Donald Burns argues raising standards means aligning your vision with your actions, not chasing perfection. You choose between excellence and ease, growth and comfort. Higher standards shift your environment, attract better talent, and turn the standard into a launch pad instead of a ceiling.
Raising your standards isn't about being a perfectionist. It's about creating alignment. Alignment between your vision and your actions. Do you want excellence or do you want ease? Do you want growth or comfort? Freedom or control? Because you can't have both. And the minute that you raise your standards, everything changes. Everything shifts. You attract better people. You make stronger decisions. It's not settling for just getting by. Your standard is the ceiling, but it can also be the launch pad if you're willing to raise it. Here's what I want you to do. Head to therestaurantcoach.com apply for a one on one strategy session with me personally. Let's raise your standard and build the restaurant and life that you were meant to have.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
