When I first started teaching Financial Peace University classes, I drive to the venue, set up all the equipment, teach for hours, break down the equipment, get home exhausted, and then do it all over again.

Multiple nights a week all by myself. And that's how it is when you're starting out, everything depends on you. You're the salesperson, the operator, the customer service department, the janitor, all of it. And that may work for a while, but you can't unplug. Because if you stop, the business stops and suddenly you're no longer running the business, it's running you. That's exactly where I was before I hired my first team member, Russ Carroll,

and that changed everything. Because if you want to scale, you can't keep doing what you've

always done, at least not without running yourself into the ground. So today, Entree Leadership's

head coach John Falcons is going to break down the four things you've got to get right if you

want to get off the treadmill and build a business

that can actually grow beyond you. Let's get to it.

I once coached a guy who was a veterinarian cardiologist. He had even performed heart surgery

on a polar bear. He was one of 300 people in the world that were doing this, and he was good

at his job, his business was thriving,

and he was in high demand and making good money.

But he was exhausted.

He wanted to pull back a little bit, but he couldn't,

because he was the only one in his business who could do what he did.

Now, you may not be a polar bear heart surgeon,

but if you're a doctor, a lawyer, a mechanic, or really any other business owner, you may not be a polar bear heart surgeon, but if you're a doctor, a lawyer, a mechanic,

or really any other business owner, you've probably felt this before.

I just spoke to a guy the other day who installs fiber optic cable.

When he was getting started, he had to be on the drill at 7 a.m. in the morning, work all day,

and then do paperwork until he fell asleep at night.

That's the epitome of what it means to be in the treadmill operator stage.

We know that most of you are in this stage, and here's what it feels like.

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