The Three Roles

Which one
runs your day?

Every owner is three people at once. One of them is running your calendar right now — and the other two are starving. Five questions. No email required.

Artist

Creator

Operator

Technician

Entrepreneur

Visionary

Step 1 of 7

First

What are you best at?

Not your job title. The thing you do better than the people around you — the reason your business exists at all.

Write it plainly. This becomes the first line of your card, in your own words — and it never leaves this device.

Question 1 of 5

Where did yesterday actually go?

Not where you meant it to go. Where it went.

Doing the work myselfBecause it has to be right, and right means me. Keeping things runningChecking, confirming, making sure nothing slipped. Chasing what's nextThe new idea, the new deal, the new direction. Putting out fires I didn't startReacting all day to other people's problems.

Question 2 of 5

When you get slammed, what breaks first?

Everyone has a first casualty. Yours says a lot.

The systemsI stop tracking and start improvising. The new ideasEverything ambitious gets shelved. The qualityI rush the work I'm normally proud of. Nothing breaks — I just stop sleepingI absorb it personally instead.

Question 3 of 5

What do you avoid?

Be honest. Nobody sees this but you.

Paperwork and adminThe boring machinery of the business. Selling and being visibleMarketing myself feels like bragging. FinishingThe last 20% is where I lose interest. Letting goHanding my work to someone else.

Question 4 of 5

It runs perfectly without you for a month. You feel:

Gut reaction, not the answer you're supposed to give.

ProudThat was the entire point. UneasyNobody does it the way I do it. RelievedI could finally think again. RestlessI'd have started something new by week two.

Question 5 of 5

What's the real bottleneck?

The one you'd admit at 11pm, not the one you'd say in a meeting.

MeEverything funnels through one person. TimeThere simply isn't enough of it. FocusToo many directions at once. SystemsWe're winging far too much of it.

Last one

What would change everything this year?

This decides what we point your role at.

More of the right customers My time back A business that runs without me Higher prices for the same work

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