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Make your life easier.
Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. You know, we’re always talking about business ownership, entrepreneurship, that’s one of the worst things about this whole way of life about starting your own deal and getting out there and making it from the ground up is it’s tough.
It’s not easy, and there’s only so much you can do on your own. There’s only so many hours in the day. There’s only so much effort you can put out. There’s only so much energy you can put out on a regular basis.
There’s a limit to it all and you can hire more people. That’s somewhat helpful as long as you hire the right people for the right jobs.
But the toughest thing is really growing past a certain point to where you really can’t feel like you can keep all the plates spinning, you know, so to say.
Don’t know if you remember, or if you’ve ever seen the videos of the Ed Sullivan Show where they would have that guy with the sticks that they would stand up and he’d start spinning a plate and it would keep spinning.
The plates would be balancing and spinning on the end of the stick as the stick kind of moves and then he’d go over here and he’d start some more plates spinning and keep those spinning and go back and he’d hit the other plates.
Then he’d set up another one and he get those plates spinning and that’s how business ownership feels sometimes.
How do you get around it?
How do you make your life easier?
The word that matters the most in business when it comes to growth is system. You have to systemize, you have to have the pieces of your business that run like a machine. And most business owners fight this at every angle.
We really do. We fight it because we want it to be alive like us. We want every end of our business to be that way.
It can’t be just plain and simple. It can’t be when it comes to, you know, accounts receivable, when it comes to taking out the garbage. There’s just certain parts of your business that just need a system behind them.
They need to have an ongoing predictable thing that happens every day or week or month or each year.
Automatic automation has to take place in your business at some point for it to grow past a certain point. If you’re at the million dollars and above figure may have noticed this. Then you get to a certain point where you start bumping your head up against the ceiling.
You need to bring people on who can help you systemize who can create systems.
A great book that discusses this is The E-Myth, a very popular book by Michael Gerber. If you haven’t read this book or listen to the audio version, go and get it.
The most recent version is called the E-Myth Revisited. Now that’s not a sequel. It’s the original book that they’ve added to it. That’s kind of considered the main one that people go to.
But The E-Myth is a fabulous book on why system is necessary no matter where you go.
The whole idea is you focus on what works best, what takes the least amount of human interaction and what’s the simplest way of doing a certain thing and then put it into stone and say, this is how we’re going to do it until we find a better way of doing it.
Everything has to have some form of system so that you can set it going and go work on the other thing or go and fix the other part of your business that needs fixing. And it is a way of maintaining things that I’ve seen over and over again.
The businesses that keep getting stuck and not able to grow are the ones where the business owner or the business manager is trying to be everything at every point.
They create a bottleneck for their company.
If that sounds like you, then you’re going to need some help. You need to get somebody that’s gone through this over and over again and it’s help other people out of it. Find that person.
If you don’t have that person on your team. I happened to be one of these types of people. I don’t work with everybody, but you’re welcome to go see what’s available over at BrianJPombo.com and see if we’d be a good fit.
Also, if you’re in the self-reliance field, meaning you’ve got products or services that help people to become more self reliant, go and check out DreamBizChat.com.
If you’re not sure if you’re in the self-reliant field, go check out DreamBizChat.com and see if you fit into the description and you’re welcome to fill out the application for a free sit down with me.
Those normally cost $600 and above, but a DreamBizChat.com the link is in the description.
Tomorrow, we’re going to talk about another aspect. Being System Based is what I consider one of the three major tiers of BrianJPombo.com. The other one being Relationship Reliant, which we talked about on the last video, and we’re going to talk about the third one tomorrow. So come back.
Then in the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.