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

Your Off Season Is Killing You

6 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this solo monologue, Mike Andes warns small‑business owners that the biggest threat to their companies isn’t the visible day‑to‑day hassles—flat tires, angry customers, or employee no‑shows—but the hidden, three‑month off‑season cash‑flow crater that silently drains profit. He frames this ignored financial gap as a "tax" that exacts a physical and emotional toll, arguing that hustling harder or extending work weeks cannot compensate for the loss. Instead of treating symptoms, Andes urges owners to confront the root cause, because the cumulative tax will eventually force them into comfortable but unproductive activities.

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Number 7, the problems you ignore become the tax you pay. Owners obsess over flat tires, angry customers, and no-shows from their employees, but ignore the one thing that kills the business, and that's the off-season collapse. No amount of hustle and no amount of 7-day work weeks and 15-hour days can overcome a 3-month cash crater where you're losing money every single month. Fix the root, not the symptom. And these conversations, these difficult things that we are ignoring, these problems that we're trying to get around, we solve it by just working harder, doing the things we're comfortable with. But there's a tax you pay, and that tax catches up with you. Physically, it drains you. Emotionally, it drains you. And eventually, you fill your time doing things that are comfortable instead of doing what is necessary.