Jack Thursday – Money is a Terrible Manager (LA 1921)

Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Jack and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hi. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday and I'm going to talk about how money is a terrible manager. Jill K DeWit: Yeah, you know what? I hate working for money. Steven Jack Butala: Yep. Jill K DeWit: Money is a jerk. Steven Jack Butala: If you work for your money, it's the worst boss you're going to have. Jill K DeWit: Totally. He's really unforgiving. Notice how I've made it a he. It's not a she. Steven Jack Butala: Money is a he. Jill K DeWit: Money's a he. And he is a jerk, he's demanding, he's unforgiving. He always wants more. Steven Jack Butala: And he has no emotion. Jill K DeWit: He's never enough, no emotion. Steven Jack Butala: And there's no... Jill K DeWit: Exactly. He complains all the time. Steven Jack Butala: There's no explanation. Jill K DeWit: Exactly. Steven Jack Butala: There's no explaining why you were late. Jill K DeWit: Oh yeah, no. Steven Jack Butala: It's unforgiving. Jill K DeWit: Totally, that's right. And he always says, "You didn't give me enough. You're not doing enough." Steven Jack Butala: Well, you wanted that nice bracelet last week, so here we are. Jill K DeWit: Exactly. That's money. Man, somebody needs to fire that guy. Steven Jack Butala: He's going to fire you before you fire your money. Jill K DeWit: That's true. We need to sabotage money and get him out of there. Cool. Steven Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on our landinvestors.com online community. It's free, and please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel. Comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Okay. Martin wrote, "I am brand new to Land Academy. I have a full-time job and three little kids." Steven Jack Butala: Oh boy. Jill K DeWit: "And I want to be successful. How much time do I really need to devote to this?" Steven Jack Butala: First of all... Jill K DeWit: Go ahead Steven Jack Butala: Everyone has been where you are. Jill K DeWit: Okay, good. I wasn't sure where you're going with this. Steven Jack Butala: So it's not like, "Darn it, I'm too late to the party, or man, I made a bunch of mistakes. I shouldn't have had that third kid." Maybe that's true, but that's up to you. Jill K DeWit: That's where I thought you were going with this. Steven Jack Butala: So you need to really put your head into the right mindset where everyone's been in some version of this situation. Just about everyone. There's some exceptions that our world likes to make a huge example of like people born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they have their own set of problems that I would argue are way worse than tackling what you're about to tackle. Jill K DeWit: That's true. So what would you tell Martin? Steven Jack Butala: Get organized and hopefully the mother of your kids or whoever your partner is, is on board. Boy, it's really going to make it much, much, much harder... Jill K DeWit: They have to be on board. Steven Jack Butala: ...if you're not a unified front with whoever you're involved with the kids. And that's an issue that if you're not, then that's overcomeable. You can find a person that is on board. Jill K DeWit: Well, you can get them on board. That's my goal. You need to have, now we're taking it in a different direction. Steven Jack Butala: [inaudible 00:02:58] I think we should, though because I think this is important. Jill K DeWit: It is true. I have talked to many wives and husband and wives and said, "What do you need to know?" And I think part of it is because we're a couple, it makes it easier for other people to embrace us, other couples and women to go, "All right, Jill's there." Jill's there is going to make sure this all doesn't go sidewa...