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John:Ever wondered how you could turn your side hustle into a full time gig and spend more time together?
Vikki:Hi. I'm Vikki, a number one best selling author.
John:And I'm John, a retired Los Angeles police officer. Welcome to Dig the Well, where we help couples navigate the world of business.
Vikki:We've been married for 30 5 years, and because we built a successful side business, John retired 9 years earlier than he originally planned from the Los Angeles Police Department after 25 years on the job. Now we spend more time together, and we want to help couples like you do the same.
John:Join us as we help you overcome common obstacles, and we show you how to make extra income without sacrificing family time.
Vikki:Ready to dig deep and build your well? Let's get started. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Vikki:Hey. Hey. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas.
John:Happy Festivus.
Vikki:Yeah. Festivus for the rest of us, And police Navidad.
John:And it's got, like, little it has snowmen and police cars on it.
Vikki:Love it. Love it. We're all decked out. I hope you're having an amazing holiday season. We are.
Vikki:We always do. It's I don't know. It's outside of Easter. Easter actually has to be my favorite. We can talk about that at another time, but Christmas is just so joyful.
Vikki:Right? Isn't it just so much fun? You have every excuse to act goofy, wear goofy sweatshirt, have such a great time with family and friends, and hopefully remember the reason for the season, which for us, it's Jesus. So, Jesus, thank you, lord. We are so grateful for you.
Vikki:But, we're we're popping on today, to share about why you should set goals in December. Right? Yeah. Yeah. For on for being your own boss, your own business owner.
John:Yeah. And the thing is after you set the goals and you really wanna track your your progress toward the goal and track just your progress in general. Because if you don't really know how you're performing and how you're doing, how you're ever gonna know if what you're doing is the right thing to do and if you're making any progress toward your goal. And certainly, if you're not, then maybe it's time to shift gears and try something else. So I know we Yeah.
John:We always track all that and track it. And and it was nice too is the again, I mean, I'm almost like being that dead horse. Right? It's with Neora, they actually have a really robust, back office that it's they they have all these tracking tools, so when you log in and you look, you can see it. But if you don't have that, you certainly still can.
John:I mean, even when we had our brick and mortar back when we were in our early twenties, we did. We would print, I mean, we wasted so much paper when you think about it, but it wasn't wasting, I shouldn't say. We used up so much paper in printing, so much of our progress and what we were doing, and we would just go through that and look at this and look at what's working, what's not working, what is working. We're gonna double down on that and really focus on that part of it.
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. And what I remember about Prestige, John, and this is kind of cool for any Gen Xers listening, is that, that was the dawn of a lot of the computer programming, software. You know? Yes.
Vikki:It had been software had been around you have to have software. But, I mean, the programs I remember you saying, we've gotta go to Egghead Software or somewhere like that to pick out a program just for accounting, you know, for accounting purposes that would print reports. Right? Remember that?
John:Oh my gosh.
Vikki:So crazy.
John:Part of that. So how how how crazy is this? How far computers have come? So this is back in the early eighties, I suppose. I think I may have been still in high school.
John:Right? I bought the first computer. And I remember. It was a yeah. It was a clone of an IBM, computer.
John:And by today's standards, I mean, you an abacus is faster. It it is it had I forget how much memory it had on it. I think the hard drive was 20 megabytes. Megabytes. And that was, like, a big hard drive on this thing.
John:That computer and I bought a little dot matrix printer that had the little dots that impacted the paper. Yes. It was like it it I wish I wish I still have I think we still have to We
Vikki:kept it because we thought it might be worth something someday.
John:Build a museum someday, like the world's first, you know, the oldest existing computer system. That was well into $3,000. It's between $34,000 is what I spent for that thing. And it was it was terrible compared to what we have today, but we thought, hey, this is kind of cutting edge. This is gonna make life easier.
John:I'm gonna invest the money in my business because it's gonna pay off later, which is another another topic that someday maybe we'll talk about is, you know, try and cut costs where you can. But there are places where you need to invest in your business because it's gonna give you a return. It's gonna put you ahead of your competition because you have that little edge. And I think that computers has helped us so much Yeah. Because we were able to track what was what was working, what wasn't, and we could see it.
John:It would produce graphs for us. I mean, they were Yeah. Really there were terrible graphs, but at least give us an idea of what was working, what was not. We automated our invoicing. Yeah.
John:Invoices were were coming out of that computer. And I think it helps with people, especially when they're spending 4, 5, $600, back in the early eighties to some high school kid when they get an invoice that has it all it's all been machine printed. And when they look at that, I think it just lends
Vikki:so much
John:professionalism to even some kid working out of a garage. It's like, oh my gosh. This is this is I don't I don't feel so, apprehensive spending the money with
Vikki:it. Right.
John:Right. Anyways
Vikki:Yeah. That's really true. And, you know, that was so helpful too because, you know, we've told you that it was a window tinting shop originally, and then we expanded into motoring accessories. But I'm picturing as you're describing all of that, the, we had clearly, it was a compute a software program that put every type of vehicle, make and model, and how much we were gonna charge for window tinting that vehicle. Remember that?
Vikki:We got it we got it. Did we get it from,
John:I don't remember, but, yeah, it was a database of pretty much every vehicle made. Lot of them had never heard of. Right? And they're not even sold in North America.
Vikki:Right. But we needed it. So when a person would call and say, I have a Fiat blah blah blah blah blah. And, you know, me as a girl, I didn't know much about cars at all. It was on the list, and I could quote them the price.
Vikki:Yeah. What would we have done without it? But I'm sure there were lots of other window tenors that were not they didn't invest in that. Yeah. You're right.
Vikki:They weren't did they didn't think that big. And, you know, another thing we're gonna talk about goals, but another thing I wanted to bring up that I was so impressed by you was you always, had the intention. You knew where we were going. You knew what you wanted to make the company be. You had a big vision, and you painted, the picture for me of that.
Vikki:And then we then spoke that to our customers. And when people would call, there was always a waiting list. And, you know, when we were brand new, there wasn't really a huge waiting list, but it was how it was how we phrased it. I don't know if I'm saying this correctly, but we, you know, made ourselves bigger than we were, and then we became big. Yeah.
Vikki:It was he that was huge. You know? We made it made us bigger than we are, but but because of that, people started to believe, oh, okay. They have a waiting list. Oh, then I better get my name on the list, and I better tell
John:my buddy. If he wants to get in
Vikki:there, he better get his appointment, or he's not gonna get it done. And before you knew, we had this massive waiting list.
John:Yeah. It's crazy how far advanced how far in advance people would have to schedule an appointment to to get work done on their car.
Vikki:Yeah. But it's it's that thinking bigger, and all of that that I know, you know, you are visionary for the for us and branding too. We could go we could do an episode on branding because branding from the beginning, John was so big on. I remember having so many discussions about our logo and how we were
John:forever to figure out what logo we wanted, but we wanted something clean, something unique, and everything we had had that logo on it. Yeah. Everything.
Vikki:Even way back then. Mhmm. So goals. Yeah. That was
John:what we're supposed to talk about. It's supposed to talk about Festivus Yeah. Which is a celebration. If you watch Seinfeld, you know.
Vikki:Yeah. Tell really quick before we get into goals, what it I've watched it, but I'm not
John:as big as beats of strength next.
Vikki:Seinfeld I'm not as big as Seinfeld person as John and the rest of the family are. So tell us about
John:it. Which is the reason for the hat was it was a gift from, our son and our daughter-in-law. So John and Allison gave me this hat because they know that I'm a big Seinfeld fan. I always have been ever since it was, when it was first probably it was probably first shot back in when I was in high school, I'm thinking.
Vikki:No. It was the nineties, I thought.
John:Was it that was it later then? Yeah.
Vikki:I think I think so. It might have been late eighties, but we would have been called we would have the business.
John:Oh, I just I just thought it was a funny show. Yeah. And so now Vic's watching a little bit more, but the kids know that I've watched it, so they got me this hat. And and if you haven't seen that episode, it's kind of a funny episode. It's about it actually had it's around George's dad who's made up this holiday because I think he got tired of Christmas.
Vikki:But then Jewish. Right?
John:Google Google. Yeah. Google, yeah. So it was Seinfeld. But Google, Seinfeld and Festivus and and the rest of it.
John:This is hilarious.
Vikki:Yeah. And now I need to watch it after seeing that. Yeah. So but I'm sure I'm sure, Seinfeld had goals for his show to reign us back into the goals. But yeah.
Vikki:So I we were chatting before we jumped on today. I said, you know, I know we set goals in prestige. I know we had big goals of what we wanted to accomplish. And, where do you think that started? Because you, I remember, had a planner.
Vikki:When I met you, I had a planner. And was it do we both have Franklin Covey, or was it no. Day timer was big back then.
John:Yeah. I don't remember.
Vikki:I think it was day timer because I remember the sheets saying had it, like, a runner. Had, like, these running feet, and it said day timer. Anyway, if any old day timer people are out there, send us send us the logo because I could just picture it. But but it was we both had it. And I think for me anyway, just real briefly, I know that that came from my parents.
Vikki:My mom was a really good planner. She had the family calendar. They I think in school, I learned that and but not everybody is a planner. Not not everybody does that. And so it was a natural thing that lead into goal setting because you and I also learned some things, through Frank Franklin Covey with our business.
Vikki:I remember.
John:Yeah. They in almost all those planners, they have a section on goal setting, about setting short term goals, long term goals. And interestingly, yeah, that's true. That's probably where that was our first at least for me, that was my first exposure to doing something like setting these goals because I wasn't raised by a family that that really did that. So I can't I can't think that my I don't recall my dad ever doing something like that, and I know my mom didn't.
Vikki:So you were self taught, which is pretty cool.
John:Yeah. And I think it was just from just I was an avid reader, so I probably read read different books about that. But even back then, I really wasn't reading a lot of self help books. I wish I had. Right.
John:But my dad had always encouraged me to read, just read, read, read. So I always read. Every day, I was reading something, you know, And that was kinda cool because I read so much. I could go through, like, a pretty big book in just a couple days or maybe a day on some of them. But, I think maybe I've learned some of it from there.
John:And and the planners we're talking about in case you guys don't know, because we might have some really young young youngins watching this thing. It's the old school paper little planner. Like, the one I'm using is like a typical size. I believe it's like 5 and a half inches by 8 and a half inches, so it's not like a full sheet of paper. And it has, like, the calendar pages.
John:It has weekly play pages, and it has daily pages. And, I don't know. I know most people are doing everything on their phones or on some sort of device as a digital planner, and there's a place for that. I mean, my alarm just went off a little bit a minute ago because it had to remind me to do something. And I'm not writing you know, I may write that down.
John:I may not, but I know I'm not gonna miss the alert when it comes through on my phone, on my watch. Right. But there's magic when you take and take and put pencil or pen to paper. If you write out your goals and actually write them out, there's something about that that it that it kind of, it almost like it it it burns it into your memory. Mhmm.
John:And if you see that over and over again, it's different than if you just type it into your phone.
Vikki:Yeah. I think there's scientific proof that it cements the memory better in your brain. Yeah.
John:I'm pretty sure. I will attest that. I'm living proof of that because if I don't put it in my planner, oftentimes, I forget it. Yeah. And if I put it in there, more than most of the time, I remember, oh, yeah.
John:There's something I've gotta do tomorrow at 1 o'clock because I wrote it down.
Vikki:Right. And I wanna encourage you because I think a lot of people think, well, I'm just not good at that. I'm not and they just write that off, and then they just don't try to get better. You know? We we are the firm belief you can learn anything at any time.
Vikki:Like, look at all of us, older, you know, some of you Gen z listening, watching this are like, they're old. But we are learning digital. We're learning the whole world of like you said, we have digital. I use my Google planner, but I also use my, handheld planner, right, that has, like John just said, the daily pages. And you can learn it.
Vikki:Yeah. Anybody can learn how to time map and put things down and see where you can fit more things in your day. Actually, I have a free gift on that. I'll make sure that's in the show notes of, this little digital, I don't know, PDF of how to time map so you can actually plan better. So definitely connect
John:them now. That's, really valuable.
Vikki:Right. Very.
John:But You've helped so many people Yeah. When you've gone through and and helped them with their with their time mapping, and then it's completely changed Right. Their lives.
Vikki:Because they'll tell me, I don't have time in the day. You know, they want to, but, you know, what you gotta make time. You gotta prioritize. And what we found is successful people are willing to learn, will prioritize the important things that need to be acted on now and can put the things that aren't as important over to the side, not forever, but for a little while and prioritize. And that's what time mapping does.
Vikki:It has you map out everything you do in the day in case including shower. If you're a mom, making the lunches, driving the kids to school, you know, dads, you know, driving to work, you know, all the things, moms and dads doing all of that. But it has you put that down, but then you can see the little cracks and crevices in your day. You do that for at least a week just to see what your sched oh, I could on Tuesdays, I could fit this in, you know, on Thursdays. And you definitely find a way to do more.
Vikki:So and that's all to me, that it that's part of goal setting too if you think about it, finding cracks and crevices in your day to fit the activities that are gonna make your goals come true. Yeah. It's one thing to write goals down, but then if you have no action plan, they're not gonna happen if you don't, make time for the activities that are gonna achieve those. So yeah. Yeah.
Vikki:So we we map out I know for me, like, I was just doing it today. I and I won't, you know, show my numbers. I'm gonna hold it way back. But this is a planning sheet where I, have written down the volume that I created personally for my business, last month. So I put November's month, amount.
Vikki:Then I put my goal for December, what I plan to do personally. And then I've got team goals, what the team did in last month and what I want them to do as a team this month. It's all here. And there's even a gap section where, you figure out, oh, it's I only do need to do a 1,125 more dollars in sales to hit my goal. That's the gap from what I did last month to my goal this month.
Vikki:That's not bad, and you see how achievable things like that are. So find a planner. We're blessed. Like John said, our company, has a planner like this, that we are able to have access to, and I adore it. It also has tracking sheets for following up with people that that's critical to, you know, again, you gotta do that.
Vikki:And fortune is in the follow-up. We should do an episode on
John:that. Yeah. So Yeah. If if you're someone that's in the aura and you're listening to this and you don't have that Oh, yeah. This planner, this, success system planner, that's crazy that you wouldn't because it's it's written specifically for for that business.
John:Right? Mhmm. And if you're in a different business, this may or that particular planner may or may not work for you. It won't work as well, obviously, because it's not custom tailored for that business. But get a planner.
John:Get something, I think, try it. Or at least, you know, do this. I mean, you can probably buy, like, a spiral bound one. Like mine comes in mines in a nice little leather cover I've had that thing for decades. The leather's all worn out but it's
Vikki:That's why you like it.
John:Like because you need to actually use it right but you don't have to go and buy a special cover for it just get something that's that's inexpensive and just try it out. And I would suggest don't order it on Amazon because they have plenty of them.
Vikki:Right.
John:Go to a place like we're just talking about
Vikki:shop tall.
John:Go to a place that has them so you can actually see them and touch them and and go through the pages and see what it looks like. And then the other great thing about shopping small, going to a mom and pop place, so to speak, is that you can actually talk to the person behind the counter and they probably know. Yeah. Right? It's not gonna be some bot.
John:You're not gonna be chatting with a bot. You're not gonna be speaking to the customer service rep that has never even used a plan in their life. Right? They're selling them. They you know, you go to a small shop, they're selling them.
John:They know them. And you can tell them kinda what you're doing, what you're looking for, and they can maybe find one that that you'll like. And then buy the least expensive version of it and actually try it. You know? Give it give it a serious trial.
John:Right? And I think you'll see that it you're gonna benefit from it.
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. So we do monthly goals. We do 90 day run goals. So if you did last episode, be sure to watch that one.
Vikki:That's probably episode 11. I think this is gonna be 12 if everything works out. But, we talked about 90 day runs, so you should have a goal for your 4 90 day runs throughout the year, right, your quarterly goals. And, also, did I mention yearly goals? Not yet.
Vikki:I don't know. Yearly goals and then a 5 year vision statement. And, you know, I've done we've done a bunch of reels on Instagram. If you don't follow me, I'm the Vicki Downey, pretty much everywhere on all the platforms. John's not on social media as much.
Vikki:He's on there, but I put The Real where we were just in Hawaii, and we go every year and because some some coaches will tell you, rewrite your 5 year business business statement every year on your birthday. Well, that's great, and you can do that because John can have his own 5 year vision statement for what he wants to do personally, and I I can have my own. But we a lot of times, we do one as a couple. So we were just in Hawaii, and we did that. And it's in first person.
Vikki:So it's you're writing it, but it's it's you're writing it 5 years from now on that day. So say today is December 12th when this is probably dropping, this episode. So December 12, 2029, I'm waking up on the beach in Hawaii, in Maui. Be as specific as you can. Right?
Vikki:I hear the waves crashing or, you know, actually, it would be better if you, you know, I think, you know, barely opening my eyes to the sound of the waves crashing in our condo overlooking Wailea. You know, be very descriptive and include things like how old your kids are now. You know, John is whatever age, Misa, and our grand I hear the pitter patter of our grandchildren's feet running towards us, and, oh, they just jumped in the bed with us. You know? Just be very descriptive, on, you know, where you wanna be in life, the things that matter to you as a family because it's shocking that we've done that for how many years now?
Vikki:I think we really started doing that when we joined Neora. When we joined Neora, they were big on 5 year vision statements. Goal setting, we've learned throughout the years from all the companies we've been with and ourselves. But, we look back on the 5 year vision statements from 2,000 we joined in 2012, and it's shocking at how much has come true. Like, mine was and sorry.
Vikki:I'm doing all the talking and you I promise I'll stop saying so you can interject. But I one of them was, I probably should've gotten that out. Why didn't I get that out to read to you that waking up with John next to me because he is fully retired and this 12 2012, he wasn't retired, guys. He was still working
John:Seven more years.
Vikki:Yeah. Right. And I so much wanted him to be I wanted him there more. You know, that's every wife's dream. And so now he is.
Vikki:So things like that have really come true. One of them was that our our daughter reaches the highest rank in, our company, and then she did. It is in less than 5 years. So it is amazing what you put, like you said, John, pen to paper
John:Yeah.
Vikki:How that it starts happening.
John:Right? Absolutely.
Vikki:Is it the subconscious brain? I know that has a lot to do with it.
John:Right? Absolutely. Yeah. That that that part of your brain doesn't get enough, credit for everything it does. It actually it actually operates your life, not your conscious brain.
John:Yeah. You may think you're in full control, but you're not.
Vikki:Yeah. Exactly. And saying things out loud is when your subconscious brain actually hears it. If you just read things, not so much. It needs to be said out loud because, the subconscious brain will do what it's told.
Vikki:So whatever you're telling it, if you're telling yourself bad things like I'm an idiot. I lost my keys again. How could I well, you're gonna keep losing your keys because you're telling your subconscious brain that you're an idiot. So stop that for 1. Just stop doing that.
Vikki:Start speaking in affirmations to yourself because when you do and there's so many books on this that you can read about the subconscious brain. But when you start doing that, you you start gravitating to those goals that you do want. So not only do you wanna write that 5 year vision statement down, but you wanna read it out loud to yourself often, you know, monthly, if not more, truly. So, yeah, it it's crazy how that works.
John:Yeah. A little trick that, I think we've learned how to do is, if you ever lose something, like, you'd mentioned losing keys. Right? So if you've misplaced keys and you're just racking your brain and you're looking you're searching the same places over and over again, like, they're gonna just magically appear. You've already opened that door Yeah.
John:Four times. And now on the 5th time, they're gonna it's gonna be there. So what what I'll do is I'll just tell my subconscious to find it. And, and I know I will, and I believe I will. And I just tell, hey.
John:You I you've gotta find these keys for me, so to speak. And then I drop it. I don't give it another thought. I let my subconscious just figure it out. Yeah.
John:And by the end of the day, I'll open a drawer that I hadn't opened before. I'll go to a jack, I'll go to a pocket, I'll go wherever those keys are for and I have no reason to go there and get them. I just said, Oh, you know, me looking here. I just open it up.
Vikki:There they are.
John:Yeah. It's it's kinda it's kinda creepy. It is. How's that working? It But Really is.
John:It works
Vikki:like crazy. It does. It does. And not to keep sending you other places, but, if you follow me on TikTok, I'm the Vicki Downey over there. If you do actually, you don't have to if I mean, it's great that you follow me if you do, and I appreciate it, and I'll follow you back.
Vikki:But if you just go to TikTok and do hashtag lost keys for I did a video about
John:it when
Vikki:you just said, and I should
John:show
Vikki:it to you. And it is the most watched lost keys video out there. It's got a crazy amount. It's over 80,000, which is not in the millions, but I ever working
John:for people though?
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. It's working because I tell them exactly that. Just just talk differently to yourself. Speak in affirmations.
Vikki:Talk not kindly to yourself because, you know, granted, we've all been raised by or not raised, but you've had people in your life that put you down. Right? That you're you are it's saying you are an idiot. So it's time to start telling your subconscious that you're not, that you are smart. You will find them.
Vikki:Anyway, so I did this that short TikTok and put it on there. On Instagram, not that many people watched it. I put it on Facebook, not that many people. For some reason, on TikTok, it's going crazy, and it's a lot of Gen z that I see. And I in there, I say, try it and come back to and and tell me it that you found it because I just know they're going to.
Vikki:I just know that it works. It's cuckoo, and it works. And I think I even say that. And no joke. They come back.
Vikki:They come back, and they say, I lost my keys. My mom's gonna be so mad at me. It's like the sweetest thing. And then they come back and they're all like, guess what? Within 10 minutes of me just talking better and believing I was gonna find a saying it out loud, There they are, and they weren't there before.
Vikki:I know. It's amazing. Subconscious brain.
John:And we all know they were there before.
Vikki:Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. It's nutty, but the subconscious brain just works that way. You know, this is gonna sound cuckoo, but sometimes now because we've learned this about the subconscious brain and, again, there's plenty of books written about it.
Vikki:It's don't you don't have to believe us. But, I'll be thinking something, and I've been trying to be better at not interrupting John after 35 years of marriage. And I'll just now I just in my head, I'll think about what I want him to say. Ladies, that's really funny. But, like, if he's sharing with the family something, and I want and the old Vicky would go, oh, yeah.
Vikki:Tell him about this. Right? Instead of doing that, I just think, oh, yeah. Tell him about the whales we saw. I'll I'll just have that in my head.
Vikki:And out of nowhere, he'll talk about the whales. You know? Or it didn't look like it was going there at all. So there's something with the subconscious brains with the with other people too. Have you noticed that?
Vikki:Yeah. Yeah. And how about friends that they'll call you out of the blue and maybe you're just talking out loud to somebody else about them. You know, Sue, we haven't heard from her in a while. And then they text you.
Vikki:Hey. I was thinking about you. It's not a coincidence. It's it's not. There's too much scientific information behind it.
Vikki:Anyway but but that's honestly all we had on goals for you guys, right, was to write them down, be diligent, be, proactive, putting your goals on paper. And, yes, you can do them digitally. Right? Yeah. But making and then putting an activity plan to make them happen.
Vikki:You know, goals are just pie in the sky. They're not gonna happen if you don't put the activity behind it.
John:And and don't don't set your your goals too low. Set the bar high.
Vikki:Yes. I'm so glad you said that.
John:See? You're probably thinking that. Are you thinking that? Making me you made me say that.
Vikki:But tell them why because I agree with you.
John:Yeah. There's a term that we used to use on the on the rifle range was aim small, miss small. Right? So if you aim high, you'll miss high. Even if you don't hit that goal, you'll be so much better off.
John:So don't be afraid to have lofty goals and lofty ambitions. I think most people feel embarrassed if they go too crazy with them. Go crazy with them.
Vikki:Yeah. Right? Because you're
John:not you don't have to share this. You don't have to you don't have to post it on your on your garage door. This is for you. You're setting goals for yourself to help motivate yourself and help put some action behind it and achieve those goals and, set set them high.
Vikki:Yeah. I agree. I I think people way too many people set their goals too low because they don't wanna let themselves down. Well, guess what? You're letting yourself down by setting them so low.
Vikki:It really doesn't move you forward. You're still where you were 5 years ago, 10 years ago. You're not any closer to your dream life. And don't we all want that dream life? So I'm with you a 100%.
Vikki:Big
John:because I know I know guys that have set their goals, and they said, yeah. I wanna I wanna be able to buy, like, a late model used minivan. Then, yeah, hey, nothing wrong with minivans. I mean, they're really useful vehicles. I don't particularly wanna drive 1, not a late model used one at least, but it's not that's not me.
John:Right? And then it's like, good grief. They hit it and they end up finding 1 and buying it, and it's like, let's celebrate. And it's like nothing to celebrate.
Vikki:I know. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's just sad to me. They're leading leading a mediocre
John:That's that's a good that's a good point. Right? They're they're they're accepting mediocrity as if that's okay. Yeah. And it it's hardly okay.
John:Right? That's just a that's just a an existence. Let's let's live a better life. Let's live a prosperous life. Right.
John:All can. We certainly can.
Vikki:Yep. And if you're, believe like we do, we believe in Jesus, and we know he didn't die on the cross for us to lead a mediocre life. And whoever you believe in, I don't believe that the that you were here just to take up space. Yeah. 100%.
Vikki:You are here to make a difference. You are here to make an impact, and now is the time to to start working on that. Stop living in mediocrity. Yeah. Yeah.
Vikki:Well, okay. We've got, our holiday contest. Okay. So we have 3 weeks of this during December. So we are calling it the holiday worth celebrating contest.
Vikki:It's our 12 days of Christmas even though, like I've mentioned before, it's about 15 days. And somebody is going to win a big prize of health and wellness, skin care, clean, weight loss. They're you're gonna win something valued at $200 or more. Here's our favorite, sleep and energy chews. But you never know what you're gonna win.
Vikki:But the way to win is we need for you to like, subscribe, and leave a review anywhere you're listening to us right now, whether it's on what whatever, channel, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all of the I mean, there's so many. You're probably listening on all different types. So leave us a review. We would be we would be thrilled to become new and noteworthy. But if you've done that already, that would get you a ticket in the drawing.
Vikki:But if you've already done that, thank you for that, by the way, then go to, YouTube or Rumble and like, subscribe, and leave us a comment there. Actually, it's so so easy to see your comments on YouTube or you or Rumble. So those are great, but we we love the comments and subscribes everywhere. Please share this with a friend, as well, but we will be doing a drawing for 1 of these $200 off, a $200. One of these prizes, we're gonna be doing multiple drawings.
Vikki:And, if you do need to get our information in the show notes, we'll put, our email address that you can send, if we need you. If we announce you as the winner, you will then be asked to email us back with your information so we can mail you the prize. Does that make sense? Alright. I was hearing something funky in my ear, so I don't know if that was happening for you.
John:Thinking anything. So you're good.
Vikki:I think that's what threw me off there. So sorry if I was struggling there for a little bit. I was hearing something funky. Yeah. You were you sending me messages?
Vikki:Alright. Have an amazing December. Tune back in next week. We can't wait to see you, hear from you, and all learn more about entrepreneurship together. Alright.
Vikki:Have a great day. Bye. Thanks for joining us on Dig the Well.
John:We hope you feel empowered and ready to take on new challenges.
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