How to Build A House - Contracting Your life 101

The Foundation

In construction, we start by digging a hole to pour our foundation. Once the hole is big enough, you put re-bar in to make the foundation even stronger and bond together. The cement truck says it will be there at 1:00 PM, so you are making sure you computed your "rise and run" properly for your steps. You then pour concrete into the hole and start to smooth your foundation out using a "bull-float". This is a grueling and extensive process to do by yourself or with a few people, but hard work tends to look a lot like success in the end. 

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The Frame Work 

I am sure I am going to miss some steps but the picture will be painted more visibly in more modern day football terms in a minute. Putting up the frame work is just that, your piecing together 2x4's and other cut wood and building your way up! You than our able to run your ELECTRIC AND PLUMBING. 

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The Electric and Plumbing

I have ran wire, but would normally sub-contract that out due to the unknown potential of electrocuting myself. Though installing (NEW/rough) plumbing was always fun to me, it was like a big puzzle that easily linked together and water ran through it! Sounds like Mario and Luigi until you end up "gutting" out beach houses down the jersey shore and poop busts all over your face in a very tight space in the floor. Being covered in excrament kinda changed my perspective on working smarter and not as dirty in life. If all goes right, you will be flushing toilets, doing dishes, washing laundry and watering your lawn in no time! 

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The interior Design

Well, I missed the sheet rock, I think carrying this stuff is what made me an outstanding linebacker, but we will get into that another day. I also looked like a ghost half of the time or some sort of extremely white creature from another planet when covered in this stuff. It also made me sneeze quite often, but as I said, if you wanna be a great linebacker go pick up panels of sheet-rock and/or toss FULL trusses up to your 5'6 father who you believe might fall off the roof. I guess when your life is at risk, certain instincts kick in or they don't and you're--well--dead and gone. I hate laying and tearing up carpet when these dumb-asses put too many staples in the carpet. It's not going anywhere, it's being stepped on. I could do a novel on laying Tile, as you must make precise cuts using a "wet saw" and use exact calculations to ensure your overall quality. 

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The Roof 

Putting a roof on a house is not an easy task, as I had to work for some of the most knuckle-head roofing contractors of all-time. Maybe they were considered decent in their area in ONE expertise, but I watched the G.O.A.T. Dave Trout do it all, no one even came close. I remember people bothering him, but they were never unsatisfied when the job was complete and usually paid a very high rate for the top end work he did. But tossing those dag gum trusses up to him, built my shoulders into actual concrete, along with carrying "TONS" of busted up concrete. Do I miss it, no. Did I learn something everyday and not even realize it until much further down the road, YES! Carrying bundle, after bundle of shingles cut my skin, hardened my soul in 100 degree weather and turned my legs into actual jackhammers themselves. Now that your roof is on, it's time to BUILD A LIFE in that home. 

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Whats your Foundation?

• Looking inside yourself is not easy and if you can't define WHO you are and what you represent in this world, then you must stay here until you find these things. 
• What matters most to you? Is it family, your faith, your respect for your fellow man/woman or are you driven solely by your personal success? 
• In order to COMPETE at a high level you must CONTRIBUTE at a high level. Those who wind up being the best competitors and winners are those who challenge the everyday status quo. They do this by contributing to a team or cause first and having a core belief system that falls directly in line with mission at hand. 

The frame work to the next level

• Now that you know your mission, it is time to start planning your attack or angles or pursuit! Take everyone's advice, but hold their opinions as perspectives, as they choose to build a small hut and you want The Jerry Jones Mansion. 
• Now you need to find the support and team you need around you to make this happen. Some can build others into what they need them to be and sometimes you just run into great overall people/teammates in life that can assist you along the way. 
• Your core frame work is your inner circle of "TRUST". You know if you told them something, they would take it to the grave with them if asked. 

What are you wired for? Is your plumbing running down the right drain? 

• This is an easy one, the electric is your brain, as it "fires" and does all sorts of neat stuff that I talk about in "defining your process". Wake up everyday with the intention to change yourself in a positive fashion by listening to the right people in your circle. Most of the time, your parent(s), close relatives will be in your corner but have no idea what is best for you at the NEXT LEVEL. ​
• If our wiring is correct, then we most likely know what we are doing with our PLUMBING, as I like to relate this to health. Kinda funny as these men are known for their Plumber's cracks, I respect them and so should you. Anyways, if your backed up, you probably put something in your body that "clogged your toilet" or your not getting enough "up-flow" or water in your system. Guess this will leave you guessing what I am going to compare life or football to next. Give me any topic and I can correlate it to either, why is this? Because those who CHOOSE to change, will change and those who demonstrate the in-ability to change, WILL NEVER CHANGE! 
• I concur that we have failed at teaching our YOUTH these principles on HOW TO BUILD their life, instead of just living it. That's about all I have to say about that, as I continue to lay the framework for the house built by the master of building, learning and evolving. Yes, I have confidence, it came from somewhere. I also see a generation SEVERELY LACKING the confidence to move forward and become bolder than our predecessors. Our time is going to pass, what were you doing with yours?