Trevor Mauch outlines three things a business must do for you: energize you with work you enjoy, fund the life you actually want, and create impact you're proud of. He offers a free energy audit tool at carrot.com/energy to track this quarterly. Right-size your company to match your income needs, not your ego.
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And so there's 3 things, Shona, that I've come to over the years that a business should do for us. And as long as we focus on these 3 things, it puts us in the right mindset. Um, number 1, a business should give us work that interests and energizes us most of the time. Now, you're not gonna always have work give you energy, uh, every single second, but if most of our work is draining our energy, we're doing something wrong. Uh, we, I've got a process called the energy audit. Uh, people can just grab it for free, carrot.com/energy. Care.com/energy. Just go grab it. There's a video I walk through how to use it. And if you just do that 15 minutes a quarter, it's going to help you get more of your work to give you energy. The second thing a business should do for you should fund your vision, meaning you should have some idea of what kind of life you want and how much that might cost you. Because I see people building businesses way too big, and same thing, getting gobbled up by their business, that their vision actually needs an income half that big. And, and they just are probably growing it for ego or for fear. And so right-size the business to fund the vision that you got. And then number 3, our business should give us, um, give us impact that we're proud of, that we get to show up every day going, I'm not just doing this to put food on the table, I'm not just doing this to, you know, to, to get a paycheck, but, um, I, I'm interested in it. Yes, it does fund the life that I want to have, including my philanthropy or whatever else, but you know what, I enjoy that I get to impact people's lives. And whatever that impact is for you, doesn't matter. Just whether emotionally, if it emotionally pulls you forward in your business to excite you to get up and do what you're about to do because you're emotionally tied to this impact, that is the right impact for you. So, give your work the interest that energizes you. Number 2, fund the vision. Number 3, an impact that you're proud of. Just recognize the business is a tool to do those things. You are not the tool for the
