The Top 6 Mistakes Freelancers Make When Trying To "Niche Down"

Brian Hood (0:29)

Graham, Chris, how are you doing, my friend?

Chris Graham (0:32)

I'm doing all right, man. I'm ready for COVID-19 to be over. I'm ready for new chapters.

Brian Hood (0:39)

You and everyone else in the world?

Chris Graham (0:41)

I'm ready for the weather to not be so hot.

Brian Hood (0:44)

Yeah, yeah.

Chris Graham (0:45)

Cool.

Brian Hood (0:46)

Good talk, man.

Chris Graham (0:47)

Good talk. Brian, how are you, buddy?

Brian Hood (0:50)

I'm doing really well. Since our last conversation on this podcast, I have a house under contract right now.

Chris Graham (0:55)

Ooh, that's exciting.

Brian Hood (0:59)

The inspections already been done. No major issues there.

And now we're just sorting out financing stuff. So here's the shitty part about this. And anyone that's ever bought a house before knows this stuff. It sucks, especially if you're like super OCD about things like this, like I am.

I just read through 67 pages of loan documents for one lender yesterday. And like I literally had like red notes and stuff all throughout it and had to call the lender. And we talked for literally half an hour over every single detail that was off from what was discussed beforehand. And like I found things in there she didn't even know was in there. Like it was a train wreck of having to read these just boring documents.

Chris Graham (1:34)

Was it so boring that you made noises of disgust?

Brian Hood (1:37)

I do that even if I'm not bored.

Chris Graham (1:40)

Were they more of like loan groans or loan moans?

Brian Hood (1:42)

What is, are you doing a bit?

Chris Graham (1:46)

I don't even know.

Brian Hood (1:47)

Is this some like weird Dr. Seuss shit?

Chris Graham (1:49)

I don't even, I mean, it's kind of a dad joke. Loan groan, loan moan.

Brian Hood (1:53)

It sounds like a shitty Dr. Seuss joke, and I don't get it, but you know what? That's our Chris.

So anyways, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Chris Graham (2:02)

I don't either.

Brian Hood (2:02)

Anyways, so I'm sorting all this stuff out, and it's been super distracting just because like I've never, I've built and sold before, but I've never actually bought a house for myself. I've been renting for like nine years now because my rent is so cheap. So this is all a new process for me, so I'm learning a bunch of stuff. So it's been a big distraction for business stuff, and I've learned that I am incapable, 100% incapable of juggling multiple things at once. I am like one track mind, 100% of the time. And that's just, I think that's why I always say this, Chris, is like, you can build one business, you can maintain another, and then all others wither and die.

I think that may just be special to me, because I literally cannot do more than one major thing at a time.

Chris Graham (2:39)

Speaking of that, did you see the Elon Musk announcement about Neuralink?

Brian Hood (2:45)

Yeah, I saw the pig brain thing. I mean, I'm not that impressed. And I'll tell you why. It's because I don't fully understand it. That's the only reason.

I feel like if I fully understood it, I'd be more impressed.

Chris Graham (2:54)

I feel like if you had a Neuralink, that would help you understand it more, because it would enhance your brain.

Brian Hood (3:00)

Sure.

Chris Graham (3:01)

As you know, I'm super obsessed with all things, the human brain and my little meditation muse to measuring thingy.

Brian Hood (3:08)

Oh, yeah, that's stupid. You just got to gear slower, my friend. And that's because you mentioned a specific piece of gear. Hey. Kudos.

Chris Graham (3:14)

I used it right before our call, and I got 96 birds in 10 minutes, baby.

Brian Hood (3:17)

Wait, were you counting the birds, or does it tell you?

Chris Graham (3:20)

Oh, no, it counts for you.

Brian Hood (3:21)

Oh, OK. I'm like, how does that keep you zen if you're counting how many birds you get? If anyone's confused as shit, it's just this headband thing he wears, and it goes with an app, and if he meditates and is calm enough and his brainwaves are inactive, little birds tweet, and then you get a score at the end. It's like a gamified meditation.

Chris Graham (3:36)

Yeah, it's amazing. I'm obsessed with it. We're not sponsored by them.

Brian Hood (3:39)

You want to be.

Chris Graham (3:40)

Yeah, I love it. It's been so helpful in every area of my life, and I've been spending a lot of time with that thing.