{"id":2976,"date":"2016-08-30T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:25:30","slug":"an-expensive-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2016\/08\/an-expensive-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"An Expensive Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I started cutting the grass and I about \u00bc of the way into the yard the mower stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>In the last month, I learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickbetdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Bet-David<\/a> that as we grow our business, we need to let go of other chores or tasks so that we can focus on our business. Patrick says, stop doing the 10$ an hour jobs. Send your shirts out or hire a cleaning lady. Do whatever you need to so that you have more time for the more important things.<\/p>\n<p>So, I crossed the street and borrowed my neighbors lawn mower. It is smaller and not as powerful. Needless to say, I spent an extra 2.5 hours mowing the grass tonight because I didn&#8217;t take time to take it in when it started making noise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantcardone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Cardone<\/a> teaches the wealthy buy time. He purchased a plane and people said, dude why did you buy a plane. He said, you don&#8217;t understand, I bought time. I get it, especially after tonight. Let&#8217;s say that my hourly wage is 200$ an hour for my profession. Tonight my busted mower&nbsp;cost me 500$ because it took me an extra 2.5 hours to mow the grass. I will be getting someone else do do it, because it will cost me less to have a lawn service.<\/p>\n<p>The question for you is what task or chore around your home (or business) is costing you to much?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I started cutting the grass and I about \u00bc of the way into the yard the mower stopped working. In the last month, I learned from Patrick Bet-David that as we grow our business, we need to let go of other chores or tasks so that we can focus on our business. Patrick says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[818,928,141,930,927,137,929,744,722],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-personal-story","tag-earn","tag-grant-cardone","tag-job","tag-money","tag-patrick-bet-david","tag-service","tag-time","tag-understand","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}