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  • First Week, but week 1940

    I can’t believe I’ve been alive 1940 weeks, but this is the first time in a long time, maybe even the actual FIRST time, but I feel more productive and successful personally than I ever have felt.  Just by tracking and documenting this has helped me wake up a lot and be front of time.

    I’ve decided to adopt the KETO diet again… The last time I did it I dropped 70 lbs… I’m not as heavy I was I the last time, but I’m easily 40lbs heavier than when I ‘got busy’ and this week I’ve been 100% keto and tracked all my calories in… Killin it!

    This blog is for me more than anyone else, but it’s my accountability and I’m running with it.  Goal update info time; I made a SCORECARD for my life. Why I haven’t thought of that before I have no idea. I’m a data guy, the scorecard has made great strides with my business why wouldn’t I have one for myself.  The things in the first column of my scorecard are: Current Weight, Current Body Fast % (height method), Calories In/Out, Cash Balace (Debt vs cash), Investment Value.  These things align with my goals as previously discussed likely to add a few things.  But I’ve built other sheets where I just enter basic data each week and it’ll calculate for me.  A nice review and nice progress to the forward growth.

    Regarding my personal time, I don’t have a way of tracking that, but I was home by 5pm all but one day this week and only got called out one late night.  Being home early gives me time for walks and to make food, not eat out.  We also moved the rest of our office this week, fuck that’s a lot of work.  I hate moving and do wish I was in a tech business instead of blue collar, I feel like there would be a lot less to move!

    There’s a good chance I’ll be the president of our local madd chapter in the coming weeks.  I debate this in a previous post and still debating personally however, my busienss donates a lot of time and energy to this cause already.  I also beleive that I can build and obtain new local relationships that’ll help me both personally and my business continue to grow.  Self serving, maybe but it’s a great message and I stand behind it 100%.  It’s almost counter intuitive to my business as we make money off of impaired drivers.  That being said, I still truly believe that it isn’t worth the risk, and my lift, my families life, my friends lives, my employees lives are at risk from every impaired driver, so I would just rather they don’t.  Maybe by 2035 the government and auto manufacturers will have pulled their heads out of their ass and find some way to manage this from a tehcn perspective rather than having all of these risks.

    Sam Parr of My First Million podcast often talks about how we will look back in the future, say 10-50 years from now and be amazed at the things we did.  He’s referened cancer, and how in a few years we’ll likely be looking back not understanding why or how we let cancer grow in our bodies without us know.  Or, that it might be crazy to think the only thing keeping us from crashing into each other at 100km/h (60) is a couple inches of yellow paint on the roadsurface.

    I truly belive that ‘impaired driving’ will be one of those things that isn’t very far off.  10ish years we’ll be looking back thinking, “I can’t believe that 10 years ago we used to drive around knowing there was a chance the driver passing us or potentially coming oncoming at us was impaired.”  It’s less and less socially acceptable, but I can tell you from personal experience (my business deals with them every day), there are still all walks of life that are getting caught driving impaired.

    At the beginning of this post I had no idea what to write, I opened a blank page and thought “wtf am I gonna write about.”  It truly is amazing what can come out of one’s brain just by letting it flow.

    Cheers!

     

  • Shout Out!

    Reviewing all the things I did a year ago, along with this.

    I started a X.com account and it has more followers than the one I started and was active on since 2009… WOWZERS!

    Shout of to my PA, killing it she is!

    This blog, reading what I wrote a year ago speaks to me more than anything I do day to day.

    Short post, long post, I don’t know what belongs on this page BUT here I am… Posting on X.com, where my vents, frustrations, in the moment thoughts will go, and this will be where my weekly updates go.  I’ll likely update this but what I would like to update weekly on is:

    • Goal Progress
      • Defining ‘Retirement by 40’, no reason I can’t get that done this week
      • Tracking weekly calories, should be able to have some numbers
      • Progress on fitness, even if just brief updates, keeping me honest
      • Personal Time, getting more of it
    • Any biz changes in any that I’m involved in

    I’m sure there will be more but that’s all…

    The local Gun Club got my attendance for the first time since COVID… That’s some personal time for me, love it!

     

     

  • How busy is too busy?

    Do you even find yourself so focused that you think you are an entirely different path and have things to change.  Your day is productive, you make so many changes that you’re on a new path to life.

    The next day hits you in the face and you’re right back to your old ways completely losing your path?  Here I am.  I got some thought about writing a blog, or journal during some quiet time this weekend that I registered a new domain name to do this, hubernews.ca.  After I registered I thought I should check my list of domains for clarity.  Low and behold, matthuber.ca is there, hmm I wonder what’s there?  Holy shit… yup, fuck!

    This is the journal I started, this is the thing I wanted to do almost one year ago… Makes me think I was here for that same reason, at this point in my day and life.  Wow, just fucking wow.

    For clarity sake for you, my reader, I am writing this for me.  There’s some hope that it provides you some value but it’s purpose is for me.  I don’t focus enough on me, and chances are you don’t focus enough on you.  So, here I am writing.  First, I re read my post from sept 4, 2023, then I read it again, and I read it again…  Now I’m going to read it EVERY DAY for a month because I need to do this, almost a year apart I trip over the same thought, so here we are.

    Let first do a quick flash of the last post and updates from it.

    Reference from the last post Things I need to do:

    Fix My Time… haha well fuck, haven’t done that yet, but I feel as though I’m finally here and able too… I recently read, and re-read a book by Dan Martell “Buy Back Your Time”… Spoke to me, and now people at work know it as ‘my bible.’  More about that later, but lets do a brief update.

    1. Not for profits:

    • MS Society – Stepped down, unofficially, but the only time I’ve spend on MS in the past year is the 2 day event. :check mark:
    • CPRN – A whole 2 days this year at a fund raiser and have only even completed one exec meeting, can likely increase this a bit more to keep it alive, otherwise it’s basically on hold until I have more time.
    • MADD – I saw value in it, I still do, and now it seems as though I’m stepping up to create more value.  Likely president of local chapter in the coming weeks.
    • CarShowNFP – Shut down, in final efforts of doing so, my time back, :check mark:

    2. My Biz’

    • TowCo – We contracted, we terminated, we reset at a leadership level.  We started with EOS about a week after my last post and I haven’t spoken enough about it.  Finally profitable after nearly 12 months of burning money.  This is still my biggest time suck, but on the right path, building process for the teams to make their lives simple.
    • ConsultingCo – reduced to 30 minutes/month, good, but may dissolve it if I can hand off the final pieces so someone who will enjoy it.  Or perhaps I’ll hand off to my assistant
    • GroupCo – No action here, low on my list, clearly low on all the partners list, no hard no foul
    • TrainingCo – This is moving, my team is making progress, low on the list still, but making progress
    • MarketCo – Continuing, but nothing crazy, so not a whole lot to report

    Taking a moment to look at this, little to no action or death of 6 of the above 9 items.  Likely all little time sucks or stress’ that don’t need to be there… Mental note.

    3. Set Life Goals

    Holy shit, reading my previous post it makes me sad… I’m a year older and I have not actioned any of it.  I got busy, and because I wrote it down I checked it off.  The book ‘the bible’ of Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell has told me to focus more on myself than work.  It has also pushed me to use my assistant to do better with my time and to get more done in less time.  I’m learning, I truly am.  I have unload a lot off my plate to my PA (personal assistant) but have a long way to go.  These goals are still the main goal… What a wake up call, I love that I’m reading this, and will make time to read this.  It’s in my calendar for 30 minutes every day!  EVERY FUCKING DAY!

    1. Retire by 40… Not going to happen, I can accept that, but I should have SIGNIFICANTLY more time by then.
      1. Determine Retirement (yeah no shit, gotta do that)
      2. Understand as defined what it means and make a plan to get there
    2. Lose weight, get in shape, whatever, DO BETTER…  Have to start posting these results and progress, okay so here’s public goals
      1. Post weekly progress
      2. Track ALL calories consumed
      3. Work out of some form every day, walk, lift weights, run, crazy call at work, SOMETHING
    3. Time, my bloody time!  Progress has been made in the not for profits, but this needs to continue with delegation at work!  More to come!

    Okay, running away, I’ll be back!  Not in a year, at MOST a week!

  • Time to focus and distribute!

    Okay just write.  Everytime I come here to write I get lost in the design layout, or the design, or how it works and what site to use.  I really just need to write so here it is.

    I’m lost in my own ways, I have 3 drafts of blog post, written months apart and my life keeps changing as does my focus, wtf.

    Today I sit on 3 “not for profit boards”, I own and operate a business that performs well and now has branched off into a few others that we are getting off the ground.  However, they could just be disctractions.  Either way, I need to review and refocus my energy.

    Follow me along my path as I redirect both the personal and business me that has become so very complicated.

    What I need to figure out is goals.  I’m going to work through this live, and maybe this blog lives and maybe it dies.  Here I work through it.

    Things I need to do:

    Fix my time, personally I have very little spare time and commit most of it to my business. While i feel responsible for the business, and I commit this time because there isn’t enough people at work to do all the things I feel I need to do.  So, fixing my time is reviewing ALL of the things I do and either eliminating or hiring for it.

    1. Not for profits
      1. MS Society – I sit on this committee to plan the MS Bike, this is something I truly enjoy doing at the event.  However, it has escalated to time commitments throughout the year that do not produce results that will help me in my life goals
      2. CPRN – President, yes fucking president.  I have been since 2009.  Fortunately my time committment has dropped off but so has the organizations involvement in the community.  I have an addictive personality and a lot of pride in what I do. This role unfortunately takes me away from my business, and the organization has effectively died.  From the lack of engagement from volunteers, maybe as a result of my time committment, or maybe somethign else.  This weighs heavily on me as I care about the things I represent, but have to focus my time on things that give to my future goals.  This isn’t one of them.  To solve this, I need to find asuccessor or a smaller group of people willing to come in and take this over.
      3. MADD – I sit on this committee that meets once every 2 months.  This has been benficial for my business, though donating has cost us money as well, it is a good touch for the community and really doesn’t take MUCH of my time.  I beleive there is value to this. Although this organization is likely to shut down in the near future I can support it from my business perspective.  But not my time perspective.  Easy enough.
      4. CarShowNFP – President, Yes, president again.  I stepped up as the previous president bailed and she did it ALL.  Myself and my business partner thought we should step up to give this great community event alive.  As we approached the event, this is a TIME SUCK.  This does not help, this does not work, this is consuming my pride and time.  Again, could be great for my business, could be great for my community, but cannot be me.  My time, my effort, my focus, this was a waste of it.  We had to cancel the event because of weather conditions, but it was a huge relief having to cancel.  There is still some more work to close out from the event, but I really need to think about this and my time committments for next year, as planning should start in Feb, 2023.  Similarily the MS Bike tour plan starts.
    2. My Business’
      1. TowingCo – The monster, the growth, the time consumer. This is my business!  This is where my time should be focused, but being as big as we are it shouldn’t suck the life out of me.  This is my biggest time suck, but also the one most deserving of it, 110%.  However, within this, I am wearing multiple hats due to labour shortages and cash flow.  Things that need my focus to solve!  Later i’ll outline my goals that will set the tone for what’s to come.
      2. Consulting Co – I run this off the side of my desk, and takes roughly 2-3 hours a month if we average it out of the year.  It’s a disctraction, but it does help with various items on my primary business.  This I believe is also a valuable use of my time
      3. Group Co – This is just getting off the ground, I have had very little time available to put fourth effort into this, but this could provide avery healthy return and compliments my primary.  Though this isn’t HIGH on my list, there may be future value and this deserves some more of my time.
      4. Training Co – I kicked this off, put some of my team on it and it has made progress.  There is way more potential than what we’ve done and in the recent months I’ve completley disconnected from it becuase of the other events I’d had on the go that aren’t good.
      5. Market Co – Another huge potential company that has taken very little of my time but I believe deserves more.  Sales should be the focus here, but that comes with a different time committment as well.
    3. Set Life Goals
      1. I have always had the goal to be able to retire by 40.  I’m less than 4 years away from this and I feel overwhelmed and that I’m working more than I ever have before.
        1. Define retirement (i’ll write more about this later)
        2. Understand as defined what it means and make a plan to get there
      2. Lose weight, or get in shape or whatever that is.  Just be better at being healthy, eat better, and move more!
      3. I cannot get #2 done if I don’t focus on my time.  That time will be reacquired by finding replacements for me at not for profits as well as the medial tasks I do daily at my company.
        1. Practice and perfect delegation
        2. Help my Mangers delegate and become more efficient
        3. Then STEP OFF

    Now that I’ve outlined the above, it’s time to double down on me, focus on me, and drive to the success I need.

    Off I go to stir shit up at the office and find more delegates and try to perfect that skill as well as finding replacements for my roles in not for profits.  Looking at all of the above, delegate is what’s need and taking my time.

    Maybe I should go back and read the ‘Four Hour Work Week’… yup as soon as i’m done Rich Dad Poor Dad!

  • How I got here

    After completing High school I went to a community college (I think is what you american’s call it) where I studied ‘Automotive Marketting.’  This confirmed to me that I wasn’t interested in school and could gain more excitement from living life, how original.

    I dropped out, moved across the country, away from my small town, to a Big City to start my life over.  I worked for various employers primarily chasing the money.  At a young age (20) I found myself in ‘management’ positions that were underpaid and overvalued.

    After a couple years of bouncing around I landed at a large corporation that provided great oppotunity and a pension.  Amazing right!?

    One year at front line, then 5 promotions up the corporate ladder in the following 18months.  I was doing so very well, from what my upbringing taught me.  I had a house, a nice truck, a higher level job and was only 25! WRONG!

    During a ‘Performance Review’ with my boss I had been told that I was too green in the role to warrant a raise and/or promotion…  I’ll go down this path in another post.  But no way, I QUIT!

    That is when my real eduction started!

    A friend and I quit together, we bought some equipment, and jumped on the biggest industry boom that was underway in my area.  We were off and running, working too many hours and too many long days.  We were making GREAT MONEY!

    KABOOM! The industry tanked… Now what!?  We made some money, we both knew we couldn’t go back to the corporate world.  Back to what we know.

    Traded up the equipment and went off and running on a new adventure, which is now my current business.  At this point we employ 25 people, and are growing 30% plus year over year since we started…  (on point to be 150% this year).

    Between my friend and I we still own the entire company and continue to chase it’s growth.  At the same time we have started five other business’ primarily supporting our current but providing some diversity in our day to day lives.  Though it isn’t something I would recommend at this point in the process but it has some great potential.

    I’m quickly learning, it’s BUSINESS I love, not the specific industry I’m in.  So much to learn!  It’s an education that’s just beginning!

  • Life… Generally

    As I struggle to get these writings up and going I’ll start with the most basic, a LIST… BORING, right!?

    Things I have accomplished, or plan to accomplish.  Posts will be written for each and referenced below.

    • Asset Theft Reporting System
    • Twitter Bot
    • Small service business
      • Start
      • Operate
      • Grow
      • Profit
      • MULTIPLY
    • Go to School
      • Engineering
      • Copy writing
    •  Twitter World
      • I don’ tknow what this means, but ya’ll are teaching me
    • Software Research
    • Research in general
    • Self Improvement
      • Health
      • Knowledge
      • Nutrition

    Okay, I started rambling… More to come….