Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Dr Sean J Harris. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Dr Sean J, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – walk us through the story?
I have what’s called an internal risk index in the factor. When making a risky decision, I ask myself could I live with the outcome of the worst possible outcome of the situation. If the answer is yes then I’ll pull the trigger and make the decision to take that risk. However, if I can’t live with the outcome of the result of making said decision, then I will not take that risk. The biggest risk I can say that I took was investing in a real estate course with money that I really did not have. However taking that calculated risk, I was able to 5x that income in less than 6 months. When going after fruit on the tree we have to first climb the base of the tree which is somewhat dangerous. Next we have to actually go out on the limb which is more dangerous because the limb is thinner. Then to actually get the fruit we have to go out to the tip of the limbs which is typically extremely fragile which is the most dangerous. But the fruit on the tip of the limb is also rewarding once we have attained it. Now many people may say it’s easy to get low hanging fruit or fruit that’s on the ground. However, this fruit will tend to be rotten or nearing a rotten fate in the immediate future.
Dr Sean J, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Like most people I was talk go to school get your grades go get a good job and life will be happily ever after. However I realize that this was not the case for many people. I was a C student in school. I had a high school guidance counselor who told me that the most out of mountain too is a C student was a warehouse worker.
One of my business coaches later in life told me that “A” students oftentimes teach “B” students who many times work for “C” students. And buildings, well they are often times named after “D” students.
I’ve gone on to build multiple companies to include a health care system, two real estate companies, an aviation company, a consulting firm, a capital investment firm and a publishing company.
I have develop two children who are age 13 and 12 years of age how to build their independent six figure companies at ages 7. My 13-year-old daughter has her own health and nutrition company. My 12-year-old son has his own financial literacy company teaching kids about financial literacy and even bought his own mobile financial bus.
My family’s goal is to help as many people to build indestructible Generational Wealth who want to be helped in doing so. We coach and consult families globally to obtain their financial goals.
Can you talk to us about your experience with selling businesses?
We started and built a very successful mobile restroom company. We sold this company a couple years ago for a handsome price tag. One of the biggest lessons that I like to teach entrepreneurs here is to not become emotionally attached to a business. It is important to grow and build a business for scalability, however we don’t just build to scale but for the sale. Whenever starting a company you have to have the end in mind to determine what your exit strategy will be. You have to ask yourself am I selling this business for retirement, or in fact to have financial resources to build a bigger vision that requires more capital outlay than you otherwise would have had.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
One of the biggest lessons I had to unlearn was habit-forming. There were three changes that I made that made all the difference in the growth of all of my successes. The first was changing what I read. I had to stop reading sports magazines and recreation magazines that was not creating a value add to my net worth and network. The second change I made was who I associated with. I had to stop hanging with people who were not helping me to reach the levels in which I wanted to attain success wise. I started getting around people who were in life where I wanted to be. This made all the difference. The last thing I did was changed how I used my time. Notice I said used my time and not spent my time. We should all expect the return on investment for anything that we invest time into. I started maximizing my time by folding time. I was able to compress three days into one day by taking one day’s activity and completing it from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Then I would put a second day into the next block of 6 hours from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. then I put the subsequent third days worth of work into the 6:00 p.m. to the midnight hour still affording me plenty of sleep from midnight to 6:00 a.m. . This way I was able to put 3 days into one day, 3 weeks into one week, three months into one month and 3 years into one year. This made all the difference in which my competitors could never catch me because of my highest and best use of my time.
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