I need to leave at 6:20 to pick up James so we can run down to Denver. With luck, meaning no traffic holds, we’ll be back by noon. Ty is off today and Lori is working in Vail. It’s hot out but didn’t seem too bad up here yesterday. I was in jeans and cowboy boots most of the day. Supposedly hotter in Denver today. Like everything, this will soon change. We’ve had snow in September before! Around the first of September, we’ll be two thirds of the way through the year!
Lots of good stuff happening at work. Knock on wood that I can keep it going. I’m basically transforming the Company into an incubator where I find brands with potential, take over the majority ownership, scale them a little bit and then flip them for 10X or more than I acquired them for. Think of Richard Gere in the movie Pretty Woman. I no longer have any interest in keeping a brand for years and years. The philosophy is to find things that are undervalued, raise their value and then sell them to huge companies that have the infrastructure, money and manpower to build them nationally.
One of my Partners, who only handles financials, left for Italy last night for two weeks. The other (Josh) is part time, since he became a Pastor, so it’s just me running and making decisions on everything. I’ve always basically been running things and pretty much done whatever I thought we should do, but now, I don’t even tell anyone, I just do it.
I’d like to make a few dump runs before the end of the month. Maybe I can get Lori to go through, or give me the ok, to get rid of some of her moms stuff. You’d think we’d learn after paying for storage for Mom’s stuff for years! We’re starting to purge things around here and declutter.
That’s about it. 5:30 am now. We wake up around 5 each morning these days. When you’re up early, you get a lot done and get a head start on things. Good stuff. Have a great day, God Bless.
Check out this pic, even more impressive in person! Ignore my thumb, ha.
