120: The #1 Secret to Achieving Your Health Goals With Results That Last

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to today's show. If you're one of the 130 million people that are dealing with Sirs Lyme disease, autoimmune disease, or other conditions that are impacted by mold on a daily basis, and you need to learn how to eliminate that exposure, then you're in the right place. My name is Brian Carr, and you're listening to Mold Finders Radio.

What I wanted to kind of touch on today, like, big picture.

Is this idea that that progress requires a plan. So it's kind of like what I want to talk about. I see this happen in different ways. Like, first off, if we're trying to do something, we want to get somewhere. If we don't have a plan that we're going to follow to get to that thing, then a lot of times you don't even get there because accountability falls away. Right? So sometimes you lose the accountability portion of it because there was no plan to be accountable for. Right. That's one piece of it. But the second thing is that having the plan actually helps you map out sort of the order in which you do things. And it's important because if we do things out of order, we go too fast or we go, you know, or you switch the flow of how something goes, it actually ends up, like, hindering what your. What your end of goal is, right? So you have progress here, you have goal over here. And if you know the different points that you're supposed to hit along the way, you can follow the straight line and get to a goal over here. But if they're not defined, then you know the goal's over here somewhere, but you don't really know where you're going, Right. So you take longer. The other reason is if you do things like out of order, you try to jump into stuff too quick because you're really excited about doing it, or you feel like there's some sort of timeline or whatever's going on, then you have this goal over here. And let's say, like, this was a step that you needed to do, but you skipped over to here before you did it. Well, if this step.

Was needed in order to do this step properly, and because you didn't have this, then you can't actually do this. Then what happens is you end up, like, circling back over here in order to do that and then moving forward again. So you end up getting kind of. You lose time in some cases, sometimes you lose money in some cases where we're so, like, eager and wanting to get to our end goal. So Quickly. And I totally get that. That happens with a lot of things. It's not just health. It's business stuff. It's health stuff. It's personal stuff. It's family stuff. Like whatever it is, you kind of have this thing you want to get to and something that I've learned and it's just. I've just kind of noticed for myself and things that I've seen for other people and then ultimately, like, bleeding into clients and how they work and how we've worked with them is defining, like, the steps leading up to the end goal ends up being so important to help streamline all of that. And it actually is like less of a headach. It goes quicker. And in some cases, depending on what you're trying to do, you could even save money in the process by not having to, like, circle back to this piece that you needed and then moving back forward. Right. So when you guys are going through all of this, I just want you to think about that. You know, we structured out the. The portal kind of in the flow of what steps would look like as well. So as you're starting to work through things, start at the start here, right? The start here is important because it gives you the foundation that you need to get into the inspection piece. Once you get into the insp piece, it's very important to go through the entire house in the inspection piece and not maybe just be like, oh, man, the kitchen here is really bad. I'm going to start testing the kitchen. Right. Testing isn't there yet. Right. We have to go through everything. And what's the example of, like, having to backtrack if you do that? Well, if you skip forward and you just say, I'm going to start testing kitchen. Okay. It's like, you play this out, you say, okay, I need to test it. I'm going to put in, you know, let's say. Let's say we help you process sampling, try to get some. Some efficiencies there for you guys. So then you. You kind of reach out to us to do that. You get equipment sent to you. All this stuff happens. Now there's a timeline on how long you can have the equipment. You can only do it for so long. You have to ship it back, but then you inspect two more rooms. You're like, oh, I need to do this again. And then you come back, right. So there's expense in the kind of shipments of everything back and forth. There's time that's. That's also lost because you kind of have to keep Going back. But then you have to go through all of that before you get to remediation. So this is kind of the step is from testing to remediation, where usually I. We were trying to progress too quickly. So there. And there's reasons for that, right? Like, everybody starts this journey on whatever their journey is, right? And typically it's not with us and it's not here. Usually it's. A couple years ago, you started feeling sick, you started not feeling right. You started trying to find doctors. That took a while. Once you found doctors, they finally figured out, like, what was going on. And that took, you know, some time. Then you start going down the mold inspector route and realizing, you know, you had, you know, an inspection here, a failed remediation there, like, whatever it might be, some more time has passed. So finally, when we get here, the.

And you guys see, oh, there's like an actual path, there's a structure to this. There's ways to figure this out. We get so excited, and so excited is a weird word for us. But I actually feel like sometimes that is really what's happening was like, oh, there's a path. I know what to do. I can get there. And you almost want to, like, fast track it because you want to get to the end goal so much. But when you're fast tracking between the time where you got test results back and by the time, let's say that you've got like remediation protocols in hand and you start fast tracking that, what happens is that you can get remediated that come in, and maybe they start executing off of your test results. The challenge with that is that the remediators, remediation protocols are not going to be the same as what, you know, we talk about here, right? So they're going to come in and they're going to shortcut stuff and do things. Why do they do that? Because their entire business is based off volume, right? Their whole business. It's. It's literally a math formula. It's lower cost, higher volume, that equals more money, right? And they're running their business, right? So for them to come in, lower cost means we're not going to remove everything that we need to remove. We're not going to clean everything. After all remediation has been done properly because you can't see anything. And we covered it all up and now it's on to the next job. Because the volume is how they make money, and that's how their model runs, right? So if their. If their goal and how they create structure and protocols and process isn't aligned with your goal. Because your goal is, I want my place treated more like a medical facility because it's a health issue. Their goal is, it's a construction job, right? So you have this misalignment of goals and how they approach it. So if you get to this point where you have the testing and then you. And then we like fast forward and we try to get the remediator to come in and just say, hey, I have these tests for doing this. The problem is their goals don't align, their protocols aren't going to line, they're going to try to get through things quickly. They're not going to, you know, they're not going to care about post testing. There's just a lot of stuff that goes with that. Whereas if we have the protocols in hand now, before that relationship starts, it's like, hey, here, here's the expectation of what a, what this remediation is going to be. If you're not going to meet that expectation, then this job isn't for you. Right. The frustrating thing is that can add some time, right, because you got to figure out what protocols look like. We gotta then maybe like screen and vet and interview multiple remediators, right? So if you're on this timeline, you've got your testing here, you've got kind of protocol piece here, then remediation happens over here. The problem is it may take a little longer to get here, to really do it the right way. But if we do this a little sooner, let's say, and we pop it here, the likelihood of problems are much higher, which means you're then going to have to backtrack to here and like start all over again. And then that's time and expense. So there's just like a quick 10 minute thing. It's not just a mold thing, it's not just a house inspection remediation thing. For me, it's kind of a life thing. I do this in every aspect of what I do. I think about where I want to be, I backtrack from there. The things that have to happen in order to get to it and then I plan out what those steps are and then I know I'm not overwhelmed because I know what my next step is and I know that in order to get here I need to do X, Y and Z. And it allows me to be more structured, it allows me to be more accountable.

It just kind of sets me up for success, I think. And so I think as we're going through this process or whatever else you're doing in life now that I'm turning into Brian the life coach. But these types of things have been helpful for me. So it was just something that I wanted to share with you guys today.

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