Million Dollar Days

Make the Final Months of the Year Count

• Robby Choucair and George Passas • Season 1 • Episode 93

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Ever glance at the calendar in August and feel that gut-punch realization that the year is nearly over? You're not alone. In this candid conversation, we tackle that universal moment when time catches you by surprise and the year's final stretch suddenly looms ahead.

We dive into what happens when those January goals no longer excite you—and why that's completely normal. Goals should evolve as you do. The remarkable insight? You don't need to wait until January to reset. We share our personal experiences of rewriting goals mid-year and how that simple shift can reignite motivation when you need it most.

The conversation takes an honest turn as we explore the difference between feeling busy and being productive. Many of us fall into the trap of constant activity without meaningful progress. We unpack strategies for breaking through business ceilings, building team culture that energizes rather than drains, and creating those critical "sprint" celebrations that keep momentum alive during long projects.

Perhaps most valuable is our discussion about presence. Rather than chasing the myth of perfect work-life balance, we suggest focusing on being fully engaged wherever you are. When you're at work, be at work. When you're home, be home. This deceptively simple approach transforms both professional output and personal relationships.

As the episode closes, we challenge you to identify your ONE focus for the remaining months—the thing that will make everything else either easier or unnecessary. Because while time stops for no one, how you use these final months is entirely within your control. Listen in, then ask yourself: what will you choose to focus on before the year ends?


George:

apologies, my voice is a little bit croaky today. I don't know if you can tell. Can you tell?

Robby:

I feel like I can tell oh, dude, I'm gonna gonna call you greg.

George:

No, george, it sounds like I'm talking to someone else yes, a little bit under the weather, but still here fucking nice and early grinding. You didn't take sick leave. No, come on. No, it's funny, like if I Do, you have sick days built up. I would, yeah, I'm an employee of the business. I would for sure.

George:

I have a stupid amount of annual leave. Yeah, like a stupid amount. Fun, fun. Yeah. What do you do, man? Just got to roll with the punches. I actually don't feel bad in any way, so that's okay. Just a bit of croaky, that's all what's going on.

Robby:

Living life, 7.30 am on a.

George:

Tuesday. That's it. Before we get cracking, we have the Builder Summit coming up. We do. It's a one-day intensive event for all builders and trades where we're going to go deep and teach you everything you need to know about running a successful construction business, from tendering, attracting quality clients, your branding and marketing, which is your expertise and it's a fantastic day. We haven't done the Builder Summit in a little while. It's been over 12 months actually, since we've done the last Builder Summit, which is a special event. It's the first one we ever did and we got a great result from the very first event that we ever did, and now it's about time we bring it back. We're doing a few other different events trying the market, testing it out, seeing what people like, and I reckon it's time to bring it back because it was such a powerful training. So if you are interested and you are a builder or a trade, go onto our website, our socials, you'll be able to find it. You'll be able to find it everywhere. Click the link. It's on bios.

George:

You've probably got an email in your inbox. You probably have an email If you follow us and know about us or been to any previous events. 100% you have got an email about it. Yeah, and if you don't send us an email, send us an email Abusive email as well saying I can't believe you're failing at your branding and marketing.

Robby:

Yeah, send us an email. Crack is what you preach. Info at milliondollardayscomau. Send us an email.

George:

And we hope to see you there and, for the first time ever, it's free. First time ever. This is normally a paid event where we get a room full of you know, close to 100 people, and they pay to be in the room full of you know, close to 100 people and they've paid to be in the room. But this time we're doing it free because we want people to come and get the change that they need.

Robby:

Come learn something, engage, meet people in a day.

George:

So powerful, like 100 people in the room.

Robby:

Yeah, for sure, it's very powerful, very powerful stuff. It could change your year. Fuck, it could change your life. It could change your year. Fuck, it could change your life. It could change your life. Look, I was trying to play it down, come on.

George:

But it could. Honestly it will, man, I know people that have been at that event have then gone on and done training with me and it's changed their life, changed their business, changed the connections that they had with other people in the room. So it's very true. But like anything you do, you're only going to get out of it what you put in. I know it's a bit of a cliche there, but if you go in there with the right attitude, wanting to connect, wanting to learn, you're going to get the most out of the day. If you go in there going, oh this is shit, what a waste of my time, I've got to be back at work, I've got to do this, I've got to do this Well, that's what you're going to get out of it as well.

Robby:

What's the biggest thing you've ever gotten out of those rooms?

George:

Out of a training like that, yeah, I think on the actual day or post the day, both Okay, everything, all inclusive, say. On the actual day, I'd say there's a level of motivation and belief that I can do those things that are being taught on stage, like I have a genuine belief, like, okay, cool, maybe that was a wake-up call that I needed, maybe that was the thing that I needed to know or learn or get. It hasn't necessarily been on that specific day I go. I met robbie. He was a legend, we're gonna be best friends. Like that hasn't happened. Not, it didn't happen, not on that day. Sorry, bro. Sorry, it took time, mate. Yeah, I had to.

Robby:

I needed a few dives, still comfortable, yeah, yeah.

George:

But following would definitely be the fact that the people that I've connected with, I reckon more than anything Definitely be the people that I've connected with the lessons too.

Robby:

If you had to give a, specific lesson, like if you had to share, like this, one thing I learned. This time, like with, like, obviously, with keeping it concise, don't give us a one hour lesson. You have to come to the builder summer for that, absolutely. But you know what's? What's the thing where you're like hey, man, like I learned this one thing about time management. I learned this one thing about time management, for example. Yep, and I learned that thing and it admitted to this, and now I blah, blah, blah.

George:

Okay, I'd say the one thing specific yeah, yeah, Absolutely Speaking on stage. It would have to be the one thing I look at and go. That was career changing, if not life changing as well, because it's given me the ability to now go stand up in front of hundreds of people and speak with confidence, speak with purpose. Like the nerves are kind of gone too. Do you still get nervous standing up on stage?

Robby:

I get nervous just standing up.

George:

in general, that's a challenge that most people have. Yeah, sorry that not many people have Very unique to you, but you know that skill set and then how that transponded into confidence in other areas. So even me having a conversation with a person one-on-one the team, this podcast, it's led onto so many things. There's been a flow and effect. Arguably, actually, this podcast would never have existed had it not been for that training which we were both in and we said, hey, we should do a podcast. So, yes, it did happen six months later, it didn't happen that next week, but it did come together and we're doing this podcast now.

George:

So from that one training, there was that lesson that I learned to how to speak on stage, or that course where we learned to speak on stage. I thought that was pretty impactful and influential for me. And then again, the connection with people like yourself is probably the main one, given our friendship, given our business, partnership and everything that we're doing. We see each other pretty much every day and then other people as well you know that we've done business with in those groups, in those circles. The connections, the even just plain simple. If I've got nothing out of them other than a friendship like that's great too, so that was my personal biggest thing. I got out of a lot of the training I did. How about yourself?

Robby:

um, there's a lot, but I know I had to try.

George:

And yeah, if I had to try and sorry and, mind you, this isn't just the ones we've done together.

Robby:

Yeah, yeah, tony Robbins course, it would probably be like if I had to think of a real significant one. I recall doing the date with destiny with Tony Robbins and I remember getting to the end and it's six days, yeah, yeah, 16 hour days. It's like full on. Like at the end of it you're like, well, where have I been? What's happened in the world, like. And I remember getting to the end and thinking to myself how the fuck was I walking around, not knowing this shit, like how it was? What was I doing before? Walking around blindly, not knowing what was driving human behavior?

Robby:

And like, had you asked me before, I would have said no, I've got this yeah, I've got a pretty good concept on things and it's like it was just a whole another level of uncovering things, where it's like, yeah, it was just learning new stuff. You know, I I've got a fear, but I feel like I can never get that again. I feel like that leap was so significant that it's like probably never going to get a leap that significant again, like you know what.

George:

I mean it's like yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I go to trainings now and I'm looking at stuff and it's fun and it's like you might get one or two things, yeah, and then you're like, okay, cool.

Robby:

And you're like, okay cool, yeah, that one thing was good, but it's like there's no more trainings where you go now and it's like 95% of the training's new.

George:

Yeah, or impactful, I think, is probably the word for me. I don't go into a training anymore and go, wow, that was like fucking amazing.

Robby:

Yeah, it's um. I think that's gone.

George:

Yeah, I think the level of that has dissipated as well. But that just goes to show how much you've come along as an individual and also a business owner too. You've got some runs on the board now, so it's not that new and exciting because you come across all this stuff. And what I find as well when I go to some of these events is they regurgitate a lot too from other trainings, from other people, well-known people, well-known systems, procedures, and they'll put their own spin on it. But you're like, oh, that's Tony Robbins through and through. Yeah, once you start delving into that space as well.

Robby:

Yeah, well, most things are recycled, most things are recycled.

George:

Yeah, it's very rare that it's a brand new concept that you're being taught.

Robby:

Well, it's got to be like a scientific discovery, right? Seriously, it's going to be like a new thing. That's been otherwise, it's just repackaged in some different way. But speaking about coming a long way, we've come a long way this year.

George:

My word.

Robby:

It's already August.

George:

Can you believe it Eight months down or in the eighth month?

George:

I can't believe it yeah man To be completely honest, I completely agree with you. You know, at the start of the year I was just like oh, you know, I've just got to get. I've just got a busy three months and it's just turned into a busy six months, into a busy seven months. And now it's like, okay, we're planning the end of year, we're planning, okay, by November, december. We need to be in this position. We've got to have this project secured. I'm starting to think now for that.

George:

It's funny I was doing a program the other day, and a program for those of you that aren't in the industry, it's like a timeline for a project, how long it's going to take to build. And I have to put in this program all the public holidays for the year so I can calculate my working days for the project. And I was doing it and I'm like, fuck, okay, so I've got to do it for 2026, because I hadn't done that yet. So I'm Googling 2026 public holidays, I'm looking at my Christmas holidays so I can block all those dates out. And this particular project's a big one, so it's going to go for a while, so they have to go into 2027.

George:

I'm like, fuck, I'm at the point now of the year where I've got to plan almost two years into the future for these projects and that was a bit of the wake up for me. It's like shit, year's nearly done, like we. This is, you're gonna blink and it's gonna be over again. So mean, eight months down, my question yeah, I've got a question for you. First, before you ask me have you established goals for yourself? Did you do that this year?

Robby:

Yeah.

George:

How are you tracking with your goals? Do you feel you've given them a nudge?

Robby:

Yes, yes and no. I did establish goals, I wrote them down, but then I scrapped half of them about three or four months in.

George:

Is that because your priority changed, or you just didn't think they weren't.

Robby:

I just weren't Goals should excite you? They weren't exciting me. I had a few different goals. One of the goals was to go to the States, which we did. Ah, fuck man.

George:

I just forgot that ever happened. Serious, do you know what I mean? Like wow, that was a significant time To go all the way over there, spend that money, sit down with those people. That was a significant amount of investment in time and money and it's like it blinked and it's over.

Robby:

Yeah, other than that, it's all been like personal stuff, yeah, which I would say I've given a pretty good nudge, yeah, and business stuff like revenue goals and all that jazz, yeah, nice, um, but yeah, I would say I've, I've still impatient, still like come on, fuck yeah.

George:

You know, I get that, I get that fucking daily man, I get that. I think about it often, maybe not daily, but I think about it often.

Robby:

Yeah, still have that. But I also feel like I've done so much under like foundational stuff that will you know, like this program we're building, like I haven't seen this nothing come back from it yet. Is it up? Just come up now. Yeah, so by the time this airs, it'll be out awesome, so you can go to cmoplaybookai. It's 100% free. We're sharing everything. We know how we run ads, how we work with our clients, yeah, but how could anything come back?

Robby:

if it hasn't launched yet no, no, but like it's because it you like, you're gonna go and do all these weights in the gym. Yeah, you can't look at yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you know what I mean? So it's like I've done all this work, all this work.

George:

Yeah, if I can come in on the weekend to pick something up.

Robby:

And you're here recording yeah, yeah, that's like I've done all this, all this, all this and that it's like, okay, like this, this something, it will come back around eventually, but it's like I just haven't seen yet. So there's been a lot of that as well, you know, and there was a lot of that last year too, and it's like, yeah, it's gone quicker than I had anticipated.

George:

Yeah, yeah. I remember thinking like last year when we had committed to go into the States. I'm like fuck, that's ages away. Like I want to go now, like let's go, this is ages away Now it's ages away Now.

Robby:

It's ages away Ages in the past. Yeah, that's right. What about yourself? The goals question?

George:

Yeah, there's definitely been things that I've achieved. Did you end up setting goals? Because I know you didn it at the start? Yeah, I did, but I I want to. Normally each year I actually write down my goals and I'll post it on my page and I'll have it as like the very first post and I'll pin it there. I haven't done that this year. I, very much like you, I started writing goals and I looked at some of them the other day and I was like that that's not really that important to me anymore. It didn't, as you said, it didn't really excite me. Like I've had on there for the longest time to buy a rolex and I was just looking at it. I'm like, why do I want to buy a rolex? Like it's nice, it's there, like is it a status thing? I felt that it kind of might have been more of a status thing than me actually wanting the rolex. Do you know what I mean?

Robby:

buzzing yeah, yeah, I can hear that.

George:

So I felt that that was, yeah, it's cool. I felt that's what probably represented more than anything. Yeah, that's stopped now. Sorry, a bit of technical difficulties, ladies and gentlemen, but yeah, I felt that it was a status thing and although I love watches and I would love to have a collection, I didn't think it was something that I needed to aspire to, so I got rid of that. I had a few changes come up. I had goals on there that I didn't. I achieved goals that I've wanted but I didn't have on my list. Does that make sense? What? Like? It's a goal of mine overall, but I didn't have it on my list for this year. Yeah, like I wanted to buy. I've always wanted to buy a sports car, like a prestige one, and we did that moved home into a nice home, so that was another good goal. Again, nothing that I had right there and then. But I was like, no, I wanted to move into a nicer place, so we've done that. Went to the States. That was one of them as well.

George:

Definitely, getting fit was part of my getting into great shape. It was another goal. I was on track for that. Then I had to have an operation that put me back a little bit. I still want to. I still want to be this year. It's still my intent to start back at the gym. Probably not this week, maybe probably next week. Actually I'll be ready to start back. I have to start easing into it. Maybe probably next week. Actually I'll be ready to start back. I have to start easing into it.

George:

But when I look back at the year from a business perspective, I feel that there's been a lot of I felt busy, not productive. Does that make sense? I felt like that a lot this year personally, that I've just been doing the do and just recently when I say recently, probably the last month I've had an opportunity to look back, reflect, and now I've got a bit more of a plan for the rest of the year, which is really good in the sense of getting the team together, getting some systems, getting some processes in place where I can sort of step back into that ceo role a little bit more, as opposed to me being on the tools, let's say, and that's just purely because we've been short-staffed, people on extended annual leave, people on extended sick leave, project pressures, a whole range of things. But we're on the back end of that now, which is nearly handing over, or we've handed over one project, close to handing over the second, and now signing up a couple of more. So now that the new ones are starting, I really want to start day one with all these processes that I've built over the years in place, because they've been in place, but it's a matter of people executing those and I think, because everyone's been so busy, we've sort of stepped away from that a little bit and now I want to bring the team together. Next week we're going to, excuse me, have a team meeting and I'm going to reiterate that to everyone Expectations, kpis.

George:

We've introduced some new systems, some new processes. Like the other day, I got everyone a chat, gpt subscription so they can use that, and I sent an email out to everyone like hey, guys, like this is now part of your day-to-day operations. You need to be using this. It's a tool that is going to help you and make your job easier. It's not there to replace you. It's a tool that is going to help you and make your job easier. It's not there to replace you.

Robby:

It's there to amplify you and, like I would use it every day, would you use?

George:

it every day. Chat or an AI tool? Yeah, probably. Yeah, I still use it every day, but not just hey, what's the weather? Hey, you know, tell me a funny joke. It's proper stuff, like for business purposes. I'll jump on and I'll use it and it saves me time and effort. So the whole purpose of systems and processes is to streamline something, to make it easier. Now, chat is just one of those. We've got other ones that I want the whole team to do.

George:

So, from a business perspective, I don't feel that we've hit the most efficient targets. We've finished projects, which is a great goal. Like that's really good and that's something I'm very proud of with the team, because our two biggest projects that we had on at the time although we still kind of got on now that was a real team effort to get that across the line. Like I had pretty much everyone in the business at some stage working on those projects. So it was a really good team effort. And yeah, it was a great learning curve for them too, because some of those it was an apartment project for one of them and a lot of my team had never built apartments before. I have, but they hadn't, so it was a good learning experience for them so that in the future, when we do another apartment project, they know the things they need to be looking out for and where they can and will come up with challenges on the project.

George:

So so far to date, if I was to give myself a score out of 10, it'd probably sit around a six and a half. But looking forward to the next, what are we? What's that? Four months, four months left, five, yeah, five months left. Four or five months. I look forward and go okay, there's a lot that can still happen in that time.

Robby:

So what's going to?

George:

change. I think I need to change a little bit as in taking that step back from the business and being that more CEO type role. So that's definitely going to change. I want to give my team, I want to make PASC on a really cool place to work. Do you know what I mean? I don't want it to just be. I felt like the last six months it's been a job for everyone. You know just challenges every single day, battles every single day, and I want to make this place a really nice place to work, where they get up, they're excited, they're motivated, good team morale, good culture. That's what I want to work on over the next few months. How are you going to do that? I'm going to do that with have you thought about it at all? Yeah, I have, I have.

George:

It's going to start next week when I sit down with everyone and say where A few of the expectations of the business? First of all, right, so go, just going back to a few basics and you know, from start times to systems and processes that we're going to be using to communication a whole range of things and making sure everyone's on the same thing, be a bit of an open forum. Anyone got questions, suggestions? We'll put it in. I want to go through and do company values with the team. So whether I do that myself or I get a third party to come in and do that, so I want to put the values of the business together, get them their feedback or their input sorry, so they feel a part of that process. I do want to do probably some leadership training with them as well, so each one of them can understand how each other thinks, acts, moves probably disk profiles of some sort. I think would be really powerful for them Investing in the team a little bit more. So Then I want to do I'm breaking up my projects into I'm going to call it sprints. We're going to get to a certain stage of the project. Say, for example, we're going to get to the frame stage. When we hit the frame stage of a project. We celebrate that sprint, that section of the job, and we go out for a drink, we go out for dinner, we go bowling, we do something.

George:

Because at the moment my projects tend to go from anywhere between eight to 15 months to 18 months, depending how big the project is, and it can often just feel like a really long slog and you don't get those little wins along the way. So I want to break it up so we actually get little wins across throughout the build, not just start the job. We win. Yeah, we're all pumped and excited at the start of the job and then by the time you get to the end, everyone's just tired and wants to just hand the thing over and fuck off. I never want to see that job again, and that's what I feel has happened on a couple of the last projects.

George:

Everyone's just at the stage where it's like, oh man, I cannot wait to get out of here, like why you should be sad to leave the job. She's like, oh man, I'm going to be sad not coming here every day. That's how they should be. And then, on top of that as well, maybe we do a monthly catch up or something outside of these four walls, or whether it might be just Friday night drinks or something like that Everyone can come to the office at 2 o'clock and we have chips and pizza, or we actually organize a night out, so making it a more enjoyable place to be working, potentially looking at, even on a Friday. Maybe we wrap it up a little bit earlier as well, so people can actually get out a bit early. I think people work pretty hard here, which is good, but it's about rewarding that effort too. So that's going to be my focus over the next sort of five months with the business.

Robby:

Yeah, I make everyone. Everyone does an extra half an hour Monday to Thursday and they get out two hours early on Friday.

George:

Yeah, that's awesome. I like that.

Robby:

I think it's a really good hours and it's like seriously, how much work you're going to do in the last two hours. Oh yeah, exactly right, exactly, exactly right, like. So I'm like cool, hang back half an hour every day and then on Fridays you get to finish at three.

George:

Do you find uh time Like on a Friday at 3.30?

Robby:

It depends on what I'm doing. Yeah, depends on what I've got on. Sometimes I'm getting smashed, sometimes I'm sometimes especially with what I do like the middle of the day can be very reactive, just getting blown up in many different ways. So sometimes, when I know like client calls are done, the same stuff is done, that's the like. It kind of takes all the load off and I'm like cool, friday at four o'clock, I know that nothing is relevant anymore, unless I got to launch a campaign that we're waiting for. But anything between here and Monday I can do it. Yep, yeah, I mean it's like there's nothing tight. There's the time urgency goes out of it. You know, even if a client emails me at 6 pm on a Friday, there's no obligation to respond. I most likely will, but there's no obligation to respond on the spot. You know what I mean. So that kind of takes a lot of pressure off, but it just depends. Sometimes I leave early, man, sometimes I'll take off on a Friday and be like everyone's out.

Robby:

I'm out, Like, let me just, especially if I've had a rough week or a rough day, I'm like I'm calling it, man, I'm not going to sit here and pretend to work yeah, and that's one thing I think I've done really well this year Like, if I'll leave, yeah, that's good.

George:

Yeah, instead of wasting my time, I think that's definitely something I want to do more in the next five months as well. So not necessarily leave work, but maybe take my kids to school once a week, something like that. Or leave early, pick them up. Just do that every now and then, like, for example, today being a Tuesday, I got my son's football training. So I leave work early today, every Tuesday, because we'll have training with everyone and I enjoy that and I think that's part of me going okay, I'm going to do something else, not just work-related. And the funny thing is you're like oh, I can't, I've got so much on, I can't leave early, I've got so much on. But you always get it done, like even me leaving early today it's not detrimental to the business. You know, I'm still leaving here at 4.30 or whatever time it is.

Robby:

I think it makes you prioritise too.

George:

Yeah, without a doubt, there's certain tasks that need to get done. You get them done. Something will take as long as you give it.

Robby:

Parkinson's law yeah, that's right, that's right so do you feel like there's stuff you're not getting done?

George:

uh, yeah, we spoke about this a little while ago. I feel sometimes I procrastinate, in the sense of I avoid tasks that are difficult from time to time. Still, yeah, yeah, like even now there's a couple of tasks I need to do that I probably should have done last week and I still haven't done them. So I'm actually getting on to them today because I have to do them this week. But that's again something I want to eradicate from my day-to-day operations for sure, and something I've realized that I do a little bit over the last six months too. So we've spoken about, you know, the things that you have achieved are the things that are the things in the last eight months or seven months that you want to improve on.

Robby:

I think there's always going to be things you want to do Well things that you've seen, that you're like no, no, that needs to change Off the top of my head.

Robby:

I like there's things, everything's in motion. Yeah, that's good, you don't have to find something. Yeah, yeah, there's nothing where I'm like I know I need to do something about that. I haven't done anything. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Yeah, I feel like everything like health. No donuts. No, I'm actually being pretty good. Not lately, no, I actually been pretty good. Not lately. No, I've been quite good. Went to the gym this morning. Hey, when, when, when? Oh, yeah, how is it? Yeah, it's cool man.

George:

Yeah, I drove past it the other day.

Robby:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was like oh, okay.

George:

I want to check it out.

Robby:

Yeah, just come down, I'll get you in.

George:

Oh, will, do you, do you get a free guest for a day or some shit? Yeah, maybe I'll do that.

Robby:

Yeah, maybe next week, you jump in the ice bath.

George:

Oh relax, man. I'm going to come and lift weights. You want me to put an ice bath? You have to Fuck.

Robby:

That's the first thing I want to lean on. Like, get in there. Get in there, then it's a really cool place, man Cool place, it's got everything. Like I did the other night, I did a hyperbaric chamber.

George:

Yeah, and it's all inclusive this stuff. Yeah, all inclusive. Yeah, yeah, I've got like Infrared saunas and shit like that.

Robby:

Yes, I've got infrared normal ice bath.

George:

That's what I was going to ask you Parking.

Robby:

They're sorting it out at the moment. Yeah, yeah, is that that's fine? Yeah, but like I'll go pretty early, so there's no way. And where do you park on them? On the road, yeah, oh, okay, there's usually parking there. Or I've parked at mcdonald's. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like across the road. Yeah, just go park, walk over, do what I gotta do, jump back in the car.

George:

So if you see me at mcdonald's, I probably haven't even but if you see me in drive-through I probably yeah, oh, you're just getting a coffee, that's all right of course, yeah, I'm just.

Robby:

I'm just trying to exit the donald's after my workout.

Robby:

Um, yeah, I just got lost. Yeah, I ended up with a banana bread and a coffee. Um, yeah, no, it's really cool, though. So I've, I've, you know, got things in motion there. Got things in motion for the business, got things in motion for my personal life? Um, yeah, I, I can't think there's. No, I used to always have like a hey man, I need to do something about this. I don't have that at the moment. Like I'm doing doing a lot, um, yeah, the only thing if I had to think like one thing, I should probably do something about, I should probably book a lot. Yeah, the only thing, if I had to think like one thing, I should probably do something about, I should probably book a trip.

George:

Oh really, yeah, yeah, time to get out.

Robby:

No, just book, something Like overseas, or just yeah, yeah. Even if it's like next year, I should probably book a like trip for next year to go to Japan or something.

George:

Yeah, that's cool. I've always wanted to go to Japan or something.

Robby:

Yeah, that's cool.

George:

I've always wanted to go to Japan. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, that's cool.

Robby:

Um, maybe I'll come with you Go past, that'd be sick. Japan, yeah, japan, I think it'll be sick. Yeah, I feel like everyone's going to Japan yeah.

George:

Do you, Don't worry, neither do Greeks.

Robby:

Okay, I'll learn. No, I'm not going for the snow. Yeah, I'm going for the food.

George:

Oh, food is sick. Yeah, I love Japanese food.

Robby:

Yeah, I don't know, but that's the only thing I can think of, like if I wanted to do anything, it's like cool, maybe book the trip, maybe I always. One of the things that I haven't actioned at all was I wanted to go to the Middle East Like I wanted to go to Lebanon Never been.

George:

Wow, yeah, there you go. Do you know what I mean? I saw a friend there the other day, but it's a dangerous part of the world at the moment. Yeah, and they were there during that time. Yeah, so I kind of guess how do you know?

Robby:

yeah, I, we think like that it's and it's like obviously it's far from everything that's happening, but like it's still too close for comfort. Yeah, this is a much better thing.

George:

We're thinking about going to greece next year with family, so I feel, like you said, that last year though maybe I did I think there was an intent to go for sure, like we were. We haven't gone overseas with the kids yet and it's definitely something we want to do. They're probably I think they're at a really good age. They're not so young that they'd complain, although they'll complain. They're probably old enough to complain. They're actually pretty good on a plane.

Robby:

They'll have a memorable.

George:

Yeah, they'll have a memorable experience. It'd be like, oh, remember that time we went here we were this old and yeah Well, so that's right On this podcast. Yeah, well, that was that we were going to go to Singapore this year actually, and we'd planned it, met up with friends, like we're booking everything, and then it just didn't work out with work more so because I had, we were so busy at work there was no way I could have left, there was no way I had people away that just couldn't take 10 days off to go. And then we're going to do a September holidays this year, but now we're talking well, let's leave it till next year and do Europe. So maybe on the way back I'll meet you in Japan, if we're going around the same time.

Robby:

Yeah, that's the only thing, dude, I can think of. I'm like I should action that I haven't actioned that I should put something towards that, and obviously it'll be.

George:

It'll just book a flight. Yeah, and obviously it'll be, because you're going there for a training course and for educational purposes, of course. Marketing and for business purpose? Sorry, Of course. Business purposes, without a doubt.

Robby:

Yeah, no, that's a. Do you work for the ATO?

George:

Yeah, that's a side note. When you spend the Amex on sushi, yeah, what's all the sushi Like what's? That's okay, that's a side note. When you spend the Amex on sushi, yeah, what's all the sushi Like what's this?

Robby:

for I bought it for trading For the clients. What about you? Is there anything that you're like?

George:

for the next six months, or the next four or five months?

Robby:

Yeah, yeah, Is there anything that you feel like you're going to? You want to nudge or you haven't nudged?

George:

Yeah, definitely the trip. Just doing more trips holiday-wise with the family. I want to do a bit more of that, but you know we're pretty good with that too, because we do over the what's it called like long holidays, public holidays, so a long weekend or something like that. We tend to book to go away during that time with friends. So we'd still go and do stuff locally, interstate or Australia or wherever it might sorry, local or Australia. So I'm good with that. But, similar to you, the main thing for me is probably doing that overseas trip with the kids, something that's memorable with them that they'll love and enjoy. Is there anything else Personal or business, everything? Is there anything else? Uh, personal, business, everything, everything, everything. Um, yeah, definitely getting into shape. So you said september you wanted to be. Is that still the goal? Yeah, I reckon I'll be good for it. Yeah, that's sick good on you. I reckon I'm gonna try give myself till the end of the year I reckon you'd laugh.

Robby:

Yeah, if I took my time off now, you'd freak. I'd be like it was the same guy that was eating donuts in America. Hey, just can I just say something?

George:

The where'd we go? Sydney? When did we go to Sydney Recently? Success conference was it? Yeah, it was, and we had a Sprinkles. They're the great doughnuts. I've never had that before, that particular doughnut, it was the greatest doughnut.

Robby:

I've ever had the hummus and donut.

George:

It was the greatest doughnut I've ever had in my life. That was the greatest thing. I couldn't believe how good it was.

Robby:

I couldn't believe how good it was. That was a very good doughnut, my goodness. Doughnuts are the greatest thing. Oh man, I are like donuts are the pizza of the sweet world. Do you know what I mean? Like they are that thing. That's like how do you not like donuts? How do you not? If you don't, what's wrong with you? It's like how do you not like pizza? Someone said to me the other day I don't like pizza and I was like stop talking to me and I was like yeah, and I was like why?

Robby:

and they're like there's no nutritional value. You an idiot. Nutritional value, like I'm sitting there, like this is healthy, yeah, getting it for the like.

George:

Yeah, I can tell you're getting upset.

Robby:

You haven't done a pizza review in a little while, yeah, I know I've had a few people tell me, yeah, you gotta do it, it's hard, it's hard. I'm trying to get a six pack and do pizza reviews. Well, that's the thing, isn't it.

George:

Well, just one slice, I'm sure can fit into your macros and shit like that. No, okay, I don't believe in calories. Yeah, I don't believe in you, it's okay.

Robby:

It's a problem. I don't believe in calories at all. Ever since doing the carnival thing, I'm like how can I eat this much food?

George:

and lose that much weight and calories make sense. It doesn't. Yeah, there you go, yeah, yeah, but I think by the end of the year it's definitely something I want to be doing too. Getting into shape I'm at a good weight. I probably need to drop to get to. What is it about? It's anywhere between 9% to 12% body fat, I think. To get a six pack. Is that about right? Depends on the individual, I think yeah, it's heavily dependent.

Robby:

I don't think I'll get to 12%. Yeah, yeah that, yeah, yeah, that's a lot Significant. Yeah, I'd be skinny as if I dropped to 12%.

George:

Yeah because I actually put it into chat the other day just out of curiosity, like how much would I weigh? And it's like you would weigh 76. I'm like, fuck man, I haven't weighed 76 kilos for the longest time. I couldn't even remember jumping on the scales and it saying 76. And I look at that and go, well, that to me feels too small. Do you know what I mean?

Robby:

I feel like I would be skinny, unhealthy skinny, I just care for how you feel and how you look. Yeah, I don't really care what they're-.

George:

Yeah, I tend to be the same.

Robby:

The scale says but I've lost a bit of weight.

George:

Like you said the other day, looking skinny, I'm like, yeah, I think I something I want to do by the end of the year. Health, yeah, yeah, I have just been in great shape by the end of the year and definitely achievable goal, definitely achievable goal, especially now that I can sort start focusing on that a bit more, whereas you know, as I said, the last six months I've been so consumed with work that I haven't, and I was training pre-op, but top priority, so now I want to make it more of a priority with that too. Is there anything else that you-. Yeah, work-wise, I want to break the ceiling. Do you know what I mean?

George:

We often talk about? We get in business, we get to a ceiling and it's like, oh, we've got a good amount of work, but then I want to break the ceiling. I want it to get to a point where I've got well, fuck it, I need to go get more insurance, I need to get a bigger office, like I need to. I want to break that ceiling. That's my focus. So let's just say, from financial year to financial year, if I had a goal now, it's to break that ceiling.

Robby:

So what would you think you don't have right now that you'd need to have to break the ceiling?

George:

More projects.

Robby:

Yeah.

George:

Yeah, it's definitely that. It's project wise, then I'd need more people as well. So it's a matter of and there's a level of it too, like we're already putting things in motion, like we've been doing SEO with you now for six months, something like that.

George:

Yeah, so there's a level of investment there. The next thing will be doing digital ads and going okay, well, how do we get the market in to actually start attracting people there too? And this is where I can start stepping back and looking more strategically across the business. Not just I need to process this invoice, I need to send out this order, I need to speak to this client, and that's right. Really defining people's roles in the business will be important so that I can do that. I'm starting now to look a lot at what I can delegate to other people so I don't have to do it. And now my PA is back, so, as in she's back from extended leave, so I can put her into a lot of that stuff too and start. You know, and even if I need to train people up to do the things that I'm doing, well, cool, that's what we're going to do. I need to invest that time in that space.

George:

But, yeah, I want to break the ceiling. There's always that, like you said before, it's like fuck, I need to do more. I want to do more. There's not. Why aren't things happening fast enough? And that's where we're at with a few of the projects Like we got.

George:

It's funny in construction Like I feel that you can go overnight, like you could break the ceiling because I might be tendering five, 10 jobs at a time and if you win all of them, like you break in the ceiling and that can happen, like you can win a good percentage of those. The way I market myself and the way I tender it's with the intent of winning a lot of those projects, because I qualify all of my clients before they come in. So I like to think I'm already a shoo-in to win a lot of those projects anyway. But you don't win them all. And if it does happen like we're looking good for a couple one we're signing contracts this week, another one we're meeting on Wednesday and we should probably be getting the tick of approval to go ahead with that. So that's great.

George:

And then there's another one which is a large project. It's probably a. I would say it's close to 11 million. So it'll be our biggest job that we've done. 11? Yeah, it'd be pretty close to that 10, anywhere between nine to 11, somewhere there, and that'll be one of the biggest projects that we've secured. And again, good shot at it. And that lands, then cool, you're breaking the ceiling. That project lands. I need to go out and employ more people, and what I want to do, though, is land that project and then be like okay, where's the next one? Where's the next one? Where's the next $11 million project?

Robby:

Will you employ people on a contract basis for a project like that? No, no, oh, you'd employ them full time. Yeah, you wouldn't do like an 18-month contract.

George:

The risk I find with that is two things. One is people will start in the 15th month. If they don't see job security, they'll start shopping around for the next role. So then I'll lose them in the last three months of the job because they'll be like well, I've only got a 15-month project, I want to look for a job around month 12. Or you offer them a full-time role at that stage, and then the next thing will be you'll probably pay them a bit more too, because it's a contract, so it's not a full-time role.

George:

The way I see it is, if I'm going to put someone on, it's not with the intent of getting rid of them in 12 months. I'd rather put them on, have them a part of the team, and then, if, by chance, we don't have enough work, all right. We need to cross that bridge. When we get to it, maybe we reduce their hours or maybe I do get rid of them. Sorry, thanks for your time, thanks for your service, but we don't have the next job for you to go on to. Yeah, maybe it pushes someone else out. You know, as in, I employ this supervisor and he's an absolute fucking superstar and he shows up everyone, and then we get to that point where we've got less work to accommodate everyone, I said, well, he's a gun, he's not as good. Sorry, mate, I've got to let you go. So you can kind of upskill your team in that regard too.

Robby:

Yeah, it can go many, many different ways.

George:

Yeah, so I've got no issues employing people full-time. I think I prefer that rather than a contract, definitely. I just don't think on contract. I just feel that people won't. It's going to be harder for them to be as loyal yeah.

Robby:

Yeah, well, it's not reciprocated.

George:

Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm not being loyal to them by giving a full-time contract.

Robby:

Yeah, but does that?

George:

matter. I don't know. Maybe to some people, maybe to some people, they don't matter. They're like no, I want the flexibility to be able to leave in 18 months. Or they're like no, 18 months. I'm going to Europe for six months, so maybe that can suit people well as well. Do you like the security? From what perspective? Like my security of them having been there? Yeah, yeah, it's good knowing I've got people there to deliver. Yeah, like, imagine you're living on a knife's edge going fuck, is this person going to quit? Is this person going to quit? We're in trouble if we do that. If they do at this stage, yeah, I'd rather them be locked in, I think.

Robby:

Okay, what's going to be the focus for the rest of the year?

George:

for you. Well, the two things, the main things, will be getting the team and the culture on track, everyone knowing what they need to do, everyone being excited about working here, and then personally, it'll just be my health and fitness, but then also just that focus a little bit more so on home as well, because I've been you know, I'm massive. I hate the term work-life balance. I hate the idea of balancing stuff. I think it's ridiculous. Actually, it doesn't work and I prefer focusing Like it's either you've got to focus on work or you have to focus on family, and the last six months have been a huge focus on work because it's had to be for me. So now I want to shift that focus more so on the family stuff too. Yeah, more personal, like when I say family, I mean myself and my family Outside of work.

Robby:

I think, one of the biggest. This is my perspective on that. I think it's all about being present wherever you are. Oh, without a doubt.

George:

I think that's all about being present wherever you are. Oh, without a doubt, I think that's really important too. You know when, if you're only going to spend an hour a week with your kids, make sure it's the best fucking hour on the planet, yeah, or?

Robby:

like you know, there's no point going home, in my opinion. No point going home, being home at four 30 and sitting down on the couch like a robot yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like if you're there, be there. And if you're here, be here. Yeah, and if you're here and your mind's there, go there, you know what I mean.

George:

Massive um, yeah, and I think a lot of people struggle with that I think that's something I've really learned this year yeah good, yeah.

Robby:

And that goes back to the thing I'm saying like when I'm here, if I'm not here, I'll leave. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not fucking, like, like there's no point. Are you sitting here to clock up hours? Are you paying yourself hourly rent? Get out of here. Get out of here, clear your head, come back, start again.

George:

Yeah, that's really good, and it's good for you to realize that now, before you've got a partner or a family or anything like that too, because a lot of people figure that out through the process and they'll come back and they'll be like, oh fuck, I should have done that 10 years ago. So it's good that you can figure that out from an early stage. And these are the sorts of things you learn when you come to trainings and events and go to events and stuff like that, because you'd be like, oh yeah, you might say it on stage, I might say it, I'll probably say it on stage, and it's like someone that is a bit more self-aware. They'll look at that and go. You know what I fucking do? That I come home and I'm a zombie. I come home and I'm just tired and I want to sleep and I want to just play video games and not talk to anyone for two hours Because I've had such a hard day at work, because I've had so much at work and the people that are most important to you-.

Robby:

You're going to have people pick up on it.

George:

I think there would be people that pick up on it. Yeah, I do, I think they would. They would know that it's them that they do that for sure. Now, whether they make the change, that's a different story. Yeah, very, but I think they would pick up on it. Yeah, I do that. I come home and I'm tired, but then they just feed themselves. That too. They let themselves live that excuse. Oh, yeah, but I've worked really hard. Yeah, but you don't understand the pressure I'm under.

George:

Oh, but I was up at 4.30 this morning. That's why I'm tired. Like I went to bed last night at 8.30. Seriously, yeah, I was just tired, man, like well, I'm going to stay up so I can fall asleep on the couch and then go to bed. So I went to bed, I watched a little bit of stuff on my phone, but I was probably sleeping by 9.30ish, I reckon. Yeah, and I feel good Like I woke up 5.30 without the alarm, like all right, let's go. So. And I feel good Like I woke up 5.30 without the alarm, like all right, let's go. So I was actually. I felt fresh, and I feel fresh now, apart from the croaky, yes, aside from that, yeah, some people might like it One octave lower. What is it? An octave Like my voice is one octave lower.

Robby:

Is that a? I don't know, never heard that term.

George:

I've never heard of an octave. Yeah, just chat to me through it later.

Robby:

I'll have to learn something new, all right. Well, I guess if you're listening to this and you're like fuck, it is August, you know these pricks are right. You need to ask yourself what are you going to do?

George:

Yeah, main review where you've come, like how far you've come, because you've lived it, the years happened, unless you were sleeping the whole time it's happened. So has it been a massive year? Has it been great? Has it been shit? Like, what needs to change? What do you need to review? Or maybe nothing's changing.

Robby:

Maybe you're just going to continue on your current trajectory and keep crushing it, or not, if that's what makes you happy yeah, and if you had to try and control your focus, it's like what's the one thing I'm going to push towards for the last, because before you know it, it'll be september, then october. Then someone asked me last week, last week yeah, they're like, what are you doing for new years? I looked at him like what? I like what are you doing for New Year's? I looked at them like what I'm like what are you doing for New Year's? I'm like are you serious? They're like yeah, it's going to come around quick. I'm like don't talk to me about that. Yeah, so far away. Yeah, I'm like it is, but it isn't.

George:

Do you know what I mean? Have you ever been a New Year type of person to celebrate it Me? Yes, you're really pumped my favorite shit ever. Is it favorite day of the year? Yeah, more than your birthday. I got a tattoo of it. H-n-y.

Robby:

Yeah, On your back. No, I'm to be honest with you, couldn't date the last time I was up at midnight.

George:

Yeah, I'm the same Because, especially with kids, we're always in bed by 10 o'clock.

Robby:

I think you'd think it'd be the other way around with kids. Yeah, don't? Your kids want to see the fireworks and that.

George:

They don't. They're too tired. They'll be sleeping by 10 o'clock Like it kills them, like they don't function well. When they stay up too late the next day they'll be groggy and complaining. And Did you used to say, I'm not sure when you were a kid? I feel that I remember staying up, yeah.

Robby:

Yeah, I reckon I definitely did. We used to do like family things.

George:

That's right. We'd go to someone's house and then you'd be up the whole time and yeah, yeah, the best thing to do for New.

Robby:

Year's. Is you got to have a space? Yeah, personally, I don't like if you go to a public place there's too much happening. Yeah, but before that comes you've got four and a half months.

George:

Yep to make shit happen.

Robby:

Make shit happen.

George:

Would you rewrite? Sorry, no, I was trying to remember. Yeah, would you rewrite? I'm actually going to look at rewriting my goals now. Why? Why should I wait till New Year's? Do you know what I mean? What if I've just got rid of yeah, exactly, it's the law. I like to break rules. Yeah, what if I got rid of I said earlier, and you said it as well, there's a few goals there that you just got rid of. Well, why not replace them with something that excites you? Like, oh well, I've got four months before I need to rewrite my goals.

George:

Write them right now, write them tomorrow. Like, do them, don't wait. You don't need to wait for a certain date. You can do it whenever you want. You can do goals at any stage of your life. There's not a set time. You don't have to wait for financial year. You don't have to wait for your birthday. So if that's something that, or if you're in that space, change it up. Change it up, get in there and write them. And you know what I'm going to challenge myself by Monday next week, I'm going to have my goals rewritten. So by the time this airs.

Robby:

So by the time this, is live.

George:

Yeah, by the time this is live, my goals will be rewritten. How will the audience, keep you accountable. They can send an email to info at milliondollardaves. They can subscribe. Actually, that's how they can keep me accountable Subscribe and then check in on the next episode, which will be Monday week.

Robby:

Which will be Monday week, and I'll mention it there.

George:

Robby's going to say hey, stop fucking around. Did you rewrite your goals? Because he'll keep me accountable.

Robby:

So then, I can say yes, I have, I will, I know you will. I'll hold you to that. Yes, time stops for no man or woman. I was going to say it's a bit sexist. I'm very gender neutral. You'd be disappointed if you weren't. I'm all about equality and treating everyone in the same way.

George:

They should be the same, because everyone is the same, everyone, everyone, all of them, them, all of them, they, them, they, thems, all, the, they, thems. They're all the same. Just going off the rails. Hey, let's go sideways. By the way, because I feel like I need to say this Did you watch the St Kilda replay the other day? St Kilda, melbourne? Oh man, I watched it again last night. I was pumped. Is it that good? Oh, I just thought Huh. Ugly team, I know, but 46 points down in the last quarter.

Robby:

That's great. Go in the flag. Huh, go in the flag. You haven't done it in 50 years, I know right. At least I won something. Hard team to follow no, I don't like footy, to be honest.

George:

I'm completely. Yeah, I remember you saying.

Robby:

What do you reckon if?

George:

the Blues started dominating again. You wouldn't, you wouldn't go back. No, I find that strange. You reckon, yeah, a little bit, because you used to me I was a full-blown member. That's what I mean.

Robby:

Yeah, that's what I mean I used to watch. I used to watch games where I didn't know like I wouldn't back for either team. I'd watch the game yeah, but that's.

George:

There's still a level of like if you were that much into it and you enjoyed it that much I've. So I find it surprising that you just switch like that.

Robby:

I was quite surprised as well, but I just can't Like, even now I'll put on a game and I'm bored, yeah, and I'll sit there like I can't wait for this thing to finish. And do you know what? I didn't realize how fucking long the game goes for.

George:

Yeah.

Robby:

Like it is so long, dude, and it's like it's just me not enjoying it. Would you go to the?

George:

footy like as a social thing, like say we were going, like I had tickets to the footy the other day, oh well, I didn't. I got invited. But say I had a spare and I said you want to come, would you go? Yeah, like I wouldn't not go.

Robby:

Yeah, you know, like we went to the hockey, I'm never going to.

George:

I haven't watched a hockey game, since there's a level of entertainment there still, and it was Blues Hawks as well. Funny enough, even though it wasn't a very great game, there's still a level of okay, this is my team, this is who I used to support. Oh yeah, I remember Silvani.

Robby:

I don't know. I can't explain it. I feel like I've lost. I don't care, couldn't care less. Carlton wins a flag this year. I couldn't care, couldn't care less. Carlton wins a flag this year. Couldn't care, that won't. Carlton makes the eight. Carlton. Which year was it when they had 10 in a row and they made that? Two years ago? Yeah, it was recently. They didn't give a shit.

George:

Yeah, so it's been a little while that you haven't watched, that you haven't followed the football.

Robby:

Yeah, yeah, he got booked Like the Carlton player ran into his shoulder, literally, yeah, literally, that's what happened and he got done two weeks. Yeah, and what are you supposed to do? Like, not go for the ball?

George:

Yeah, like, he did nothing, didn't lift his arm. There's a huge there's a huge level of it being over adjudicated yeah.

Robby:

I don't know, I'm not. I just watch UFC now, that's all I do.

George:

Yeah, no rule changes there.

Robby:

There's, it's the real, it's the real deal.

George:

Yeah.

Robby:

There's no one controlling or over-controlling this one.

George:

I saw you send me the other day. You put a comment up and then you got smashed About.

Robby:

UFC fighter fighters. Yeah, a lot of butt-hurt people.

George:

They didn't like your point of view. Sensitive topic yeah, everyone's saying they should be getting paid more. You're like, no, they're getting paid, each they're stupid.

Robby:

People don't understand how markets work. Yeah, people don't understand how markets work. Yeah, why would they get paid more, like they're getting paid the most? Why do I have to pay you more? Oh, because the UFC makes more. And yeah so if I have a better year this year, you want to get paid more as an employee. Okay, but if we have a bad year, are you going to take a pay cut?

George:

Yeah, like if you're going to, we've got to do a whole episode on it.

Robby:

I could do a whole episode on it. People are victims. Yeah, you know something of victims Entitled. Yeah, just or like just have this, you know? Oh, woe is me. You know, there was this guy the other day. He's like he's sitting there saying, oh, they're forced to do it, I'm and like they're not forced to do it. He's like well, what if they can't make more money anywhere else? I said so.

Robby:

The ufc is giving an opportunity to make more money yeah and he's like well, you could say the same thing about forced prostitution. And I said that's not the same, dude. Yeah, and then I said that's not the same. You sound like a victim. He's like maybe you're just changing the subject because you sound like a retard. And I'm like man, why am I even talking? Yeah, exactly like. This is just stupid. Now you can't tell who the retard is. Yeah, I'm never allowed to say that. Well, you can't.

George:

You can't. We just got cancelled. What's the? It's taken 94 episodes, but we just got cancelled. We haven't discussed anything controversial in a little while.

Robby:

This is episode 94. Is it Three Something? Like that, something like that, but we've got episode 100 coming up, yeah, and I think we've got to do something big.

George:

Cake Something big. Can you have the calories Me, of course? Yeah, absolutely. We've got to do something cool for episode 100. Maybe have a live studio audience, show the world.

Robby:

That's it. It's a big milestone, that is.

George:

Absolutely it is. I think that's something you should. It's gone quick, hasn't it?

Robby:

it has. Everything goes quick.

George:

It's August but if you had told me at the start, like I told you at the start, we're going to get to episode 100, that is on episode 1. That's episode 1. Well, yes, you said like a thousand episode a thousand yeah, that.

Robby:

Yes, you said like a thousand Episode, a thousand. Yeah, that'll take 50 years, yeah.

George:

At the rate we're going, at the rate, 20 years.

Robby:

At the rate we're going, sarah, unless we start dropping it.

George:

Four episodes, 15 minute episodes. Yeah, four episodes, yeah. So that's cool, man, that's cool. It was funny I keep bringing it back to that Steve Bartlett comment that he put up when he had that post where he got 2 billion views or downloads or some shit like that on his podcast and he's like, yeah, that's fantastic, really proud of it, that's awesome. But I just want to remind everyone we did this for three years and we had like 1,500 views or 1,500 downloads for three years. No one's seen all the work that goes in before. They just see everything that happens later. Well, it must be nice having that podcast that you guys do. How lucky. I would love not to work and just do a podcast all day and get paid thousands and millions of dollars for it. That's exactly what we do. That's why the cash rolls in. Just because it's this neon sign says it all. The podcast is pretty legit. Yeah, of course it is.

Robby:

We are a legit podcast now.

George:

Someone said to me the other day.

Robby:

They're like is that a legit podcast or are you just?

George:

trying to mark yourself. You're just two podcast bros. It's pretty legit. Check it out.

Robby:

And then they checked it out. They're like, hey, this is legit as.

George:

And I say young, early 20s working behind there is of Indian descent, not to be stereotypical, but he was Indian and he was listening to stuff in the background, like most of the time they're listening to music or they've got a show. Like you know, they'll have Netflix on the corner whilst they're serving people and it's. I've noticed that twice the second time. I've noticed it every time I've walked in there. He's listening to a podcast and it's like an educational podcast, like a good one that he's. He's sitting there and he's like, well, if I'm going to be here serving, working, I want to learn. At the same time, like I want to listen to something that I can potentially get out of this and the next time I'm going to go put fuel, I'm going to mention it to him. If he's still there, I'm assuming he would be I'm going to mention this to him. Which server? The Port Melbourne BP.

Robby:

On Bay Street, yeah on.

George:

Bay Street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not where your gym is, not that far down. There's the BP on the corner.

Robby:

No, no, yeah, not that one, yeah, not that one.

George:

The small one, yeah, the small one, yeah. So next time we go there I'm going to see him, we're going to have a chat with him. Say, hey, man, this is the third time I've come in here. Listen to Million Dollar Days, all right.

Robby:

Let me know when you do it, and then I'll go do it after you yeah, how good.

George:

How good you listen to Million Dollar Days yet. So yeah, but I just thought that was cool, like a bit of breath of fresh air. You know that you see a young kid that's trying to self-educate and, if I had to make an assumption, he wants more out of his life than just working at BP. That his life than just working at BP. That's a fair assumption, it's ambitious, it's wild, it's a wild thought. I mean, I know nothing of him other than him taking my money for the fuel I bought. But I just thought that was a level I have just a little bit impressed that I saw that he passed pretty low at the moment he listens to a podcast.

George:

Wow, no, but I mean I don't see that. I've never seen that before. I don't see them listening to podcasts. They're always something else On the phone yeah, on the phone. Or just music, or whatever. It might be A show. They're talking to their mate, you know, they might be talking to a friend or something whilst they're serving you. Yeah, like that sort of stuff. That's what I. I just thought it was great that he was there and self-educating whilst he was at work.

Robby:

Maybe he's listening.

George:

Sorry, maybe he's listening. I hope he is. I hope he is Because I'm giving you a shout out. I'm going to learn your name, yeah, and I'll give you a shout out the next episode. If he is, what should he do? He should definitely subscribe.

Robby:

He has to, he has to and so should. Um, you know this only, uh, this will reach more people by you sharing this with someone. Yeah, without a doubt, letting someone know.

George:

Your stories.

Robby:

You can do it across any social platform. It is August and we're running out of time and we need to go, and we need to go now.

George:

You need to do shit, need to get things moving in the right direction. It's a 35 next year, you do yeah, fuck Old moving in the right direction. It's 35 next year, you do yeah, fuck Old that feels old. Yeah, 35 is like hey, did your back just twing a little, like just a little pain there.

Robby:

It's on its way. I'm going to book the back surgery.

George:

Time's flying.

Robby:

You got to do something about it it stops for no one.

George:

That's right. Make shit happen, guys, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Robby:

So control what you're going to focus on for the next four months, because it will go quick. Pick one thing, two things. Don't try and do 100 things. Look at your goals list. Say cool, what's the one thing that I'm going to move the needle on? How can I move it forward? And I'm going to go right down my goals right now Execute. And I'm going to go right to my goals right now Execute. Good stuff.

George:

Thanks a lot for tuning in, guys, as always hoping you're having a million-dollar day and we cannot wait to see you next time.

Robby:

Thank you, everybody.

George:

Peace out Bye.

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