I’m sure you’re not but a recent encounter with a brush turkey when I was walking my dogs prompted me to prompt you to make sure you don’t act like one.
The turkey has built a nest near the path & chased us away, flinging dirt at us to deter us from getting to close to the nest. It’s not very effective as a deterrent—we didn’t care.
I notice lots of tradies spend time on stuff in their business that’s similarly ineffective.
If your goal is to build a healthy profitable business & you’re still spending lots of time on things like:
- being on the tools
- doing your own bookkeeping
- running errands
then you’re acting like our turkey—you’re being busy doing stuff that’s not helping you achieve your goal.
You run a business now, you’re not just a tradie any more. The work that got you this far won’t help you build that beautiful, profitable business you want.
You need to put more of your energy into things like:
- finding & winning work for your team to do
- making sure you win it profitably
- making sure they’re set up to do it profitably.
Don’t crowd out this work with ineffective busy-work.
If you want my help, let me know.