Q Okay. Well, so help me understand that. Why not just keep doing painting? Why not double it to a five million dollar a year business?
A It's not, it's not my purpose. It's, uh, you know, part of the story is I went from, you know, when I was standing with, uh, with all of my stuff in a banker's box, I got thrown out of a bank here and I had a guy in a suit and a tie in the corporate world say, Hey, you're not good enough to make it in banking, which I just still don't understand. I decided 10 years ago, I said, Hey, I'm going to be a millionaire as quick as possible. And I had, uh, Previous experience painting houses in college with a college painting outfit. And, uh, I just decided I'm going to start this thing and just run as fast as I can and take it to the top. And I, I climbed what I call the, the million dollar mountain doing it with a paint contracting business. And when I got up to the top of that mountain, I, I realized two things. I realized a, that I didn't bring other people up there with me. And, uh, B I realized I was standing up there saying, okay, well, like you just said, do I climb a, you know, the five million dollar mountain now? There, there was no purpose to it. Uh, it wasn't why I'm here. It's not why I exist. And I, and I found in that process that, that I really exist to inspire and ignite other people to own what they're doing with, with absolute purpose and excellence. And, uh, I was running my business well. Um, I wasn't tying everything into my life in all of the domains of my life.…
AI assessment note: “It's not, it's not my purpose.”