David Grau Sr.

And all the people you've hired have been trained to come to you with every problem.

And all of a sudden, you find out

hey, maybe I don't own a business.

I think I own a job.

I have a job, yeah.

My job is overhead.

I mean, that's not a good place to end up, you know, seven or eight years down the road.

Yep, I mean, and ultimately, you know, while you're there, you know,

you're the bottleneck and nobody wants to admit that or say that because for a long time there was no small business without you and what you did and how you did it i mean it's not like you opened it up you know and jumped on that treadmill and made a mistake no that that's how you start a small business the key is you have to learn

when to get off and maybe understand why.

If we can get you to recognize the problem and learn the why, then how is easy.

And so that's where I start.

Yeah.

I remember in my second small business, I was sitting there one day, and I brought in an outside consultant to kind of help me see around the next corner, because I was out of hours, and I was out of energy.

And so I had a law degree.

they don't teach you one minute of how to run a business in the law schools.

And so I sat down with a consultant and he followed me around and watched what I was doing for a long time.

And finally, you know, I was super busy one day and I was doing that.

Hey, boss, just one quick question.

You know, we couldn't get through a paragraph of anything in our discussion without somebody walking in for me to solve the problem.