So true , and don’t forget to show appreciation to the ones that love and support you along the way

Applying these steps only works if you’re not the one wielding the hammer, driving the van, doing the estimates, making the relationships, teaching/ training the crews, running payroll, the highest skilled person in the company that every job needs in order to close out properly, the only one that answers the phone …. Literally the monkey with the full orchestra. I like the framework list . one of the things I gathered from it is, I cannot be the one in the field ,at all. I should only be focused on making relationships and establishing multiple reliable acquisition channels and somehow maintain my customer base. firing the two people I have working with me or at least not have them in the field anymore because they’re pretty much useless if I’m not there unless the task is simple, repetitive and requires no critical thinking . Since I can’t afford quality trained personnel, then I can only subcontract out , and look for quality contractors to do the work for me, then at that time I can start working on systems and processes for running my new business model, which only requires office work and a head in the office to manage the newly hired office people and make relationships for the company. Although I really truly enjoy doing what I do and feel accomplished after I complete a complicated project, me, being the one to apply my own technical skill, labor, and time for a project will never make me a ton of money. And I will always be the bottleneck for the company if I’m in the field. I’ve tried training many people to do what i do , but retention was a problem after they were trained, I’ve partnered with other competent contractors like myself but the partner would feel cheated if I spent time on the business and wasn’t in the field with them grinding , What are daily task? , do daily task consist of actually bringing a project to fruition or are daily task referred to, I don’t know, washing your clothes and reading emails? Right now, my place has been very clearly shown to be the person that is always called when something needs to get fixed and work is abundant . but because I am that person, I’m also not the person in the office trying to manage a business

Agreed on Plancrastination , also ,after reading this post and doing a little applied self analysis I think placrastination comes combined with self doubt. I can take on the most difficult physical and technical task that I’ve never done before in my trade and quickly apply the basics that I have mastered over years of experience and use creativity and ingenuity to fill in the gaps and turn over a good product . but, spend days ,weeks, months slowly putting together a plan to grow my business. And, never pulling the trigger because I’m afraid of “doing it wrong “. What if I hurt the business? What if I trigger a tax? What if , what If, what if … when all I need is a slow steady constant squeeze , keeping the rifle aimed down range . The hammer will fall, the rifle will send a bullet, the hard part is over, the shock has passed, now all I have do to is make my adjustments. Thank you for posting this David

“when you try to force behavior change through sheer resistance, you actively drain your cognitive resources” Damn, this hit hard.

Last week was tough, I caught myself stuck In a reactive wash cycle playing wack a mole, thinking ,if I just take care of this ,I’ll have time to focus on the important task smacking me on the back of my head . It was draining. So much of nothing got done . I had to force myself to step away , throw some holy water on the time devouring demon. Then turn my attention to accept the , what i believed was, “the hard task” . When all it was , was self doubt and self defeat before I started that was holding me back . Why do we do this to ourselves?