165 | Can You Really Trust People Enough to Delegate?

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[00:00] One of the reasons I like being an entrepreneur so much is that when push comes to shove, I know that I can actually get things done like I've done in the past. I'll do it in the future. That's just the type of person that I am. If something needs to get done, whatever it takes, I'll do it, you know, and that's something that I didn't always have that, that wasn't something that I really got a grip on until I was probably in my late twenties where it was just like, well, here's my goal. Whatever it takes to get to that goal, I'll just do it. Like, it doesn't matter. Like if I got to sleep later, I sleep later, I got to read a whole book tonight. I really hope, you know, whatever I have to do to research it, learn it, figure it out, I'll get it done.

[00:42] Um, and it's hard to get away from that thinking as you're kind of growing your business. But at some point you do have to kind of handover and trust other people with certain aspects of, of what you're doing. And I have a va that I really use for our, initially I was planning on using this va to actually do some of the actual llc creation. I was just going to train them how to do it and hand over some stuff to him and I just, it, I know it just never collect that way. So I just use them really for technical tasks, stuff that I had learned how to do in the past. But then I like to outsource now and um, it works well. Like we've got a pretty good rapport now. He's a dude. What's, I can't even remember what the name of the company is that a used to hire him, but it's like their English speaking va's basically is like their, their big thing, which is fine.

[01:31] You know, I've used tons of Va's for different project based stuff and I've used upwork to even hire paralegals and things like that when I've gotten like crazy overloaded and that'll work just fine. I saw that I necessarily need people to speak English, but I thought this guy might be on the phones. So I was like, oh, I'll probably be better if English as the first language, um, turns out really probably doesn't even matter, but you pay like a little bit of a premium for that. But we don't, I don't have to explain things in depth anymore. It took a while for us to get to that point. There was a kind of, a lot of bickering. I tried to fire him one time and basically that his manager called and just said like, don't fire him, do this and this and this. It'll work better.

[02:15] And uh, it Kinda did work better. So I'm super happy with how that's going. But I kinda had to have some situations that pop up where it's like I have to rely on other people and my time is very valuable to me. If somebody wastes my time slowly, I start to kind of lose respect for them and I don't want to rely on them in the future. And I kind of had some of that go on in the real estate realm yesterday where it was like something was scheduled. I was supposed to talk with somebody. It didn't happen, there was a good reason that it didn't happen, but in the back of your mind you're like, is this going to be something that's ongoing? If I establish a relationship with this person is going to be hard to communicate with them, are there going to be, is there time more valuable to them than my time is?

[03:02] And if that's the case, that's fine. It doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad person or something, but I don't want to be drug along. I've worked too hard. I'm too valuable and my time is too valuable for someone to not kind of put everything that they have aside to talk to me. That's how I feel about it. If it's like you made an appointment, you better be there to talk to me. Um, you get couple couple of opportunities if there's a reasonable excuse, but uh, if not, you know, I don't know, maybe that makes me an asshole. I'm not sure, but one way or the other, that's just how I feel about it and I can't work in a situation with somebody if it's gun to my time isn't going to be valued so you have to kind of way that you have to have some patients though.

[03:45] That's what I learned from working with my va is that when you are moving forward with people, sometimes it takes time. Like if I would've just fired this va like right out of the gate because I thought he was. He was being a smart ass. I'm. I wouldn't have a good related rob. I would always be in the startup of a. have a good working relationship with somebody. You have to give it some time to kind of blossom out and maybe maybe you're pissed. Maybe someone you feel like as being disrespectful, but in the long run like can you both benefit? Is this somebody that can move your business forward? Is this somebody that you can trust it to hand things over to you and that's Kinda what I'm going through now. I haven't moved forward at all since yesterday on me real estate related stuff.

[04:26] I was hoping I would be cold calling for this, uh, uh, this team, you know, as part of a team today or at some point this week that still might happen, but, uh, yesterday kind of that the plans of us getting together didn't, didn't really work out to discuss it and it may not ever work out. Who knows, if not, I'll just go back to cold call and for myself and I can, you know, it's not like I can't do that, but uh, I'm only going to kind of wait around for so long to get this other thing going. So hopefully that happens. I'm excited about that happening. I'm a little setback. Hopefully, you know, it's kind of like the va situation where it's like it's a setback and they're kind of, some excuses being thrown around, but maybe they're valid excuses. Sometimes excuses are, are actually good reasons.

[05:12] They don't have to be like a, somebody avoiding something. So either way, that's what I'm dealing with today. I knew I was, I said I was going to kind of break it down to half my llc business, half my wholesaling business this week, but uh, that's kind of just all mixed together. What I'm going through today, what I'm, what I'm thinking about this morning as I'm starting this day, like what am I going to do to move forward? Am I going to have to rely on someone else to move forward? Am I going to string out any more of my time waiting for that to happen? Or Am I just going to just kind of move on and, and no hard feelings and just take action on my own. But, uh, hopefully by tomorrow I'll have an answer to that. Hope everybody has a great day. Talk to you tomorrow.