592: Could you leave your business for 30 days?

Could you leave your business for 30 days and not check-in at all? Why or maybe why not? Let’s talk about that today. Happy Monday friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. The litmus test for our coaching roadmap is always what we call the 30 day test. Could you leave your business for 30 days and not answer email, voicemails…whatever. What would happen to the business? Would it be able to survive? Would it limp along with quality control issues and employees aimlessly getting through each day? Would people even know what to do and would they get it done? If you’re anything like most of our clients when we talk to them…the answer is always, no way. That’s impossible! But it’s not. I was sitting with one of our former clients last week and he was saying how freeing it was for him to actually try it. He had finished recording all of his systems and processes. He had delegated all of his responsibilities and the day to day operations of his business…and he took off. Loaded up the family for an RV trip out west for 31 days…because why not go a day longer just to prove the system works! No email, no phone calls…just let the team figure it out. And they crushed it! Years of preparation for that 30 day trip and yet the business seemed to thrive as it leaned into each system that had been built along the way. So, if you were to answer no way to the question…what holds you back? Are you the main source of revenue generation? Ok, no problem, how can you begin to share that with someone and delegate? Are you the key person who puts out all of the fires? Great! Start training someone and bringing them into these decisions to get that responsibility off of your shoulders.  But seriously, if you had to hone in on what was holding you back, what’s keeping you from starting to offload that? Think the business can never get there? Well change your thinking, work on an ORG chart and a Vision that would allow you to offload it and then go to work achieving it. Because here’s the thing. If the answer to this question is no, if you can’t take off 30 days and the business survives…it actually means you have a job not a business. That’s a harsh truth, but you really just have a job that you have to show up to versus an active business that you are running to work without you. That’s a BIG DIFFERENCE!!! Now, hear me clearly…if 30 days off isn’t what you want, that is fine. But what is the target? It’s a business that COULD work without you if you needed it to.  I have had incident after incident of clients telling me they don’t need to work towards that in their business and yet we push them to get it there. And the unthinkable happens. Father comes down with cancer and they need to go home to spend time with him and help through treatment. Daughter gets in a car accident and has to have surgery at a hospital an hour away. Kid does better in a baseball tournament during the summer and gets invited to play in a tournament 4 states away to showcase their talent in front of college coaches and asks you to be there.  These are real situations, where had they just thrown up their hands and said, no we don’t need to build systems and processes, they would have missed all of them or at best been rushed and distracted instead of present where they needed to be.  That’s why we always say it’s not just about being liberated from chaos, but it’s so that you can make time for what matters most. That’s the end goal!  And for any one of our clients who have had something that truly matters staring them in the face and had the freedom to go with no questions asked, knowing their business would be fine without them, gah that is what we want.  That’s why we push and ask the question. So, today, go back to that question and ask what needs to change so I could take 30 days off in my business. Do it today! You’ll be glad you did. Thanks so much for joining today, hope you have a great week!