My Business On Purpose - How To Stop Doing It All Yourself -

Feb 14 2025 7 mins 1

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I just returned from being out of the country for 9 days and I was inaccessible to our business team.

No email, no cell phone, no text, no Slack.

My wife had her cell phone on and we called some of our friends just to share what we were seeing, but I handled no day-to-day business while I was away.

It’s the third time I’ve done that in two years. Each time, the Business On Purpose team continues on with their week towards the mission of liberating owners from chaos.

It’s still a mental mind-game to not constantly think, “I wonder if everything is ok!”

There is a different question that I am learning to ask myself, “Do we have the principles and systems in place for the team to work in my absence (or presence)?”

Here are some key elements that owners need to have in place if they are going to stop “doing it all themselves”.

Written Purpose (in three forms): where there is no written vision people will grow either curious, concerned, or confused. Where vision exists, clarity exists, and clarity is what any generation of worker wants above all else.

Each business needs a written vision story that is reviewed six times annually to refresh. Add to that a less-than-ten-word mission statement reminding us of the aim of our effort (you see ours above). Finally, your team needs three to five meaningful, unique core values that guide all decision making in whether you are present or absent.

How do they answer a particular question if you are gone? What boundaries would you use in answering that question if you were here?

Written Culture Guidelines: culture is a biology term that is nothing more than a collection of all the ingredients you proactively plant or haphazardly allow to be planted. The good news is the choice is yours; effort will be required.

The Anchor is a tool we roll out to our BOP clients that allows them to track a collection of all the intentional ingredients they wish to install in their business such as repetitive, predictable, and meaningful meetings, check-ins, training modules, anniversary celebrations, vision reviews, annual team days, among others.

Our team does not need me here to remind them of these things. When I am gone really not much changes.

Meetings continue because I don’t lead them.

Coaching happens because our coaches are better than I am because Thomas trains initially and weekly.

Billing happens because we have a role and a process for that.

All the dates, times, and processes are mapped out on the Anchor and the Master Process Roadmap so everyone knows what to do and when to do it.

Master Process Roadmap: is one place where every process is mapped and documented so the entire business can be operated by anyone who has access to the process (with time and training of course).

While there are still a few things that are within my scope, we have plans to equip others for those as well.

The goal is not for me to skip out on work…I really enjoy working. The goal is me to focus my irrevocable time on the best value I can deliver to the mission of liberating owners from chaos to make time for what matters most.

For me that is four things – a) conceptualizing thoughts and ideas, b) building tools and equipping our team and clients, c) writing and publishing those thoughts, ideas, and tools, and then d) broadcasting those thoughts on live stages, podcasts, video, and masterclasses.

What are the three or four things that you should be focusing your irrevocable time on?

When you lock in it becomes a gift to your team (they are able to have freedom in leaning into their work), and a gift to yourself because you are leaning into your work with the satisfaction that others are drawing value from you while they give value to others themselves.

The enemy to all of this is to ignore reality and continue to live in the myth that I must do it all myself.

We help owners bust the lie of doing it all themselves and being liberated from chaos to make time for what matters. Go to mybusinessonpurpose.com/healthy to see where you stack up with your systems and you can connect with us there if you would like.

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