so long,
Speaker 1: just sitting on the shelves, and then we finally sort
Speaker 1: of found them and said, hey, why are these not on?
Speaker 1: And so we put them all on and they sold out,
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I don't even remember how or
Speaker 1: who we ordered them from yeah, back in the day
Speaker 1: that those pockets of pesos and don't listen to the
Speaker 1: radio are so old that goes back. Pockets and Pesos
Speaker 1: is like two thousand and four or two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: don't listen to the radio like two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: So really, pockets comes from a time when we don't
Speaker 1: even remember who how we ordered it, or who we
Speaker 1: ordered it from, So we have to figure out it's
Speaker 1: it's harder than it is now. If we want when
Speaker 1: the good guys Win or Remington, you know, any of
Speaker 1: the newer, newer albums, than it's super easy. So plus,
Speaker 1: not many people buy music anymore, let alone physical So
Speaker 1: if so, comment below. If that's something important, let us know.
Speaker 1: Comment below if that's something we really need to address.
Speaker 1: This question says Hello, my name is Caleb. I'm from
Speaker 1: North Carolina. I have a few questions. Where do you
Speaker 1: see yourself in ten years with your channel and your family. Also,
Speaker 1: when you were a child, did you ever dream about
Speaker 1: being a singer songwriter? And if not, what were your
Speaker 1: dreams as a young boy. I'm fourteen years old. I
Speaker 1: love watching your videos and my dream is to be
Speaker 1: a sheriff in the small town I live in. And
Speaker 1: I pulled this question because I just thought it's cool
Speaker 1: for me and you Tyler to talk to a fourteen
Speaker 1: year old boy that's actually a podcast listener. It seems crazy, right,
Speaker 1: but I know there's a lot of young people that
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast. There's all demographics that listen. But
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool that a fourteen year old I was
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast like this. And it's also cool
Speaker 1: because when kind of relevant to your question, Caleb, and
Speaker 1: by the way, shout out to North Carolina. I was
Speaker 1: fourteen when I started playing guitar. That was a big
Speaker 1: age for me. That was impactful. What did you do
Speaker 1: when you're fourteen that you still that still matters to football?
Speaker 1: For what thing? That's a hell? So that was probably
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth grade, right, that's where you started. I
Speaker 1: think it's eighth grade. I think it's eighth grade. So
Speaker 1: what could we tell Caleb if he's fourteen now and
Speaker 1: his dream is to be a sheriff in the small
Speaker 1: town he lives in. Because dreams are kind of crafted
Speaker 1: at this age and reality really that starts the motion
Speaker 1: at this age, you know. Then The reason I say
Speaker 1: is because you're nine or ten or eleven or twelve, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could be wanted to be a pro baseball player,
Speaker 1: I get it. But when you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
Speaker 1: your life is starting to take shape, and decisions you
Speaker 1: make now start to matter, not saying that you could
Speaker 1: make bad decisions and not recover, but they start to matter.
Speaker 1: And I say a lot here that I don't believe
Speaker 1: in hard, clear cut goals ten year, five year, twenty
Speaker 1: year goals. I believe not that they're not important, but
Speaker 1: I believe more in setting your highest intention day by day.
Speaker 1: So you say, Caleb, I want to be I want
Speaker 1: to be the best version of me right now here, today,
Speaker 1: this year, in the course of twenty twenty one. And
Speaker 1: as you as that culminates and months go by and
Speaker 1: years go by, and you're always striving to be the
Speaker 1: best version of you, striving for the highest intention, then
Speaker 1: your goals and your dreams evolve and new opportunities open
Speaker 1: that you never would have thought. So then you say,
Speaker 1: what does that even mean? Like, what is that some
Speaker 1: philosophical mumbo jumbo that it means that when you brush
Speaker 1: your teeth and the toothpaste hits the floor. You get
Speaker 1: that little paper towel right then, and you wipe the
Speaker 1: floor on that toothpaste and you make it perfect again, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's is when you make your bed,
Speaker 1: you make the corners, you take that extra five seconds
Speaker 1: and tuck the corner in a little tighter. And if
Speaker 1: you apply those little, those little details to your life
Speaker 1: at fourteen, Caleb, you're going to be the greatest sheriff
Speaker 1: your little town has ever seen by the time you're older. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think my advice would be the most important thing
Speaker 1: I would say is don't listen to anybody but yourself.
Speaker 1: You know. You know I've been lucky to and I
Speaker 1: think the reason that I'm where i am and same
Speaker 1: with you being a singer, is so many people throughout
Speaker 1: your life. You know, when we're all young, we want
Speaker 1: to be a sheriff or a fireman, or an astronaut
Speaker 1: or a police officer, you know, all these big dreams
Speaker 1: of whatever. You know, a professional football player, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to be. Don't let anybody tell you that you
Speaker 1: can't do that. You know, stay strong in your convictions
Speaker 1: and listen to your gut, because you know society will
Speaker 1: try to conform you you know, to go to school,
Speaker 1: get a nine to five job, do this, and do that.
Speaker 1: And I was lucky enough ever since I was little,
Speaker 1: to not believe in all those things and take the
Speaker 1: other road and be different than what everybody else was doing.
Speaker 1: So be different. And you know, don't let anybody tell you.
Speaker 1: Don't let them say, you know, you can't be a
Speaker 1: sheriff in this town because you know, this kid is
Speaker 1: grandfather di in when his grandfather was sheriff, and he's
Speaker 1: going to get it like no, like you go get it.
Speaker 1: You know. Please tell them about crabs in a bucket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Crabs in a bucket is basically an analogy where you know,
Speaker 1: if you're ever fishing on the beach or something. I
Speaker 1: don't know if any of y'all can relate, but we
Speaker 1: used to fish, like in South Padre and all these places,
Speaker 1: you know, with our dad when we were younger. But
Speaker 1: if you have a five gallon bucket and you put
Speaker 1: crabs in there, you know, and we used to go
Speaker 1: catch them at night. They all try to get out,
Speaker 1: but you don't ever have to put a lid on
Speaker 1: it because they won't ever get out. And the reason
Speaker 1: they won't get out is because the other crabs, when
Speaker 1: one's about to get over the lid, will always reach up,
Speaker 1: grab it and pull it back. And so it's a
Speaker 1: cool analogy with that's what people try to do to
Speaker 1: you and your dreams. If you try to get out
Speaker 1: and go say I'm going to go be a sheriff,
Speaker 1: you know, there's going to be a lot of people
Speaker 1: that tell you why you can't do that or you
Speaker 1: can't follow your dream and you just can't listen to them.
Speaker 1: This kind of started when or the first time I
Speaker 1: heard that analogy from Tyler is when I got an
Speaker 1: hateful a hateful email to this podcast, to Grangersmith podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I got a hate email and
Speaker 1: what was that about? I don't remember what subject that
Speaker 1: was about why he was hating them. Basically, I think
Speaker 1: he was saying that you're getting too big for your briches.
Speaker 1: You know, you know you oh, oh, it was it
Speaker 1: was an email. It was a hate email about why
Speaker 1: am I collabing with big YouTubers to make videos when
Speaker 1: I should be remembering my roots and with small, small
Speaker 1: town people, you like, people that don't have a YouTube
Speaker 1: channel instead of trying to grow the channel and getting
Speaker 1: with like the Demomats and the Kentucky Ballistics and Fishing
Speaker 1: with Flair Whistling Diesel. Stay away from those guys that
Speaker 1: are actually having success and go to the people that
Speaker 1: don't have anything going on. And I did, he was saying.
Speaker 1: He was claiming, I was doing this because I'm too
Speaker 1: big for my bridges now, and I showed it to
Speaker 1: Tyler and because I always feel like and you guys
Speaker 1: could definitely comment below correct me if I'm wrong, because
Speaker 1: I'm always wanting to hear criticism and hear advice. But
Speaker 1: you know, I truly try to build this the best
Speaker 1: content I can for the entertainment of my viewers. And
Speaker 1: guys like Demo Maat and Lunkers and Whistling Diesel, you know,
Speaker 1: like them or not, like their personalities are not. They
Speaker 1: have built from nothing from they were at once nothing.
Speaker 1: They were nobody's that built a channel, like like we
Speaker 1: all came from nothing. They built a channel to encapsulate
Speaker 1: a greater audience and keep growing to give people quality entertainment.
Speaker 1: So that you know, my goal when I make a
Speaker 1: funny video or an Earl Dibble's video is to take
Speaker 1: your mind off the world for three minutes that's my
Speaker 1: I want to contribute so that you can go man.
Speaker 1: For three minutes, I watched this video and I laughed,
Speaker 1: or I watched these guys mudding in a truck and
Speaker 1: I thought it was great, and for three minutes I
Speaker 1: forgot that I actually am really stressed today. So I
Speaker 1: look at that as a positive thing. So it's funny
Speaker 1: because I was showing Tyler this email of this guy
Speaker 1: that's like, you're doing it all wrong, You're too big
Speaker 1: for your breeches, and Tyler goes, a guy's a crab
Speaker 1: in a bucket, and I was like, he's a crab
Speaker 1: in a bucket, what do you mean. It's such a
Speaker 1: cool analogy that as soon as you in life you
Speaker 1: start you start getting some headway and you're like you're
Speaker 1: almost out, people always want to drag you back to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the bucket again. And there's certain personalities.
Speaker 1: There's always those personalities in every town. And we all
Speaker 1: know you're probably as you're listening, you're thinking of somebody
Speaker 1: right now, some guy or girl that always wants to
Speaker 1: drag you back down with them, because that's where you belong,
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the bucket. So yeah, Caleb, what
Speaker 1: Tyler is saying is don't worry about those crabs and
Speaker 1: a bucket, buddy, you keep on climbing. Fourteen awesome age
Speaker 1: and shout out to North Carolina. Thanks for writing it
Speaker 1: in And ironically, just like that, here comes another one.
Speaker 1: Cody from North Carolina says, I've been listening to your podcast,
Speaker 1: really loving it. I've been taking notes on how to
Speaker 1: make it, especially just starting one like this for myself.
Speaker 1: This podcast has been a blessing and inspiration to me.
Speaker 1: And there are so many questions I have, but I
Speaker 1: want to ask just one. How do I convert my life,
Speaker 1: family way of living to be a full time musician?
Speaker 1: I understand it takes time, but bills don't stop, and
Speaker 1: I have a family to take care of, but overall
Speaker 1: I have a dream. Yee ye. Cody from North Carolina
Speaker 1: once again shout out to North Carolina. That's two in
Speaker 1: a row. I did not mean to do that. So Tyler,
Speaker 1: very successful music manager, what would you tell Cody who
Speaker 1: has a family and a dream at the same time,
Speaker 1: how to balance it? Two? What was the question? His
Speaker 1: question is? How do I convert my life, family way
Speaker 1: of living to be a full time musician? I understand
Speaker 1: it takes time, but the bills don't stop. And have
Speaker 1: a family to take care of. But overall, I have
Speaker 1: a dream. Yeah, I mean that's you're you're going to
Speaker 1: answer that one what you always tell people with amber,
Speaker 1: like if that's his dream, like it's your dream and
Speaker 1: your calling, and you know the road is where you
Speaker 1: find purpose, like your wife needs that and once you
Speaker 1: wants that for a man, like a man needs that
Speaker 1: drive and that person that purpose in those goals. Right,
Speaker 1: And so if that's what his dream is, then he
Speaker 1: has to go do it. And his wife understand and
Speaker 1: you want that, she must want him to stay there
Speaker 1: and be a prison of not pursuing his dream. That's
Speaker 1: exactly where. So yeah, that's what i'd say, Cody, is
Speaker 1: that first, there's two parts of this question to two
Speaker 1: ways for me to answer it. And the first way
Speaker 1: is you owe it to your family. Unlike you're probably thinking,
Speaker 1: you owe it to your family to be able to
Speaker 1: pursue your wildest dreams because if you don't, you become
Speaker 1: a prisoner of a life that you didn't get to live.
Speaker 1: And you're you're going to be more absent minded with
Speaker 1: your family. You're going to be a little distant. It's
Speaker 1: not a good example to your kids for you to
Speaker 1: say I once had a chance to chase this and
Speaker 1: I never did. Well, why is that going to make
Speaker 1: them inspired to ever do that in their life if
Speaker 1: dad didn't do it. And so, regardless of if you
Speaker 1: succeed or not, in any kind of dream, you have
Speaker 1: to go in and do it to fall your heart.
Speaker 1: And once again it goes back to a book we
Speaker 1: reference all the time called Wild at Heart. How a
Speaker 1: man in his heart, in the in the in his essence,
Speaker 1: he wants to follow an adventure and and your wife,
Speaker 1: your girl are more attracted to the man. That's that's
Speaker 1: actively chasing that adventure. That's attractive. That's that's who you
Speaker 1: are instead of being a slave to your current job.
Speaker 1: All that being said, this is the bad part. This
Speaker 1: is the second part of the answer, and this is
Speaker 1: the this is the depressing bad part. Cody, you can't
Speaker 1: do it. You can't convert your life in your family,
Speaker 1: we have lived to be a full time musician. Unless
Speaker 1: you go all in. You can't go halfway or you're
Speaker 1: never gonna make it. You're never gonna do anything if
Speaker 1: you go halfway. Because there's no time. You couldn't You
Speaker 1: couldn't have told Tom Brady when he was starting that
Speaker 1: he wants to be an NFL quarterback and he also
Speaker 1: wants to keep another job, and so he needs to
Speaker 1: just work out half the day. Work is other job
Speaker 1: half the day. Unfortunately, you can't do that. You gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta start now. You got to get up early.
Speaker 1: You got to grind, you gotta network, you gotta write songs.
Speaker 1: You got to learn an instrument better, perfect it. You
Speaker 1: got to go hound your local venue and start getting
Speaker 1: open mic nights and booking them and playing relentlessly. If
Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about in this question, there you go.
Speaker 1: If that's not what you're talking about, if you don't
Speaker 1: want to give everything you have to this, then dude,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with music as a major hobby and
Speaker 1: a big piece of your life. There's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: what we call weekend warriors. That's that's guys that they
Speaker 1: have a life, they have a job, they have a family,
Speaker 1: but on the weekends they have a band and they
Speaker 1: go play sets for you know, door money or tips,
Speaker 1: and they do it because they love music. They have
Speaker 1: a passion for it. They love playing, they love performing,
Speaker 1: and they get everything they need uh back from that
Speaker 1: passion through being playing Fridays and Saturday nights. So hey,
Speaker 1: that's those are two very different things. But if you're
Speaker 1: talking about being a star or a full time musician,
Speaker 1: meaning you don't have any other income but music, dude,
Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you, but it's like
Speaker 1: it's like saying I want to drive a NASCAR and
Speaker 1: how do I start? Well, you start in the pit
Speaker 1: crew right now. You quit everything and you go go
Speaker 1: in the pit. You know, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like I want to be an NFL quarterback, I
Speaker 1: want to be a I want to be a brain surgeon.
Speaker 1: Brain surgeons devote their whole life to do that. There's
Speaker 1: you know, so, so do you want to do it?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do it as a hobby, which
Speaker 1: is awesome and admirable, or do you want to just
Speaker 1: go all in? And I think that's pretty much how
Speaker 1: you say it. Yeah yeah, uh yeah, we got we
Speaker 1: got got space for one more. Here it says, hey, grangdeer,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty six years old. I've been working in it
Speaker 1: at a university for thirteen years. The money and benefits
Speaker 1: have always been great. Salary has allowed us to pay
Speaker 1: off all our debts, including student loans, cars, credit cards,
Speaker 1: and mortgage, so we're in a great financial position. However,
Speaker 1: I'm a little I felt little satisfaction from this work
Speaker 1: I do, and I want a new path to find meaning.
Speaker 1: The longer I stay, the more disgusted I get with
Speaker 1: the university and what it stands for. I don't want
Speaker 1: to support it any longer, but I find it tough
Speaker 1: to leave. For lack of a better word, it is
Speaker 1: very financially safe. I don't want to continue my current
Speaker 1: job for the rest of my life, just working because
Speaker 1: the money's good, when my greatest satisfaction comes from making
Speaker 1: things with my hands. I'm incredibly grateful for God that
Speaker 1: He's provided for me with this job, but staying because
Speaker 1: the money's good just seems shallow. I've never been the
Speaker 1: kind of person who knows their purpose or calling. I
Speaker 1: just kind of feel like I'm at a ten way
Speaker 1: intersection with no information on which road I should take.
Speaker 1: Should I stay with it because it's safe, or should
Speaker 1: I leave. I've never it was never my passion, and
Speaker 1: this job was never something I wanted. It just fell
Speaker 1: into my lap. So my question is what is your
Speaker 1: advice on how to find one's purpose and how do
Speaker 1: you find the courage to pursue it. That's Ken. Well,
Speaker 1: the first thing I'll say is don't leave your job
Speaker 1: right now, you know, especially you know, or you'll start
Speaker 1: racking up that debt again, you know, pretty quickly. But
Speaker 1: you just got to try new things. He said he
Speaker 1: works with his hands or likes to work with his hands.
Speaker 1: We'll keep doing your job and start working with your hands.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he does, but start to It's
Speaker 1: almost the same answer to the first guy that was
Speaker 1: asking for investment advice. It's almost like your first investment
Speaker 1: is a book. Yeah, I mean his first investment like
Speaker 1: it should be action, like do whatever he likes doing
Speaker 1: with his hands, Go do it like when he gets
Speaker 1: before he goes to work or when he gets home. Right,
Speaker 1: take care of your family, keep paying the bills, and
Speaker 1: then see what happens and if you really enjoy it,
Speaker 1: you know, the money will the money starts coming in
Speaker 1: the then reevaluate in a few years, like you know,
Speaker 1: when it makes sense for you to leave and start
Speaker 1: doing that full time. Yeah, I don't really know what
Speaker 1: you mean. By working with your hands. But say, for instance,
Speaker 1: you're talking about building custom furniture, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is a really awesome market right now, like on Facebook Marketplace,
Speaker 1: have you looked, I mean, custom furniture is through the
Speaker 1: roof right now. You could go on Facebook Marketplace and
Speaker 1: say like rustic desk or bedframe, and there's a wood worker,
Speaker 1: many of them on Facebook Marketplace, within thirty miles of
Speaker 1: you wherever you are. Yeah, pretty much. It's never been
Speaker 1: easier than in our time. So for instance, like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you mean by hands, but say
Speaker 1: that you're calling you're you can, you're really good at woodworking,
Speaker 1: Then keep your job at it. It's good money. And
Speaker 1: get up a little bit earlier, give yourself an extra
Speaker 1: hour and set up your garage, set up your space,
Speaker 1: and begin like start like that's the that's the greatest
Speaker 1: advice for so many things, like how do you run
Speaker 1: a marathon? You start? You start, You put on your shoes, right,
Speaker 1: you tie your shoes, yeah, John Wooden? Yeah, So so
Speaker 1: how do you how do you start a Facebook marketplace
Speaker 1: company of custom wouldwork? You go to Facebook and you
Speaker 1: hit start new begin new page, and you get you
Speaker 1: put your info on there, and then and then you
Speaker 1: go and sharpen your saw and you set up your
Speaker 1: little workspace. And then on the third day you walk
Speaker 1: in and you get your block of wood and you
Speaker 1: build your first piece. And then when you get that
Speaker 1: first piece, you take pictures of it and you put
Speaker 1: it on Facebook marketplace and you put a price on it,
Speaker 1: and then you see if you could sell it, and
Speaker 1: then you sell it, and then you make a second one.
Speaker 1: All the while you're still working it until you reach
Speaker 1: a tipping point where you go, man, actually this Facebook
Speaker 1: business is actually starting to make more money than it.
Speaker 1: Then you're you're no longer at a ten way intersection,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're at a one way intersection, and
Speaker 1: you go, hey, this is the way, this is this
Speaker 1: is the path. So so yeah, your your questions. So
Speaker 1: my question is what advice would you have for one
Speaker 1: finding one's purpose and how do you find the courage
Speaker 1: to pursue it. You're you're looking at purpose as if
Speaker 1: it's some massive, universal global plan. That's It's Caleb, our
Speaker 1: warehouse manager, always says, it's like you're looking at an
Speaker 1: elephant that you need to eat, and how do you
Speaker 1: eat an elephant. One bite at a time, you just
Speaker 1: take a little bite out of that g massive purpose
Speaker 1: and start with the bite, and then after that bite,
Speaker 1: you take a second bite. So as Jordan Peterson, a
Speaker 1: great writer and philosopher, always says, aim low, aim low,
Speaker 1: don't aim so high. The world wants to always say,
Speaker 1: ame big, have big goals, big dreams, big ambitions. That's
Speaker 1: cool and that looks awesome on a coffee mug. But
Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to aim low and go, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tomorrow, I'm gonna go in the garage, in that
Speaker 1: corner that's got all the junk piled up, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: clean that corner, and that's gonna be my future workspace
Speaker 1: for this new furniture business i'm starting. And then on
Speaker 1: day two, when you walk in there and you see
Speaker 1: the perfectly clean corner in your garage, you feel more
Speaker 1: inspired to maybe I'll go to the rustic wood shop
Speaker 1: and buy buy some boards. You know, it's it's basically
Speaker 1: one small bite at a time. And congrats that you
Speaker 1: have a well paying job and you even have this dilemma,
Speaker 1: because that's you're in a really good situation. Any more, purpose,
Speaker 1: purpose driven pieces of advice. How about a book? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he also you know, he also does need
Speaker 1: to have big goals though at the same time, or
Speaker 1: a vision of where you think that this could take you. Right,
Speaker 1: Like the most important thing, like Granger said, was to
Speaker 1: take that first step. You know, if you're running a marathon,
Speaker 1: you know, the first step is putting your shoes on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you also need to visualize and take some time
Speaker 1: to think and really concentrate away from everything and no
Speaker 1: distractions and be like, what could this be? What you
Speaker 1: know and listen to your heart and your gut and
Speaker 1: what it's telling you, Like, do I want to be
Speaker 1: you know, do I want to open a furniture furniture store?
Speaker 1: Do I want to be the number one furniture store
Speaker 1: in the world. Do I want to open just a
Speaker 1: local furniture store. Do I just want to sell on
Speaker 1: mark get places? Do I want to just start asking
Speaker 1: you all those questions? Do I just want to do
Speaker 1: this as a hobby and then you know, and kind
Speaker 1: of create a vision of what you think you might
Speaker 1: want to do in the end goal and then just
Speaker 1: work backwards from there. Yeah, You're totally right. And to
Speaker 1: be clear, I feel like people. When it comes to
Speaker 1: big goals, it's overwhelming and you're getting paralysis when you
Speaker 1: look at it. Like certain I think this country suffers.
Speaker 1: Maybe this world suffers from goal paralysis, meaning you set
Speaker 1: a goal, you look at it and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: that's really big. Yeah, we all do. I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to start. I do every day in real estate.
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to do this? Well, maybe I
Speaker 1: can call a friend that knows somebody that knows how
Speaker 1: to do it, and I'll ask him, and then maybe
Speaker 1: he knows somebody that you know. So don't don't get
Speaker 1: big goal paralysis. Don't let the big goals scare you
Speaker 1: and you don't even know where to start, because then
Speaker 1: you then it's worthless to even have the goal to
Speaker 1: begin with. So again, set your highest intention daily, take
Speaker 1: small bites, aim low, and pretty soon that mountain you're
Speaker 1: climbing get smaller and smaller and smaller. So that's all
Speaker 1: the time we have. Dude, Thank you for being on here,
Speaker 1: Thank you for having You're back into another meeting after this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta go real estate meeting. It to fifteen. All right,
Speaker 1: Well we'll get we'll get Tyler. If you want to
Speaker 1: seymore Tyler comment below More Tyler more Tyler. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this has been a good podcast. Thank you guys for listening. So, y'all,
Speaker 1: before we get off here, I want to end this
Speaker 1: with some shout outs. I've got a lot of people
Speaker 1: that email in and want to shout out on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I got to appreciate those just as much as
Speaker 1: a question. So if you want to shout out on
Speaker 1: this podcast, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 1: we have Nathaniel Hall from Kerrville, Texas, sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: shout out to you, buddy. We have Andre Cooper and
Speaker 1: she says I wanted to know how to get noticed.
Speaker 1: I've been practicing. I've practicing singer for three years or more,
Speaker 1: and if I ever become famous, I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to meet you. So good luck to you, Andy. I
Speaker 1: hope you just crush it on social media and putting
Speaker 1: on as many songs as you can, and I hope
Speaker 1: to meet you one day. This question says, hey, I'd
Speaker 1: love a shout out. My name is Maddox Bradbury. Awesome name, Maddox.
Speaker 1: Shout out. This one is from Braxton Walden says hey,
Speaker 1: Grandrew you're the best country singer. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Braxton, shout out to you. I have Caleb
Speaker 1: Harris from Arizona. Shout out appreciate you being a fan
Speaker 1: and hanging with me for so long. And shout out
Speaker 1: to your beautiful wife, Brie. This says, Hey, this is
Speaker 1: Rodney Holme or haul Me he pronounced it, from Davenport, Washington.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Rodney Nolan hal Meey from Davenport, Washington.
Speaker 1: They must have been together when they did that. And
Speaker 1: Ricky from Missouri, what's up, Ricky? Shout out to you, buddy.
Speaker 1: And Parker Phillips says, Hey, my name is Parker Phillips.
Speaker 1: I'm from Plainfield Whisky. Shout out to Wisconsin and Parker.
Speaker 1: And Hey Granger, I was wondering if you could do
Speaker 1: a shout out for my daughter, Mia Blackwell. She's turning
Speaker 1: five on February twentieth. I slightly missed that date, but
Speaker 1: shout out to Mia, Happy birthday. Thanks for listening. This
Speaker 1: one says, Hey Granger. My name is Ryan six from Knoxville, Iowa,
Speaker 1: and he wants to propose to his girlfriend. And Guthrie
Speaker 1: River Ruckus in Iowa at the end of July. So, dude,
Speaker 1: I need you to hit up my tour manager Chris
Speaker 1: at Grangersmith dot com. Okay, and hopefully you're a girl
Speaker 1: is not listening to this podcast because I just read that.
Speaker 1: But chi Grass buddy, we'll do one more. Said Hey, Granger,
Speaker 1: my best friend Wyatt Allan is a really big fan.
Speaker 1: You think you can give him a shout out? So
Speaker 1: what's up, Wyatt. I appreciate all of you guys, and
Speaker 1: thanks for thanks for even wanting me to give you
Speaker 1: a shout out. That means a lot to me. Thanks
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