 We're ready. Alright, welcome to the entrepreneur power hour, where we inspire the world's entrepreneurs, teach them fun things, and sometimes heckle them. Not too much, we wanna be nice people. See, we're all nice people. Today, we're gonna talk about 10 harsh lessons. It's an article from entrepreneur.com, and these harsh lessons are gonna teach you to become a better person and a better entrepreneur, and maybe make you cry a little bit. Today, we have Chris Peters, Michael Wallace, Dan Sissick, good to see him back. Fran Richardson, Bill Maybauer, always glad to have him. Yeah. Alright, you do have the article up. I do. So guys, number one, the first lesson is the first step's always the hardest. So whenever you wanna achieve something important, the first step is inevitably gonna be daunting, frightening, but when you fake that first move, anxiety and fear dissipate in the name of action. So what do you guys think about that? Do you think that's true? Do you think that when you take action, fear and anxiety start to take a back seat and kind of just fade from your conscious awareness? Cause I know that's what happens to me. Of course, I don't get scared of taking action anymore, I just do it. Cause I mean, that's what I do, so I just go and I do it, whatever happens happens, and I just go as I do it, go as I go. Do come as I, I'm tired tonight, just somebody else talking. Oh man, come on, you're like, take action. Oh yeah, I'm tired, I'm tired all day. But yeah, like Ford, right? I mean, Henry Ford, whose first two automobile businesses failed, right? So when he started the Ford Motor Company, he was already 45, and then there was author Henry Bernstein, who dedicated his entire life to riding before he landed his best seller at the age of 96. So when you finally do succeed, realize the journey was the best part of it. So that's how I feel. This is good stuff. I feel it's difficult to actually get up and make the first step, because for me, that's always been the hard part. It's not been giving that speech or going to the gym or getting on camera. Our part was just like, oh wait, I have to do the power hour today, I have to go and take care of whatever I have to take care of. And then I would think so many ideas that are kind of like, oh, it's a rough day, I don't have to do it, I don't have to take action. I'll do it tomorrow, things aren't lining up. And through that thought process in the past, I always stopped myself from actually doing something I wanted to. Recently, I saw my friend trading some different things. I was like, wow, I'm just gonna do it. Okay, I might lose money. Trading back differently, assets, whatever. I'm gonna give it a shot where before I'd be like, well, is that really a good idea? Do I wanna spend my time doing that? And it's awesome, it helped me become a level one seller on Fiverr, and it's helping get more content out there. It's helping me get better with Camtasia. So yeah, just taking that step of like, okay, here's a program, here's an issue, here's a speech I wanna give, I wanna get better at lifting. I think most recently. Ooh, lifting, yeah. You're gonna start taking steroids now, Kareem. Yeah, I'm gonna call on the power out. You can just put your own people heads off. Yeah. A lot of people will have a special one, how to juice on the power out. I'm like, I'm here with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, that's awesome. But it's just taking that little step of just clicking the Zoom link today, the first action so give yourself a pat on the back guys. Sure. Right Dan? Yeah, Dan was busy last week so. He's famous now. He's going to do it. He is. I just have lots of personal things going on in my life and things like that and I'm involved in a big event with my church right now so that's good. Tell us about that. How's that going? You were talking about that to me on Facebook just before the call here tonight so I mean what's that all about and how's that going for you? Well what it is is it's called Convoy of Hope and we partnered with them the last three years. This is our third year doing it and first year we touched like a little over 7,000 lives. Last year we touched over 10,000 lives here in the Las Vegas community by offering free services, free Thanksgiving dinners, grocery bags, services for the veterans and stuff and things like that, people that need assistance or trying to figure out where to go get assistance and stuff. It was all provided through our church and Convoy of Hope who helped us with that and so this year we're going to be trying again to touch over 10,000 lives. I myself and them as assistant leader and Karim will love this. I'm in charge of all the costume character people that I have a full body costume of Garfield at Scooby-Doo and the Scarecrow and me being a Garfield freak. I love being Garfield so people know that that's me and that's what I'm and I love kids so in that they asked me to take on being the assistant leader for that and this was my third year of doing it. I love it. It's just a big thing and love being able to give back to my community as I'm working and doing things and putting out and I'm not expecting anything back. It's just good to just put it out there and I'm being a part of something that's helping a lot of people and do something positive out there for the whole community. That's really cool. When you can get involved in something like that and you can help less fortunate people it makes the world turn their heads and look at you. It inspires people to go, if that guy can do it, what's stopping me from going and working in a volunteer facility and serving meals to the homeless or picking up a cat off the street and finding a home or whatever it happens to be. My mom today, I bought her some groceries today because she's been short on money and I didn't even have to think about it. I was just like, Mom, let's go get you some food. It's just stuff like that that really becomes second nature now for me. I just want to help people including people that I may not know. It doesn't matter. If I see a guy that's homeless and he's not in front of a liquor store, I'll give him some money to go get some food. Because that's important. We all need to be doing that. Everybody needs to be doing that if we want to change consciousness. Starts with giving, showing people that you're different than everyone else who may have passed you by or drove and by or whoever. Whatever it happens to be, I just do it. I think good things take time. Success above all requires time and effort. Author Malcolm Gladwell suggested the mastery of anything requires 10,000 hours of tireless focus. If you're struggling and you're pissed off and you're like, God damn it, I just want to quit, don't. Because you need to put in 10,000 hours. That's a long time. Yeah. I have that book. I actually have that book. I was going to say, that's something that I had a hard time putting out there and getting involved with because like we're talking about the 10 harshest things for entrepreneurs or taking action or just stepping out. This is a result of me just stepping out through my church starting about seven years ago when I started helping go feed the homeless once a month with my church. We would just go down and do it all, our church on our own doing it and doing it once a month every month. So that kind of opened that door and opened my heart in that sense. But it took me taking that action, taking that step forward. And so it's made it easier to move into other things. So now as I do other things and try to move forward and like building my business and building my, you know, going after my dreams, that's part of what I look back on is like, you know, it's everything I built up in front of it, ahead of it, thinking, oh, well, what if this or what if that or this or, you know, all these different things happen rather than, you know, I just did it. You know, I just finally said I'm going just like when I wrote my first blog post after I built my website, which I'm having to rebuild my website because my hosting company deleted all my stuff. Oh, that's crazy. Well, I hadn't renewed in the time frame, I renewed in the time frame they said, but they had already deleted the stuff, even though they didn't wait the whole. So I'm having to rebuild it now. I'm fighting with that. And I hate building. It took me a few months when I did it the first time around. And so I'm like, but I'm having to do it, you know, once again, get out. That's part of the process. You have to rebuild. We do sometimes, you have to push yourself and put yourself out there. Korean, I'm just giving you a hell of an idea. Why don't we host Dan's site? Yeah, I can do that. Actually, we can do that. We can host his website. I'm sitting here wanting to get it out there and go, Dan, just let us host your site. That way you don't have to worry about us deleting your stuff. If you can't pay for a month or something like that, I will be talking to you guys about that then. Because me and my actual situation is, yeah, so we'll move it over. If you need us to move it over and I can put a theme on it and make it look pretty. But to keep going and great, I use the filler word. What's the lesson that the success takes time? Yeah, it does, doesn't it? 45 years for Henry Ford before he had his company. Yeah. No, I have that book. It's it's true. Like if I were to get good at basketball, it would take me probably 10,000 hours because I don't play it and I'm not good at it. And he says basically like, if you have all the skills and talent, it may be a little less, but he said the average to be an expert is 10 years or 100,000 hours, which is a ridiculous amount of time. I mean, most people don't have that in their jobs now with how much a job market. Some do, but definitely a lot of people do not have that, even in their so-called positions where they are an expert.