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Current Focus: ProjecTools

I hope this email finds you doing well. I am writing to express my gratitude for your friendship and support, and to share some exciting news with you.

As you know, I have been blessed to have a friend who has been with me along this journey, and I am now working with them full time. I'm thrilled to announce that my new title is Customer Success Manager, and I have the honor of working with our clients from start to finish. It has been refreshing to have such a hands-on approach, and I am looking forward to learning and growing more in this new role.

Our work involves helping companies who run and manage projects streamline their production data flow. Part of my new beginning is focusing on building up ProjecTools and getting it in a position to become an industry standard in the project management field.

I am particularly excited about this opportunity because it allows me to work more closely with our clients and ensure their success. But I'm also thrilled to say that this opportunity provides the stability that my family deserves. They have been supportive throughout my journey, and now it's time for me to give back and provide them with the stability they deserve.

If you're interested in learning more about how we can help your company, I'd love to schedule a meeting to discuss further.

Thank you again for your support and encouragement along this journey. I wanted to share this exciting news with you, and I hope to catch up soon and hear about your own adventures.

Take care,

Justin

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Journal Entry Feb 24, 2023

Good morning, good morning, good morning! It's already February 24, 2023, and the year seems to be moving quickly. I have a busy day ahead of me, with a demo scheduled with a new prospect and a follow-up with a past client. Additionally, I'm working on an integration with Procore, a project management software that helps construction and EPC contractors. This integration will help us to fill the gaps in Procore's front engineering and back commissioning sides. I'm excited about the meeting with the Procore team today and the potential to expand our workflows and business.

Later tonight, Emily will be out of town, and I'll be spending the evening with my kids. They've already requested a "kid date night," and I'm looking forward to spoiling them. I believe that while they're young, I can teach them how to live a fulfilling life, and that's my goal with everything I do. Life is pointless until you give it a point, and I want to leave a legacy for my kids and family. My goal is to be an amazing father and husband, and nothing else matters in the feature film of my life.

I often talk about tax strategy, and the biggest tax we all pay is the tax on our time, doing something we don't care about. That's why I'm thrilled to work with Project Tools, which provides stability for my family. As we go through life chasing our dreams, our priorities will change. Right now, my kids are my priority, but as they grow up, my priorities will shift. I want to make the most of my time and spend it doing things that matter. At the end of the day, when I get a tombstone, I want it to say, "He was an amazing father and husband." That's what matters to me.

But I can never get that time back, so I want to make the most of it while they still want to spend time with me. It's a reminder to cherish every moment and to be present in the moment. I find it so easy to get caught up in work and the hustle and bustle of life that I forget to slow down and appreciate the little things.

So today, I am grateful for the reminder to slow down and enjoy the moments with my kids. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with amazing clients and to be a part of a team that is making a difference in the world. And I am grateful for the reminder to focus on what truly matters in life: family, love, and making a positive impact.

As I wrap up this journal entry, I am reminded of the power of gratitude and how it can shift our perspective and bring more joy into our lives. So I will end with this: today, I choose to focus on the good, to be grateful for what I have, and to make the most of every moment.

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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

It is February 24, 2023. The year is marching right along today. I've got a busy day ahead of me.

I've got a demo with a new prospect. I've got a past client follow up, and then I'm also working on an integration with Pro Corporate Core. And so Project Tools is a project management software that helps construction and EPC contractors.

One of our biggest goals is to get into traffic streams that have already been created. That's one of the reasons why we're focused on this integration with Procore. Procore is a massive construction software, and it needs additional tools to make it work even better.

So we're coming in. They don't have anything on the front engineering side or on the back commissioning side. We're filling both those holes.

So I've got a meeting with the Pro Core team today to talk through what it is we're doing, what we've set up, show them some of the landing pages, figure out next steps so that we can move forward and really build out this project tools, build out our workflows and the business as a whole. So I'm very excited about that. And then I've got another meeting with a current client that we're working on expanding the relationship, looking at how else can we serve them.

So this is what's on my agenda today. And on this fine Friday afternoon or evening, I should say, emily is out of town. So I am spending the evening with my kids.

The four of us are going to have a boatload of fun. They've already requested kid date night, so I will probably be a server, a waiter today, taking care of my kids, letting them have the best time possible. One of the reasons I do that, I spoil the heck out of my kids.

Good, badder, indifferent, I don't care. You know why? Because when they're 18, I can they are going to grow up, they are going to move out, and they're going to have to figure out how to live life on their terms. And so while they're young, while they're little, I can spoil them, and I can teach them how to live a fulfilling life.

And that's really my goal. That's my goal with everything I do is how do I leave a legacy for my kids? How do I leave a legacy for my family so that they know what they're doing, they know what they're chasing, they know the meaning of their life because life is pointless. That's one thing I've realized on this journey.

Life is pointless until you yourself give it a point. Once you give your own life a point now, it's much easier to say, hey, this is what I'm trying to do. This is what I'm trying to accomplish.

But until that moment in your life where you say, this, this is the direction I'm going, I'm challenging you right now. What is the point of your life when you die. Think about this.

When you die, you get a tombstone, gravestone, you earn whatever you want to call it. Typically, it says something on it. What do you want it to say? Because that's what matters.

Whatever you want that plaque to say, you've got to work towards that today. I want that plaque to say, was an amazing father, was an amazing husband. Those are the two most important roles I play in the feature film of Justin Stevens.

Life is father and husband. Besides that, nothing else matters. It just doesn't.

I'll wake up tomorrow, if I get fired, I'll get another job. No matter what happens, it doesn't matter because you have another day until you don't. And that's the important thing to remember about life.

Eventually, we all run out of dates. Eventually, we all die. So if we're not looking at, how can we build a life that is fulfilling today? That is us chasing our dreams today rather than waiting rather than waiting and seeing, oh, when will this happen? Or when will I have enough? It's the wrong way to look at it.

How can you make enough now? How can you make enough to spend the 24 hours you have, how you want to spend it? See, I talk a lot about tax strategy. The biggest tax we all pay is a tax on our time. It's a tax on our time doing something that we don't care to do, and it's not part of our plan.

Right? I'm working with project tools. I love it. It is a huge part of my plan.

Do I like that I can't focus on what I want to focus on? 24/7? No. That's called life. You have to have a job.

You have to have a way to provide for yourself and your family. That's life. So I am thrilled.

I could not tell you how excited I am to work with Project Tools, because it provides stability for my family. And right now, that's the number one need I have. That's the number one need we have.

So as we're going through life chasing our dreams, our priorities will change. Right now, my kids are nine, eight, and six. Holy cow.

And it's about to be ten, eight, and six. So as my kids grow up, my priorities will change. They won't want to spend as much time with me as I want to spend time with them.

And at the end of the day, I can never get that time back. If you think about, in 50 years, I can have another job, I can start another business, I could buy another business, I can make more friends. The only thing I cannot do in 50 years is relive these years with my kids.

That is the only thing I cannot do. So that is my tax strategy. Because you can optimize tax strategy for time invested or money invested.

See, money is the easiest thing to replenish in the world because it's everywhere. Go get a job, you'll get money. It's how our society works.

Time, though, you can never recreate. So I have designed my life around spending my time where and how I want to spend my time, because that's the most important tax that I don't want to pay. I don't want to pay a tax on my time chasing a dream that I don't even have.

And that's part of making dreaming, making your own dream. You have to dream your own dream. And it doesn't matter what that dream is.

Everything I do, I do. For 75 year old Justin, I am 36 right now. Between 75 and 36 is a number of years.

I have no idea what's going to happen between them. But whenever I come up to a decision, I ask myself, what would 75 year old Justin do? How would he prioritize this decision? Because 75 year old Justin is way smarter than 36 year old Justin. And 75 year old Justin knows and understands the true value of time.

He knows that no matter what happens today doesn't really matter because you get another day tomorrow, and you're going to have to pick up from the end of today and start moving forward tomorrow. And it happens day after day after day. So as we're going through all this, as I'm working through all, I just want to remind you guys that life is not meant to be just thrown away.

It's meant to be lived. It's meant to be designed, it's meant to be throttled. Have a great time, do what you want to do, make the impact you want to make.

And that is where true success lies, in my opinion. So that's what's been on my mind today. I hope it helps you.

If I can do anything, reach out, let me know and have it a great February 24 and 2023, and we'll talk to you all soon.