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Good morning. This is Matt Warren. Hope you’re doing well. It’s cold. 07:00 a.m. Kind of into work. A little early this morning. I wanted to share with you one of the reasons why I changed my life. It wasn’t too long ago, actually. It was about four and a half years ago. It was a Sunday afternoon, and my wife had a wedding. She was working. She wasn’t home, and I was sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon. All my daughter wanted for me was to play dolls. That’s all she wanted. She was sitting in the living room and I was behind on getting my tax work done. I was up to my eyeballs in alligators, as they say, with creditors, I owe so much money. It was a Sunday, so I was trying to plan my day for the next day for my two Hispanic workers that were helping me with the solar industry. It was chaos, and all I really made time to do was to go out back in my shed and smoke weed. I was so addicted to drugs and alcohol that I had a pill for everything. I had a pill for this a pill for that. A pill to get up, a pill to concentrate, a pill to go to bed, a pill to have sex, a pill to help my heart burn indigestion because of all of the bad food and life was just chaotic. Life was a mess. Life was all upside down, and I needed to get my life straight. But that one afternoon when my daughter wanted me to play dolls, I finally just broke. I broke down. I started crying and I reached out to my parents. I remember it was about 03:00 in the afternoon, and I was sitting on my back steps. I placed my daughter in front of an ipad or in front of the TV or something in the living room and had her occupied. But I went out back so she wouldn’t see me, sat on the back steps and called my parents. I was broken. I had had it, enough is enough. I was done, and my parents came over. They stopped what they were doing. They came over because I knew I’d hit a breaking point. They knew that I had hit rock bottom, at least for this time. And sure enough, that was my rock bottom. I didn’t need any more rock bottoms. That was the low point. But they came over and my dad helped me go through all of my finances. We went through. I would pick up the stack of a bill or an invoice, and I would tell him what was the name of the bill, and he would write it on an Excel spreadsheet. He Typed it in, made this Excel spreadsheet for me and just got me started. It helped me. I couldn’t concentrate enough to even make a list of who all I owed. At the time. I had racked up between business loans and credit card debts. I racked up over $330,000, not including what we owed on the house. That was just straight up personal and business credit cards and lines of credit and loans. So that reason right there. What was the reason that I turned my life around today? When it’s time to play with my daughter? I play with my daughter. I track my time. I know what time I get up every day. I have it written in my Journal. I have it in a spreadsheet. I do time tracking, not because it’s fun, not because I’m bored and not because I can’t do the next thing. It’s just that my life was so unbalanced that I find peace today in having balance. I heard it said that we should spend a third of our life, a third of our day on work, a third of our day on sleeping, a third of our day on family and then 10% on personal development and physical fitness. So just trying to get my life balanced was a major part of why, it was a major reason that got me to where I am today. Today my life is balanced. I got up at 05:00 a.m.. I went to bed at a reasonable hour. I was asleep by ten. I was putting my daughter down to bed. I helped my wife fold napkins for a wedding that she’s got tomorrow. I did that for, like, an hour. I ate healthy. I ate clean. I don’t eat cake, candy and ice cream or pizza. Life is balanced today, and it’s so much better. So I’m going to call this episode reasons why I changed my life. But that one day of hitting rock bottom, of not being able to sit down and just play dolls on a Sunday afternoon that did it for me. I needed to be able to spend time with her. She doesn’t remember that today she was, I think, four years old. But I’m so grateful that this March, which is in two months, March 1, will be four years of sobriety with no drugs or alcohol, no mind altering substances. I’ve been keeping my numbers now for over two and a half years, probably closer to three, and it changed my life. So what’s the reason for you to get successful? What’s the reason for you to start tracking your numbers? What’s the reason for you to start eating clean every day? What’s the reason for you to get up early and study this morning? I read in four or five books personal development, business development. I read in a sales book I read in a private pilot handbook to try to learn how to raise and lower the landing gear on an airplane. Because one day I want to have my private pilot’s license. I couldn’t do that if I slept in until the last minute. And now I’m here at work and it’s 7:05. So I’m going to get in there and get on it. So hope you have a great day. Thanks for listening and remember. Make your contribution. Thanks.