Quick Cut: S2E309 Getting Your Business in Order
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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Because they can struggle to get organized, many small business owners suffer with a constant sense of being behind. In this episode, Brian shares the five elements that entrepreneurs and small business owners can use to create more structure, eliminate overwhelm and succeed at the highest levels.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why business goals must be specific.
· How to track production stats.
· How a good coach can help.
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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“It's very easy for the business to own us, instead of us owning the business.” – Brian Buffini
“People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.” – Earl Nightingale
“You don't get paid for the hour, you get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – Jim Rohn
“What gets measured, gets managed.” – Peter Drucker
“Know your hourly worth.” – Brian Buffini
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching |
| 0:09.4 | company. Here's a short, classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:16.9 | Top of the morning to you, and welcome to today's episode, getting your business in order. |
| 0:22.8 | You know, the number one reason people sign up for our coaching program is actually to get |
| 0:27.1 | organized. I always find this amazing as our track record of significantly increasing people's |
| 0:33.5 | income is well documented. However, I believe that the feeling of being behind or that sense of |
| 0:39.9 | overwhelm is a burden that many small business owners experience. So today, we're going to help you |
| 0:46.6 | get organized and eliminate that feeling of overwhelm once and for all. I normally have three |
| 0:52.7 | major points for you, but today I'm going to cover the five |
| 0:55.1 | elements of what it takes to get your business in order. There's goals, your production stats, |
| 1:02.2 | core daily activities, profit and loss, and then SOPs, standard, operate and procedures. So let's |
| 1:09.9 | dive into this. Now, we're going to talk about goals. |
| 1:13.1 | The fact of the matter is we want goals, but to get your business in order, we're going to have |
| 1:18.5 | different types of goals, very specific type goals. First of all, production. This is the actual |
| 1:25.2 | productivity of our business, ultimately going into some form of sales |
| 1:30.3 | where we're moving the needle economically in our business, the output of our business. So it's the |
| 1:36.1 | sales, the economics of it, the inventory we're moving. This is production. And so we want to |
| 1:43.1 | make sure that we have very, very specific goals. |
| 1:46.1 | What are you trying to accomplish? And then you compare to it all the time. Okay, here's our |
| 1:51.2 | profit and loss statement for the month, for the quarter, or for the year. Here's how we were |
| 1:56.4 | compared to last year. And here's how we're doing compared to goal. Simple as that. Now, |
| 2:02.2 | I run a pretty good size business on these very same metrics I'm sharing with you. So first of all, |
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