Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

I Stopped Chasing Revenue Here's What Changed

20 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this solo monologue, Mike Andes argues that entrepreneurial freedom stems from maintaining consistent profitability rather than pursuing ever‑higher top‑line revenue. He explains that scaling a business by adding more trucks, equipment, and staff without solid systems creates chaos and erodes personal time, especially family time. Andes emphasizes the need to identify the optimal business size that, when kept in profit mode, can sustainably support personal, family, and lifestyle goals. The core message is to shift focus from revenue growth to profit stability and purposeful scaling.

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Freedom comes from profit, not from getting more trucks and getting more equipment and hiring more people, which ultimately, if you don't have systems, creates more chaos and actually takes away from your freedom and the time that you have wanting to give to your family. And so whatever you started the business for, most of the time, it's not on the other side of growing top-line revenue. It's on the other side of staying in profit mode. Let that sink in. For any size of business, it is not on the other side of more revenue that all of your goals, hopes, and dreams happen. It's on the other side of staying in profit mode consistently. What you got to determine is what size of business do I need to get to that once I put the business in profit mode, it will serve all of my goals and the needs that I have for it, for my family, for my personal life, and the things that I'm trying to achieve outside of work.