Profits & Pints Recap — June 2025
- Strategic Business Coaching
- Jun 30
- 2 min read
Updated: 4 hours ago
Think Like an Owner: Why Doing Everything Yourself Is Hurting Your Business
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What’s the difference between a business owner and an overworked technician?
It’s not experience. It’s not talent.
It’s how they spend their time.
At this month’s Profits & Pints, we tackled a simple but powerful question:
Are you running your business like an owner? Or are you stuck doing everything yourself?
Spoiler: most hands in the room went up when I asked, “Who did something this week you probably shouldn’t be doing anymore?”
The Big Idea: Busy Doesn’t Mean Profitable
We broke down the three roles every business owner plays:
Technician – doing the work
Manager – coordinating the work
Owner – setting direction and creating space for growth
Most small business owners spend way too much time in technician mode. And while that might keep things moving in the short term, it’s a fast track to burnout and it limits profitability.
When you're doing everything:
You underprice based on time
You skip planning for growth
You delay team development
You become the bottleneck
Sound familiar?
The Visual That Hit Home
We used a simple pie chart exercise to help participants visualize how they’re currently spending their time. Most realized they were stuck in the “doing” slice, with very little time left for leading or even managing.
That moment of clarity led to a powerful next step...
The Tool: Delegate & Elevate
Using a model from EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), we helped attendees map out their weekly tasks into four categories:
Love Doing | Don't Love Doing | |
Great At | Your zone of genius 🟢 | Automate or delegate 🟡 |
Not Great At | Learn or release 🟡 | Offload ASAP 🔴 |
From there, everyone chose one task to delegate, document, or systemize—something they knew was draining energy or blocking their business from growing.
Real Talk from the Room
We heard from owners struggling to let go of tasks like:
Email communication
Sales handoffs
Training new hires
Bookkeeping
Cleaning (personal and professional!)
And what made the conversation so powerful was the honesty—not just about the tasks, but about the fear of letting go. As one attendee shared, “If I do it, I know it’ll get done right. But it’s keeping me from growing.”
Bingo.
The Takeaway
“Profit doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from doing the right work.”
You started your business for freedom, not just to stay busy.
If you want your business to grow (and eventually run without you), it starts with clarity:
✅ Know what you're great at
✅ Let go of the rest
✅ Build systems and hire to fill the gaps
It doesn’t happen overnight. But small changes, done consistently, create real momentum.
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Until next time—cheers to smart moves and great conversation.
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