Callum was working at the Clinic yesterday.
He's working with Ibby who’s our young video producer/editor in the making.
We want to try and make all our own video from now on and Ibby’s a big part of that (and Callum hopefully coming behind him).
And so, I walked into the Academy today and Callum and Ibby are working together like Beavis and Butt-head, editing clinical videos faster than you can possibly imagine.
Ibby stopped though for a minute and asked me what I would do if ‘one of the big Dubai companies’ (whoever they might be) offered me 60 million for the practice.
“Would you sell it?” he asked me.
It only takes a second to reply to that and the answer is always no.
It might be that there comes a time in the future where my circumstances change out of sight where the only option, I can see is to sell the business for some reason that I can't imagine but until that time, it's easy to answer that question.
Ibby was dumbfounded. He's 18 years old and his idea of success (as probably was mine) is to earn enough money to ‘kick back and chill’.
That's what he said he would do with 60 million if somebody gave it to him.
And so, I explained to him that I'm really excited to see what he's going to do and where he's going to go and who he's going to become, and I would miss all of that if I sold the business.
I think we imagine that to be completely financially independent is to be completely independent of worries and troubles and life events and arguments and depression and disgust and any of those feelings that we think can be washed away with money, which clearly can't.
Your family and friends will still get ill and die.
You will still lose your pets.
You will still fall out with your partner and you will still wake up on days and wonder why you're here and lie awake in the middle of the night and wonder what happens after you die.
None of that will change with a million or 60 million or 100 billion.
Clearly over a certain number you're safer and slightly insulated from the horrors of poverty and what can happen to people who really sadly sit right at the bottom of the social ladder.
That number is not as great as you might think, and I am long past that number.
Because I'm privileged enough to be higher up the ladder to be insulated from things like that then surely, I have a responsibility to give Ibby a platform to be the best that he can be but in turn for him to have a chance to encourage and inspire and empower someone else behind him.
We own nothing.
We're only custodians of what we have now for the people who come after.
Blog Post Number - 3387
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