Teaching myself to snowboard 27 years ago led to a weak skill foundation. Doing things without any help meant I was making mistakes for years that I would later have to fix. We see this in the legal world when people try to do everything on their own, without help.
Colin Ley is an asset protection attorney and the creator of the PREP Trust®. He is also the co-founder of LayRoots (along with with partner in life & business – Shreya Ley)
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Transcript:
- Hey, we’re still out here in Japan.
- Snowboarding.
- Snowboarding and speaking of snowboarding, I just had the best snowboarding day of my life.
- And I feel like I’ve made a lot of improvements myself.
- Well, Shreya, we’re gonna talk about me today.
- We always talk about you.
- Calm down a little. Okay, I started snowboarding in 1993. That’s by my calculations, about 27 years ago.
- Yeah.
- And I didn’t go snowboarding every year but I went a lot when I first started and then periodically over the last couple decades. Shreya started snowboarding a few years ago.
- Yes.
- So I started picking it up again.
- Yeah, well, I was trying on my own to snowboard for a while and then about three years ago, I got serious about it and started taking lessons.
- Yeah and that’s the important fact that we’re going to get to is that I’ve been doing this forever and I thought I was really good and I thought I was doing a great job and I probably was. But since I was a terrible teacher, we got Shreya lessons.
- And I don’t like him telling me what to do.
- No and I don’t like telling her what to do. So she gets lessons and I start learning from her guide. And realizing that I might be doing some things wrong. And I start noticing things that other people are doing that I haven’t been doing. So I’ve come to realize after 20 years of snowboard experience that I’m not doing very well. I’m missing a lot of the fundamentals but the thing is is that snowboarding got really boring to me.
- And it was holding you back from doing like tricks and stuff that you wanted to do.
- I mean, I was doing some pretty cool tricks back when I had a younger rubber body.
- Yeah.
- But I was losing interest in it. But I started paying attention to what Shreya had been learning. And I started with the advice of her instructor, started figuring out how to improve some of those fundamentals.
- Which have been treating you well in a older, non-rubber body.
- Yeah and I just had a lot of fun. And I’ve been doing a lot better. I can’t believe it took this long to improve on things but here I am having a great time snowboarding in Japan.
- It’s a miracle how accelerating you’re learning.
- Yeah, that’s what I wanna get to. That’s the moral of this story because Shreya Ley, we see a lot of people who try to be their own attorney.
- Yes.
- They do, I mean, whether it’s estate planning, asset protection planning.
- Business planning, for sure.
- Business planning on the trademarks. And I figured out that I was doing some stuff wrong snowboarding and it’s not really a big deal. I mean, maybe I would’ve gone pro if I knew a long time ago but I was able to make some adjustments now and I’m having a great time. However, what if you’re teaching yourself how to do these things and then something goes wrong which can’t be corrected? And because you didn’t start off with the nice good fundamentals, now you’re gonna be paying for it and maybe it’s too late to fix things.
- It’s a lot harder to fix things.
- Maybe you’re in such deep doo doo that things just can’t be, the doo doo can’t be removed. How about that?
- It’s hard to unlearn things that you’ve taught yourself as we can both attest to in our snowboarding.
- You must unlearn what you have learned.
- Yeah, Master Yoda.
- Yeah, so yeah but you get a lot of that too with the, I don’t get it as much with the estate planning or some of the asset protection planning but Shreya gets it a lot with business planning and then the trademarks.
- 100% of the time.
- And it’s usually harder to fix things, it costs people more to fix things than to do it right the first time. And then some things can’t be fixed.
- Right.
- What do you think about that?
- Well, I think that if they’ve questions about it, they should go to livemorecarefree.com.
- Oh, Shreya’s getting good at this call to action.
- I am.
- Yeah, yeah, go to livemorecarefree.com if you wanna schedule a time to talk with us to chat about your fundamentals.
- And excuse both of our helmet heads hairs.
- My hair looks great.
- It does but I don’t think mine does. Mine probably does not.
- Yeah. If you’re not ready to book that chat, leave a comment with questions. Leave ’em down below. That would be fantastic. We’ve just ordered some food here. We were so hungry, we couldn’t even wait to take off our snowboard gear. We just sat down here in the lounge and we’re gonna eat some food. See ya later.
- Peace.
- Bye bye.
