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“You Don’t Lack Time… You Lack Discipline (75 Hard Reality Check) | Gareth Davies, Jorge Dez & John McNamara
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Welcome And 75 Hard Drama
SPEAKER_01Hey guys, I'm John Mac from our host from Running Vegas. We're talking local sports business real estate. If you guys like, we see subscribe below us a lot of Vegas podcasts and got my co-host, Mr. Georgia.
SPEAKER_02Thanks for having me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. No, this is gonna be fun. No, no, no. That's gonna be fun. So yeah, so Gareth is at our brokerage at Virtue, and you've been a luxury agent for a bit now. You're crashing it. Yep. We're like getting doing it. Yeah, yeah, and that's that's the capacity we know each other in. And then we started a challenge thanks to Mr. Darren Marquez. Darren, if you're watching this, I am talking shit. Let me make it very clear. The only reason I started this challenge, Darren, was because of kids. Like, let me make that very clear. Yeah. Yeah. So and then so we have to give a little bit of the backstory and commitment. Let's please put this on a reel. Oh, we know all the time. Oh, and he and he knows. And you know what? I think Darren and I can speak that way at times. And if you're upset, you're upset. You're in charge of your own feelings. So um, but you know, I'm like, okay, let's do it. We ended the year that way. And um I texted you and I well, there was a group, he created this, it was just all talk. He created this group chat, guys. And I'm not like just I'm not make it clear, trying to put him down, but it's just he made this group chat, he made this big deal, and he he verbatim, quote, if you can't do something for 75 days, he's like, I don't know what you're doing. And that's exactly what he did, and then he was saying it was too hard, and I'm like, okay, so at some point in the challenge, because I was only, I don't know how many days in, now I forget, and you're like, Oh, I'm still doing it, and and and it was just him and I. And I'm like, okay, I might just fall off the bandwagon, I'm not gonna do it. And then I think you actually went a little longer. Yeah, I went.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got 43 days, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I must have gone in 30, yeah, at some point. Were you on that group, Chad? I was, I didn't respond to it. Oh, okay. All right. Now I'm like, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, everybody was falling off, and one of Darren's great ideas too was hey, when somebody falls out in a group, we're gonna keep restarting it. And I'm like, there is no chance I'm doing that. Right. Well, like, we're realtors.
SPEAKER_03Little did we know. He was gonna always be the one that was falling in love every. And you guys, it was just hard for him because of the food and he travels so much. You know, going to Skaya. So, uh, anywho, all right. So, Darren, I love you. I still need to take out your drinks for um your birthday, so I have not forgotten as soon as I'm back from Japan.
SPEAKER_02But anyways, I was only gonna do a 30-day, and then yeah, he was on the pod, and he's like, he said exactly what you said. You can't do 75 days. I'm like, alright. But if I'm doing it again, if I'm doing 75 hard, I'm doing accountability with you.
SPEAKER_04Right, no, yeah, no, no, I'll keep you on track on that for sure. Yeah, I'll forget. I'm gonna have to do it, right? I guess my like um you guys heard that? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03We gotta hear it too. We do too. A little harder for the people in the back.
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Gareth’s Story From England
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so tell us a little bit about you. I'm sorry, we just went off on a whole dare part.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so so um you'll just have to talk about the 75 hard or just me in general? Uh in general. Yeah, everything. So obviously I'm originally from England. Okay. Live in a pretty small place just outside London. Uh-huh. Um the essence real. It is, yeah. I don't put it on, yes, not put on just a smart accent. I mean, I think it helps. I think it helps. So yeah, I have perfected it. I put it on a bit more than I used to when I was back home. Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, so I actually ran a fitness and a martial arts business most of my time back in England. So I I did like I did um I did martial arts as a kid. Okay. I loved martial arts as a kid. Okay. Um and then which So I did taekwondo. Okay. Or very well. And then I kickboxed. Okay. And I did some jujitsu kind of later on. But really, it was it was taekwondo and then and then kickboxing. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Um I want to get into something.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, honestly, I like I loved it. You know, it was just like my. I started when I was six, you know. It was just it was just I just loved it, you know. Two. No. Jiu Jitsu is great though as well. I do I do love it as a uh gay.
SPEAKER_03But it's like, yeah, I'm like, uh, I did jujitsu. No, I no, but I'm like, it's just- Oh yeah, the thoughts going off. Yeah, no, I know. I'm like, no, I want like something real. Like it's just, you know, like either boxing or the taekwondo or just whatever. Kickboxing, just you know. Jiu Jitsu, you're just on the floor. I'm like, okay. Alright.
SPEAKER_02Okay, here's a question for you now. If you're in a fight, what would you do? Taekwondo, kickboxing, or jujitsu. What helps you the best? You know, like that situation.
SPEAKER_04I I like uh I'm not I'm not really a big fighter, right? Like I like I like to be in a controlled environment. I'm not gonna go and have a street fight. Yeah, no, no, no, no, that's the discipline. Yeah, yeah. So um like jujitsu is really good though, because it's like it is hands-on, if that makes sense, you know. Like you can you can go and do some striking and it you can never actually spar with anyone, you know, like hitting bags and things like that. But with jujitsu, kind of if you go to a jiu-jitsu class, yeah, you will be like implementing those techniques the day one you go, you know. So I do like that from kind of a self-defense aspect. Yeah, um, but also, you know, I I always did striking, you know, so like punching and kicking. So I think that's probably better. I mean, you kind of have a yeah core. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so and and again, a good for me as well, I always think people talk about the individual martial art is the practitioner.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You know, a really high-level taekwondo guy is legit, right? They will kick you in the head before you've uh punched them, you know, or got anywhere near them, right? But then just on a on a base level, I think the general level of kind of jujitsu is maybe a little bit higher than some practitioners that are doing, you know, taekwondo at a base level. Does that make sense? That's how I, you know, but again, you get a really it's the individual, not not the martial art for me, you know. And I look at MA, they're doing a mix of everything, right? Right. You know, so th those really good strikers, they're pretty good at wrestling. Yeah. You know, they're pretty good at jujitsu, right? They're not like a complete slouch. So it's a it's it's a combination for me. You know, I don't think there's a lot of people.
SPEAKER_03Which would do you do, or which would you be interested in?
SPEAKER_02Um I heard a lot of good things about jujitsu over the years, but also Jody used to do it. Yeah, being 43 years old too, it's like, you know.
SPEAKER_00I think you're okay with that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I I did it older, you know. Uh uh, so I you know I did jujitsu kind of in my into my 30s. That's when I and I did that. And it it is tough though, you know, like a little bit tough on the knees, you know, and uh, you know, you're gonna get scuffed up a little bit, you know, and I you show it up to you.
SPEAKER_03You look like you were selling the big less in real estate. So our money's gone. And it's like, yeah.
SPEAKER_02So what I got out of this is not mess with Gareth.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't make him mad. That's why he's so happy. He's like Garrett. No, we're kidding, we kid a lot. Yeah, yeah. We're silly, we're a little immature at times. Um yeah, so tell us more. Okay, so England, wait, you do you have a martial arts school
Martial Arts Business And Vegas Shift
SPEAKER_03or class here?
SPEAKER_04So I did no, I know. So when I when I when I'm my wife's from here, okay. That's why I ended up in Vegas. Um and I just wanted to change, you know, like I did that for uh like from 20 to 31.
SPEAKER_03Uh how older are you now?
SPEAKER_04I'm 38. Okay. Yeah, I'll have to be 30 years. Yeah, so um so I just uh I just wanted to do something different, you know, and it's uh it I I loved it, but it's a tough business to skip. You know, you need you need to have a a black belt, you know, somebody, people that can teach.
SPEAKER_03You know, it's not like I didn't feel that I could just easily roll that into starting something here, you know, and I didn't kind of want to start from ground zero again on that, you know, and have you know, I heard it's hard because I have a friend, his name is Mike, and he uh does very well with the Airbnbs, and he's a black belt and he started in New York. Oh that's right, yeah, and he had what 60, 80 students, and then he was able to scale to different schools, so which is really impressive. Yeah, like but he said the same thing.
SPEAKER_04He's like coming to Vegas, it would be then now it's the difference here is I think there's an expectation to have a full-time center, which is obviously expensive. Right. There's only so many prime time hours, so you're paying, you know, you're you get memberships a couple of hundred bucks a month, right? You know, your your rent is four, five, six thousand, depending on how the build-out. Yeah, and where in England we have a lot of kind of centers where you can hire them ad hoc, like this, for example, right? I could hire a space. Oh, that's cool. You can have monthly members already coming in. You know, YMCA is that. Joe, it's actually it would that is the that is the US equivalent, you know. But in England, there's some. I've never been to one, but I've heard of them, so that's right.
SPEAKER_03Have you heard of them? No. Yeah, I think it's like a gym, but it's just open, and then you can like a sports center, you know. Yeah, that laugh like basically. I don't know if we even have a sports center here in Vegas. I know we had one in back in Cali.
SPEAKER_02Especially with everything that's going on in the economy, suggests stuff like that would make a lot of sense. And we're seeing that with realtors now too in businesses just going into play. We work, right?
SPEAKER_03It's so expensive we work though, too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. The one we went to though in uh Southwest. That was a good sign.
SPEAKER_04I actually used to work out of one in um in Summerland by the by the uh kind of um uh ballpark. Yeah, right by the way. Again, it was it was pretty good. You know, again, it was good for a while. It was a cool. We looked into that when yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was cool, yeah. The uncommons one. We works is crazy expensive. Like I kind of justified that. It's like you might as well just work at some brokerage and pay that like rent. So or into a splage.
SPEAKER_03But to any realtors, since we are a real estate podcast, that uh think they are a that they don't have a brick and mortar, and they think we works is gonna so we were uh uh I'm throwing shade today, maybe it's snowshade Thursday. Yeah so um they invite us over and they're like, Yeah, we don't have a broker's but we works, and they're like, Yeah, I'll you it's a hundred percent uh brokerage. All you have to pay for is WeWorks, and it was like what $3,000, $3,500? I'm like for like the bare minimum spot. We had a team at the time. Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. And they're like, that's all you pay for. We're like, why would we ever come here? Right. I'm like, get it together.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, that's well, I didn't know it was I didn't know it was I didn't know it was expensive to be honest.
SPEAKER_03It was well, we had 13 people at the team at the time, and it was just a lot. It wouldn't make yeah, that wouldn't have made sense at the time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, and the three team. I don't even know if that broke, just still together.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I mean not with that model, because that's the somewhere else.
SPEAKER_03But I do like that team, and if you're hearing us and you know who we're talking about, we adore the couple, the other guy not so much. So uh yeah, let's just make that the standard. No shame, no shame. Okay, um, okay, so back to you. 75 hard. I'm sorry, my ADD's fully kicking. I didn't take my CBD drink today. I'm like, I'm just excited. I'm like, this is what happens when my ADD like takes over. But um, yeah, okay, so
75 Hard Habits That Stick
SPEAKER_0375 hard. Yep. What did you get out of it? Or what was an expectation you went in and then you got something completely out of it?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so I it so I I did it last minute, if I'm honest with you. You know the last message that got sent to be like, oh hey, if anyone wants to jump on? Yeah. Yeah. It was like Thursday afternoon. Yeah. I think I was like, and you can be loading a dishwasher or something, and I was like, Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah. Especially if I, you know, so I just jumped in last minute. Um I didn't really have any time to think about it, you know, to prepare. Like I was like, This was Thursday, and I was like, You're like, oh, we're gonna start on the first. I was like, I'm gonna start on the second because I've got something going on on the first, so I don't want to, you know. So I started on the second, and yeah, I just kind of it was there's only a few days' build-up for me, really, you know.
SPEAKER_03And tell me, uh so we know each other through social media. I guess that this is like our first real conversation, you guys are seeing it here uh on video. So is that your normal tendency? Do you usually make decisions like that and you're like, yeah, I can put it on my own.
SPEAKER_04I always like to be doing like I've I've kind of I've always loved fitness my whole life. Like I'm the guy that likes going to the gym, right? The weird person. Um but so I always like to have a challenge, you know. So like I've I've done a high rocks before. Okay. I've done the David Goggins, like you have to run four hours, that's sorry, four miles every four hours for 48 hours. Okay. Um, like you know, so you so I did that during COVID. Uh I didn't complete that unfortunately, but maybe I'll try again one time. It's okay, it's okay. But again, full disclosure, I did not even have running shoes on the Wednesday and I started on the Thursday. So I went to Nigeria. Yeah, so I I do like to, but obviously having not run for probably 10 years and thinking that I could run two marathons in in 48 hours, you know, probably wasn't the smartest move, you know. Like uh yeah, you know, my feet were based on the five. Yeah, yeah. So it was, yeah. So but I like if I'm gonna, you know, if I'm gonna do something, then I say I like to I like to give it a go. Right, right, right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Very cool. And it's like, so what was the hardest part of 75 R, do you think? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I think uh I do train quite a lot, I eat fairly well, you know, so just being a little bit tighter on those things. Um the second workout, you know, an additional 45 minutes and being outside, like there were some days it was raining, you know. Yeah I'm running, and there was like 10 p.m. You know, yeah, that's the Domino's pizza delivery driving by me down, you know, down Southern Highlands. I'm thinking, I could just be sat at home getting pizza. So um the two takeaways for me though, like the best things were I have more time than I thought I did. Yes. You know, we always say, Oh, we have no time. I did the I did all of the 75 hard and probably did more work than I've done since I've been in Vegas. Uh-huh. And I got it all done. Yeah. And I still had you know, I was like, I'm sorry, I was definitely before, you know, given that excuse of I haven't got enough time. So that was really good. Okay. Um, and then I do just think uh kind of off the back of that, just being a bit more structured.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_04You know, I'm generally pretty good, but like I I got like I did the first few days kind of ad hoc, you know, just like, oh, let's see what happens. But then I would get uh, you know, read the 10 pages. Right. I've already drunk a you know a litre and a half of the water, you know, so that that I'm good to go, you know, I'd get a workout in, I'd then work, and then all I had to do at night really was do that extra workout, you know, and I you know, so I do think that actually helped because and then I and I was also scheduling other work stuff better, yeah, because I was like, I can't be doing this, you know. I would leave work till late sometimes and just finish up on a laptop, you know, when I was like, I actually I've got I've got to go for a run or I've gotta so that was the the best thing for me, you know.
SPEAKER_02That was kind of me too, is you have to be you can do the time, it's just being intentional with your day versus just going through the day.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and when it's a challenge, you're like, okay, I have to do the second one. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah. I was actually surprised in our group message how hard it was for people to drink the water. And I'm like, I drink water all day. It's crazy. I like drink a lot, and some people are like, I just can't drink the water.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, what are how do you think I drink in such jugs? And we got we've always had those big jugs in us. So we you just drink four of those and you're good. So, but yeah, that was I think the most underwriting part for me was the reading 10 pages every day. Do you know what? That's the one thing I've actually done still afterwards.
SPEAKER_04Oh, cool, okay. Because I've always loved to read, yeah, but like I would I would I would read a three hours in one day and then not read for a yeah.
SPEAKER_03I know, but you just switch books and stuff.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, yeah, he was like, Because I literally got all the time, I'm like, hey, come in our office anytime and borrow them. You don't want to have to buy them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I got through four books in that time. That's actually ten pages and seem like a lot, but I was like, actually, you know, I I read four additional books. That was actually, you know, pretty much. Yeah, you get that like little command and you're just and also you normally read more than ten because you're like, I'll get to the end of the chapter. Right. You know, so I read at least ten, right? So you end up like, so it's actually I thought that was actually quite a good little, you know, it was kind of a nice little start to the day, you know, to actually hydrate a little bit, read a few pages, be like, oh that was, you know, then you yeah, so you type. I've actually been like I'm gonna definitely keep that up as a you know, as a thing.
SPEAKER_03I like that very much.
High Rocks Spartan And Training
SPEAKER_03What is a new challenge you're taking on right now?
SPEAKER_04Or are you on any? I haven't got anything planned right now, so we'll see. Yeah, I'm I'm tempted to do another high rocks again. Okay. Uh with a I did it with a friend of mine. Okay. So I would, yeah, maybe we How does one prepare for that? Uh what is high rocks? Um it's um you have to look it up. It's like a fitness event. So it's eight exercises and then a kilometre run in between each exercise. Oh. So you like do two laps of a track, and then it's like a sled pool. We gotta do job matter together. A sled pool, yeah, um, you know, uh farmers carry uh ball balls where you got a thrower. Yeah, it it's it's and I did it with a friend of mine. So you you run together and then you split the exercises however you want to split them. But honestly, it was uh it was really tough. Like I'm like usually so that's a lot of running. So we did an hour and seven minutes. Okay. Um, which it was good. Like we we have. It is, it's it's like uh it's like um the exercises are a little bit uh they're exercises that everyone can do, right? Like the most advanced exercise is a is a burpee. You know, like a jump like a broad jump. You have to do the burpee and jump forwards. But once you're an hour in, everything seems Yeah, and and again, I don't know what the average is. I mean like you can do it just for fun and kind of get around the yeah, we were trying to go pretty quick. Um so an hour and seven minutes was I I thought that was a good time for us, you know. Like and so you know, yeah, we I think there were like I think that we came like 30th out of like 300. No. All age groups. And I'm we and my I I'm 38 and my friend was like 40 plus. So we did, I think we did good. Yeah, you know. Um I was definitely he was dragging me around a little bit for short because those runs were tough for it. Yeah, you know, like that was I was I was struggling. I mean, I did the first run. Um it's a ski to start like a ski erg machine. Okay, and my heart rate was at like 170, and I thought I'm gonna die basically. So yeah, it was I he he definitely helped me out to uh to get you know to get around there, but it was it was it was a fun yeah, you know, and we were trying to go fast, you know, so that so there was just no let up. So uh yeah, but I I'd love to see a man go a little I can do it a little faster, but yeah, maybe I'll shouldn't do on that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, have you ever done a Spartan or a Top Minor? I've actually never done it. No, Top Matter. We've been wanting to do another Tough Minor spot.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I've I've I said I've I've had I don't know if my friends have done it, but yeah, they're fun challenges. Spartan I wouldn't do again.
SPEAKER_02I was both out of my mind. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the the obstacles just seemed Yeah. Well it's funny on the first obstacle, it was just like you jumped over it. And back in the day, I like I I could jump. Yeah, yeah. I didn't realize I couldn't jump anymore. And I like literally jumped, nailed my elbow into the thing. Oh yeah, and then my elbow was messed up for two months, yeah, you know, but you're adrenaline, so you don't know until like the day later my elbow's all cold. Oh my god. But I was like, oh yeah. Where was it? Was that in Vegas? Yeah, it was right by Neval. You had a run and it was all rocks, so it wasn't like the topers were cool because it was like in the desert, it was always sand, it was a little bit easier for the runs.
SPEAKER_03And it was such a cool location.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the other train was rough though.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was it was freezing.
SPEAKER_02It was cold. Yeah, it was I don't like it. It was St.
SPEAKER_03Patrick's Day, no?
SPEAKER_02It could yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03We ended up at Water Street, and we were just tired, and I'm like, and I love beer, and I like love beer, yeah, even though it like gives me like bad like sinuses, but it it even that I'm like I'm ready to go home. Yeah, it was just I'm a warm kid, like I can't be in the cold.
SPEAKER_04It's like under like 85, I'm cold. Yeah, yeah, I I'm I'm used to that from England. The weather's not you know not the best, so yeah.
SPEAKER_02That was yeah, so but it's stuff to do the chat on is because I did one in Reno too, and all the obstacles were atop of a mountain, and it was 40 degrees, and water obstacles, and there was Lily women that were uh uh freezing, and like they had it in a blue, it was kind of scary, yeah. And we just had to keep running, but it was it wasn't fun.
SPEAKER_04I think sometimes people don't they think oh I can do that, you know, that'd be a bit fun. And I think you do need to do a little bit of prep for those things, right? Yeah, give it like I like yeah, I I like even the high rocks thing, like I knew not a huge amount of time, but you know, I was like, But just my friend was like, Do you want to do it? And I was like, and then I did kind of train for that, you know. Like I think there's some people that are just rocking up on the day, yeah, yeah. That's tough, you know, like yeah, you're gonna feel that.
SPEAKER_03I'm barely trying to get, I haven't even I'm gonna go do goat yoga Saturday. Yeah, with Murphy. So yeah. That's why it's not cold. Yeah, I'll be called. I don't even know what's that. It keeps going crazy. Yeah, yeah. No, it's like I think it's the little goats or whatever, but Jamie from the office is like, hey, let's do goat yoga. I'm like, all right, let's do it. So that'll be fun. Yeah. But 70, I feel like we're all all over the place today. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04It's like Was there anything you didn't necessarily appreciate about 75 hard or like um no, I I don't, I I mean there was there it like it, it did it it very much went, you know, you know, so like the first week I felt like I was like, and then you know, it's like, oh, this is actually, you know, there's a lot, you know, and then yeah, you get invited out to go somewhere and you're like, I'm not gonna go, you know, and then you know like there was there was one point when like we uh my wife was oh you know, we're gonna meet up with these people and like you know their kids are coming. I was like, Yeah, cool, you know, like where we're going? We're like, oh we're going to uh you know, with love always, we're gonna eat burgers and milkshake. And I'm like, Yeah, are you serious? Like I'm on day 40 right now, so I literally go. So I'm literally sat down. I was just like, I'm not doing it, you know, like and then like, oh you know, I'm like, no, no, like you know, so so but yeah, so there were some moments, and like I say, there was some moment the the outdoor workout, you know, and because it was it was cold some of those days, right? You know, and and it there were a few moments where I was like, What? Like, why am I why am I why am I doing this again? This was a winter, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so yeah, no, yeah, but they say um yeah. I love how he never like went back on the he just thinks I'm dissing on him today. But it's like uh yeah, it's just he never responded to the group chats or whatever. I'm like, it's a little quiet, and you know, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there was something at night we went uh we went downtown and I was still doing it, and I wasn't like I had to get my work, my 45 so. I walk for 45 minutes with everyone. I gotta do something. So it was, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That was cool though. That's discipline. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02For 43 days anyway. That's 75 years. Yeah, that's 45. 43.
SPEAKER_0373 media.
unknownRight?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I'm like, yeah, it would you do it again?
SPEAKER_04Um, yeah, I mean I would. I would. Like, I I I it I thought it was a great reset. You know, so like because even coming out of it, like I didn't, I I had one day where like, you know, I I I went and got a burger, you know, um, because I was still thinking about it from the 30 days ago, you know. So like I had a few like a little kind of cheat day, but I was kind of like, you know what? I was like, I don't really that was great. I kind of don't need to so it it has been good, you know, it has kind of formed some better habits, you know. So how did it change you mentally, let's say, let's break it down like mentally and physically. Yeah, I mean I I I think I've always I doing the martial arts from a young age for me, I've always think I've been pretty good discipline wise, you know, like I've not not in a bad way, but I've not really cared what other people think. You know, even when I was a teenager, you know, I was doing martial arts. I think everyone thought I was a bit weird back then, right? Like I was like karate kid or something, and I was like, ah well, you know. So like I mentally I think I've always been pretty good at that kind of stuff, you know, and and like being disciplined and training, but it was just another level to that, you know. And I do think there were some things that I was I was definitely using the excuse of oh, I'm so busy when I wasn't that busy, you know. I'd I could it I could have used the time a lot wiser, you know. Yeah, I think if I'm really busy, I'm still spending two hours scrolling on Instagram a day, right? So I'm not that busy, you know. So yeah, so I think that was the main thing. You know, that was the main thing. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, a lot of reels all.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what? Yeah, why do we have 16 reels?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're welcome.
SPEAKER_04Call me entertainment. I think that was the biggest thing for me, though. You know, that just that that that time management and going, I I can do more and still have actually a decent amount of. So so yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Talk about impressive though. You just had a big real estate deal. I do. Yeah, congrats. Thank you. Appreciate the hard work, that's the discipline.
SPEAKER_04And again, that like that's what I always wanted to get to, you know, like when I you know when I when I when I started, you know. So um again, I thought it was kind of a five-year game plan, you know, and it's it kind of came about four years, so I'm I'm I'm happy that I'm happy that it worked out. Um I hope so, yeah. So uh yeah, but no, it was uh it was really good. Um we actually met at an open house.
Open House Strategy And Lead Flow
SPEAKER_04So uh that's kind of how I grew most of my in fact. I mean, I think in some degree all of my deals have come from doing those. That's what I did really aggressively when I first because I knew nobody here, right?
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_04So I wasn't like I couldn't go back to any that like you know, what's your sphere of influence? I'm like, well, my wife, which means that that's me buying a house, right? We're buying a house together, and um that's my yeah, it's not a sphere of influence, it's just me, basically, you know. So I thought, you know, I I I I well, how do I how do I meet people in the setting where they could potentially be, you know? So I just I did open houses right from the start. Yeah, so that's so um, yeah, so that that was impressive. That was it, but yeah, no, it went smoothly. They were relocating, which is obviously what I I went through that process, you know, of uh of so I think there's some insight that I had to do it, you know, and and even some of the uh uh some of the communities that I like, I like or people like, oh, I don't really like it there, you know, because they've maybe they've lived there a long time, you know. So they've got a thought of like a they've got kind of a little bit of like we all don't like there's my hometown, right? There's places that I like and don't like, and some of that is nonsense just because it's how I was so I think just having a little bit of um different perspective on things, yeah, it w works well for that. So um yeah, for sure. How many open houses do you do? Right now I'm doing three a week. Three a week, what day is it? Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So right now I've been doing Friday morning, 10 till one, and then Saturday, Sunday, one till four.
SPEAKER_02Great.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, it's a lot. And I've I've I've flipped it around a little bit this year. You know, it's a midweek ones, they weren't as busy. So, you know, so yeah, that was that.
SPEAKER_02That's a Friday from 10 to 1. Um activity.
SPEAKER_04Uh up and down. Yeah. You know, so sometimes good, uh, sometimes, you know, sometimes sometimes slow. Um it is uh I've been going out to Lake Las Vegas a lot and doing some of the properties out there. And they there's actually quite a lot of the neighbors and stuff around in the morning, so like walking their dogs and things like that, you know. So it's maybe not somebody coming into the house, but I've hopefully made some of the things.
SPEAKER_03Because you hang out at that little um the little Mexican restaurant in Lake Las Vegas, and everybody that lives there goes there. So yeah, that's a good spot. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And that one's a good thing.
SPEAKER_04And it's a nice thing to do with today, you know, like people will, you know, even if you're just saying hi, you know, yeah, it's nice. It's just yeah, it's just a nice environment to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_02If you had to pick one day in time to week you open house, what's prime time for open house?
SPEAKER_04For me, I so I've actually so I one thing I've changed this year again with the uh 75 hard things to be a little bit more a little more organized. Okay. Like I'm I'm organized and disciplined, but like keeping stats and stuff, uh so I I've literally kept every like statistic. So I actually know the answer to the question, which I would have said Sunday, that the Sunday afternoon is the busiest time by far.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, okay. I would have thought it would have been Saturday, so that's great.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and I've done I've done like 15 open houses a month for the first like three months of the year, and I've had like 2.5 people a time show up.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So that's I think that's pretty decent, you know.
SPEAKER_03I think I heard Sunday, and it's actually because they're getting ready for their week. So Saturday is the family time, Sunday's business. And Sunday morning, we're back into the like getting the groove, they feel like they did something productive, and if they are thinking about it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So that's probably and I'm I get a lot of people that are uh maybe coming from church or sports, whatever you did with the kids in the morning on Sunday. So that kind of one till four slot in uh in the in the afternoon is a is a good time. I did some Sunday mornings and it was slow. Yeah, they're again also as well though, the the time I think, oh, there's no one coming on Friday. So we have to take a Friday. Right. And it's and I also think that's just a consistency. Um and also as well, I we don't need as much volume as we think, right? Yeah, no. I've I've had an open house where one person has come in and that's a legitimate client. Right. Or I've had 15 people come in and it was you know, so we we get caught up in the oh, we need loads of people. Right. I don't think we do. Scanning connect with one, yeah. Right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's being intentional.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh my god. What's up with time? Yeah, I'm like, yeah, no, I know, it's only 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, ah So what do you do for fun when you're not doing all the analysis and doing a 75
Dogs Downtime And Where To Follow
SPEAKER_02hard?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you know, so honestly, like I do like to work out, you know, so I do I do that pretty consistently. Um I have the the three dogs, you know, so I like to spend some of my dogs. That's kind of maybe kind of sad, but you know, I've uh yeah, it's uh I've been getting a bit older, you know.
SPEAKER_03Sounds like happy to me. That's all you want. Yeah, I don't leave my house on the weekends. Yeah, yeah. Luna and I are busy. Like the other day it was really funny. My my buddies like wanted to go to happy hour, and I'm like, and I'm single, so I'm like, let me ask. And they're like, ask who? You might have to see them. Can I send them a picture of Luna? I'm like, she says no.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. You do get I do get to that point where I'm like, I'm just gonna chill out with the studio stuff.
SPEAKER_02Animals are easier than people, especially real estate for a living. It's like you need the weekends to just chill with your animals.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Cool. Well, uh okay, so where can people what's your Instagram? That way they see it. Yep.
SPEAKER_04Um so Instagram is probably the best place to, you know, like from a from a social media standpoint, so it's just underscore Gareth Davis. Okay. Davis is about D-A-V-I-E-S. Okay. Yeah. I see I said Davies, so it's not. So I just said that wrong? Yeah. So you're not talking about Davies Bar downtown. So it's just uh it's just the Welsh spelling of Davis. So it is pronounced Davis, but it is IES, yeah. Wow, wow. Americans always. Oh, I it to be fair, people in England still do it, so I'm it's not one of those things.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, so it's so now I'm wondering if Davies or Davis bar downtown.
SPEAKER_04How do you spell it?
SPEAKER_03Uh like yours?
SPEAKER_04Like it should be Davis. Oh.
SPEAKER_02And we've been saying Davis the prediction send it to him because maybe it is like, yeah, somebody from the world.
SPEAKER_04And we should ask them too. So that that is like obviously Wales is a country, right? So that that spelling is kind of like a little niche or niche if you want to say niche.
SPEAKER_03That's crazy. Okay. All right, so you heard it here before we wrap up. The only thing, it was the last question. What separates someone who finishes from someone who quits? And I think we heard Darren, it's discipline.
SPEAKER_01Oh you guys are gonna wrap this up. You guys look at a buy a cell real estate?
SPEAKER_04I'm sorry, Darren.