Is your business going to fail?

If you alone are doing all the work of making money in your business, your business will fail.

We've all seen it. A local auto shop shuts down because the owner gets sick. An accountant leaves their clients in the lurch because they lose their passion for the work. A lawyer moves away and is forced to abandon the people who depend on them for help.

But it cuts both ways. You're not just what keeps your business in business, but you're the bottleneck, too. If there's any equalizer in the universe, it's that we each have the same amount of time to spend every day. Even if you were willing to literally live to work and spent all your waking hours making money, you're still limited by those 24 hours.

How do you solve that problem? How do you keep your business from failing you and the people you serve?

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You move beyond just building a job for yourself.

God knows that lots of us started businesses because we *hated* having a job, right? So why would you want to make yourself another one, with more demands and fewer options for escape?

If you're not spending time building systems, building teams, and building longevity *into your business*, your business will fail.

What are you doing to make sure that it outlasts you, your passion, and dumb luck?