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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Sandcastle Skyscrapers: A Story About Time | #TBT

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is a poignant story of how Tom and his young son realized life’s urgent nature while building sandcastle skyscrapers under the Mexican moonlight.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When I think about time, right, and how precious time is and how most people in this economy are wasting time.

0:15.0

So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople.

0:18.0

We all want to create consistent, repeatable and scalable ways to grow our business and our income and we want to do it better

0:24.8

faster and more seamlessly why so we can actually enjoy our lives take vacations and spend

0:30.3

the quality time we want with the people that we love.

0:33.4

How do we do all this without spending a fortune or running ourselves ragged?

0:37.7

That's the big question and this show is dedicated to the answer. I was on a beach in Mexico with a friend of mine, a guy named Steve Games who built this big company in California and then sold it during the heyday to Warren Buffett.

0:52.0

And he bought this seven miles of ocean

0:53.6

front between Cabo San Lucas and LaPaz and this seven miles was originally

0:59.1

called Bejia de Los Muertos and if you speak Spanish Bay of the Dead is not a good marketing name. So we came up with

1:06.5

Bejia de la Suenios, Bay of the Dreams. And so he would hire me to come down and consult and play

1:12.0

golf and have fun. and so I'm down there

1:14.4

one day and it's like you know all day long surfing fun playing fishing with my kids like

1:19.1

six and eight at the time and he had just opened up a giggling Marlin restaurant on the property so it's margaritas and you know fun right vacation holiday all that good stuff

1:30.0

But at the end of the day I'm there with my boys and we're just walking down the beach, and they're like,

1:34.0

Dad, can we play on the beach? And I'm like, well, it's 10 o'clock at night, and my Italian wife is like,

1:38.0

you will, take care of the children.

1:41.0

Like, yes, dear, so she goes to bed.

1:43.0

And I'm sitting there with my boys.

1:44.0

And if you haven't done this, you should, I don't care if your son or your daughter is like 50, you should do this.

1:49.0

I'm just laying there looking at the stars in this bay with the water just barely touching our

1:54.3

feet and my little guy Steve O supremeo he falls asleep and he's just because he's

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