Here's the perfect solution.
If you want to run your business on systems, there's an interesting dilemma that's going to come up for you when you think about systemization.
And that is, when you look at your business, there are a lot of systems and it's very easy to get overwhelmed.
And put the entire thing on the backburner and go, You know what this is too hard.
But realize that there is a cost to that, that means that you will always be required in your business, you won't be able to take a weekend off, you won't be able to take a week off, you certainly won't be able to take a month or a year off.
And you will not be able to run a second or third enterprise.
Why? Because you are intimately linked to your business without you, your business falls over.
And so systems are the solution to that.
Why because they allow the work of the business to be done by other people, which is great by your team.
Now, most it most likely you've already got a team, but they're not using systems, they're coming to you to find out not only the direction about where the business is going but also how to do things.
How do you do this? How do you do that? And even if it's not you, then your team members are coming to their managers and saying, Hey, how do I do this? Why? Because Well, nothing's written down, nothing's documented, or if it is, it's haphazard, and disorganized, meaning that people struggle to do the work of your business in a consistent way.
And that means you get, unfortunately, variable results.
Once again, you're back in it.
Why? Because often these variables, results blow up.
And suddenly, you're required to put out fires, I just had an example of this today, I have my mower getting repaired.
And for whatever reason, I didn't test it at the shop.
If I tested, I would realize that the mower blades did not engage.
So it's $906, something like that they did a good job.
But I didn't test it.
I just assumed that it was going to get done.
Should they have tested it yet, most likely, maybe they did.
Maybe they didn't I don't know.
So I get home, my wife jumps on the mower begins the blades in the built jams.
So I now have a $906 investment in my mower, but no working mower.
So now I'm going to drive it all the way back, get it fixed, drive it back.
And now this time, hopefully, we're actually going to get a mower that works.
Interestingly enough, at this moment, I want to let you know that I did just make exactly the same assumption once again, which is fascinating to me, that I have just been through this experience of driving down, getting it fixed.
And I did not learn my lesson.
And this is going on all the time in your business, it's very common not to take the lessons.
Why because there's no documentation, or there's haphazard systemization and processes and nothing gets improved.
This is a problem.
This means you have to spend money, getting problems to fix which means that your customers are unhappy.
Luckily, I'm relatively happy.
You know, I like I'm like, hey, the mower, you long as it works this time is fixed.
But some customers will not be.
They'll be like, hey, you need to pay for this.
But the problem is that in the process of fixing that mower, as it comes through final production says yep, this mower is fixed.
This should have been a checklist that is run through does it start? Does it move? Do the blades engage? Is it ready? Yes, let's go.
I don't know whether that happened.
It may have it may not have if it had been done.
And they could have shown me a piece of paper that says hey, we tested this.
And this was working when it finished our shop.
That would have been very powerful.
So what's likely to happen? Well, next time, I've got to remember to test the blades now already, as I shared with you forgot the first time immediately after, what are the chances relatively small.
But if I had that documented, even a simple system like getting the mole repaired to test it at the place before it goes on to the trailer, this will prevent the loss of my time, hour and a half of my time driving down driving
back and next time it's going to happen.
Why? Well because of the pain and suffering that happened to me and this is going on to you as well.
As a business owner, you have to sort this out.
Why because your freedom is relying on it your profits are aligned On your ability to scale are relying on your ability to run systems and processes.
So where do you start? When you begin this, as I mentioned earlier, there could be so many systems that you're like, you know what, this is too hard.
I'm not going to do it.
But we don't want that.
Don't do that stop and say, you know, what? Why don't I work out what the minimum viable systems would be like? What's the smallest number of systems that if you had in place, then you could largely extract yourself out, maybe it's not 100%.
But maybe it's an 80% extraction.
And the interesting thing is most likely if we're going to follow Pareto principles, you're going to find 20% of your systems, the critical ones, they're the ones you want to identify they're your minimum viable systems.
So document down, write them down and go, Okay, yep, I got a system here in marketing, I got two in sales, I got one in advertising and got one in fulfillment.
I've got one in two in HR, and I got one in accounting Great.
Now you've got your six or eight systems wonderful.
But this doesn't get you off the hook yet, you see, you still need to work out how to get one working system, there's no point in building eight broken systems, if one system doesn't work, then eight systems will not work.
So you choose one, my recommendation, don't choose something mission-critical.
If you're not familiar with how to run systems, get some practice with something that if you stuffed it up, it doesn't matter so much.
This gives you a learning experience.
This gives you time to practice, this gives you reps of working through that system to go okay, how do I make this work? How do I make this work? How do I make this work? How do I get this system to get the results consistently? What are the steps involved? And once you've got that one system, now you've got the final step that you need to go through.
And that is to give it to your team member.
So you don't have to do it anymore? Doesn't mean you'll be completely excluded from the system possibly, hopefully.
But if it is mission-critical, and you need to run some checks or some final quality assurance, then it comes to you before it gets deployed out to customers.
This could have been the mower shop owner's final check is like show me the checklist.
Have we checked the engine starts? Yes.
Have we checked that the mower moves? Yes.
Have we checked the blades? Engage? Yes.
And that means that the risk of customer dissatisfaction goes way down.
Why? Because of that simple system, that simple checklist that guts run at the end of every fix for every molar.
If you want to help with this, you want to know how to just skip how to work out how to get systems to work, head over to systemio.dev.
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What are the problems that you're facing? And what is the reality that you want to create for yourself so that you can finally have the freedom and profits that business has always promised? And finally, you will be able to achieve Alright, thanks so much for tuning in today for today's episode.
I hope you got a lot of value out of it.
And I look forward to continuing this journey into the power of systems to create results.
Look forward to seeing you on the next episode.
See you then.
