About 10 years ago I stood on a stage with one of my favorite business mentors, a man who's teaching and training I had used for decades helping others build their businesses... making them millions of dollars.
The conversation became increasingly uncomfortable as I saw him looking at me with an expression I had seen him use with others before.
And then, he put his hand up and drilled me with his eyes and said, "Mark, your problem is that you are TOO DAMNED COMFORTABLE!"
I had not expected that...not at all. But he pressed in and got me to see that I had settled for "good" instead of reaching just a little higher to get ahold of GREAT. And it WAS just a little higher...a little higher each day to get the business I owned at that time to look like the business I had envisioned it could be.
I hadn't realized it at the time, but after returning home I once again dedicated time to working ON my business, instead of just IN my business. And I realized that doing so made the whole thing A LOT MORE FUN! And though the process of changing my systems was a pain, I was quickly freed up to do other things that were far more enjoyable.
Fast forward, last year we decided to sell that business...at a time when everything in its industry was CLOSED due to pandemic mandates, during a season in which we had NO NEW CUSTOMERS FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR due to those same mandates, and no one in the agencies we worked with had any idea of when things would open up again.
Well, the business SOLD in only 3 DAYS...for the FULL ASKING PRICE. And the thing that made that possible was that it was a business dependent on SYSTEMS and not on something tied up and locked away in someone's head...someone like me, or perhaps like you.
If you are feeling like your business OWNS YOU, then shout ENOUGH! Because if you are not going to do something NOW, then WHEN? You've probably known that something needed to be done for quite some time now...right?
So TAKE THE CHALLENGE. Let me help point you in the right direction to get your SYSTEM SANITY back in place. It's time to TAKE BACK ownership FROM your BUSINESS and have it serve YOUR LIFE once again.
To your BEST year ever,