The Unexpected Power of People

Gratitude is a skill I was never good at. I used to think not criticizing you was the same as being thankful. Yeah, messed up, right? But after rebuilding my life in Canada, I realized how much I depend on others and how important it is to actually say thank you. Today, we’re talking about the power of people and why gratitude isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s the secret sauce to a richer life and a bigger business.

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Gratitude is a skill that I was never good at, because I’ve always had this sort of, I mean, maybe it’s because of the upbringing, but my mom was kind of like that. I was always of the mindset that if I don’t criticize you, I’m grateful, like, if I’m not mentioning how bad it is, then it means that I think it’s good. Kind of, like the opposite mindset. The more I kind of work through my own little issues in childhood traumas, I became more vocal about the things I appreciate. And there’s, there’s quite a few things that make me feel really appreciative. But I think above all, it would be the people, when it comes to my business. This is something I realized about maybe six or so months after I moved to Canada, because that was like a really interesting test period for me, where, for the first time, I first of I had to really downgrade the amount of hours I worked every day, like I had to, because I had to get my personal life in order. I had to rebuild all of my personal stuff, literally from scratch.

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I couldn’t go on autopilot, you know what I mean? Like, I couldn’t, I had to, like, get a house, get a car, driver’s license, health insurance, you know, friends, everything all the way to, like, getting my will done in a different jurisdiction. And, I mean, just moving my money from Israel to Canada alone was like a challenge. So not to mention dealing with immigration and going through like, a four year process with that.

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So during that time, I worked very little, during that time for the first month or so, maybe two I worked maybe 90 minutes a day, because I had to basically start the day by studying for exams, for immigration. I then had to deal with day to day issues like logistics, housing, paperwork, things like that. Not only then I could devote some time to my business. Of course, in between there’s kids, there’s different things. So I had to rely on people, not only in the sense of my business, but also in the sense of reorganizing my life. So I had to rely on lots of different people, both my internal team members, people who have been with me for several years, but also new people who became what my daughter would call helpers when it comes to setting up my life.

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You know, we’re talking accountants, we’re talking advisors of one kind or another. We’re talking all kinds of people. And about six months into my presence in Canada, I realized how much of my life depends on other people, like almost everything besides, at the time, maybe writing my emails, but almost everything else, I depended on other people, and I still do, so I’d say that I’m grateful for the people, starting with my friends and family, my team, my customers, my JV partners, people who help me manage my personal finances, my professional finances, people who offer me legal counsel, people who, I mean everybody really people on whom I depend, which is basically almost everybody besides my kids, because my kids depend on me, but everybody else, I kind of depend on them.

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Now, often it’s a mutual dependency sort of situation, from my own perspective, that I depend so much on a whole fleet of people, you know, if I don’t count our customers, which is like a whole set kind of different category of people who I can’t really quantify as specifically, in my opinion, just, you know, the people in my immediate life, people that who I talk to on daily basis or weekly basis about personal, professional things. 

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I mean, we’re talking at least a good, maybe a couple of dozen people, maybe, maybe 30 people, on whom, on who I depend. Yeah, so. And each and every one of them is, you know, they carry some level, you know, of responsibility and care in either one or several areas of my life. Again, even though it may appear that I’m, oh, I’m this rich guy who made it yada yada yada, and yeah, if I lose everything, I would probably make it again. But I would actually, the one thing I would do differently is that I would rely on other people to, quote, unquote, make it again, much more than I did before.

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Because before I was a lone wolf, didn’t like the idea of being dependent on other people in like the idea of asking for help, aside from maybe mentoring, but you know now I would bring other people into my life and my business much faster, because I know that the impact would be great, because I know how to vet these people and know what to look for, and the people who would be of great value to me, and of to whom I can be of great value and as well as the relationships that I can build with them, and I would probably succeed faster and on a larger scale, simply because I would surround myself with people.

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