David Grau Sr.

But before you do that, that's a lot of work.

There's a fair amount of risk.

And...

Frankly, you'll just jump on that treadmill and you're gonna own a job with overhead.

So rather than do that, investigate the possibility of investing and buying in to where you started working.

But then we ran into another issue that came up and hopefully I'm solving it with another book I wrote called The Stewardship Advantage.

And if my black and white books are the how, the stewardship advantage is why.

So what I counseled a business owner like you to do, you know, in the first chapter of the book, before you do anything else, let's figure out why you're doing this.

Sit down and write out your mission, vision, purpose statement.

It doesn't have to be very long.

I mean, mine is like a total of 60 words, all of that.

Let's figure out what you're about besides making money.

And let's use your goals.

Maybe it's to, you know, Patagonia.

You know, their goal was to help make the world a better place by protecting the environment.

Maybe your job is, or your preference at your work is to take care of the local community.

I came, you know, from outside Portland, Oregon.

They wanted to help the homeless.

But whatever it is,

Write it down and operationalize it.