Entrepreneur or Overworked Employee? 😓 Break Free with Systems!

9 Oct 2024

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The speaker challenges the common myth that being self-employed automatically makes someone an entrepreneur, arguing many are effectively high-paid employees because their businesses stop when they stop working. He frames business owners as having three internal roles—technician, manager, and entrepreneur—and shows through examples (a one-man painter, real-estate agents selling only ~5–7 homes/year) how staying in the technician role and lacking systems prevents growth and freedom.

It's this myth that just because you're in business for yourself, you're like an entrepreneur. It's a myth because you have no freedom whatsoever. If you stop doing the thing, the business doesn't do anything. You don't own a business, you just have a high paying job for the most part. So there are three different people inside of us. Most agents, there's the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur. Most agents live in the technician role, meaning they're just doing the stuff. They're doing nuts and bolts. They don't have a grand vision and they don't have any systems. The one man painter that he's got to sell the job, then he's got to get on the ladder, buy the paint, do the paint, fix up the holes, and then he can't get his next job because he's doing the stuff. Your business will be this just roller coaster. And we see that in real estate. And that's why, you know, the average agent sells what, like five, six, seven homes per year. It's because we're doing all this stuff.