Are you ready to own a business that works for you, instead of you working for it? It first starts inside of your head then it will manifest itself in the business. You stop working for your business by aligning your natural skills and passions with what you’re doing in your business.
Things you do that you’re not naturally skilled to do will not get done as well a naturally skilled person in that area. This misalignment with your natural skills reduces the profitability and effectiveness of your business. The founder of IBM said that “my duty is not building the business; it is rather, building the organization. The organization builds the business.” This holds true if you’re a sole proprietor or CEO of a fortune 500 company.
You can align your natural skills with any business. For example, if you own a janitorial company and hate cleaning; you create an organization for recruiting and hiring people to do this function. Your income will grow as the organization that you built grows larger and you focus more and more on your natural skills and passions.
Making your business work for you doesn’t happen overnight. In the book E-Myth by Michael Gerber, he says “once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business but that the primary purpose of your business is to serve your life, you can then go to work on your business, rather than in it, with a full understanding of why it is absolutely necessary for you to do so.” Whether you are a seasoned business owner or seeking to buy your first business, don’t work in your business, work on it. Your business should work for you.