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hello Scaling UP! Nation, Trace Blackmore
here your host for Scaling UP! and folks
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it is December 28 we have just three
short days remaining in 2018 and I
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thought what a great opportunity to talk
about what 2018 meant to this show and
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what were some things that I did in 2018
so I gotta tell you the fact that I even
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have a show that people listen to amazes
me so I want to thank you for being a
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listener of scaling up h2o and I also
want to thank all of those people that
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have helped me make Scaling UP! H2O shows
this past year we all know that I can
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only come up with so much material so
the fact that you all are calling in and
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even recording your own voices asking
questions I can’t tell you how much that
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has meant to me because that means we
can all have more material which means
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more shows so for those of you that have
done that thank you so much for those of
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you that have not done that it’s very
easy go to https://scalinguph2o.com/ and you
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can click the record voice mail or you
can send a show comment to me either way
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I’ll get your information and I will get
that on the show on the appropriate show
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that it falls on thank you so much for
those that have done that and those of
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you that are going to do this folks I
can’t believe it this is the 66th
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episode of Scaling UP! so 466 times I
have come to you with something about
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water treatment something about business
something that has hopefully made you a
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little bit better or try something
different after you listen to the show
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I cannot believe when I started this
program in April of 2017 how much things
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have
changed so I thought it might be neat to
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do a similar exercise that we do in our
Vistage meetings now Vistage you know is
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a business group that I belong to and
Tim Fulton is my business coach tim is
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retiring this year I’m gonna miss him so
much he has taught me so much not only
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as a person but a facilitator and a
business owner he’s just an incredible
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person you all know that because you
heard him back in episode 22 that
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https://scalinguph2o.com/22
Tim came on he did a great job but he
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has done a great job in helping me for
the last eight years Tim buddy we are
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definitely gonna miss you but an
exercise that he has taught me is called
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a skull and skull is a great meeting
opener it stands for success challenge
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opportunity and lessons learned so s co
ll skull so I thought I would do a
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little skull with Scaling UP! so let’s
look at the past year for Scaling UP! so
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some successes for Scaling UP! is we did
39 shows this year that is amazing to me
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especially from when we started and I
thought I was only going to produce one
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show per month because I didn’t think I
was gonna have any other time to do this
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I’ve had to learn how to change where I
spend my time in order to do a weekly
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show but that has been a success that we
have thirty nine shows this year folks
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this next one I want to tell you just so
humbles me we started out with just less
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than five thousand subscribers at the
beginning of 2018 we are over nine
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thousand subscribers to https://scalinguph2o.com/
that just blows my mind that’s a stadium
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of people listening to https://scalinguph2o.com/
folks thank you so much for subscribing
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to this program I love it and I love all
the energy that you guys bring to me
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because it helps me do what I do better
and then of course I think the biggest
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success that we have was me listening to
the Scaling UP! audience and there just
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simply was not enough Scaling UP! on a
regular basis and I was asked to do a
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weekly show I didn’t know if I was going
to be able to do that or not but yes we
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did a weekly show this year so now
Scaling UP! the format is each and every
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Friday a brand new episode goes straight
to your favorite podcast provider and I
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received so much great feedback about
that saying that that is the right
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amount you need something each and every
week to keep that motivation going so I
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am happy to bring that to you so let’s
get into some of the challenges well the
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challenge is we’re doing a weekly show
now so that means I’m going through
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material faster than ever before I know
I say that on almost every episode but
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that has been a huge challenge I am
going through all of the show ideas and
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materials and questions at a rate that I
have never consumed it before so the
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challenge is how do I replenish that how
do I find more things to talk about you
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guys know I like to read a lot now when
I read I am looking for podcast ideas
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when I talk to people I’m looking for a
potential podcast host I have completely
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changed how I read and how I talk to
people just based on this podcast is
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this person going to help me with
another episode no they’re not I want to
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move to the next person oh I don’t quite
do that but I’m always looking for new
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material I’ve also had the opportunity
to rethink how I produce this podcast
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lots of things have changed because we
are going weekly and I’ve also found out
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that I cannot do it alone I started this
podcast on my own now I have two other
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people on my staff their names are Carla
and Shawn Carla she does all the
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scheduling reaches out to the guest does
all the social media that a lot of you
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respond to Carla you do a great job
thank you so much for everything that
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you do and then Shawn is
my audio engineer and Sean is just
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amazing
I don’t sound this good Sean makes me
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sound like I’m halfway intelligent so
that just doesn’t happen Sean’s really
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good at his job so thank you both for
everything that you allow me to do
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because you’re both so good at your job
another challenge that we had this year
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and my hope is you never even notice
this but because Scaling UP! was getting
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more popular I was running out of
bandwidth on my old podcast server so
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they kept on charging me more fees and
more fees and more fees because I would
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always top that top scale on how many
people could download the episode so I
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had to move from that server to another
server and again it’s my hope that you
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saw that totally seamless and you didn’t
even know that we move from one to
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another but I gotta tell you on the
other side of the microphone that was a
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little interesting we had to do a lot of
things behind the scenes we ran two
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servers at once for a while we got it
all taken care of and I got to tell you
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I learned a whole bunch of things that I
should have done from the beginning that
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would have made that process a whole lot
easier but we did get through it and
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it’s my hope that again you guys never
even knew about it but that was a huge
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challenge for us this year now that it’s
done we’re all very happy that we did it
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it’s a lot easier for Matt it’s a lot
easier for us to upload items to you it
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used to be a 12 step process now it’s a
one step process that just made Karla
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very very happy so that was probably my
last challenge that I will mention for
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the 2018 year for Scaling UP! so let’s
talk about some of the opportunities one
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of the opportunities that I had but I
did not take was I was asked to speak at
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a Water Expo over in China folks I was
so humbled by that unfortunately I had a
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previous commitment at the AWT where I
was teaching at the technical training I
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so badly wanted to go over to China that
just seems like such a great opportunity
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they invited me again the following year
but I had another opportunity of course
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and and you know how important the
association of Water Technologies is
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also I’ve had the opportunity to enhance
the website that the listeners come to
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that you the Scaling UP! Nation come to
and make it a lot easier for you to find
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items a lot of you have improved your
reading list based on my reading list so
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you will now see under the resources
page not only can you more easily find
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the books that our guests talk about but
you’ll also find my top books in my
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reading list so we’ve got a couple of
lists for you make it very easy for you
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just to click on there and then that
will take you to an affiliate Amazon
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link where you can order that and if
you’re a Prime member in two days that
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puppy shows up on your door what did we
ever do without Amazon another great
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opportunity that I had this year was I
was able to speak with one of my heroes
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and you guys heard it here I’m Scaling UP! Nation it was episode 29 it was the one with
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the submarine captain of course I’m
talking about captain David Marquis of
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the United States Navy he wrote the book
turned the ship around and you all know
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that I’m a huge fan of the 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People well Captain
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Mark II wrote this book and it’s the
best application that I have ever read
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using the principles learned in the 7
Habits of Highly Effective People I’ve
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always thought that he was just
incredible I’ve seen him speak a couple
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of times but I’ve never really spoken
directly to him so having him come on
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the show was just so cool for me and I
hope you guys enjoyed that episode and
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then the last opportunity is just how
many people I have met because I bought
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this microphone and I have got this show
called https://scalinguph2o.com/ thank you so much
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for all of you that have reached out to
me and talked about this show giving me
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ideas for this show telling me things
that you have done because of this show
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that is just huge and that has just been
the biggest opportunity because
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we have this podcast last thing up is
lessons learned so lots of lessons
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learned this year and I’m trying to
figure out the best lesson to share with
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the Scaling UP! Nation of what I’ve
learned about Scaling UP! and I think
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it’s just a combination of all of the
items that I just mentioned the vision
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that I had for Scaling UP! matches
nothing now – when I started I thought I
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was going to do a monthly podcast it was
going to have a couple of tips about
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water testing and maybe talking to
customers I really didn’t know what I
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was going to do with it and it has
evolved so much because you the Scaling UP! Nation
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have either written in or
called or texted a lot of you even have
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my cell phone numbers you called me
directly and you said hey this is what
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Scaling UP! needs to be and we have made
that format to adopt what the Scaling UP!
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Nation needs so I am just again so
incredibly humbled that we have so many
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listeners out there and that those
listeners care enough to make this show
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better and because you’re doing that I
am able to be better at doing the show
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so I think the lessons learned is just
try to focus on where you’re going and
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make sure you have metrics to see that
you get there but don’t be so tied to
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something that you can’t change for the
better and I don’t think I was ever
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there but because I had so many good
friends and listeners that would call me
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and let me know what this show should do
I am very proud of what this show is now
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and that is because of all of those
people like I said I started off doing
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this myself I’ve got two additional
people on the Scaling UP! staff we were a
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monthly podcast we’re now a weekly
podcast and I gotta tell you that when I
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go back actually did this this morning
in preparation for this show I listened
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to episode number one and that was
before I had just ordered my microphone
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actually I just placed the order on
Amazon I get everything from Amazon and
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it
come yet but I needed to get an episode
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out there so iTunes could accept it and
I just used my headset to record it and
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now I listen to how I am today and Sean
again thank you for making me sound so
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much better than I really do sound but
you can just hear how the show has taken
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on its own identity and I had no idea
that that was going to happen when I
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first turned my headset on back I
believe it was April 4th of 2017 so
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lesson learned and I’m gonna continue
learning lessons a lot of you write in
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to me and say that I inspire you to
either read more or try something more
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or rethink the ways that you’ve always
done something so with that in mind I
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thought I would take you through some of
the accomplishments that I’ve had in
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2018 now I do this not to be
braggadocious at all I’m a very humble
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person I do this because I hope that
this motivates you and allows you to
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know what I’m thinking about and maybe
you can start thinking about things that
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you can do for the 2019 year so one of
my goals is to read and we all have
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difficulty reading because we’re in our
cars and you know that my favorite tool
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is audible you also know that I can get
you a free month and a free book by
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going to my affiliate link for audible
at https://scalinguph2o.com/audible
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and I listen to a bunch of
audible I am always buying extra credits
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on audible and folks they have sales on
those on occasions so last time I had a
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little pop-up on my phone I think I was
able to get three credits for like $25
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normally a credit is 10 to $15 something
like that so if you ever see that and
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you’re a big reader take advantage of
that that’s what I try to do so I have
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read or listened to 44 books this year
and some of them were better than others
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every single one of them though I
promise I have implemented at least one
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thing from each of them and that’s my
goal when I
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and I don’t read a lot of fiction I
don’t read any fiction in fact I want to
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read something that’s gonna help me with
my business it’s gonna help me be a
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better business owner it’s gonna help me
be a better boss a better team leader
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it’s gonna help me in the field or
communicate better those are the things
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that I enjoy reading and maybe I’m just
not wired right I truly do enjoy reading
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stuff like that and my goal is to take
at least one thing from each of those
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books and start implementing it in fact
one of the books that I read was called
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the one thing and I can’t remember the
author’s name but in it he said that we
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really shouldn’t multitask and that
really upset me I remember thinking that
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I have made an entire life on
multitasking and the whole premise of
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that was when you multitask you can’t
give your best effort to any one thing
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because it’s spread apart through so
many things so I’m still a multitasker
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but I have also found out that when I am
working on something that really needs
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to be done superbly well or I need to do
something quickly
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I can’t multitask and that book really
helped me with that it also helped me to
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cut out some of the things that I was
doing that I probably shouldn’t have
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been doing not that they were bad but
other people were able to do them better
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than I could and then that freed me up
to do the things that I was really good
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at so that was an example of something
that I took from one of those books and
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of course I share on this podcast a lot
of things that I take from those books I
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also joined a mastermind group we might
have talked a lot about a mastermind
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group on a previous episode the term
mastermind comes from Think and Grow
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Rich by Napoleon Hill that is an older
book it is a really awesome read for
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anybody who’s in business for anybody
who works with people I think for
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anybody who does anything it is a great
read that’s definitely dated a little
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bit but if you read it it could have
been written today just with some old
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language and he talks in that book about
how people have to get together and talk
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about what’s going on with them what
they need help with how others can help
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them and that’s what a mastermind group
is I gotta tell you I have been a member
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of mine for about four months now and
just being able to talk to other men
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about what’s going on we’re in a men’s
group of course there are female groups
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that are mastermind groups but I don’t
have access to those obviously I don’t
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want to leave anybody out that’s why I
said that but anyway that has helped me
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so much and there’s an accountability
portion with that so when I say I’m
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going to do something
those guys hold me accountable that I am
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going to do it they also give me really
good feedback based on things that they
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know that I’ve done before and how I’ve
reacted before and they have no problem
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calling me out when they know I’m giving
them a line now the only investment they
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have is they want to see me do better so
how cool is that to enter a room of
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people that are just there to make you
better and you’re there to make them
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better so maybe you should look into
that mastermind if that’s not a term
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that you’re familiar with and Napoleon
Hills Think and Grow Rich is a really
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good read as well something that I do
and I did this a couple times this year
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and I thought I was the only one that
did it but then I read a book that I’m
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just getting ready to tell you about so
I personally will reach out to people
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that I just think are really cool and I
want to get to know and I’ll just call
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him up or write him a letter and say hey
you know I really admire you I’d like to
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meet you for lunch or I’d like to talk
with you and that’s actually what I did
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with Captain Dave and Mark a there was
no reason for him to talk to me but I
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went ahead and made that introduction
off of a cold call he was gracious
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enough to have a great conversation with
me and then of course was scheduled him
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on the podcast well one of the books
I’ve read recently and folks this book
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was hilarious there’s some language in
it but it was just so funny Jesse it’s
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leur who
Serah Blakely’s husband Sara Blakely is
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real famous here in Atlanta she invented
Spanx I’ve never seen a pair but I
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understand they’re pantyhose without
legs anyway her husband owns a company
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and I think it was net jet don’t quote
me on that and anyway it was how does
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the common folk fly privately he came up
with that solution where you could buy
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like twenty five hours on a plane and of
course that’s way above my price range
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but other people have taken advantage of
that and he has been very successful
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with that he also owns the Falcons here
in Atlanta or he’s a part owner with
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that really awesome entrepreneur in his
own right well he wrote a book called
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living with seal and he hired a Navy
SEAL to train him for 30 days and that
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book was just hilarious but in that book
he said he does the exact same thing
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he’ll find somebody that he admires and
he’ll just go out and say hey I’d like
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to meet you
so I’m actually gonna reach out to Jesse
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it’s lura and see if I can meet him he
does live here in Atlanta so I’ll let
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the Scaling UP! Nation know how that goes
the reason I actually read that book was
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21:22.0
I started working with a personal
trainer this year and he recommended
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21:26.9
that I read living with seal so I
wouldn’t think that he was so bad but
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21:30.1
folks here’s the thing you might not
know this about me I’m a diabetic and
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21:37.0
I’m on a couple of medications for being
diabetic and because I’m eating better
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21:42.6
than I have ever eaten before and
because I am working out it looks like
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21:49.1
I’m gonna be able to come off of at
least one if not both of my diabetic
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21:54.2
medications so that is huge again I’m
just sharing all these wins with you
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because I’m hoping that this inspires
you to do something great in 2019
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something else I’m really truly proud of
is I helped four other water treatment
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companies practice water treatment
better so what I’ll do is I’ll go out as
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22:17.1
a consultant and we’ll play games like
let’s see if I can steal the business
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22:20.2
away from you now
I really don’t but what I want to do is
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take them through my process and if
there are any cracks in their program
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22:31.3
isn’t it better for me to tell you that
than for a competitor to come in and
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tell your customer that so that’s one of
my favorite things to do and I did that
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with four other companies this year and
folks it’s interesting to me that a lot
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of people get into the water treatment
industry and your fabulous water
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22:52.2
treaters but we don’t do a lot to learn
how to be fabulous business owners and
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22:56.8
that’s something I try to help people
with a lot of people don’t realize how a
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balance sheet works how a profit and
loss statement works how a cash flow
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statement works a lot of people in the
water treatment industry will just run
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their business from their checking
account one of my huge successes is when
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an owner calls me back after I’ve worked
with them and they’ve actually been able
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23:21.2
to figure out what their business is
doing in a way that allows them to make
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23:26.2
decisions because they’re actually using
their financial data so don’t be ashamed
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if you don’t know that folks were water
treaters we are very good at what we do
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many of us just simply were not trained
to read these cash flow statements
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piell’s and balance sheets but that is a
simple tool and you can learn how to do
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that as well
so anyway all four of these companies
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have called me back and said that their
businesses are running better their
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people are happier and I am just so
happy that I was able to work with these
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24:00.5
guys and make their companies just a
little bit better and again it wasn’t me
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24:06.0
I didn’t do anything but point a couple
of items out it was them that did
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24:10.8
everything another one of the successes
that I’ve had this year is I have spoken
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24:16.5
at six separate events and I’ve been
able to meet a lot of new people in the
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24:20.9
Scaling UP! Nation I’ve been able to get
a lot of new information to put on
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24:24.3
Scaling UP!
but I really enjoy speaking in front of
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24:30.2
audiences and I really feel that every
time I get in front of people and I
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24:35.1
speak I become
a better speaker and one of the tools
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24:38.6
that I use from the seven Habits of
Highly Effective People I know you’ve
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24:43.5
heard me talk about this is third-person
teaching when I want to learn something
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24:49.3
and somebody’s teaching it to me I don’t
envision myself as a student I envision
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24:54.3
myself is the next generation teaching
this so this person’s teaching me and
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24:59.7
I’m immediately in my mind thinking of
how I can teach this to somebody else so
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25:04.1
when there’s a call for papers on a
local organization here in Atlanta I
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normally submit that on any of these new
topics that I want to learn more about
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25:15.1
because it is going to pressure me to
anticipate the questions that are going
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to come from the audience so I can
answer those intelligently and get the
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information that the listener now the
new students need so they can go out and
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25:30.0
practice that earlier this year you
heard from one of my friends one of our
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25:36.7
customers David vince’s he was episode
56 that’s https://scalinguph2o.com/56
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25:42.5
and in that episode I shared
with you that David and I were co-chairs
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25:48.3
of the BTO committee and BTO stands
for a Building Trade Organization and it
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25:55.6
is the committee that the building
engineers all belong to and we’re trying
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25:59.6
to figure out how to better educate the
engineers what information to the
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26:06.1
engineers need to know on upcoming code
changes and stuff like that well just a
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26:10.2
few short weeks ago I received a phone
call from the new BOMA president and
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26:15.1
they asked if I would chair that
committee this year now I told them that
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26:19.5
I was not a building owner or manager
and I wanted to make sure that they knew
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26:23.4
that she told me they did know that but
they were really impressed with what I
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26:27.9
had done the previous year folks I’m
part of a team I’m just I’m just doing
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26:33.7
what the team’s doing nothing straight
for me with that said I am the first
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26:40.5
vendor member if you will to ever chair
a committee in BOMA Georgia so I am
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26:44.1
extremely humbled from that and if you
remember from that
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26:48.1
episode 56 David was giving me a hard
time because that wasn’t really the
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26:52.5
first that I was the co-chair and I was
a vendor member well he confirmed for me
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26:58.4
I am the first chair as a vendor member
so I’m really really proud of that
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27:02.4
something that’s totally out of my
comfort zone that I’ve done this years
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27:06.9
I’ve started working with kids at my
church in fact I went to camp with 20
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27:13.0
kids that I was responsible for folks
these were twenty twelve year olds and I
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27:17.8
gotta tell you for three days I was a 12
year old that was some of the most fun
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27:23.1
that I have had in a long time
water balloon fights tug of war they
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27:27.4
have this thing where you jump off this
pier it’s called the blob and it kind of
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27:33.3
launches you into the lake it was just
amazing I had a great time I’m looking
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27:39.2
forward to doing it next year as well
and I think above all else the thing
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27:44.3
that I’m most proud of this year is how
many people I’ve said this before how
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27:51.3
many people I was able to meet because
of https://scalinguph2o.com/ and when people come
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27:55.6
up to me and say that they are a better
water treater because they’re now
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27:59.5
listening to the show and they were
doing the same thing over and over again
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28:04.7
but now they’re thinking about things
differently and they are able to do
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28:09.6
things just a little bit differently and
that gets them to the next level or when
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people come up and say I’m committed to
get my certified water technologist
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28:19.2
designation or whatever designation that
fits your specific market that you’re in
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28:25.4
and water treatment that makes me feel
so awesome because one of my goals
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actually my ultimate goal is to make the
industry better and folks when you do
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28:34.8
something like get certified you are
committing yourself to the industry and
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28:40.6
that makes the industry better so I want
to thank all of you that have done that
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28:44.8
this year a hundred and forty five I
don’t have the number right in front of
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28:50.0
me people have taken the CWT challenge I
know for a fact that 15 people have
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28:54.2
reached out to me and said they either
gotten their CWT or they’re getting
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28:57.6
ready to take their exam by the time
this show airs
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29:03.5
so folks thank you so much for doing
that and I really appreciate you
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29:08.5
allowing me to be part of that story I
thought the next thing we would do it be
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29:13.2
a little fun to look at some of the
items that are either predicted to
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29:18.0
happen next year or the items that are
going to happen next year so this is
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29:21.5
from a site called quantum run and
that’s what they do is they predict
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29:29.4
things so coming up what we can look
forward to in 2019 5g will replace 4G so
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29:34.5
we’ll start seeing our laptops and our
phones start being able to accept those
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29:37.5
I’m not sure if that means we’re gonna
have to get new equipment it probably
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29:43.7
does GM will release their own version
of self-driving cars and folks it’s
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29:50.7
finally here season eight of Game of
Thrones will be released in 2018 I know
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29:54.7
we’ve all been waiting for that that is
the most mentioned show on Scaling UP! I
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29:58.8
think and then here’s something that was
very interesting Harley Davidson will
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release their first electric motorcycle
it’s gonna be called the live-wire the
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30:06.6
whole thing about Harley’s is how cool
they sound I’m not sure how they’re
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30:10.3
gonna get that with the electric version
and then Volvo has committed that
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30:14.9
they’re gonna continue manufacturing
their existing models but any new models
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are all going to be electric that’s
really interesting
30:18.7
30:25.0
folding cell phones are gonna make a
comeback in 2019 and the internet will
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30:31.9
actually take over TV in terms of
minutes consumed in a day so more people
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30:37.3
will spend time on the internet than
they do watching television in 2019
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30:43.6
we’re also looking to expect an economic
recession during the first couple of
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30:49.5
quarters in 2019 so those of you that
have read business magazines such as Inc
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30:53.8
you have been expecting this because
several people have been forecasting
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that we would see a recession in 2019
and then I saved the best for last Star
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31:09.0
Wars Episode nine is being released in
2019 folks I hope you take a couple of
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moments
to think about how you’re going to be
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31:19.4
better in 2019 and what are some of the
accomplishments that you can make in the
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31:26.1
2019 year that are going to allow you to
be better take a moment write those down
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share that with somebody have them do
the same thing hold each other
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accountable and then celebrate it when
you get it done folks this has been a
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great year for me so thanks so much for
helping me get this year to be so great
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and thank you for continuing to listen
in 2019 we’re gonna get 2019 started off
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great I will see you next year folks