Ep.053: "The 7 P's of Success"

Prior proper planning prevents pitiful poor performance. Mr. Wilson said it slow every time, because he wanted it to sink in.

This episode breaks down the seven P's of success, a principle Benji and Brady's dad drilled into them from business to basketball practice, and how it applies to leadership, team building, and everyday decision making.

We get into why planning gets treated like an optional extra: some people were never taught how, and others just want someone to hand them a direction. We talk through real time management tactics, why a plan in your head is just a wish, and how getting things out of your head and onto paper gives you the margin to say no faster and guard your attention when distractions hit.

We also cover the 80/20 rule for priorities, delegation that builds a stronger team, and the biblical roots of wise planning from Proverbs.

The closing story says it all: when Mr. Wilson passed in 2017, Benji and Brady already knew exactly what to do. Call that guy, that guy, and that guy. Everything was handled because he planned it years in advance.

A written plan is a promise to your future self.

Transcript

Convention Reflections And Listener Impact

SPEAKER_00 0:14

All right with Benji and Brady. Welcome back in to another episode of the Higher Up Podcast. Uh recording this, you guys just got back from convention. I did. San Diego. Okay. San Diego. I mean, you can't beat the weather, I'm sure. It was beautiful, phenomenal. Beautiful, phenomenal. Pictures look great. Team did well. So y'all had a lot of a lot of good things. Benji, you were mentioning a little bit for the show. You had a lot of people come up, yeah, kind of share with you about the podcast. Before we jump in today's episode, I know we had gotten a message after convention about another serpo employ that listens to the podcast. But share a little bit about some of these things, you know, just uh what it means, like and sharing the podcast for others to hear it and see it, but just the impact that I think it's making. Obviously, this is what we uh the intention behind it was to have some impact on people, um, whether that's spiritually. I mean, obviously that's always the number one thing or business and then how to intertwine those two.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

So, man, before we jump in, take a moment just we had and and you know you know you hear this all the time. We had a lot of people, you know, comment and say thank you and y'all do a great job or what have you. But uh at convention this year, there was a lot of folks, I uh people I never even met. I don't know who some of these people are that um but just come up and say thank you guys for what you're doing to help it's actually helping our business. One, two, we we like the faith aspect of it. You guys are very uh faith-driven, and we are, we don't shy away from that. And um, so and we had a gentleman actually Instagram us, uh Robert from Kentucky, he just you know said thank you so much for the impact you've made on my life. Um, and I know we don't get a lot, you know, people direct messaging us, those type things, but when they do, we want to point that out because we do have people that like, we do have people that share. And for those of you listeners out there or watchers on YouTube, uh, thank you. You know, thank you for liking and commenting and sharing the content because it's not just about Benji and Brady and Adam, it's about the message that we can do to help people in their business. But remember, our number one core value is honor God, and that's what we try to do every single day. Um, so we did come off the week of convention. Um, it's fantastic. And people that I didn't even know listened to the podcast or watched the podcast. I had I had a couple tell me they actually show it on YouTube to their team, like in training mornings and things like that. So uh, and obviously they can't do it for 30 minutes at a time. Uh the show link. They can show the little clips on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So uh, but I just want to say thank you all for doing this because it was a vision we had a couple years ago. And if it's helping impact you, that's why we do this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Well, it's a good way. I think we've shared a little bit from time to time. It's a good way for the two of y'all. I mean, y'all get a lot of calls, you filled a lot of questions. And obviously, when you go to convention, people get to kind of see you. They ask, like, well, how do you do this? Why do you do this? So I think a lot of this, too, the the podcast has been a great way for the two of you guys to get in front of some of those people and maybe preemptively answer those questions that they may have wanted to ask you, and then they get a whole episode about it versus you know, five-minute conversation or an email.

Where To Watch The Video Podcast

SPEAKER_01 3:13

I do want to point out uh to you Spotify listeners out there that um if you switch over to Apple Podcasts, you can actually watch the video now. Spotify, they don't have that feature.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

We're trying Spotify, Spotify holds there very tightly. Unless you use their podcast service, uh you can't upload the video.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

They will eventually have to make the change up to it.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

No breakdown.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

I say it that jokingly, but uh you can uh on Apple Podcast, you can not only listen, but you can watch the the podcast as well.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

It's good, it's a cool little thing. So so we're continuing uh our series where we talk a lot about the principles and sayings that uh your dad, Mr.

The Seven Ps Saying Explained

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Wilson, taught the two of you before you kind of took over this business and kind of handled things. So, Brady, talk a little bit. We're jumping into one of your favorite things. Yeah, but Adam, I want you to say it. Prior, proper planning prevents pitiful, poor performance. Got it. Hey, I want to I want to take it. I have no idea how much I practiced that before you walked in here.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

You know, it's it's interesting because that is that is one of our dad's sayings, but I actually looked this up. Uh, there is a leadership guide on the seven P's of success, and the seven P's are not this title. Uh these are what they are purpose, plan, passion, practice, presence, pain, and positivity. Where he came up with this saying, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

I think that I think this resume might actually be the one that he made up, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

I will say, of all of all the different things I've heard you told us over the years that you're that your dad has taught you, I do genuinely feel like this is one of the top three things you say all the time. Yeah. Yeah. But you're also you're very good at planning. Like you're very much your schedule, how you you you believe your schedule controls what you do and things. But I I do feel like this is one of the top three things.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Especially, oh that I mean, yeah, this is something I'm I'm very passionate about. You can ask anybody in our organization and they'll I mean you can ask my kids. Like you could, you could go, you could go up to my kids right now and say, seven P's, go, and both of them, you know, they may roll their eyes and go, you know. But um, but yeah, this was this is one of the one of the things that he hammered a lot to us. And and really where it came out of is, you know, from your parents or you you may have other people that are very influential in your life, you know, they there there are these moments, like these teaching moments, these coachable moments. And a lot of times with our dad, it would it would be like, let's say that something didn't go as planned, okay? Um you know, or something just didn't go right, then you know, it he would always say son, you you know what the seven Ps are, you know. And we did we just didn't plan well,

The National Anthem Video Mistake

SPEAKER_02 5:54

did we? You know, I I remember um I remember this one, I can't remember what year it was, but we you know when we were a trainer in in the serve pro business, we we would meet, we would take all of our franchises and and do like a like a mini convention at Gulf Shores. You you probably know where I'm going with this. But there I was doing some of the tech stuff after college, and you know, I would get the media and things set up.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

You would have done a whole lot other than be like, hold on, you were doing all this.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

I was I was doing some of that. I wasn't very good at it, but I did some of it. And you had to learn trial by error back then, and obviously we're very patriotic, you know. And um, and so dad said 2011. 2000, okay, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

Because I was though you just started talking and it clicks for it.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

I was in the hospital that year. That's the only reason I'm right. That's right. Yeah. Um and so, you know, he said we we always started out with the national anthem and and pledge of allegiance and all that stuff. So he goes, I want to I want a good, like moving national anthem video. And I was like, I got it. You know, did you edit a video? I did not edit it, but I found it but I you know I I did one of these things, like I went out to YouTube and and I was I I looked at like the first 30 seconds, man, that's gonna be awesome. And we got down there and we when I heard you say the first 30 seconds, I was like, oh no. And we and we played the video. Video was incredible. Okay, video the national anthem, whoever did it, I remember who did it. But like right after the national anthem was done, then I forget who the politician was.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Ross Perot. Might have been it was Ross Perot because I remember hearing about it.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

They they came on and and did like their pitch, and I you should have seen my face. It was just like, and so afterwards, this is what he told me. He said, son, you didn't you didn't plan that out very well, did you? And I'll never forget that. And he said, prior, proper planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

You know what's funny about this about the saying though is not only would he say it, he would say it slow. Like he would actually slow down the slogan, like the the the actual title for us. Because he wanted us to, he wanted to ingrain it in us that you have to plan so you don't have pitiful performance. That's right. Poor performance. That's right. And it it I mean it's interesting because he used it in every aspect of life, not just business. Obviously, this is why we do this podcast, but he did it. We would have we'd play sports. He was our basketball coach back in the day, and everyone hated running. Remember the old suicide runs? Good night. He would say, guys, if we don't plan, we're gonna have pitiful poor performance. Like he'd use it in every aspect of of our of our life. Um, there were times that we were the two that he would we would roll, we were rolling our eyes at him. Um because and if it got to be funny over time, you know, because we knew what was coming. It it didn't matter. It was almost like, well, I'm not gonna say that one because that's from the office. We're not gonna do that on this show. But it was it's a family show because it's just one of those, it's just one of those it's one of those sayings that like you say something and you knew the seven Ps were coming out. You knew it was coming, and there was nothing he could do about it, right? Um it and he he would say this all the time businesses don't fail because they don't do the right things. They do they fail because they don't plan properly. That's what he would tell us all the time. And what could we do? Um, you know, Brady's, I think Brady's talked about this before, the ready, fire, aim approach. That's not the right approach. Like you've got you have a gun for a reason, you got to get ready, you got to aim first, and then you fire. Um, so again, he just some some people in business just go, we're gonna figure it out as we go, right? We all have different roles in the company, we all do different things. You as an employee out there that might be listening right there, play your role well. We've had many podcast episodes about that. Um, but don't just figure it out as you go. Take the train. If you don't train, how are your people supposed to learn? Like, how are they supposed to know what to expect? You can't just throw it out there for them and just expect them to know what to

Why Planning Gets Overlooked

SPEAKER_01 10:01

do.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

Yeah, um, why let me as we're talking about planning, why do you feel like planning becomes so secondary to so many people? It seems like it should be an obvious, right? Like, hey, you you gotta plan, you gotta do well. But it I always feel like too, whether it's in business or life or teaching your kids, planning feels like it's something that we're talked about over and over and over again. What would the two of you say if smart why do you feel like it's an oversight to so many people? Do you feel like it's people don't take the time or they don't think it's important? Like, why why is it something that seems like it's overlooked?

SPEAKER_01 10:34

I think, I think it, I mean, I think a lot of people try to plan, but I don't think they document what their plan needs to be. Let's be honest with you, because it doesn't keep people on track, right? I mean, you get we know how it is. How many things come at us every single day? And you you're like, oh, I forgot that. I should have done that two days ago. You do you can't remember things, right? Um it's almost like the military. They have so much planning that goes into we had a gentleman at convention, extreme ownership. Um, what was his first? I can't even say his first name. Oh, yeah, and I was like, fantastic. That was good, fantastic. Uh his his whole approach to the military, how he had a he had a mentor in his life who was actually his boss in the military that wanted him to take extreme ownership. And a lot of people would take extreme ownership and they'll go, Well, it's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault, versus going, I gotta take responsibility for this. He was like, if I didn't plan properly for my team and my unit and ever know where everybody was supposed to be, not where they're at, but where they're supposed to be, that's what our planning does for us. If we don't plan that stuff ahead of time, when we get into battle, when we get into the real job every single day, how are we supposed to know if things are done right? We just expect the same expectation all the time, and we look up, issues arise or what have you. And then we go, Well, that's because it well, you didn't train me properly. No, we didn't train you properly, you're just not doing it the right way. So that that's where that's where he was always, you gotta plan, you gotta plan, you gotta plan. So yeah, so Brady, why do you think? Why would you play planning?

SPEAKER_02 12:05

I think I was trying to figure out the the uh the best way to say this without like being harsh to our audience out there. Just say it. I think there's a couple different groups of people. I I think there is a group of people that just don't know how. Yeah, I agree. You know, um and and you and you need you need somebody to to to teach you or you need to learn it. The great thing about I was just sharing this story yesterday. The great thing about the world that we live in right now is that we can um we've got we've got access to anything and everything we could ever want or need, you know?

SPEAKER_00 12:41

We're gonna have to cut it and start back that conversation. I'm gonna have to make sure I edit this. Why is he coming through there? He's in the studio a mix. We're gonna go back to that right where I asked you, like, hey, I can so I can cut it in the podcast. Do not forget to edit this.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

The other one.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

When he came on, I looked at you. You you should have seen your eyes. You were like, trying to stop you. Cause I was like, uh you were at a good point, and I was like, I want to be able to cut the podcast right back to that. It was a good it was a good point. Yeah, I for a second I was like, I thought he was just coming to the wall. I was like, why did he come to the wall? That was that was a good point. I do honestly feel like I do honestly feel like I do honestly feel like complaining is something you can talk about all the time. Like why is it? That's one of the things we do. Yeah, because I was a little distracted. I told him I was like, I looked at Brady and I said, Am I here standing to the wall? So this is a cut when I'm editing this podcast.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

There's a clap right there.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Alright, so Brady, what would you say? Why why why do you feel like planning is overlooked a lot?

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Yeah, I was I was thinking about this question and trying to figure out the the best way to say it to our audience. Say it. Okay, all right. Okay, got it. Um I think there's a couple different groups of people. I think there is a group of people that that just don't know how. I mean, you know, maybe they weren't taught or anything like that, but you can't use as an excuse. Yeah. Okay. I I was just having this conversation with some of our team yesterday. Like, we live in a world to where information and learning is at our fingertips. I mean, with AI, with YouTube, um, you know, there there's even a there's even a resource out there if you're a Google user called Notebook LM. I mean, it you can feed in information and it's got like this little AI podcast that, you know, so there's there's all kinds of ways. It's only gonna get faster. Yeah. Um, but I mean, books. You mentioned extreme ownership. I mean, there's there's books out there for for planning. Um you know, there's one called Getting Things Done by David Allen. I've I've read that a couple times. There's there is Redeeming Your Time by Jordan Raynor. There's a good one. There's Buyback Your Time by Dan Martell, um, which I'm reading that one right now. But we can't say that that it's there's I just don't know, right? Um so I think that there's one group of people, and the easy answer is and not that you're gonna learn it overnight, but it is a learnable skill. You know, it is it is something that and and it for some people it doesn't come naturally, okay. You know, like um we're we're trying to teach my daughter right now, like you gotta like she's about to go to college and you're gonna have to have a plan. Like you gotta you gotta you got classes and when to study, and it's not like high school, you know. So we're we're working with her on on some of those things. Um, but then I think there's another group of people, and this is gonna be the harsh reality, is they just want somebody to tell them what to do.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

You know, and that can't be the way either. And for me, it's it's easier because I am such a planner and I am kind of a somewhat of a control freak. I don't mind telling people what to do. Like I don't mind helping them, like, okay, here's the plan, here's the thing, you know, and just and just go do it. There's a balance in that as well, that it's more of a guide. But the the ones that that are planners, you you you will be more successful if you plan. And I think that's why our dad built this into us. It was like prior proper planning, prior proper planning, prior. I mean, just like every single day, he wanted us to get into the like have the mindset that planning is important. And so um that that's what I think. I mean, and and you just have to make a you have to make a conscious effort to it's kind of like when somebody says, Hey, do you have a budget?

Planning Creates Freedom And Focus

SPEAKER_02 17:01

And people say, Man, a budget, that's kind of like a four-letter word in in our household, you know.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

But but it some people don't know how to do it, and some people just don't want to do it because they don't want to I will say to to elaborate on what you said a minute ago, I think a lot of people don't realize that by planning properly, it actually frees you up more time to do other things. I mean, it really does. And and no one says that you gotta have, you know, every single minute of every single day with a calendar event. That's great for some people, you know. Some people you need the free time to be able to think about other things you got to get done. Yeah. Um in I I think that I think that goes a long way to understand. I mean, think about this. People have lists of things they do, right? That's planning. I got to get this done. I got to get this done. It doesn't have to necessarily be on a calendar. We happen to use a calendar and a task list, is what I use. Um, years ago, I read the book Eat That Frog. It was a really small book, really big letters, and it it's the whole jar principle, right? You put in the big rocks, what's your three big rocks for the day? It teaches you how to plan properly. So I I think Brady's right, you know, a lot of people just they don't want to plan because they don't know how to start. Um and the key is you just gotta start with something.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Yeah. Yeah, and I I think I think to that point, Benji, I, you know, when you really get to see the benefit of it, I I correlate plans and budgets together because you know, I I I'm a big Dave Ramsey fan, and um, you know, hit his one of his daughters talks about a budget is actually what you said, it's a freedom to spend. You know, a plan, a calendar, the it it gives you freedom to say no. If I were to say, Adam, um, hey, can you can me and my wife would love to have uh breakfast with you and your wife eight o'clock Sunday morning. What would you say? I was like, I'd be at church on Sunday morning. You gotta be at church, right? Because you've already made the conscious effort, the decision. Now, whether it's not on your calendar or not, I'm not saying that, but but you've already made it, you you and your family have made a commitment that I'm gonna be in church on Sunday morning. So you didn't even have to hesitate, you're like, no, I can't do that. I'm we're gonna be in church. Yeah, right? You didn't have to think twice. You didn't have to think twice. So when somebody, if you're in a if you're in a business setting or leadership setting and you've got a lot of free time that's on your calendar, and somebody says, Hey, can you XYZ? You're like, Yeah, I mean, yeah, sure. You know, you may have priorities, but there's there's there's things that you're thinking about all the time, and and until you get them out of your head and actually put them on a calendar or put them on paper, then I'm sure you guys have have had this happen before because it happens to me all the time. Somebody starts singing like a like a stupid song and you just can't get it out of your head. Mm-hmm. Right. It's like, oh my gosh, I can't I just stuck.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Then you gotta listen to it. Or you finish or you finish the lyric.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Or you finish the lyric or finish the lyric. So this is the same concept. When you have things that are constantly coming, then it's in your brain. Until you get it out of your brain, like get it onto some type of physical medium, whether it's your phone or whether it's a piece of paper or a notebook, then those things are constantly going to you're gonna be reminded of them and it's gonna drive you crazy. Because it's just it's just circling. And they're and so you you don't give your you don't give yourself margin to be able to think about other things. That's what planning does.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Well, and I think by not having that planning, you allow those distractions. Yeah. And that will sidebar you. I think that's something you've talked to us as a team about so much, how easily side conversations or like a side quest, right? Like you know, you have a main quest for the day. I've got a main goal, I gotta get done. Somebody just walks in, your office says, Hey, I need help with this. And you're if you give into it instead of saying, Oh man, I I've got to I've got to focus on this today, you do it. And then the next thing you know, you had your main goal was do, and you're like, Well, now I'm I'm backed up against the wall getting it done because I allowed myself to to move into that. And those so that's something too, distraction can easily put from that. So if you've planned it and you have that, when distractions do come or potential distractions, you can guard yourself from that. Yeah,

Breaking Down Each P

SPEAKER_00 21:16

yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I I think it I think it'd be neat to break, let's just break down the diff the seven piece really, really quick. Um, and and again, we're gonna use dad's approach, slow down a little bit. Okay. So the first one prior. Plan before the pressure hits so you don't have to do something about it during it. Yeah, that's good. Proper. Not just any plan, the right plan for the situation. I go back to the the extreme ownership uh guy that spoke, Leif, right? Leif, Leif, sorry, I'm saying his name wrong. Leif fantastic. Like he told us how many times that they have to cover for each other to get from one spot to the next so that each other you you can plan properly of when to actually. Actually move. Like if you have if you're taking down the enemy and you got one guy on guard, that's not a good thing. But what if I got two guys on guard? One can move, get in position so that person can guard while the other guy can move. That's planning properly. Uh so we can plan for the right situation. Planning, actual work, not wishful thinking. How many times do we start trying to plan? We're like, man, I wish I could do that. I could do that. You got to write it down because no one can remember it. Prevents. Planning isn't a guarantee, but it is a guard. We talked about the calendar event. It guards you of that time. It guards you that resource. Pitiful. The kind of failure you'll you're going to be embarrassed about later. Yeah, that that that wasn't. That happened to us. That happened to us a lot.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

That word pitiful hits produced.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Because you're like, if I only did this, I would have. I should have. That's pitiful. Woulda shoulda coulda. Yeah. Woulda shoulda coulda. Poor. Below the standard you set for yourself. Think about that. If your standard is X and you're trying to get to X, you don't want to set the standard below. That's poor. Performance. The output everyone else sees, but few prepare for it. So proper prior planning prevents pitiful, poor performance. Every P carries its own weight. If you skip one of them, the whole thing falls apart.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

That's good. I like that.

Why Leaders Fail To Plan

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Why do you think that um I know we've talked about, you know, specifically uh teammates planning and all. Why do you think leaders don't plan properly?

SPEAKER_00 23:36

I think sometimes you have a you know you have a goal you have to get to, and it's almost like you're trying to move faster than you should be, because you're trying to get something like if if like Pastor Jeremy comes to me and says, Adam, I need this, this, and this done. And I just spit out why I think we should do A, B, C, and D, instead of thinking through what are the true impacts of A, B, C. Yeah, you do that with me a lot. I I mean, yes and no. I mean, I don't disagree with you. I think that's something I'm I'm trying to be better. I think you're right. I do. Um, but I do think that too. But that's also why I'm trying to say that's why it's the first thing that came to me is because I know I'm more of a um a reactive person. And so you don't always want to react to something. You want to be you want to be able to plan for it and know for that. So I think a lot of times leaders, they're given a task or a goal or something that has to be done. And I think instantly you start thinking, well, how what's the fastest way I can get to that goal? Or what's the fastest way I can get it done? Yeah. And necessarily quick isn't always the best. I would agree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

I think I think uh my perspective is too many competing priorities. There's there's too many things out there, and we say this, we've said this a lot, and we our team, they they know it like the back of their hand, but when everything's important, nothing really is. So I think for most leaders that when you try to focus on everything, then it's like you can make an excuse. Well, I gotta focus on everything, so why do I why do I need to plan? Like I can just fly by the seat of my pants, as opposed to the Pareto principle, which is the 20, the 80-20 rule, focused on what are the highest and best uses of your time. You know, what what you as a leader, like what are the only things that you can do? Like, and it's not necessarily like, well, I can just delegate that or I'll just let somebody, it's not about that, because that you know, it's about there's there's certain things that only I can do as a leader. And so I need to focus on those, and then I can plan around those, and that's how I structure, you know, the typically like I I sit down on Friday afternoons and I plan out the next at least a week, but normally two weeks at a time. Doesn't mean that it doesn't change, but at least I've got the plan. Like the plan is in place. I don't wait till the day of and or the day before. And you are gonna have emergencies come up, let's be honest. Yeah, absolutely. And so you have to shift, but I think there's too many competing priorities out there, and you got to figure out what are those things that only you can do and plan around those.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

Yeah. Well, and I think that gives you the chance to find out where your team can take some of those things off you. Pastor Jeremy tells us all the time if it's only held by my hands, it's limited by my hands. So if I'm if I'm not willing to give off some of these things and and understand that sometimes the quality that I have or that I've I've gained to get to, like the way that I edit a photo or edit a video, it's taken years to that point. I have somebody under me that I'm trying to teach, I need to realize that it may not be to that standard yet, but it's a standard that's acceptable and it's a standard that has quality that meets what our what our look is or our quality is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

I think that's a great point. We we had a um a guy in Serve Pro we used to work with in Storm, and he would say, Many hands make light work. Oh, yeah. You know, when you spread it out and everybody does their part, then it's not just solely on one person.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Yeah.

Biblical Roots And Practical Steps

SPEAKER_01 27:00

And let's do this before we get to the end of the wrap-up. You know, we do want to bring back some biblical roots of planning because that's that's important. Uh Proverbs 16, 3 says this, commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established. Um, Proverbs 21, 5 says, the plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. So it's even even the Bible talks about planning, right? Um, so I think that faith doesn't replace our planning, but it does fuel. Our faith fuels us. So how do we put some practicality to this today as we as we wrap up the show? Always start with the end in mind. What does that look like for you and your business, where you're at in life? Define what the wind might look like, right? If the wind uh and even do that before it starts moving itself. How do you start moving the plan forward? Identify your obstacles. I mean, we all have issues, but like Brady said, you can only focus on two or three at a time. No one can ever focus on 10 to 12 at a time. You gotta you gotta get the one to three in place. Um, don't plan around best case, plan around realistic case. Build in margin time. We talked about that. Build in that margin time to help you. Time, money, and energy buffers, but everything else will take longer than you think it will. Uh, get the right people in the room early. It doesn't always have to be the next man up, right? If you if you are an employee out there in your company uh listening to this episode right now, look, do everything you can unto the Lord, and everything else will take care of itself. Get trained, do it the right way, you'll be rewarded for it. Uh, it and make sure your heart's in the right place there. Um, write it down. You gotta write things down. There were many times I used to try to remember everything. Obviously, I can't do that anymore. I'd say, hang on, let me write that down before I forget it. Because I'll either put it on a task, I'll put it in a note for me to go back and remember later, catch up or whatever. Um that gets worse as you get older, by the way. It 100% does. A plan in your head is just a wish. A lot of people forget that. Yeah, but a plan on paper is a tool that will help you as you move forward. Review and adjust, where you talked about the one week to two-week time period. Review and adjust. Things are gonna come up. Doesn't mean it's set in stone, but it can be, but you got to leave room in case something comes up. Uh, and planning just isn't a one-time event. You gotta revisit it weekly. So you might need to have a task for planning time. Set yourself up for success. A written plan is a promise to your future self. What closing thoughts might you guys have about the seven P's of success?

A Real Example Of Legacy Planning

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Well, I just I come back to our our dad. Um, he was such a planner that, yeah, and for for you guys that that don't know, he he passed in 2017 from cancer. Um, but he was such a planner that even like early on, he had everything planned out for his estate and his death. And he didn't know. I mean, this was like 10 years prior. So I'm I think Benji can attest to this because I remember, you know, walking through it, but you know, some people say when the family member passes away, like there's a lot of logistics and a lot of things you got to navigate through. Our dad made that easy for us. We didn't have either. It was hardly I mean, the burial was all paid for, the estate planning was all done, you know, the trust were all set up, and everything just moved in motion. So this wasn't one of the things that that he just talked about and didn't do. He even did it for things he did he had no clue that would ever happen. And so he he was he was like the master planner. And I want to I that's that's what I want to be like.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Yeah, I'll to sum that up too. I remember every year we had the family board meeting, you know, the four of us seemed like it was every beginning of January. But uh, we'd always ask, Dad, if something happens to you, we need to know what to do. And he would say, Call that guy, that guy, and that guy. There were three people. Remember that? Oh yeah. Call those three people. And every year we asked the same question. What happens if he said call that guy, same that guy, and that guy? And so when Brady and I were out there when he passed, uh he actually passed in Houston. We were on the way back with our wives, drive driving back from Houston, and it was almost like we we asked each other, what do we do? We called that guy, we called that guy, and we called that guy. And everything else for the next, you know, it was probably an 18-month process to get everything, but he was Brady's right. We didn't have to plan much because it was all taken care of. So at the end of the day, the seven P's of success. Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor

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