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

The Leaders Who Win Think in YEARS... Not Months

10 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Mike Andes explains his personal definition of patience as a high tolerance for the pain of boring, often repetitive execution. He argues that true leaders think in multi‑year horizons (5–10+ years) rather than chasing short‑term growth targets. When a leader commits to a decade‑long plan—such as focusing on AI for the next five years—Andes says he grants them more credibility because long‑term thinking tends to lead to finishing the original goal, whereas frequent short‑term pivots usually result in never reaching a finish line. He emphasizes that patience may even mean deliberately doing nothing while waiting for the right moment, reinforcing the importance of sustained, boring work over constant change.

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The first one I had was just patience. And I define, like, Alex has a great working definition of patience, and that is like, what do you do in the meantime? Mine is high pain, a high pain tolerance for boring execution. So someone who thinks in terms of years instead of weeks and months. And so a lot of times people will be like, I wanna grow my business like next 6 months or 12 months. When I hear someone say like, for the next 10 years I'm doing this, over the next 5 years we're gonna be focused on AI. That's when I have a lot more credence to their leadership because I see the person that thinks in longer time horizons usually gets to the finish line instead of the person that is constantly finding a new finish finish line every few weeks. So my first one is patience and having that high pain tolerance for the boring execution. And sometimes the boring execution is not doing anything.