Welcome everybody out to podcast number 1365. I'm super happy to be with you today. The topic today is we, actually it's about speed.

It's an analogy that I viewed the other day going to the late, no, no, to pick up my new CPAP machine that I have because I broke the old one. And I really, really want to share it with you because it's quite remarkable. This will be a shorter one, but if you're into a really cool analogy, stay with us.

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Welcome everybody, I will remind you that I have retainers in, meaning the plastic covering, so I sound a little bit different, have a bit of a lisp, but I don't do that out of respect. I'm just trying to take care of my health and I really appreciate everybody's patience with me and I love you all very much, that's why I'm here. Let me read the builder's code item for today.

Constrain your hours. A good method for builders is to constrain your hours to 45, 50, or 55 in a week. Only when you make yourself go home will your brain know to create improvements that help you complete your work.

If you mask waste with hours, there is never a motivation to make improvements. I love that one. Okay, let me get right into the feedback for improvements, or no, sorry, the feedback from our listeners.

Happy Father's Day, Jason, for your story. And no, yeah, and your story resonates in many ways personally to me, so keep inspiring those inside and outside work and at home because I think it resonates strongly, the small things that we share, these stories, these experiences, and the fact that we strive to help others is our business. It is our business to help and serve others in our family.

Many thanks and blessings to you and your family. This was in response to the post that I just did about the family and having a bunch of kids, and I really appreciate it. Boy, I got so much really neat feedback.

It took me two hours to respond to all the comments one by one. I was a little bit tired, truthfully, meaning like if somebody thought that it was AI or an assistant, it may just be me sounding tired because I was. Oh, let me just give you a report.

I took out one of our business partners, his girlfriend, Emilio Ricardo, four of my kids. We went out to the lake and we got there at nine. We did some tubing.

Liam has, one of my kiddos loves to have this competition with me, whether or not I can get him off the inner tube. And I got him twice. I was able to jump him over a yacht wake.

So we did some inner tubing. We did some hopping around. We did a little bit of climbing.

Like I said, oh, had snack time, relax, play with the dog. We had a great time. Oh, I actually took him to the east side of Lake Pleasant and they got to go on one of those slides and doggy, doggy, wow, Maggie had her little doggy shoes on, it was super cute.

When I wore myself out, my left wrist hurt so much. I'm not doing pushups today and I'm super bummed because I'm up to 70. Anyway, I had a great time and all throughout the day that post was really doing well.

People really liked to see, you know, somebody like really responding in an intimate way. So I really appreciate that. I'll move on now.

I'm sorry for taking so much time. But anyway, let's go ahead and go to the podcast topic itself. And what I wanna talk about is, let me tell you a little bit of a story.

So, and this has come back to me over and over and over. When I tell people, like our entire message is don't rush, push, and panic. Hold stable and hold in a flow and plan and prepare.

And that's the best way to finish construction projects. And people will always look at me like I'm crazy. They're like, but Jason, rushing, pushing, panicking, working harder does work.

No, it doesn't, it just looks busier. Let me give you an analogy. By the way, I'm mad at the concept, I'm not mad at people.

So when I, oh, oh, so let me explain this. So I, one night, so the CPAP machine pushes air into my airways. Because genetically, and this happens to our species, right? Men, a lot of times have too narrow an airway.

And you don't have to be obese or anything else like that. It can happen to anybody. You just have a narrow airway.

And I went to get this fixed and finally was starting to get it figured out, starting to get it figured out. And I was really frustrated because I was getting a one hour night, two hours a night. And then I did a post that was horribly looking, horrible, like it was a really rough picture.

But I posted it and a lot of people came back being like, I've got a CPAP too, this how you use. The feedback that I got on how to use it got me from one to two hours a night to literally sleeping all night with a CPAP. So I'm like, yes, I'm waking up.

I feel great. I've got my energy back. I'm living my dream and then I break my CPAP.

I accidentally turned and tossed and turned a little bit too much and it rolled on its side. Water got in the unit, sorry, not union, unit. And I freaked out.

So I'm calling Adapt Health, my sleep doctor, trying to figure out if I can order one of these machines on Amazon, but you have to have a prescription. Finally, I get the number and I will say, and I'm not trying to be a victim here, but after multiple people are mean to me and defensive, like out of nowhere. Like I'm super nice to people.

Like I'm like, thank you for taking my call. I really appreciate it. How's your day going? And they're being so rude.

Anyway, I'm like, I don't care. I'll spend $1,000 and buy this damn thing. Please tell me where I can go pick it up with the prescription.

Anyway, finally, the lady's like, I can get you in at four o'clock. So I'm heading there and I miscalculate when I should leave. It's my fault, I wanna be clear about that.

And I realize on the map that it says they close it for. So now I'm even further freaked out. So without breaking the law, I don't think I was breaking the law.

I wouldn't lie to you about it. If I was, I would just tell you, but I don't think I was breaking the law, but I'm three minutes. It shows me at 4.03 and I'm like, I'll make this up through deft maneuvering.

And so I'm not swerving in and out of traffic, but I am changing lanes and I am going the maximum speed, probably plus five, maybe plus seven. Anyway, it's within the limit of where police officers won't pull you over. Anyway, I'm doing everything I can, channeling the universe, trying to hit lights, just the right way and guess what? I get there at 4.03. Thankfully, they're open and the lady's already prepared it and swaps it out, so I got a good night's sleep that night.

So I'm super stoked. But I just realized that's a perfect analogy. People will leave late, me, and say I'll make it up by driving fast and moving in and out of traffic and trying to hit lights properly.

But I didn't get there any sooner, any sooner at all. I wasn't able to make it up. Even if you did go faster, if you do the math, you're talking 30 seconds max.

The other thing is if you're careless, you're gonna end up dead and kill somebody else on the driveway, on the freeway. So this is a lecture to myself more than anything. And what I wanna say is we think that in construction, oh, let me just get started.

I'll make it up on the freeway. No, you won't. The only thing that would have gotten me to my appointment on time is better planning, leaving earlier, and driving in a steady flow.

That's it, that's the only option. And so the other thing is like, once we die or maim ourselves or hurt somebody else, we will definitely want to take it all back. And the problem is when we rush and push and panic, I try and quote unquote go fast on the freeway on a construction project, we do end up hurting people.

Like it is all tight. I just wrote in the 10 myths about CPM, is that what it's called? Oh, the 10 myths of CPM, how the critical path method systematizes disrespect for people. I just wrote in there how having crash landed projects literally then leads to all of these root causes for death by suicide and mental illness in construction.

We lead in suicide and mental illness. We have the most of it. And so I'm not lecturing you, I'm lecturing the concept.

Trying to make it up on the freeway by going fast, it does not work. And neither does making it up during construction because we started without a proper plan. So we've got to get rid of these concepts and I figured that sharing this analogy might help.

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