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CHAPTER 4 BUILDING A BUSINESS THAT WORKS... WITHOUT YOU

You see, when you start off with a vision, that vision drives
and dictates how you spend your time daily. If you see your
company as a multi-million dollar enterprise with a hundreds
of staff in say ten countries then, from day one, you would
be doing things very differently. Instead of just focusing on
doing the operational work yourself, you would focus
your time building a system and constantly sourcing for
talented people who can build the business with you. You
would start to reinvest the money you earn and continuously
upgrade your skills, acquiring skills so necessary to run a
larger company.

Let me offer you a metaphor to illustrate how important having
a vision is. Before a builder goes about building a house,
what is the first thing he would need? Obviously he would
need the architect to draw the blueprint of the house. The
blueprint would tell the builder what the house should look
like when it is finally complete. What is the style of the house?
What are its dimensions? How many floors will there be?
What kind of materials will be used? How many doors and
windows will there be? What kind of flooring, etc...

With these specific plans, the builder can then go about
assembling his team to lay the foundations, to mix and pour
the concrete, to lay the bricks etc., constantly making sure
that whatever he is building follows the architectural plan to
the centimeter. Finally, the builder would have finished his job
when the house he has built is exactly the way the architect
has drawn it up - of course along the way, changes may have
to be made but, by and large, the house should be an authentic
replica of the drawings he was given. And that is how you
build a house.

What if I told you that I know a builder who is spending his

112 SECRETS OF BUILDING MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESSES