30 day business challenge, can you leave your business for 30 days?

Mike Callahan here with a 30-day business challenge, and no, it is not weight loss– if you’ve seen my midsection lately. But my question to you today is- Could you leave your business for 30 days and still have it running the same way it is today or even better without you? It got me thinking a lot of times as business owners we are a slave of our business and cannot leave the business. All things revolve around us is a single point of failure. Well, after taking a few days off here and thinking about Mike Michalowicz’s book Clockwork, I’m going to go through, starting next week, the things that you need to do in your business to basically be able to leave your business for 30 days. I want to say what’s up to David Long- I believe he’a got a birthday coming up or maybe today, so happy birthday, brother. But basically, we’re going to be looking at how to get out of your business for 30 days and set up process and systems to allow the business to run just like Mike Michalowicz talks about it in Clockwork. Now, this is something I’ve done in my business several times. Believe it or not, most of the time the business actually works better without me because I am trying to micromanage or am the bottleneck to growth. So we’re going to be going over starting next week the things that you need to set up in your business to be able to leave it for 30 days and above. Whether it’s a family emergency, or you just want to get away and enjoy some sun and fun, a lot of these business owners don’t have that option. So I’m going to go through and show you exactly what I did on my business journey in my lawn care business to be an absentee owner. So watch out for it starting next week.

So I guess the question today is, “Are you able to leave your business as it is for 30 days and let it run the same way it is without you?” Or do you even think this is possible? I’m here to tell you that it is possible, but there’s some naysayers outside. I would love to hear some comments and thoughts in this. But starting next week, the week of July 1st, 2019, I’m going to be posting pretty much every day possibly in a private Facebook group– or not even private, public Facebook group where we’ll keep that knowledge database of how to actually create a business you can leave for 30 days and become an absentee owner. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even reach out to Mike Michalowicz to see if he can give us a hand with some of the content and executable plans he put in his work Clockwork. But if nothing else, I’m going to go to and show you exactly how I did it in my business, some of the wins, some of the losses, and exactly how we made some of those losses success by overcoming a documenting process and system. So I want to say we talked to Josh as well- I know Josh has got one hell of a business in– he’s well on his way to creating that 30-day-free-from-the-business plan. So drop your comments, questions below. I’m going to back out of here but look for it starting next week, the week of July 1st, the 30-day plan or the things you need to have in place to get away from your business for 30 days. So any comments, questions, drop below. We’ll check them out. If not, we’ll see you next week with the steps you need to take step-by-step to create a business that will allow you to be an absentee owner for at least 30 days.