Welcome back to the real value podcast, the podcast about business, life, success; about finding value in anything and everything, and about creating absolutely as much of it as you can with the time we have! Good morning my friends, my name is Blaine Feyen and I am your host for this and every episode of the always sponsor free real value podcast, the weekly podcast for real estate appraisers, agents, and lenders looking to elevate themselves personally, professionally, and mentally. If you want to take things to the next level in your life and in your business, in addition to proper exercise and healthy nourishment for your body, you absolutely MUST be exercising your mind and taking in healthy nourishment and supplements for your mind and spirit! The real value podcast IS one of those healthy supplements and we strongly recommend taking it weekly with a healthy meal and washing it down with a big cup of get off your butt and do something different! You all know the working definition of insanity, doing the same thing but expecting different results. If you want some different results, it might just be time to start doing things a little differently. Hopefully, if you’ve listened to this show for any period of time, you know that we do things a little differently around here and we don’t keep that a secret. We have a built a very successful set of businesses around a small set of principles and practices that, if copied, can be applied to almost any business anywhere in the world.  ​

​Welcome back to the real value podcast, the podcast about business, life, success; about finding value in anything and everything, and about creating absolutely as much of it as you can with the time we have! Good morning my friends, my name is Blaine Feyen and I am your host for this, and every episode, of the Real Value Podcast. Thanks for stopping by again this week to hang out with me and share our most precious resource together. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing right now, hopefully its adding to your life in some positive way and I’m honored if I’m part of that value add in some small way. This show is all about value in some way, shape, and form. Whether its about adding value for your clients and customers, finding value where none seems to live, creating value where previously none existed, or simply recognizing value all around you via your daily gratitude mindset and practice. If you have yet to begin doing some kind of daily gratitude practice I highly suggest that you begin right now. In fact, turn off this podcast and begin it right now. We talk a lot on this show about focus. What you are focusing on, what you choose to focus on, what you give your focused energy to, and how the direction of your focus will determine the direction of your growth or decline. One of the fastest ways to harness and energize probably the most powerful of your resources is to shift your focus from whatever it is you may be focusing on directly to something you’re grateful for. I have recommended it in the past, strongly encourage it to all of you, and require it of my coaching and mastermind groups, that you have some kind of gratitude practice. It can be at a minimum weekly, but I recommend beginning your day with a simple 3 minute gratitude exercise. I’ll give you the somewhat complicated steps to doing this 3 minute exercise if you want to grab a pen and some paper to write down the steps. Alright, you ready? You take a piece of paper. You can use your iPad and Apple Pencil if you’d like. You place the paper on a hard surface at a 90 degree angle to your torso. The hard surface can be a desk, a lap table, a coffee table, a hardcover book, the dining room table, the quality of the material you’re writing on doesn’t matter that much. Place your chose medium for writing at a 90 degree angle to your torso on the hard surface. Get your chosen writing utensil and place it in your hand however you were taught to hold said writing utensil back in kindergarten. 

​Welcome back to the real value podcast, the podcast about business, life, success; about finding value in anything and everything, and about creating absolutely as much of it as you can with the time we have! Good morning my friends, My name is Blaine Feyen and I am your host for this and every episode of the real value podcast. Thanks for joining me again this week on our shared journey through life and business. And I hope to hammer that point home just a little bit more this week that this IS a shared journey through life, and not just business. Businesses exist to enhance people’s lives, not the other way around. I truly hope that that message is coming through loud and clear in these episodes because it is one of the foundational principles that I believe in, preach, and teach and have been for the past 20 years or so. In fact, I think its safe to say that I believe it even more today than I did 20 years ago when I was teaching it to large groups of mechanical contractors and HVAC companies. Businesses exist to solve problems for their clients and customers, to be sure. But, for the owners and stakeholders, the business’ primary purpose is to make a customer or client, we learned that from Peter Drucker, and to improve the lives of everyone involved with that business in some way and that must include making a decent profit. You might say, ‘well that’s just your opinion Blaine, my business exists to pay my bills!’, to which I would say, ‘how is that any different than what I just said?’ You pay your bills so that you don’t go further into debt, so that you can sleep better at night knowing that the bills have been paid, so that your children can eat and go to good schools, and so that your life is enhanced by your business, not the other way around. We are investing some of the most valuable currency given to each and every one of us each week and it’s the 168 hours we’re given to live and breath and create a legacy. As we say at the end of every episode, that most valuable currency is your time. A currency once spent can never be recovered except through the return on that investment which is hopefully in the positive column of better health, wealth, more time added to the back end, and happiness and enjoyment.