 what's up guys welcome back now in today's video i'm going to be asking you a question and this question i think can affect the way you possibly think about the future right so i said it can affect not going to say it will affect because this is this all comes down to your personal beliefs and your view and vision of what you want for your future but here's what it is it's what's the point this is my question what's the point of having a business if all you do is work all day long now here's what i mean by that a lot of people when they they think about starting a business or a lot of people when they do start their business they do that because they they know they're not cut out to work for someone else they're they're wired a little bit differently um they want to have more control they want to have more freedom they they want to have more creativity um and they know they don't want to work for someone else so they start their thing start their business um and what most people don't realize is when you start a business the first one to i don't know i mean i can't say the exact amount of time i can tell you from my experience the first one to five years is absolutely painful right it's hard you have a lot that you're not only learning um if you don't know how to sell you have to learn how to sell you don't know how to market you have to learn how to market you don't know how to uh put a program together you have to learn how to do that like you have to deal with customers you have to deal with problems you have to deal with obstacles that's very common every person faces that when they start any type of business it doesn't matter right but the first one to five years are very very hard very challenging very difficult and go look up the stats you can see how many businesses fail in the first year first two first five first ten i mean it's pretty staggering right but my question here this is for you if you're thinking long term with your business right and really what i mean is you know what is the point of starting a business if that's all you do if all you do is work right if that's all you care about then what's the point now am i saying that if that's all you care about that you're a bad person no i i can tell you for a fact the first four or five years in my business i did not care about anything or any one right and that's that's one of the reasons why i succeeded is because i had my head down i was driven i was focused like zero distractions just that that's all i cared about right but as i've gotten older i've realized you know what like yeah you you have to be really focused you have to have maybe a few years where you are like that but as you grow what you do it should be about leverage and it should be about how can we set up the business to where we can start working less in the business and more on the business but create the business in a way that gives you more free time to do the things that you do want to do and that's a completely different way of looking at it than starting a business and just grinding it out for the rest of your life and again there's nothing wrong doing that i would much rather have that as the option to work for someone else like let me be very clear i would absolutely do that than work for someone else all right but as you grow and develop what you do you want to try to think in terms of how can i set up systems so i can leverage my time so i'm not having to be in the day to day uh you know busy work that i used to have to do and when you think that way now you start to build more leverage within your business and i feel like the only way you can build leverage in your business is by you having more experience the more experience you have the easier it is to figure out what those things are the less experience you have well it's going to be very difficult to to have leverage when you don't have any clients right and this is why i i've looked at this very closely within my life i've looked at this very closely within other coaches that were helping and i think this is actually really common it's more common than people think as you grow your business and as you scale oftentimes those type those people become trapped in their business and once they get trapped they're probably working more hours yeah they might be making more money but it's not going to feel as fulfilling at that point because all they're doing is spending all their time working all right so my challenge to you very simple okay i want you to be able to look at what you're doing with your business and think okay how can i set this up to where this will be better leveraged in the future to where i can spend more time on the important activities that drive my business versus working in the business all the time let me give you some examples of what this can look like this way i'm not just talking theory here i'm just i'm going to give you some actual examples so one example would be if you are a coach who does a lot of in-person training and you have built up a good reputation you have experience you've gotten great results hey a good opportunity for you would be well could you hire another coach could you bring another coach on who can start to take over some of the training that you're doing right could that happen yes is anyone going to stop you from doing that nope right so you can absolutely do that another option is could you create an online version of what you do with your clients the answer is yes i've proven that to be true you can go look it up online soggerskills.com i still have products that sell every month i've created a lot of different products there i just ran a July 4th promo and that did really well like while i was outside with my wife on a walk we were gone for like two or three hours i came home i checked my email there was many sales of a $200 product can that happen for you yes are you gonna have to figure it out and learn how to do it yeah right but those things are possible so i'm talking about while you're not working how are you generating revenue right while you're going on a walk or while you're going on a hike how can you set something up how can you set up a mechanism that it can't work without you right and that in my it just in the way my brain thinks that's how you're going to be able to create more freedom from your day to day busy work type of business or your in-person training bring someone on or try to go online right and i want to tell you that not only to encourage you to start thinking in terms of building that but i'm telling that because there's a lot more to like life than just working in or on your business all day long and again that's a personal choice that you get to make i'm not going to tell you that you should spend more time with your family i'm not going to tell you that you should spend more time with your kids that's on you right what i'm here to say is like i i've been consciously thinking of this over the past year with how i operate what i do and the only way to make tweaks and make changes with what you're doing is by taking a step back and actually looking at what you're doing and saying well how many hours am i working like how do i want to design this to where i can build my business right around my lifestyle right and that's why for me there's going to be many changes that i'm making over the next six to 18 months with what i do personally many changes i know one of those things is i'm not going to have social media period like not going to be responsible for replying to anyone on social media period there's certain things within the business that are going to change and that's because i've taken a deep look at well what are the things that take me time that i shouldn't be doing that i don't need to be doing that either someone else could be doing or it shouldn't be done at all and how could i create a little system there so i can go spend more free time doing whatever with my wife or going out of town or just doing whatever things that don't have anything to do with work all right and that's why i wanted to share this video and i know i'm talking about a lot of different stuff here but that question of what's the point of starting a business if all you do is work that really that's hit a lot of people that i'm helping right now because they are starting to see as their business gets better sometimes they they get trapped in their job and that's all they have time to do and i really challenge you to think and think in terms of how can we set this up in a way where it's more leveraged that's it for today's video if you want to hear more video or see more videos like this make sure to hit that subscribe button it's been really cool we've i feel like in the last couple months we've been able to grow here on youtube quite a bit and i'm the type of person i don't care if we have a lot of subscribers i care if you're watching these videos and these actually help you and you take action that's all that's the reason why i shoot these videos is i actually want you to take the information from someone who has a lot of experience and implement that because these these are things that i wish i had when i was a lot younger when i started my business all right so hit that subscribe button if you have any questions shoot me a text at 2109605771 that's it i'll see you later