Build a business that leaves room for life

Published 2 months ago • 3 min read

Hi Reader,

1. A quick word from Zach

It’s easy to tell yourself you’ll build margin later. But if you don’t intentionally build a business with room for family, church, sickness, emergencies, and the unexpected, you may wake up one day inside a profitable cage of your own making.

2. Something worth listening to

This week, check out the EntreLeadership episode, “The Real Reason You’ll Never Grow Your Business.” It’s a fitting companion to this topic because it gets right to the heart of building margin, handing off responsibility, and creating a business that can keep moving when life pulls you somewhere else.

3. Something worth thinking about

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Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit'— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.'

~ James 4:13-15

4. Something worth trying

Take 10 quiet minutes this week and answer these questions honestly:

What kind of life do I actually want my business to support - not someday, but in this season?
If life happened this week in a big way, how much could my business keep moving without my constant presence?
What is one change I could make now to build more margin, flexibility, or shared responsibility into the business?

That's it from me this week.

P.S. If today's issue of Dear Sam blessed you or challenged you, would you forward it along to a brother who might need to hear it as well?

To thriving,

Zach Wise

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