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A News Headline That Every Business Owner Should Read Carefully
This headine impacts everyone who's ever dreamed about building a hugely successful company, and even those people who've dreamed of building a modestly successful one too.
So what is this headline? Simply this: Two days ago on July 1st Bill Gates quit from his daily role working for Microsoft. For over 30 years he's been building this company into one of the largest, most successful companies in the world, and in the process he become the world's richest person. (Actually, he may have slipped down a few notches in the placing, but by just about anyone's count he's still in the top ten, and I think we'd all agree that that is a pretty nice neighborhood to be in.)
So why did this headline capture my attention and what does it mean for you?
First, it's a little misleading. People watch him working year after year at Microsoft and say, "Not a Level Three business," which means they have missed the real point of the idea of a Level Three business.
8A Level Three business isn't one where the owner no longer does any of the work in the business. Instead a Level Three business is one that isn't dependent on the owner being there to function, grow, and succeed.*
Many Level Three business owners love what they do (in fact, most do) and want to keep doing it. The real key is how can you grow your business, and it's team, systems, technology, and outsourced solutions, to the place where you could leave it for extended periods of time if you chose, and the business would still succeed.
That's my goal with Maui Millionaires LLC, not to build a business that runs while I'm sitting on a beach never working again. That would be torture for me. I LOVE what we do, and I want to play a big part in creating new, cutting-edge content and how-to information for years to come.
I have dozens of more books that I want to write, workshops that I still want to teach, courses I have in my journals to create. I can't help it. That's the way my brain is wired. In my free time I love to take walks listening to books on tape with a hand held recorder, stopping to dictate out business, investing, and wealth ideas that the content I'm listening to sparks. I've been doing this for over a decade. It's part of who I am. When I read I constantly am asking myself, "How can I share this in a way that helps people get results?"
All of this is to say that my dream isn't to leave my business, but rather my dream is to build Maui Millionaires to the place where it isn't reliant on me to succeed. To build a company that has a greater impact on the world and on you. To build a company that will is more than just an extension of me. To build a company that continually stretches and grows to fulfill its vision of bringing the humanity back into wealth building, and its mission of being the guardian of the world's premier wealth building community, and to help you build, grow, sustain, share, and enjoy great wealth.
How could I ever leave that kind of mission behind? But I care about our team... I care about you... I care about the people who will never hear our message if we don't grow a Level Three business that is more than just "David".
How about you and your business? Do you find that it draws out the best in you? If so, why would you ever want to leave it? If not, how can you meaningfully connect one of your deep passions with it? If still not, then how can you gracefully exit to something you deeply believe in?
Remember, the real goal of a Level Three business is about having a long-term, stabilized, smoothly functioning business, with key leaders in place who can run the business. It's to build a business that will go on no matter who isn't there to run it, even if that person is you.
The Gates headline also caught my attention because he had handed over the day-to-day running of the company years ago and had shifted into an almost fulltime position of working ON his business, versus working in his business.
What could you accomplish in your business if you had even 4 days a week fully focused on and devoted to working ON your business? What new markets could you open? What highly efficient systems could you put in place? What innovative products or services could you create? What team members could you groom?
Evaluate where you are now, and free up a dedicated block of time each week to get to work ON your business.
Maybe this is 2-3 hours every Thursday morning... or maybe this is every Tuesday all day...
The key is to start somewhere, and build to progressively be able to focus more and more of your time ON the business (or for those of you who are your greatest producer IN the business, maybe you'll hire on someone who's role is to work ON your business for you while you continue to produce for the business, and then at some point down the road you'll wean the business off of its dependency on your personal production.)
