Working 7 day weeks?
There is an awful lot more to life than work...I work for a living, I don't live to work.
To be successful you need to learn to delegate, you simply cannot do it all yourself.
Don't get me wrong, if it is required that I have to work on a weekend I'll do so, but that is a very, very rare thing indeed.
During the week, whilst at work I'll often work far more hours than most window cleaners too.
I would say that most will start somewhere between 8am and 9am and be back home again somewhere between 3pm and 4pm.
My day often starts somewhere between 6am and 7am and I'll work till 5pm and beyond.
So I do work hard, but I now also earn very good money too.
Building a business and making it grow beyond that of a sole trader of course takes more effort, but work is like a drug, and you can get dragged into doing more and more hours.
To grow you just have to learn to delegate, there are only so many hours in the day, and one man can only do so much.
I think that Gary should now be one of his business's overheads.
Currently I do: Book jobs
Some of the invoiceing
All the qoutes
All the tenders
Carpet cleaning
Pressure washing
Window cleaning
& Any general duties of running a business.
Carpet cleaning, pressure washing and window cleaning should be done by employees, that should free up considerable time for you to run the business, and if the office side of things is also swallowing up your time, then get yourself a secretary, even if only part time to ease your workload.
you can then concentrate on building and running your business.
You need balance in life and work, and as said, work can be addictive, and most addicts end out with ruined health, be it drugs, booze, gambling or work, overdo them and they will wreak havoc!
Ian