Why Working More Is Keeping Your Business Small

When I first started teaching Financial Peace University classes, I'd drive to the venue, set up all the equipment, teach for hours, break down the equipment, get home exhausted, and then do it all over again, multiple nights a week all by myself. And that's how it is when you're starting out, everything depends on you. You're the salesperson, the operator, the customer service department, the janitor, all of it. And that may work for a while, but you can't unplug because if you stop the business stops and suddenly you're no longer running the business that's running you.

That's exactly where I was before I hired my first team member, Russ Carroll. And that changed everything. Because if you want to scale, you can't keep doing what you've always done, at least not without running yourself into the ground. So today, entree leadership's head coach John Falcons is going to break down the four things you've got to get right if you want to get off the treadmill and build a business that can actually grow beyond you.

Let's get to it. I once coached a guy who was a veterinarian cardiologist. He had even performed heart surgery on a polar bear. He was one of 300 people in the world that were doing this. and he was good at his job, his business was thriving, and he was in high demand and making good money, but he was exhausted.

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