Making $456 in 1 Day Mowing Lawns

Yo. Good morning, everybody. So I just pulled up to the shop. It's a beautiful Saturday morning. I'll explain why we're working on a Saturday, why I'm hopping back in the field and maybe give you guys some good content and some good feedback.

I think P7.

All right, we're all loaded up. We're on the road. And you don't know who I am. My name is Lee Park. I work with Augusta Lawn Care Services proudly for the last five and a half years. So we had a lot of guys out sick this week. And then we had one Joe, gentlemen. He no called, no showed. So that put us even further behind. Work gets pushed off to Saturday, unfortunately. And I said, you know what? This is the Augusta way. I'm gonna step up. This is what leaders have to do. And I'm mowing on a Saturday.

I have two goals today. All right, bear with me. Goal number one, show the employees the P4P work. So I will be tracking my times, and I will be calculating my P4P at the end of this video. So you will get to see how P4P actually works and how easy it is to make money. About half these properties I know, and I've been to properties that we've had at Augusta for five, six years, and about half of these properties I have never been to. So it's a perfect mix. If you were a new hire, right, you're probably not going to see every single property. And then once you go solo, you might encounter some properties that you've never seen before. Second goal for the day is to listen to. I won't be able to listen to the whole book. Dichotomy of leadership. And on the way back, we will go over what I glean, what I learned from dichotomy of leadership.

Also, here's the thing about Washington. It's always raining here. It's always cold. It's never sunny. It's never nice like this. Like, those are clouds. It's never green. It's never beautiful. I'm not about to go mo Ocean View Properties. No, no, stay away. Stay away. Like, we don't need people up here. It's gross and rainy and stereotype holds true. Just want to let you guys know.

It'S not nice up here. It's not nice. Yeah, not too bad. I told him, literally on my first property, already sweating, just beat. I got the sweatshirt on. I'm a weirdo. I like the sweater on, but I'm across at the address. Dude, we just did an upsell. We Just got a new customer. It's that easy. Saw someone walk in, started up conversation. How's it going? Good morning. They're like, oh, could you potentially do our lawn? Get us a quote. And I said, yes, ma'.

Am.

Probably because she saw this awesome truck. Right? Branding, baby.

Hello. Is that Krispy Kreme? Because these lines are crispy.

This is the next property.

Look at that.

That hill in the background that you saw, that's an island, okay? For you people in the Midwest, those are little things that are masses of land in water. So those are islands. And we have the ocean out here.

Pacific Northwest out here in nature.

See that deer just grazing a dough.

She's just chilling.

Always happens right here.

Like, last 20ft of trimming, and then you run out.

Time to restring.

Guess what? That customer me. $10 p. 4pMan, we're doing great. Dichotomy of leadership. I haven't been able to listen to a ton because I'm trying to record some videos of me mowing, which, you know, I guess that's cool. Watch me walk behind a machine. Dichotomy of leadership is phenomenal. I. You can't micromanage your people. Obviously, we know that. But if you get to a point of overly micromanaging them, you're not giving them the freedom to make their own choices. I want things to be so perfect that I know they can be to a certain point of perfection that I start to jump in and micromanage my people, and that's not fair to my people. You have to give your managers the freed freedom to fail and the freedom to succeed. We are learning knowledge, beautiful things.

Smoothies. I'm pulling to my candies. I'm not gonna eat normal food today. I'm gonna suffer like a real person, and I'm gonna eat green smoothies with vitamins and minerals and things that are supposed to be good for you. So it's smoothie time because it's hot, and we got a couple properties left, and I feel like getting a smoothie.

I got two. I'm meeting up with Dylan. We're gonna knock out the last couple properties. If you're new to the YouTube channel, we post a lot of shorts about customer complaints and issues and firing and all that stuff. But that's because drama gets clicks today. Of all my properties, all but one has a customer come out, either giving me a tip, giving me a water. Was it just a water bottle? Yeah. But was it fantastic? Yeah. Sucked it right down or just wanted to chat. So I just got 10 more dollars as an employee because I upsold the customer.

Come on.

I can sell them. I'm just saying that's just one of the bonuses. One things I love about Augusta is.

Our customers love us.

Driving by the lake here in Bellingham, got all these people hanging out, playing volleyball, kayaking. I'm out here grinding, baby, on my grind. It's pretty nice here. Don't come here, but it's super nice.

We just sold a recurring M.O. super simple. We already have customers right down the street. Sometimes all you gotta do is be nice to people, and they will say, hey, can you work for me? And then you say, yeah. Max loves work.

I don't know if you can see that. This street is called High Roller Place, and we got customers here. And, oh, look, there's a high roller over there also, brother, we just got some awesome freaking customers.

All right.

Taking Dylan a smoothie because he's crushing it on a Saturday. Let's just start with this one.

Not a bad view. I'm. I'm vlogging today.

Not a bad last property to end on.

So the base pay of Bellingham's 18 bucks an hour. I'm already guaranteed that when I'm working on Saturday. I did 5.7 budgeted hours of work. We charge $80 an hour to the customer. That means that I produced $456 for the company.

Alright?

I get a percentage of that. I get a third of that. 33%. So that means I get $152. That is mine. Cha Ching.

Love it.

Just seven hour shift. All right, so we do 152. Divide that by seven. That means I was making $21. 71.

I was getting a $3.70 an hour bonus for working hard, for being a high performer. And to be 100% honest, I wasn't even working that aggressively fast, right? I stopped, and I got to hang out with some deer. I got tips from Carol Ho Rath on what cars to buy when your friends need walkers and wheelchairs so you can put them in the back. I got me and Dylan smoothies. I wasn't even going that fast. I was just moving efficiently and I wasn't wasting a ton of time. So that new customer is a $50 bonus to me. So I get 50 bucks on top of that. As well. As one of our existing customers, I did an upsell on them. So that's $10. And I got a $10 cash tip. So that's just money in my pocket as the employee. So realistically, I actually made $222 on Saturday divided by seven. I made $31.70 an hour. $31.70 an hour mowing. Are you hearing this?

Almost done. On the way to the last property. It's a mowing and a weeding. And it is the sweetest old lady.

He's showing it to a congregational development. Okay. We are a microcosm of everything.

Yep.

In the universe. But he just. He did it with one simple thing, and I thought, that's really interesting. So I now know.

Well, awesome. Yeah. I'm just gonna finish up. This is my last bed here. And then I'll blow everything off. And then I'll get out of your hair.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

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