I’m honestly pretty happy with the progress. That said, let’s get into a few things that I learned this month.

You know that saying that unless you fail, you never learn?

Well… I experienced a bit of that while I was out last week.

Without me in seat, my business basically broke down into shambles. Cleaners were scrambling, confused, and lost. Customers were dialing and wondering if I had ditched them after I took their credit card information.

This was even after I had prepped everything the week before, told them that I was going to be out, etc.

I thought I had left things in order.

But the thing is, that there’s unforeseen things that come up during the week, and at the current moment in time, I’m the only person that can solve those issues.

A few takeaways…

1. Over prepare. I prepared the business to the point where I assumed everything was going to go fine. I didn’t prepare the business for everything to go wrong— and that’s exactly what happened— everything went wrong.

2. Have systems (duh). I’m constantly on defense. A large part of my day goes to putting out fires that I think are symptoms of poor systems.

3. I need back up. I’m the bottleneck in my business growth. I need someone that can keep answering calls, leads, and booking people while I’m away.

Going on an off-grid vacation probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do when I’m the sole owner/operator of this business. But looking at how my weaknesses exposed me, I think it’ll make my business better in the long-run as I got a good sense of where things break. If that’s the case, then going off-grid is probably a healthy test of where you are with things.

I’ve never related to something so closely

And on that note… on to the next goal of hitting $20k/month 😂 

See ya,

David Rubalcava

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