How you can be better at business doing one simple thing daily?

Jim Penman shares the one question he asks every day: How can I do this better? He traces it from mowing lawns to building a franchise empire, showing how small daily improvements compound over years.
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There's one bit of advice only that's the absolute creed of everything. Every day, look at what you're doing and ask yourself the question, how can I do this better? Now, if you read my book, and I hope you will, if you were here, everybody just get given a copy automatically. We'd love to love you all to read it. But if you look at that, you'll see the story of somebody who has so many reasons why I should fail. I've done so many stupid things in my life. I've got so many shortcomings, I'm socially incoherent. My wife says I'm borderline Asperger's. I'm so bad on social skills. I've done many, many dumb things in my life. But two things I've got a passion for service. Always have been service to my clients and service to my franchisees. And every day I ask myself the question every day of my whole life, what can you do better? How could you improve? How could we improve what we do everything that goes wrong. What did I mistake? Did I make? Well, how can we change the system? How can we improve the software? How can I talk to somebody, give them better guidance? How can I run section sessions better every day? If you do that, if you ask yourself every day how to do that better, you are going to be successful no matter where you start from. And you'll be absolutely amazed how far you can go. You get better and better and better and better, no matter where you start from. You could be a multimillionaire. You could be making a fantastic living working 15 hours a week. You can just achieve so much as long as you ask yourself that question. The problem is, I find that too many people get to the stage where they say, I'm now learned my destiny, I've got nothing else to learn. I don't need to talk to my franchisor, I don't need to go to meetings. I know everything. Let me tell you, I was lying in lawns 15 years and towards the end of that 50 years, the last lawns I was mowing professionally, I was still saying, how can I get round a tree faster? How can I do a cleaner job? How can I shut, take off, lose a second, I'll tune into my grass bag, always asking myself that question. And I just got better and better and better. And the same thing as a franchisor. You don't have no idea where you might end up. You might be a franchisee, you might just want to make a great lifestyle, great money and work limited hours. You might want to become a franchisor. You might want to start a different kind of business. You might want to start a new division. You might do something completely different from gyms. But because you've learned your business skills here, a lot of gyms people go on to great businesses in other areas, become property developers and they own nurseries, all kinds of things. Because this is a great starting business. But that one question. How can I do it better every day? Contact me anytime, Tony, you want to talk about it? Any ideas? Just contact me and ask me. You know, people often ask me and say, jim, I'll pay you any amount to be a business coach. You know, I don't mind paying you a thousand bucks an hour just to coach me on business. And I said, there's only one thing you can do. You buy Jim's franchise, then it's all free. Okay? You can contact me anytime. Phone, email, anything. But you have to be a franchisee.
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