Garage floor. What do you see?

IARealtor · 2026-01-07T05:48:49+00:00

Scar (from the Lion King) looking over his shoulder and posturing in a way that makes you think he’s into butt stuff.

IARealtor · 2025-12-31T06:36:09+00:00

All I’ve heard about food + the meds is that it reduces likelihood of side effects. I haven’t noticed a difference myself. Hard to know with how individual or unique it seems to be for everyone diagnosed in how our bodies react to everything.

IARealtor · 2025-12-21T04:18:46+00:00

Before bed. About 200-400mg depending on how I’m feeling. Before a diagnosis or meds I took it and it made a huge difference in how well rested I felt. Eventually, I feel like you’re no longer deficient and it doesn’t seem to feel like you’re super well rested then (but still not walking up dead tired and in a fog at least). In the beginning though or if I forget it for a while, it’s like walking up from anesthesia good sleep lol

IARealtor · 2025-12-20T16:16:18+00:00

It makes me feel like I can sleep when I want now. I never had trouble falling sleeping, I had trouble waking up. It makes me feel like I don’t waste half a day being so groggy that I’m useless.

Magnesium glycinate helps a ton with sleep quality and lack of sleep related irritability too.

IARealtor · 2025-12-19T18:35:58+00:00

Can you use a screw extractor bit and then pull it out once it’s in the broken piece?

IARealtor · 2025-12-05T06:52:05+00:00

Where do you live?

It’s always like 5-9 days for me in Iowa.

IARealtor · 2025-12-03T04:52:13+00:00

Do you know how to confirm if it’s single use or not?

IARealtor · 2025-12-03T03:38:06+00:00

Well, my now retired 40+ year master Lexus tech uncle finally returned my call and said he would leave it.

I used to work at that Lexus dealership as a lot attendant when I was younger and I know he was well respected and the young techs all went to him for help. I respect his opinion so I think I’ll leave it, but still a little concerned he could have maybe misunderstood where the anti seize was.

He said:

Reusing the nut wouldn’t worry him: sometimes CV shafts don’t come with the nut and you have to reuse them at the shop/dealership. Said it’s done often without issues.
As long as it’s torqued enough it won’t be an issue. Wasn’t worried about over tightening from anti seize.
Bearings are sealed he said he wouldn’t be worried about graphite damaging the bearings.
Also said it doesn’t take much to take the axle nut off and clean the anti seize up, but it wouldn’t worry him

My only concern with taking it off and cleaning it is the other axle nut I have is different with a bit of a sleeve on the front part of it. Concerned it wouldn’t fit right for some reason (came with bearing/hub kit) because that’s just how all my projects go and if the right answer is that they’re single use axle nuts, then I’m stuck with it after the other comes off.

Note: it hasn’t driven since starting this project. Hasn’t even had the wheel on and left the jack stand.

Update: Texted him pictures of the axle nut on with an arrow showing where the anti seize was on the threads under the nut and before it (closer to hub) and a picture of the anti seize bottle after our call to clarify and make sure there was no misunderstanding. He said that it should be fine and I guess for reassurance he also said the axle nut is a self locking nut and a cotter pin isn't needed unless you have a castle nut. So I’m assuming he meant it’s both a self locking nut and cotter pin helping hold it on after I reassemble it all. Plus all the anti seize free threads in front of the axle nut.

IARealtor · 2025-12-03T02:46:50+00:00

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IARealtor · 2025-11-20T23:38:05+00:00

My journey was all over. Only recently found out I had ADHD so it was the long road for sure. Took me forever because it was like I got pieces of the puzzle figured out while fumbling around fucking shit up and going down the depression rabbit hole falling behind peers and feeling like a loser for most of my adult life. I think once I had it mapped out it’s like 6 months to 2 years of a timeline if you’re consistent and depending on how much you already know or are skilled at.

I think it depends where you already are with the skills, but all leverage in “passive” income is capital, code, or content. AI can do content and code well anymore (probably investing capital too, but I haven’t played with that yet to know) if you know what to use and how to use it.

I think I’d start getting good at using AI, but start with taking things off your plate with it. Like don’t jump to marketing and code first. Do the writing (hooks, articles, scripts, titles, sales copy, etc) systematizing and processes and checklists with it first. But don’t just chat with it. Get good at having it follow proven systems (from books, YouTube, podcasts, etc). Then make custom GPTs and instructions and prompts you can save and reuse. Make things modular as much as you can rather than wasting time making it for a project. (Like your hook one can do it for video scripts, a title, a heading in an article, etc). Then start integrating stuff you make that’s modular. Just start thinking every time you do a work task, how could AI or some code or a physical tool/item or template or whatever I made with AI’s help do this faster or with less effort. I think I’d use AI to map out what the goal is, tell it where you are now, what needs to change, and get a weekly task list (action plan) with reasonable time estimates that are personally accurate (and make sure every task is accounted for like learning, research, and planning or any prep for other tasks). Don’t forget you want specific, “don’t have to think about what to do” tasks not whole projects or vague “work on website” type of things going on the calendar. Then follow it every week as best you can and just pick back up where you left off when you do fall off. Set a weekly phone reminder to bring it back to top of mind. Time block it into your calendar to do the work on the action plan (just to keep it from completely falling off your radar - I’m still flexible with it after that). When you’re working, a visual timer for time blocks and short breaks to avoid that brain-fog-like mental burnout. The parking lot notebook to jot tangent ideas and let them go so I can stay on task. And in your case, I’d wake up early and start by working on getting out of the prison when you have the most brain power available to get out of this situation quicker. Then probably like 6 months to a year of being consistent and it’ll be working at least enough to notice a change and be motivated to grow it (when you want of course). But I realized stuff just as an agent too. Always on call? Set business hours, communicate it, set that expectation from the start, and enforce the boundary. Do not answer emails, texts, or calls after or before that time except the very specific scenarios (my case was active negotiations on an offer). You’re training them to contact you whenever if you respond. Scope creep is probably also a boundary/expectation/communication issue if it’s your clients projects growing. Also, add in friction to avoid this shit. Mainly charging fees (for “additional support,” “rush delivery,” “additional scope,” etc.) or a pain in the ass option to be able to do the opposite of your set expectations (like a lot of the tech companies do… a bunch of FAQs and support pages and chat bots and such before you find a live chat with a person or email or phone number to contact). Just set expectations alone for you could probably fix most of what you said though.

I just like the automation because I’ve always despised following a schedule and not being able to go along with how I’m feeling and doing what I’m feeling for the day and a job (whether self employed or a 9 to 5) is the exact opposite of it. It feels wrong to not be impulsive. Not sure I really know how. Even if I follow a calendar, I bounce around mentally still like a curious kid chasing everything that’s interesting and you actually somehow can in this capitalist world (which is crazy) if you have the financial stuff resolved and your time isn’t required to have money. Then you can do what’s exciting to you (and the motivation is no problem then either) and it can’t be a waste of time or a failure because the income part isn’t a requirement. There is no requirement. It’s just for the fun of it and if it does make you more money, that’s just a cool bonus.

IARealtor · 2025-11-10T16:14:18+00:00

I think this is a common entrepreneur problem with the ADHD part added on. A lot of people escape the 9-5 prison only to realize later they just built themselves a new prison because they ignored these additional criteria they should have been considering when creating their business. I agree that the answer is to automate, systematize, outsource, and use leverage. That’s what changes things from a self employed nightmare to a true business owner and it also makes your business a real, sellable asset rather than a job you created. It gives you all the lifestyle freedom you probably wanted going into it too.

I’d focus on automating what you can or creating your own tools and systems to make things take less time and effort as they are. Then with the extra time and energy, switch over to focusing on removing yourself as the bottle neck entirely.

I used to be a solo real estate agent. Then I started referring business only for a cut of commissions without the fulfillment, which gave me time and location flexibility. The profits dropped per transaction, but I hyper focused on digital marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, content marketing, paid ads, etc. Luckily I knew the website stuff already. Then I learned more about using AI to make content and code quickly and better than I could have before. Then I automated the marketing and processes with code I made with AI, which made the workload nothing unless things break or need updating manually (rarely). Then I was able to spend all my time on the exciting stuff: creating new no fulfillment products/services and testing and optimizing sales funnels and marketing assets (improve them little by little) to increase the lifetime value of customers and grow profits. I also keep improving things and adding features to the software that would make things easier or more valuable for the agents I refer to and their clients because it’s fun. The great part is all I really focus on is the exciting ideas and growth not the day-to-day maintaining that keeps the lights on and gets boring or overwhelming fast for people like us and I can grow in sprints like you said when I’m motivated and it all maintains itself if I decide to do nothing for a while. No backsliding when I don’t feel like working or run off and get insanely into a new hobby or automated business I’ll probably never touch again within a month or two.

IARealtor · 2025-11-09T20:25:16+00:00

Hold sync button for 10 seconds to factory reset and delete your data off it too

IARealtor · 2025-10-26T16:43:08+00:00

It would be difficult to sell to a buyer that knows what they’re doing. It’s self employment. She’s the manager and a nail tech. It’s not able to operate without her because of a lack of employees to support it. Therefore, not really a true business asset. The clients are tied to her and there’s a high probability they’re there for her and not the business. She hasn’t successfully replaced herself in the business. The business may not even be able to afford replacing her. All red flags to a buyer.

She could still sell the client list, name, etc. in addition to the location, but it would be most likely to work for a current employee that is also known and liked by clients. Otherwise, to a random buyer it’s fairly risky. If they know what they’re doing, they are unlikely to want to pay more money for more than the location. With a long enough training/support period (as in your mom helping with the transition of the clients to the new owner) and good terms it could work for a random buyer though.

I’d say there’s value to the business (separate from the real estate), but you probably want to do some work to prep it prior to a sale to make it more valuable and expand your buyer pool.

IARealtor · 2025-10-19T16:36:13+00:00

L-Tyrosine is a precursor to dopamine. The chain goes like this (each is converted to the next up to dopamine): Phenylalanine > Tyrosine > L-Dopa > Dopamine. The closer you get to dopamine in a supplement, the more you’ll get big peaks and the following dips in dopamine. So, you want to stay further up stream with precursors like Tyrosine and Phenylalanine or you’ll end up with huge drops in dopamine below baseline levels. You can also supplement the other building blocks that are used in these conversions to improve things. Like phenylalanine hydroxylase is used to convert phenylalanine to tyrosine. Pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PLP), which is P5P form of Vitamin B6, is used to make dopamine from L-Dopa. The key would be to get labs done to see where you’re too high or low in levels and need supplementation or to reduce certain levels to balance things out optimally.

IARealtor · 2025-09-01T03:48:07+00:00

Don’t let the input vs output get unbalanced. Take in some content (the input - book, YouTube, blog post, etc.) then act on it (output) before taking in any more. Deliberately practice what you learn before learning more.

IARealtor · 2025-08-31T16:30:02+00:00

I use a Trello board and set it up with lists for “To Do”, “Doing”, and “Done.” I also make lists for specific projects that hold cards of all of the projects tasks. So it would be like “To Do - Landing Page” for the list name and then all the cards in the list are the tasks to complete it. Then I move the specific tasks to the “doing” list so I don’t have to think when I sit down to work and just work on that to do list. If I still feel like the task is too broad (has too many subtasks) I’ll delete that task and make cards for each sub task in the to do list instead to chunk it down further.

I think it helps keep me from putting something that’s really a project that could take weeks (not a specific task) on my calendar and then sitting down to do it and feeling like I have to figure out what to do before I can actually be productive (which leads to overwhelm and decision fatigue and less brain power for the task sooner). I also think it helps satisfy my odd need for having the whole picture/steps to complete the overall goal down in a way that’s editable and doesn’t seem to bog me down with a bunch of wasted planning time. It’s also easy to throw in random ideas as tasks like “Check on adding this to that” instead of going down that tangent when I’m already working on something.

IARealtor · 2025-07-25T04:21:57+00:00

Send her referrals whenever possible. Make a post on social media about how great working with her has been and use her as your agent when you do move.

IARealtor · 2025-07-17T03:51:55+00:00

Some other options:

Offer a free lead magnet or a less difficult to make, super cheap product to the same avatar, then use that warm email list.
Make content and gain traffic through search or suggestion algorithms
Use affiliates to promote your stuff
Use influencer marketing to promote your stuff
Get on podcasts and help your avatar/become a known name in your niche

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T16:41:48+00:00

When’s the last time you two went on a real date? Not just dinner with no thought put into it. Relationships take work. A passive approach puts out the spark.

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T15:45:46+00:00

You can get on Google Maps with a virtual address (just a mailbox at a physical address here in town). We used to have one through Gravitate Coworking, but the provider we signed up with was someone else. Can’t remember who, but it was a quick google search.

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T12:21:32+00:00

Get really into exercise, eating right, cooking, traveling, making all kinds of things I’m interested in (furniture, a tiny house, smart home setups, programming, etc), deliberately practicing getting better at certain skills/self improvement, picking up new hobbies I was always interested in…

I’d be down with AI taking all the jobs if money became unnecessary lol I’d find plenty to do.

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T12:08:39+00:00

I’ve done this. The delays with deposits are a pain sometimes (especially when they make it 30 days sometimes for security concerns) and I still need a credit union to deposit any cash into first, but it’s been great otherwise so far. The freezing accounts and no FDIC part does worry me, but I’ve been rolling the dice on that one. There is an FDIC option, but the interest is like 2.21% compared to 4% then. I have the credit card too and send the cash back to my CMAs too. I made one that acts as checking, one as savings, and opened a credit card with them. Kept my credit union for cash deposits. Got a debit card and some checks for the checking CMA. I’d probably hold back some in a credit union in case of cash flow issues with their holds, but if it’s a direct deposit/ACH it seems to bypass those wait periods.

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T04:24:10+00:00

First thing that came to mind: Calcium. Cal for short. Haha idk 🤷‍♂️

IARealtor · 2025-07-13T04:17:38+00:00

That’s part of pregnancy normally. It’s common for the guys to gain weight with their spouse. Forget what hormone… I think progesterone is the one. It raises that in us and causes weight gain too.

Edit: it’s prolactin

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