I’m excited to share my journey from 9 years in finance and private equity to owning a power washing company! I’ll document the highs, lows, and everything in between, offering insights into my thought processes as I navigate this new venture. A bit about my background:

I’ve gone through only 2 different guys before I found my current, luckily, and I’ve found that interview questions don’t mean much. I would just get clear around expectations and the schedule and sure they’re okay with it. Guys that can’t interview well end up being great and vice versa. Aside from showing up on time, make sure they have high agency. Example, if we are fixing something on the truck, does he just stand around or jump in to help without being asked? If they’re standing around and need to be asked to do something, get rid of them quick imo. Hire fast, fire fast! I used to feel bad about it but your good guys will want to leave if you put them with bad performers.

3.3. My GPA hurt me when trying to get jobs in banking/PE, but I grinded and networked my way into it. People in finance care more about GPA than most professions. I was interviewing for a PE role a few years ago and was asked what my ACT score was LOL (this was almost 15 years after i took it). In my current role, it is completely irrelevant, as I am a business owner.

This is a great breakdown. Man, the lawn care and maintenance is insane! It is wild to me how lawns are such a big part of our culture. We spend so much money making it look nice and it provides a very slightly better ecological value than asphalt. I’m going to replace half my lawn with low maintenance native plants!

It is wild how a customer will be ~2 months late on payment, then claim—despite multiple email receipts—that the agreed price was $100 lower and refuse to pay full amount. SUCKS! Trying to learn not to let things like this ruin my day, as this is part of the game. Gotta get re-used to this stuff happening with spring approaching!

@theficouple Beautiful, but way too much lawn! Replace most of it with a meadow with native grasses and flowers and this would be perfect. Low maintenance and you get to enjoy the nature that the native plants will bring.

@pinpulleddrmf Great post. I am very much in the painful ego death phase and it is both rewarding and horrible at the same time. I’m determined to make it through this so I can look back on this time fondly and be thankful that I took the uncomfortable route!

@jamesonhaslam @trevorleeds Great post. This is exactly what I’ve tried to do but struggling to get my remote sales hire to own more than estimate follow up! I’d love to pick your brain on this (also a @SaganPassport member!).

@LeadershipAcad1 This is so spot on. Saving this tweet as a reminder because I have a tendency to fall back into As and I constantly need to remind myself to stick with the Bs.

@HypertrophyHub “Only what gets measured gets managed”

I love Asana. I’ve used it with my wife for years for grocery lists and household tasks (eg reschedule dr appt). For my business, I use it for select ad hoc tasks (eg add this dirty building to our CRM and find a contact there). Still also working on rules for using Asana vs assigning tasks in Pipedrive. Best part about asana is that tasks don’t get lost in the ether like they do in email or slack. It’s great.

Great post. I’m am currently finding Jesus after the passing of my mother late last year. Despite a Catholic upbringing, I have been very resistant to calling myself a Christian since I don’t want to be on the same team as those Christians that you described so well. A good friend told me it’s people that bastardize Jesus’ teachings and to stick to the source, the Bible, and to take from it the parts that speaks to you. I’m doing that by reading the entire Bible this year. Currently on the book of Job, which is fitting for the grief I am experiencing. One unexpected outcome is that I’ve found that reading scripture and praying is increasing my motivation and excitement for life. I naively expected a neutral to negative impact.

@NeelBParekh Terrific post. This is my exact thinking. I am definitely experiencing the pain but the learning and experience is unmatched.

@CaliMtnCryptid How about outdoor / feral cats? Aside from humans, they’ve caused more extinctions than any other animal by far (63 to be exact) and kill billions of birds each year in the USA. Major blind spot in our society, imo. Cats should be indoors or supervised outside only.

LEDs are definitely a contributor, but their decline is largely due to habitat loss (our monoculture lawns in particular), pesticides (even the “safe” pesticides kill them), and light pollution. If everyone planted NATIVE plants in portions of their yard, stopped spreading pesticides, and switched to motion detecting lights, fireflies would be in much better shape.

@blueprintsmb22 @m_warre_ Me too please!

@theraleighwill Praying for you and your wife.🙏🏼

@mattsagrinder Same thing happened with me and @thumbtack - I HATE that platform and I just totally deleted my account. I always get the absolute worst customers on there.

Legend. As a child, I was heavily influenced by Legolas from LOTR and became deadly accurate with my wrist rocket (a bow was too difficult) and I often fantasized about doing something like this.

@MatznerJon @jspujji I have been patiently waiting for a Sagan competitor to finally respond to @MatznerJon and this thread did not disappoint 😂😂😂