Autoshop Ministries Episode 12 - Make Your Best the Standard: From Technician to CEO

What's up, family? This is Joe Adams with Adams Automotive, the number one shop in America. This is Master Tech to Millionaire presented by Autoshop Answers, where we talk about the transition from technician to business owner and CEO. We're here once again with Autoshop Ministries chaplain, Devontae Tidwell. We're going to be talking today about, you know, actually, before I get into that, I'll say how you doing, Devontae, and let you introduce the topic. How are you doing, Devontae? Man, I'm doing well. Everything is great. It's a great morning where I am. So I'm, you know, I'm happy. Like it's going to be good. I'm looking forward to some golf later. You know, it's going to be, it's going to be an incredible, it's going to be incredible day. It's going to be incredible week. So I'm excited. Man, you're playing golf. It's 10,000 degrees outside, man. You must be addicted. The golf bug got me. Okay. Like it's pretty bad. my wife is tired of seeing

packages come to the house just so so pray for me too oh man yeah that's funny the lord's a golfer so anyway so uh let's get right into it um what are we talking about today, Yeah, I want to talk to people today about holding a standard of excellence. You know, I think one of the things that I see, Joe, is people will try to hold a different level of standards for different things. Right. And I understand that that's just human nature. Right. We may want to be really good in one area that we care about and maybe an area that we're not so passionate about. I'll get to it. I'm not going to show up as my best. It's OK if I'm a little late. It's OK. If I don't show up at all. I want to talk about your best being your standard. Because when something is your standard, Joe, you and I know it bleeds over into everything. It bleeds over into how you play golf. It bleeds over into how you love your spouse. It bleeds over into your work, how you do business, how you do partnerships,

how you treat employees. When you say, man, I'm going to give my absolute best, it becomes your standard. So I want to talk today about that a little bit because I think it's really imperative and important that we gain this concept. And I say gain intentionally. I don't want to just say learn because if you just learn it, but you don't apply it and it doesn't become something attached to you, it's just cool knowledge, right? I want them to gain this idea and encourage all of us to say, man, what is my personal standard and why is it that way? So let me read scripture so that it gives us a little bit of the backdrop and the foundation for what it is that I'm trying to explain. So Colossians chapter 3, verse 23 says this, whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for human masters. Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward, it is the Lord Christ that you are serving.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not humans. Imagine that God is always watching. Right. We've heard that. And if you spent any amount of time in church as a kid, especially like, man, God, God's always watching. And that typically was used to, like, make us be afraid of making poor decisions. Right. Right. But I think the deeper concept in this is that we are we have an obligation to somebody that's more important than anybody here on Earth. We have an obligation to the God of the universe. We have an obligation to the God that fashioned us, that formed us, that put this plan for our life into place. And when you have that context as your backdrop, it changes the way you approach things. It's like, did I get up? Did I greet my kids properly this morning? Did I spend some real time with them or did I just say, hey, I really need to get out the door because I got to make it here because my boss

said that if I'm late one more time, then that's going to be the end. And so now we're focused on the humans. But I believe that this is telling us that, wait a second, there's a even bigger and more important boss, if you will. And it's the Lord. We are working for Jesus. So everything we do, if he gave this to us, if it's a blessing, if there's, we couldn't make, you know, our best efforts, get it happen, like make it happen on our own. He had to put some things in place. The fact that you and I are sitting here is a miracle. Yes. Do we do our absolute best and do we try? Absolutely. But there are still some things along the way that if that didn't happen, if we weren't born to this family at this time, you and I wouldn't be having this conversation, right? So I want to be very clear when I talk about your best, because I don't want that to be synonymous with perfect. And typically, sometimes people will hear best and think they automatically

mean perfect. Does that make sense? Yeah, that totally makes sense. I think you just have an internal, I think the Holy Spirit sometimes, you just have conviction on when you know you're slacking. You know, it's like, I think God wants you to try your very best. So what do you mean by that? Give a little bit more color on that. Perfect. Let me unpack that some, because when I say you're best and not perfect, perfection has gained less success than people's best have. How do I know? I don't need the numbers because nobody's perfect. The person who has been perfect has been zero. It has gotten us nothing. But the people who do their best, consistency is the thing that has been the key. I would love somebody who is more consistent to be on my team, to help build the business, to help follow leads and chase them down and build connections and partnerships that are consistent. I know what I'm getting. When you're on the golf course, you want the person who's going to give their

best every single time if you have a partner, right? Like I want, I want your best every single time that we're out there. I want your best every single time that, you know, I show up and we have a conversation. I want the best of your attention. This is what God is saying. I'm not saying perfect because perfect is unattainable. But if we give our best and we say, you know what? I laid down at night and today I gave everything I had. And it was the best that I could do with the resources, with the relationships, with the spaces that I had. Then you can rest, right? That's when you have that Holy Spirit conviction that you mentioned, when you're not doing your best, when you're slacking some, you don't have that. You get the complete opposite. You get peace. You almost get like this proverbial pat on the back from the Lord saying, man, you did your best today and I'm pleased with you. God honors that because he knows that when you do it and it's your standard,

it becomes something that you uphold, right? You are giving him honor with your effort. I'll say it that way. You are giving him honor. You are saying thank you without saying thank you. You know what I mean? Yeah, and if I could chime in just on like personal anecdotes, I think the people that are listening to it, everybody here has worked in a shop, hopefully for a long time or a little bit of time. And one story that I have, you're basically saying the Lord honors your effort, honors your try. And I have this story that sticks out in my mind. From 2023, we're at the Barker Cypress location. And this is a very much a momentum business. When the phone's not ringing, there's no customers coming in. It's like you kind of get tempted to kind of like lean on the mop a little bit and kind of like just flack basically. And we're opening this store in 2023 and it's slow. Like there's literally nothing to do. Like there's no cars.

There's no customers. It's a brand new store. It's like 10 in the morning. And eventually I'm like, all right, I'm not going to just like give up and wait. So we just like got busy. It's like, all right, like let's just move some cars around in the parking lot and look busier, like move them to the front of the parking lot so people are driving by. Like we wouldn't change the sign. We're like, hey, let's just move the sign around. You know, it's like inspect some of the cars that are already here again, or let's bring the shuttle in and make it look like we're working on it. Just like have some movement. Or like practice, you know, let's practice our sales stuff or, and, but like, I don't have the data to prove this, but I just swear by it. I felt like right when we got moving in the next 30 minutes, like two customers walk in, phone starts ringing. And like, and I bet people in the industry, like, I bet that's not an uncommon experience.

It's like, if you're lazy and you, you slow down and you're not moving around, it's going to kind of stay that way. But if you're just like, never surrender. Like I'm just going to keep working. I swear it's either the universe or God or whatever kind of rewards that effort. Um, and that standard, like you're talking about. Yeah, absolutely. And I got scripture for it. You know, I know that it's a concept that God honors. So let me, let me read a few scriptures that I wrote down because it's the perfect segue as we get into laziness, right? Um, I talked about how consistency absolutely works. Perfection doesn't. But you know what else never works? Laziness. Proverbs 13.4 says this, the soul of a sluggard craves but gets nothing. While the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. This is the Bible now. Like this is not, you know, a cool Devontae-ism. You know what I mean? Like this is the Bible. I'll give you another one. Proverbs 18, 9.

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. Yeah. You hear how strong this language is? Like against laziness. It literally is saying laziness builds nothing. As a matter of fact, it is so poorly constructed when you apply it to your life. It's like you're actually doing the opposite. Laziness doesn't not only build anything, it destroys things. Like it destroys morale. It destroys progress. It destroys efficiency. Like laziness is a parasite of our effort. And if we would just do our best, you still, maybe it's not, maybe it's not that you have 100% every single day. Cause I want to encourage some people out there. They're like, man, you know, I felt like I just didn't have it today. And they'll make that sound like it's laziness. But here's one thing I heard. I thought it was a beautiful quote. Somebody said, if all you had today was 80%, but you gave 80%, that was your best. Doesn't mean that yesterday. Oh, I had a hundred percent yesterday,

man. I was able to get a good breakfast in, man. I had a PR in the gym. Like, man, I felt great. You know what I mean? I finally broke out of that bench press plateau. I felt cool. My shirt was feeling a little better on my chest because of my, you know, my bench press got up. But today, man, I just didn't have it. You know, I didn't sleep well. I had a tough conversation with the spouse yesterday. Man, we had some tough business decisions to make. We had a meeting that I thought was only going to be a quick conversation turned into a three hour emergency. And man, all I got today is 70%. But if you gave that 70%, you still gave your best. But the problem with laziness is. When you have 80% and you give 20. Yeah, you just like mail it in. You're like, man, yeah. It's like the best workouts are when you're not feeling good. You're like, man, I can't go today. And then you push through. Anybody can go to the gym when they're feeling themselves. And it's like, man, I feel great today.

But it's like, it's that momentum and that like keeping that consistency. Like, are you the guy who just mails it in? Because that's who you are, you know? But if you're the person who's, man, I'm not feeling good. I'm not going to mail it in. I swear God rewards that for sure. Yeah, absolutely. And I think I think you've mentioned this before, you know, in a previous episode that your dad says this, right? Like how you do anything is how you do everything. So if you start to be if you start to get lazy, it starts in the small details. It starts in the things you think you don't care about or that you can slack on. But eventually it bleeds over into everything else. Right. So I think that's what's so important about understanding doing understanding that your best being your standard. If you start with it small, then it bleeds over into everything else. I just want to repeat that because there's, you know, I think I've talked about

this, but, or maybe I've talked about it with you, but I'll share it with everybody else. Like the military talks about micro wins and they're like, man, we don't get into the military as a Navy SEAL. You know, my dad was in the military, you know, and he did 20 years in the, in the United States Navy. And the Navy SEALs say, we don't build crazy discipline better than the 99% of the world by just waking up and just choosing to be disciplined. You set in micro wins. So you say, okay, I'm going to get up at four o'clock every day for a week. And then you get up four o'clock every day for a week. You say, hey, I'm gonna get up at four o'clock every day for a week. And then I'm gonna pray for 30 minutes. I'm gonna spend some time in my Bible. Then you get to do that. But now you've stacked that micro win on top of the, okay, now we're two weeks in of getting up at 4 a.m. We're one weekend to adding my prayer and devotion time.

All right, cool. We got that down for a week. Week three, I'm gonna get up at 4 a.m. I'm gonna spend time in my Bible and pray. And I'm gonna be in the gym and I'm gonna rack, like I'm gonna unrack the weights at 0500, right? Right. It's OK. Now we're doing that for a week. So now I got three weeks of getting up at 4 a.m. I got two weeks of prayer and devotion. I've got one week of unracking the weights at 5 a.m. in my garage. Well, then now over time, as you keep adding, they've just been stacking on top of each other. And you don't even realize that you've become more disciplined. And that is your standard. Well, the same thing applies with our effort and doing our best. If you say, OK, I'm going to do my best. How's that going to start? Hmm. I'm going to do my best and I'm going to put my best foot forward with what I put on in the morning. Like, I'm not going to grab the socks that were just laying by the bed from last night.

Like, I'm actually going to go get clean socks. OK, let's start there. I'm actually going to make sure that, you know, I take my clothes to the dry cleaner. I'm actually going to make sure that that my stations are clean. As soon as I get there, I'm gonna get there 15 minutes early so that maybe all the other techs don't do it. But I'm going to get there and make sure that my station is clean so that when I get ready to work, I know where everything is. I'm not, you know, trying to scramble through a drawer to find a tool or find. To let me, my, my destiny is to be organized. I don't want to have to move papers out of the way and then forget that I didn't turn in reports. And it starts with the small things. And then you do that for a week and then you add another one and another one. And then by the time you get to three months, Joe, you're looking up and like, man, who is this person? I got 1% better every single day.

And I wasn't lazy. And because my best was my standard. Now, everything that I have, my output is also better. My, my, my input got better. So my output got better. People are noticing. It's like, man, like you just look so put together, man. You look so vibrant, man. Your work, the quality has just improved. The, the shop numbers are through the roof. The customers feel it. You know what I mean? So I think when your best becomes your standard, Joe, it's only a matter of time before it becomes contagious. That's the word I want to use. It's not just consistent it's contagious does that make sense i totally buy what you're saying i've never read the book but i think you're referring to it's like atomic habits or something you know it's like you get one percent better every day and then it's it seems like a small like atomic you know like it seems like a small thing but it kind of compounds over the years well one thing for me is like making my bed,

i didn't i never made my bed as a kid don't talk to, my my mom will tell you you know but like at some point when i got when i grew up it's like man this is just like. I'm going to be a person who does this, you know, like I'm going to be like, I'm going to be a person who makes the bed. It's like a 1% thing. Like I'm going to do it. And I don't do it perfectly every time, but it's like that slowly became like, okay, that's like the standard in my life. And, um, I think the biblical part for, for me is like, it's kind of like a still small voice. Like when, you know, when you like, I'll give you an example, like this last week, like I, you know me and my wife we've got a shoe closet like right by the door you know and i just threw my tennis shoes in there, and i like walked away and then i was like no and so i like walked back and i was like okay i'm gonna put the shoes because i know so i know i know my wife

would like would appreciate this i'm gonna put them like in line with the, the other ones and that might sound like a stupid anecdote but i, i felt it i was like i was lazy i just threw it in there Like that's my dad's rule is like the way you do anything is the way you do everything. That's who you are Like that's like I need to it's like a micro way for me to serve my wife And then eventually I think you're 100% right. It just bleeds into the quality of the way you do everything for sure And and you don't even realize that they're attached, right? The reason that you started to feel bad if that if they weren't attached Joe, I. You wouldn't have felt bad about it. Right. If that wasn't a part of your standard. But because you started making your bed up right now, it's like, oh, I can check that task off. That's my standard. I make sure that that's done. Let me go back and get these shoes. Then it's not only, oh, let me go back and get the shoes. Let me organize the

desk. OK, maybe the desk is not the case. Oh, hey, these dishes are there. Let me make sure I do it. You know, and then it just starts to become everything. And then you look at the rest of your life, your finances are doing better because of it. You know, your spirit is doing better because of it. You're like, man, I'm not missing time with God. At some point today, I need to spend some time and just say, God, what do you want to say? And God, here's how I'm feeling. Let me just pray. Maybe it's on the commute. It's like, man, here's a cool thing, you know, and I know that we'll get into some of the challenges and the practical things in a little bit. But like, I want to give people something now. One of the things that I changed was I stopped listening to music on the way to work and it's not because I feel convicted about listening to music like I love music I've been a musician since I was in the fourth grade but,

I got a guitar. I got a bass sitting right here with an amp, you know, so I'm like right behind me. But what I've learned is, man, with the amount of traffic I have in Houston. Could I use that time to be on the phone with somebody catching up, encouraging, not putting in more work? But, yes, sometimes it's like, look, I can get ahead before I even get into the whirlwind of meetings I'm getting ready to walk into in the office. right? I can take care of some personal things, some travel, some other, or I can call my parents. I can say, Hey, you know, Hey mom, how you doing? Hey dad, how you doing? Right. Or I can spend that time and listen to an audio book. It's like, man, let me, I've poured out, I poured out so much this week. Let me, let me just refresh before I get today. Let me find something that I'm interested in. Let me read a book that has nothing to do with what I'm building just so that I learned something, to keep my brain sharp, right?

And these are practical things where it says, man, that's just got to be my best. How do I maximize my time? Is this, is just listening to the latest album going to be the best use of my time while I'm sitting in traffic in Houston, where you can be an hour away from Houston and still be in Houston? You know what I mean? While I'm sitting in traffic on 45, is the best use of my time to be entertained? Or could I use this to be connected, to be educated, to get ahead, to be quiet. You know what I mean? To just regulate. There are a whole lot of different things where I say, man, now, now, because I wasn't lazy and say, man, let me just, let me just take my mind off and be entertained. I said, man, what is the best use of this amount of time that I know I'm going to have every day? Oh, okay. Now, because that is my standard, Joe, it's my standard to get up and get into my garage and work out. It's my standard to wake up at 5 a.m. and start my morning with prayer and then

get in there and lift and then get my kids dressed and take them to school and be the it's it's my standard so now when I'm by myself, Nobody's watching. Nobody else is in the car. I don't deviate from the standard, right? So I think that's where you're feeling with the shoes. It seems minor. It's not a dumb anecdote at all. It's just as indicative that it's become a standard for you. Yeah. And you see it in the small things. So yeah, for sure. I think laziness, you're just cheating yourself. You're taking a shortcut, but you're just cheating yourself in Lawrence. One of my favorite Bible verses is also a recommendation for anybody in business who's a Christian, read a Proverbs a day. There's 31 Proverbs. It's like, I swear that God is an investor. He's an entrepreneur. And one of my, you know, I try to read, I don't do it every day, but I try to read them in the mornings. And one of my favorite ones is Proverbs 22, 29.

It says, do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than working for ordinary people. And I noticed that one every time because like, we talk about this concept in our business of like creating your own luck. Like people will say like, oh, you got lucky. Like, you know, you got lucky because of this, this, and this. You were born in this, this, and this. It's like, a lot of people get lucky, sure. But a lot of people create their own luck. And that's right out of the Bible. It's like, it's like God, even, you know, whenever Solomon wrote this 2000 thousand years ago or three thousand years ago he's like, man you see any truly competent workers like they will they will be so diligent and be so excellent at their work whatever their labor is, that they're naturally going to create their own opportunity and they will end up working for the king like the king you know they'll work like king david

you know like think about it back then like they will be they will go from wherever they're at they will work for the for the king you know And so, I don't want it to be like the boss in, 2026 is the king and we're serving. But the idea is, I think it's the same idea. It's like, man... That excellent level of standard that you have working in the fields for 3,000 years ago, even back then, it's like if you see anybody that's truly competent, I can tell you where they're going to end up. And I think the same thing applies today for sure. Absolutely. Your excellence gives you access. That's the concept. It may not be the king. It may be in the C-suite. It may be wherever, you know, whatever is the top of where you're trying of your field or your industry. Right. But your excellence will eventually give you access. Right. You know, I love I agree with you, man. Read a Proverbs a day, a Proverb a day. I love Proverbs 31 because a lot of people talk about this

when they're trying to pick a wife. Right. Because this section in Proverbs 31 is talking about the description of a worthy woman. But just talk about the concept of diligence. Right. And doing the best. I'm going to read some of these. And I want you to think about this being, man, she does her best. It says, excellent wife, who can find her? This is 31 verse 10. For her worth is far above jewels. Valuable, right? The heart of her husband trusts in her and he will have no lack of gain. This is because of her. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. Consistency, right? Being her best. She looks for wool and linen and works with her hands in delight. She is like merchant ships. She brings food from afar. She rises while it's still night, gives food to her house and portions to her attendance. She considers a field and buys it. From her earnings, she plants a vineyard. That sounds like real estate and investment to me. Right.

You know what I mean? That's funny. That's amazing. She surrounds her waist with strength, makes her arms strong. She takes care of her body. She works out. Like, isn't that, she senses that her profit is good. Like this is literally proverb telling you man even the person you partner with should be doing their best because, when you if you can pick out how they do their best when it's time to plant a vineyard or consider your field or what linens you pick or feeding your family again it's because, her best was her standard right speaking of best i'm a chicago bears fan You know, we've talked about this before. Wait, relax now. Relax. Man, and we have this new coach who's like killing it, man. He's one of the best coaches in football. And again, it only took us 100 years to get there, but we're here. So listen, I'm just grateful that I'm living in such a time as this. So he has this saying after every win. And it's a quote that he heard in high

school, but it's something that becomes a standard. And he says, good, better, best. Never let it rest until your good gets better and your better gets best. Bears on three and they and it's taken over social media it's going viral multiple times because they're good now but his standard is he wants to be consistent so if you watch Ben Johnson on the sideline they can throw a 50 yard bomb touchdown and he's standing on the sideline the same way, When things go wrong, he's standing on the sideline the same way because it's like the game's not over. We're not done. We're not. This isn't our best yet. We can be better. Somebody was off on his play. Somebody missed the block. Right. But it started back when he first got hired, Joe, when they were in training camp. And I don't know how much people know about football, but the quarterback, the play calls are like 14 words long. Then you have to remember where everybody is. Then you have to remember who's

moving. Then you got to remember where you need to go based on the defense. So, and you have 40 seconds to do it all. So he's like, instead of being worried about executing the play, they get into the huddle a few times. And it became a national story when they were writing about it because obviously he was a big time coach. They get into the huddle, Joe, and they call the play. And as soon as Kayla Williams breaks the huddle, he blows the whistle and says, go back and do it again. He doesn't even care about the play afterwards. He said, because I don't like the way that it sounded when y'all broke the huddle. I didn't like where the offensive linemen were standing when they needed to be listening. So if you can't get that right, it's only a matter of time before a receiver runs the wrong route. Caleb throws the ball where he expects him to be. And now they're not there. But if you set the standard from the beginning in the minor details.

It's, it becomes something that explodes into everything else. So if you say, all right, I'm not even going to let you break my huddle to go out there and run the play. I don't care how much time we waste, go back and do it again. I don't like the way it sounds. I don't like your volume. I don't like how everybody didn't clap. I didn't like how everybody wasn't leaned in and listening. Like you were drying your face mask and you were over there trying to pull up your socks, listen to the play. Because then if you don't, then the opposite becomes true. The laziness becomes true and you become like in Proverbs 18 you become a brother to one who destroys. You ever heard of that's so good you ever heard of this coach John Wooden for UCLA he was a basketball coach I heard this story that at the start of the season, he would practice this literally he would get with the team and they would practice putting their socks and shoes on properly and tying them the right way,

because it's like the same idea it's like well no like this is like like you will get blisters on your feet you know you won't be like if you it's like it'll affect your performance if you don't have like quality equipment and they're not tied tightly the right way and it's like the sloppy details like if you're gonna be sloppy and just throw your shoes on like, get out of here you know we're a bunch of professional like you're gonna break the huddle and with, you know what i mean I mean, it's so funny. That's so funny. Like, I love that because it does, it for sure compounds into who you are, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So, you know, let me give people a challenge that they can actually go today and do something practically with, right? It's, I want them to find micro wins. With God in mind. Okay. I want them to find a micro win. So what you can do today, if you're out there listening again,

I encourage you to go get a journal. I've said that in previous episodes because, you only get to know your progress. If you can go back and look at it, right? It don't just say this was a cool idea and it was inspirational. Go write this stuff down. Um, so today I want you to write down micro wins. Maybe you do need to get up earlier. Maybe you do need to stop sleeping in. That's a micro win. You start there, do it for a week before you add another. So say, okay, I need to get up earlier or I need to organize my shoes. Right. Or I need to just do the dishes. I eat off the dishes just like everybody else in my house. Let me, I need to do the dishes. I'm going to wash the dishes every single day. That's it. Pick one micro win and do it to the best of your ability. You say, man, I'm going to wash these plates better than anybody has ever washed a plate on this side of the Mississippi. You know what I mean? Like I I want you to do your absolute best because if

you start with the micro wins, it only is a matter of the time. Like we've talked about, if you break the huddle right, then it's a matter of time before everybody's where they need to be on the field. When we snap the ball, when the game is on the line, when the pressure situations are on, when there's 70,000 people screaming, you know, when the clock is running down, when you got defenders trying to take your neck off. Like it's, it's only a matter of time before it, it translates to the big moments, because every battle and every piece of success is not one when it's time to be successful. It's one with being your best in the consistent micro details. Yeah. You went on Sunday, but you really went on Monday practicing for next time. You know, the business application to, you know, just to recap, it's just like your quality of your excellence is the way in the small things compounds into the big things.

And, you know, as a shop owner, something Todd always says, our CEO, she's like, he says, it can never be us. We have to live and operate above reproach, you know, because. In business, but also in just your life, like your life is a ministry and people watch you, especially as a leader of a company, even as a service advisor or a manager, like your life is literally a ministry and you set the standard. And so two examples, like show up to work on time. Like if you're the owner and you show up late, like what do you think is going to happen? People are going to be like, well, you know, that's like, that's the excellence or the quality of this organization. And if he's going to show up late, then I'll show up a couple minutes late. You know another one a lot of owners do is they just take they'll run money through the business they'll take money out of the cash drawer and it's like it might seem like a small thing like taking a 20 out of the cash drawer you're the owner but yeah,

your people see that you know what i mean like they see like they see when you use the company credit card for like your daughters you know like uh textbooks at school or whatever and try to write it off against the government it's like you might right you might save some money on taxes but you're just like. Like Todd says, he's like, you have to be above reproach and it can never be you in business because, You can't have that decision fatigue of like, oh, did I not set up our team right? Or did I not do the training? It's like, you have to be the person who's first in line. You're training more than everybody else. Tom Brady is in the film room more than anybody else. And both professionally and biblically, I think that just applies to your life. Like at your business, people are watching you, but in your family, people are watching you. And the way you put, not to be, but the way you put the shoes in,

the way you wash the dishes, is like your kids learn that stuff and they learn like what excellence looks like and working for the Lord. So man, this was great. Verse of the podcast, Colossians 3.23, do everything as if you're working for the Lord. Man, thank you, Devante. You wanna pray us out as we go into this week? Absolutely. Father, I thank you so much for everybody listening this week. God, I thank you that you are setting up on their heart right now. Some of them already know what it is, the micro winds that they need to put in place. God, I thank you that they will continue to be better because they are continuing to give their best. Thank you for honoring their try. And when they give their best, Father, I pray that they know that it will not be in vain. Help them this week be closer to you, closer to each other. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Well, man, thank you, Devante. Thank you, everyone listening.

Happy Sunday. Let's go have an amazing day. And we'll see you guys next week. For more information, reach out to Todd Westerland at 925-980-8012 or visit AutoshopAnswers.com. You can get more information about Key to Key to Callbacks, Courtside. We have a VIP Rack Attack Day where you spend an entire day in the trenches with our team learning this perfected business model. We offer leadership classes. We have an AI academy. And also get more information about Autoshop Callbacks. We have auto tech training. We are literally your one-stop shop. Once again, that number for Todd Westerland is 925-980-8012.