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KEVIN: I have a partner in crime here today helping me out. I have Mike Webb, full of energy. Mr. Mike Webb. How are you doing this afternoon, Mike?
MIKE: I’m good. I’m well rested. I had a good weekend. I didn’t come up for the two-day. I’ve been through the class a couple of times already. But I know this is Del’s last go-around. And I know the class changes because, you know, market information changes and things that are happening in the marketplace—in the world of real estate investing changes, so I do plan to catch it or catch him before he makes his final go-around in teaching that two-day class. But overall I’m well rested. I elected not to mow the lawn. I know I need to do it, but we had so much rain I just thought I’d put it off for a little while.
KEVIN: I have somebody cut my grass every other week, and I think I was the last one in the neighborhood. They finally got to it. When I got home last night it was good to see that the foot-high grass was cut. But we’re taking your calls here.
Mike is our vendor manager in the Dallas/Fort Worth office, so we’ll be talking a little bit about vendors and what part they play in helping us build real estate, build passive income by real estate. So we’re here so let us know what we can do to help you. You can also email me at askkevin@luinc.com.
You know, we mentioned the two-day yesterday, and Del even made some more comments that he’s not going to be doing this forever and starting to slide out and enjoy his life a little more. As he does this two-day in Dallas, San Antonio and Austin—central Texas—and the Houston area he’s been doing it since 1990. And I don’t know how he does it. It’s two full days, 8:00 in the morning till 5:00 p.m. on your feet, and you know, he has a lot of energy. It’s just great.
I mean we were talking last night a little bit about some rock stars and some people he’s met. And he’s not as big a fan of Bruce Springsteen as I am, but there probably aren’t too many people who are as big a fan—but I really told Del he’s really a rock star. He kind of lives a rock-star lifestyle—and well deserved—but also the energy he brings and the passion.
Because he says he’s getting older, and he put his body through a lot of things with his weight-lifting and all his athletic—I think some of it’s catching up to him, his knees and stuff. And I’m not saying it as an observer, but I’m saying it from his comments.
I happen to read this morning that Bruce Springsteen was in Chicago, and he felt that the last time they were there about six months ago didn’t do a show. So they did like a three and a half hour show nonstop, and he said he didn’t even talk much. Sometimes he’ll slow down and talk and tell a little story. He said he just went song after song after song.
MIKE: Three and a half hours.
KEVIN: He just turned 60.
MIKE: Wow.
KEVIN: He just turned 60. He said even the band members last time they all seemed a little tired—and Clarence Clemons is a little older than that. I think Clarence’s about 66, the saxophone player—but you know, my point is about energy and doing things.
And even Del was mentioning way back when he was in the health club business, the guy that owned the company—now, Del was in his young 30’s then and this guy was 60’s, mid-60’s—and this guy he set a record for a triathlon at age 65 and was in tremendous shape.
In fact, Del said he was in better shape than Del was—and we know Del always was (especially younger) was always committed to working out, still is, and is in tremendous shape. But he said here he was in his 30’s and here this guy was in his mid-60’s and was in tremendous shape, cut, and just great.
So you’ve got somebody like Bruce Springsteen who’s 60 years old—and whether you like the music or not, to go on stage and put on a three and a half hour show at any age is one thing and at age 60 — I guess the point is, you know, if you have passion for something, you’re going to have energy. And if you have energy and passion together for something you can do anything.
MIKE: Well, you know I’d say this: I saw Del, I caught a glimpse of him on Friday. I guess he was just getting into town preparing for the two-day. And I mean ever since I’ve met him, man, he’s looked like he’s been in phenomenal shape. But I think that’s just a testament to the balanced lifestyle that we teach here at Lifestyles Unlimited.
It’s not just about, of course, the logo or shall I say our slogan, “It’s not the money; it’s the lifestyle.” You know, the money creates time for you to be able to do that, you know. It creates time for you to be able to go out and put in the necessary minutes that it’s going to take for you to be physically fit, to do what you need to do. It’s going to create the time for you to go workout and work for the charities of your choice.
Money is actually it’s just a tool, you know, money’s a servant. You tell it what to do; it does it for you. But at the same time it frees you up to do some other things, so kudos to Del. I love the organization. I love what he’s built here. I’m glad to be a part of what’s going on, because from the inside out I know that we live it.
I know what we’re teaching and “sharpen the saw” when Stephen Davis teaches that, and sometimes Jeff gets in and teaches those classes. I see us living it, so it’s not like I’m reading or I’m taking information that I don’t see the leadership doing, because if you don’t see leadership doing it it’s not going to stick—not in the least bit.
But it’s about having that social balance, that mental balance, that physical balance, that spiritual balance, and that financial balance that’s really what helps make this entire wheel keep going.
So for him to have created the model to be able to pass it on and, in essence, to be able to run effectively without him, he should be looking at spending more time doing anything that he wants to do. He’s really set up a model that all we have to do is just continue to follow it and then we’ll continue to have those same successes, because of course, we’re on the same road using the same map that he’s used. But having said that, I’ll be glad—I’ll be happy and rejoicing with him when he does shut it down just to do whatever he wants to do.
KEVIN: Well, I think part of it why he keeps going is I don’t think he really wants to leave. He’s not leaving it completely, but he’s cutting back. But he loves teaching; he loves seeing people change their lives. We talk a lot about that. Every time I get together with him we talk about how we change lives and he does. And I saw it again yesterday at the two-day, so it does happen.
