Copying a lifestyle business model won’t fix your week. The schedule is easy to replicate. Everything underneath the schedule is not.

James shares the story behind the donkey on the bridge, from a knife-wielding boss in a Mercedes-Benz dealership in 2004 through building a 67-person business to a seven-figure operation running on 10 hours a week. He draws a clear line between operators who’ve inhabited a model over decades and those performing one they recently arrived at, and gives you the diagnostic for identifying the actual constraint in your own business.

If your week doesn’t match the life you want, the constraint is specific. Start the diagnostic here: jamesschramko.com/simplify