Don't surrender the accomplishment that is on the other side of discipline.

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

It is a never-ending discipline.

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick.

Thank you. Day. Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast. Your host, Nate and Brian,

hanging out with you on another Monday morning. Looking forward to another great show. This time, we're talking about the power of first steps, making progress, even when things don't seem like perfection. It's going to be a great topic, and I think one that's very relevant and applicable to whatever you're doing right now, get started and get going. Let's get into it. Before we do, we're going to have a little bit

of an introduction, and we're going to start it off with a quote from Brian. The willingness to be a

fool is the precursor to transformation. Because if you're never willing to be a fool,

you'll never start something new. If you never start something new,

you will never develop. If you never develop, you will never transform. Jordan Peterson.

Very good, very good. I just gave a training not too long ago.

Sorry, Dr. Jordan Peterson, even if the board in Canada tries to revoke his license

because they're absolutely out of their minds.

I gave a training not too long ago about the power of a coach, and one of the concepts in there came up was about how a coach will challenge you into new things. And part of that challenge requires

us to get uncomfortable. It requires us to humble ourselves, make some mistakes, pursue things

that are a little bit out of our norm, perhaps. And that could be as simple and silly as like doing

karaoke in front of a bunch of people, or that could be as serious as starting your own business

and making large investments. Whatever it is, having the power of a coach, along with having

the ability to actually jump into something that is challenging, and the spirit of saying that I might not

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