 Next question is from iron Mikey 19. What did 2020 teach you? Oh God, I'll tell you the biggest thing I learned was that for sure lizard people are running the world every conspiracy I've ever heard they were in a video game yeah like this yeah I you know I kind of thought it and I know for sure like this is a bunch of weird shit going on 2020 made me despise politics even more than I already did yes you couldn't hate it more I thought I hated it yeah I thought I already hated on it on enough but yeah after 2020 I hate it even I couldn't believe people could get so tribal again like it was just so fascinating to watch you know how easily people just are manipulated yeah it's crazy for me I mean okay now all joking aside and this is a lesson that anytime something's challenging I think is there for you doesn't mean you're gonna learn it and that's acceptance acceptance is just constant right you accept every single moment and 2020 I had to you know I I'm a bit of a hypochondriac right and so what was what were we dealing with a pandemic and so initially I was very anxious about it and so I had to accept that and then I had to accept that I'm not gonna be able to travel and do certain things and I had to accept that I couldn't see family members as much as I wanted to and just over and over again I had to accept kind of things as they were but it is a valuable lesson because life you know and this is me being like you know super wise about it but the reality is I struggle with it but the wise part of me is like look you know life is about accepting what you can't control anything can happen and I think that was very very much displayed you know 2020 was just nobody's not coming you know but guess what that's life you know you got to just always know there's uncontrollables that could happen at any moment and you know we were we were definitely living in really like it you go back and appreciate like where you were leading into that year yeah I you know what I really took away was I the I value human connection on another level than I probably ever did like you know I miss our staff being in here like on a daily basis I didn't you know we have this virtual business now and it made me realize how much I don't want that like I don't want a business that's ran where you know all the people that work for it can zoom in and Skype and stuff like that it's not the same it's not the same I mean half of what makes this this business fun and enjoyable is actually creating jobs for all these people seeing them work every single day in a fitness business that's fun and I like to think that we're fun bosses to work with and for and so yeah I really I really miss it and plus it's really hard to build a culture and motivate people you know this is business has slowed down the last like three to four months and you know it's normally when you got your people in here you can kind of rally the troops and get them fired up and motivated to like really take it up to then take it up a notch it's really hard to do over a zoom call to make that type of same connection that you make that I would make when I would walk with a staff member outside for 10 minutes and talk about their family and what's going on with them like it's just not the same doing that over a telephone or a zoom call so I really value that and that's on the work side and then also I value that more now than ever with the family side like so it definitely kicked up my communication with all my siblings and family so I'm talking more to them than I ever have because I miss them I miss being able to get together and it be okay that all of us you know congregate in the same house and and hang out and be together so I find myself valuing that more and so when we kind of get out of this I think that I'll make an effort as like one of the leaders in the family to try and get us together more often because you never know when it could disappear and we can't so it taught me that it also taught me to like luckily I've kind of gone and I've shared this on the podcast like my you know my story with finances like my insecurities of it early in my life and then working so hard to get to a certain point and and then trying to you know or spending all my money to look the part of being very successful to kind of coming full circle where you know now I'm almost like a miser right so I feel like this you never know when something like this is going to happen and part of why this time didn't really stress me out as much as I've had some friends and people connected to me was because I was prepared for it you know financially I was financially I have been better with my money in the last you know five to eight years than I ever have and honestly where we were like looking at like looking at the worst case scenario could happen oh my god nobody buys any mind pump programs anymore listeners stop listening will I be okay and the reality was like yeah it would be totally fine we'll be all right it would suck but I wouldn't wouldn't be wondering how we're gonna pay our bills or keep things going so you know just taught me the value of that of making sure that you know you're not living this paycheck to paycheck and you're thinking that you know even if it's a great ride right now and money's coming in and you're doing well that can all end and it's in a single snap of the fingers and so to be thinking that with forward thinking always and that thinking that this could end I think that a lot of people were woken up with that that are especially your entrepreneurs out there that were operating businesses that did not have enough income to go and that you know it's a hard thing to say to somebody who is really struggling to keep their lights on right now but that is one of the things that you know a lot of the economists were saying was just like man you know as a country we've been we've been taught to that you know debt is totally okay and living paycheck to paycheck and on credit cards and you know it's fine we're just a different it's different today than it was in our parents parents time you know like I remember hearing that Dave Ramsey conversation about his his lesson from his dad who would you know he would be they would be hammering or pulling apart nails from a deck and his dad would be saving the nails you know because he doesn't know if he'll be because he came from the Great Depression time of when he couldn't even afford to buy a nail and so just having that mentality where you would just throw that away today right so you know trying to try to reframe things like that just because things are good financially free the time is to not get out of control with your spending and thinking that it'll never end in fact having a mindset that this could end tomorrow and if it were to what should I be doing with my finances very good