hey everyone welcome to another episode
of the simple life with me gary collins
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this is an interesting episode i
i wasn’t planning to record it right now
or at all to be honest with you this
episode is an accident and those are
kind of the best ones that
my processes and the things i do i my
big time and i never realized it this
company came from people telling me we
want to know what you’re doing we’re
interested in what you’re doing i was a
health guy teaching primal and paleo
health and training people you know
working one-on-ones and i had an online
and this whole adventure of of
eventually building a house off the grid
and everything people were really
interested in my lifestyle
and it just threw me for a loop because
i just did not see that happening
i’m not a youtube guy in a sense of or i
i’m not an internet guy i do things on
my own i’m a reader i like to read and
ex and i like to experience things i
just need the nuts and bolts of how to
do something and then i’ll figure the
rest out because it’s unique to my life
i you know you there’s there’s no
templates that tell you should not tell
you exactly how to do something for your
life that you just follow you know what
i mean it it has to come naturally
because you’re it’s your life everyone’s
life is different so you need to adjust
but we’re in a society today where
everyone wants the easy button right the
simple button just tell me what to do
most the time they never do it anyway
before that you have to be flexible and
be able to learn and fail
the reason i come up with these things
is because i did them on my own i and i
didn’t even know this one today
shocked me i had no idea i no clue i was
going to be doing an episode about this
but i often get asked about my life
and how i kind of come to these
and people have been listening to me and
following me for a long time no i’m a
very analytical guy i really look at
differently in a sense and i’m not
special i’m not a genius trust me i’m no
i didn’t come from long generations of
smart people you know i just work hard
and i learn i’m always ask i ask
asking good questions to people who have
will get you pretty far ahead in life
and with that i’ve had a lot of people
coming to me young people which is
coming to me and doing the consulting
sessions to get them on track they’re
paying money these kids aren’t rich
they’re coming in and they’re paying the
money for my consulting sessions because
i’ve had them tell me go you’re
leapfrogging me ahead in life well
that’s the whole point of teaching
younger people is you want them to do
better than you that’s why i do this i
want younger people not to make the
mistakes i made they’re gonna have to
make their own mistakes don’t get me
the whole point of of life is to do
better the next generation does better
the next generation does better and
we’re kind of at this regression point
where we’re doing worse i think
uh to me so how do we fix this how do we
correct this and that’s what the simple
life’s all about this is why i created
is to give people and relay information
from someone who just went out and did
it that’s me i’ve screwed up a million
times i’m gonna continue to screw up i
just fix it i recorrect i get back on
path dust myself off maybe cry a little
bit whine but i get back to it i don’t
blame everyone else around me i just get
it done that’s my attitude just gotta
so with that a good friend of mine miles
wacom he’s been on this show many times
uh he does uh his own podcast uh oh gosh
what is it unconstrained right
make sure to go check it out it’s in the
show going he’s going to be on again
because we have lunch once a month
usually he lives not too far from me and
about once a month or whenever we can
and we have these long they’re they’re
marathons we we usually our lunches are
at least they’re three four hours the
waitress or waiters are just like what
are you guys doing and we just talk
we’re similar but different so we’re
always pinging each other we’re talking
about things what we’re doing what we’re
doing in our businesses because go back
uh miles has been a millionaire three
times he’s lost it got it lost it got it
a point in life where he’s reaping the
benefits from all of his hard work and
that some of the the really good
decisions he made and that’s what he
gets asked and we were talking about
that because i you know i jump in and i
i i got there early as far as to tucson
but there was places i was going
because today with i get this asked a
lot too where do you think the economy
is going that’s why i do that economic
updates make sure to go check those out
i got a ton of feedback from the last
one with rob kendall and uh the housing
again i’ve been in real estate 25 years
i’ve been doing this a long time i’ve
made good money on the side with real
estate i don’t do this professionally as
a career i i dabble in it as a side
career because i i realized early on a
little side note that real estate wasn’t
for me full-time i got offered a ton of
jobs to be a real estate agent because i
uh people wanted me to work for him i
even kind of offered you know to go into
brokerage firms i said no it’s just it’s
not for me i’m a very weird guy i can’t
groundhog day i can’t do stuff that
i just don’t enjoy so i do real estate
my way it’s about my projects building
building them to keep but to sell and
that’s how i always look at it i’m
always looking for opportunities but
most of my money has been made on
properties that i live in
i’ve done some land and that’s that’s
tricky i created a whole process on my
own i’ve been doing this a long time
because i’ve been asked oh well just
tell me the book you read and i’m all
dude no it’s 25 years of experience i do
this totally differently than anyone
else i have a totally different process
of how i find land it’s in the off-grid
books it’s in the course so make sure
you can go buy the course off grid
course you get my house plans for god’s
sakes give you the house plans in there
it’s worth a shitload of money because
they’re not off the shelf plants those
as we were talking i told them
what my stops and what i’d done
and i analyze i’m always looking at
things around me and this is part of
being a former investigator
we are trained to be observant all the
time we’re on all the time especially
doing protection i did protection
personal protection for over 10 years
i i’m just wired and trained it’s all
ingrained in me these aspects that at
the time i didn’t think they had any
life potential you know i didn’t think
they had any crossover it was my job as
a federal agent doing protective details
of criminal investigations well what you
do if you’re good don’t give me a lot of
shitty ones out there today but
the good ones what we do is we learn
because i learned from elders and i
learned from people who had done the job
a long time and were good at it
it’s about as i always say organization
and analyze information that’s what an
investigator is you that’s what you do
you look at everything around you you
ask the proper questions you put it
together and you come up with a
now it may not be a rock-solid
conclusion at times but it’ll give you
an idea and then you go from there it’s
always this building investigations are
are based upon building information
getting more information to get to where
you need to go either this is a crime or
it’s not this person’s you know you
don’t determine guilt or innocence
that’s for a prosecutor do all you do is
process and give them the information
