Hey guys, Welcome back to Kingdom
Business TV appreciate you joining me
how you in this video I want to talk
about the four levels of
entrepreneurship and and we're going to
kind of build a bit of a ladder out so
that you can see the progression and my
purpose of doing this is to kind of hold
a bit of vision out in front of you
right so that you can get
inspired about a big bright future and
and you can start to see the steps that
you've got to go through between where
you are now and seeing that grand vision
come to pass right and we've got a
little bit of show-and-tell that we are
going to be doing here as well alright
so let's get straight into it when we
talk about these levels please I want
you to understand I want to give you
permission actually whatever level
you're at out of the four levels of
entrepreneurship whatever level you're
at today I want to say it's okay alright
this is not about beating you up or
saying you're not good enough I want to
say wherever you're at today is okay but
just don't stay there right that's the
caveat it's about being okay with the level
you're at today and then being somewhat
uncomfortable with dissatisfying with it so
that it want to propel you on to
achieving a higher level of success as a
kingdom entrepreneur all right you know
like when you think about the Apostle
Paul, We wouldn't typically call him my
entrepreneur except we know that three
times in Scripture he kind of went away
and and built tents he was a tent maker
so he he definitely had his own side
hustle or business depending on how you
want to look at it but you know one of
the things that he said has always
struck me right Philippians 3:14
somewhere in there, he says I pressed
towards the goal the mark of my upward
calling you know and he was always
pressing always growing always advancing
always pushing forward if it's good
enough for Paul it's good enough for me
all right so we're gonna put that into
the context of entrepreneurship and
build out the four levels using a ladder
or I'm gonna go to the iPad here and
you'll be able to follow along right
I've got it all written out here so
we're gonna we're going to kind of go
through right so the bottom level here
the bottom level is the Technician right
so
like any time you've ever climbed a
ladder you have to start at the bottom
right it's like yeah I'm sorry but you
just can't start at a lot of halfway up
you have to go rung by rung it gets very
risky if you try and climb a ladder and
start skipping rungs all right so we
actually, we all have to go through the
phase of going through all of these four
steps so we all kind of start as the
technician so I'm just going to make a
bunch of notes here about how that looks
at each level right so the technician
they predominantly work in the business
right now that maybe you that may be
you that you might be you might be
sitting there any thinking well that's
me I have to work in the business all
the time right and by the way you
have to you've got  to build
some client you got to do some things
you've got to make some money right
ultimately you have to work in the
business at this bottom level and that's
just a sign of where you're at a couple
of other things basically, this is this
is really interesting your output is
completely tired to your input
meaning that you know like if it's you
and maybe and maybe it's you and another
person on the team but effectively you
can't multiply the output so the outputs
that you can produce as a single
operator or you know in a small team of
two or three is dependent on your
input you've got to put all of the time
in to be able to get all of the inputs
out all right so by the way this is the
point where it's it's earned income all
right you have to every single dollar
right every single dollar that you make
at this point here is because you went
and did the work okay again
essential but hard
alright so earn the income only and
you're very limited in the amount of
money that you can make
we're going back to the
output and the input the reason why
you're very limited is there's only so
much you can do you know in a sixty or
seventy hour week right there's only so
much you can do in that much time as
some of you might be thinking I do a
40-hour week well I had a part
job too once alright so there's only so
much you can do on your own in a week
right you know you there's got to be
enough time if you're a husband or if
you're if you're a wife if you're if
you're a father like you've got to
you've got to look after your health so
there's demands on you in a week
that you've got to fit in so you can't
just work right you've got to sleep
you've got to eat you go do those things
okay. So there's only so much output and so
much income you can earn as a technician
because you have to do all the inputs
yourself here's a bit of a downside
right this level for most people is
their comfort zone okay and that's the
reason why they stay there that's the
downside here's what I would say to you
though the massive mistake of staying as
a technician is it requires very little
leadership you've only got to lead you
all right it's almost selfish if I can
be honest right to stay at that level
forever basically you can tap out at any
level of the ladder or you can tap out
and say that's me I'm done this is my
comfort zone and I'm finished I would
suggest to you that it's a really bad
idea because your job is to grow into
everything God's got for you and you
know he didn't tap out early Jesus
completed everything he was called to do
and we would do well to be the same so
you can tap out and many people tap out
a technician right they try
and grow a little bit it all gets hectic
and gets heavy they can't control it all
and so they just go back to being a
technician just let me be on the tools
do you know how many times I've had to
cover conversation with with with people
and they're like I put on a team and it
was just too much hard work I made more
money by myself yeah you made you've
made more money by yourself in the first
little period of time but you weren't
prepared to push through
you didn't grow as a leader to attract a
bigger team and to get more outputs okay
that's the reason people get to the
point where it's painful and they go
back to technicians so if that's where
you are today it's great but please
don't stay there alright so the next
level up after technician is when we get
to Business Owner
now you might be thinking well I had I'm
a business owner as a technician well
technically you are because you might have a
proprietary limited company or a sole
trader but I would suggest you're not
you don't actually own a business at
that point you've just got a job that
you're not paid by one person you're
paid by multiple with your clients but
it's effectively a slightly more
flexible job when you get to a business
owner what happens here at this point
here you're effectively working in the
business okay because you have to but
you also get to work on the business
right as a business owner but this time
you've put a few team around you all
right you're going to be of a team
happening and so at this point going
back to the inputs outputs the output is
not tired purely to your input right
let's say you've got a team of five six
seven people around you well you're
probably putting out three to four times
as much output sales revenue
productivity jobs as you were when you
were by yourself you still contributing
the same 50-60 hours a week right it's
the same input from you at the business
owner level as it is at the technician
level but the outputs are multiplied
because the team helped you get more
done okay it's starting to look a little
bit attractive at this point one of the
beautiful things here is that you're one
of your roles becomes leading the team
all right which I'm always a big fan of
let me write that so it doesn't look
like Chook scratchings leading the team
cool that's pretty cool
now here's what I would say to you there
was a bit of a downside to the business
out there the upside is you get to
multiply your outputs and you don't have
to multiply your inputs same input more
output right the downside is that of all
the levels of the ladder is this one has
the most pressure because now you
are responsible for not only your life
and maybe your family's life but you're
actually responsible for the lives of
the people that you've chosen to employ
and their families and so forth right so
it comes with the most amount of
pressure at this point because you know
you're kind of juggling a lot of things
now please understand at business owner
you're still gonna have to be
the business but it affords you the
luxury of working on the business being
strategic getting your heads in the
cloud coming up with strategies and
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let's go a little bit further up the
chain here and let's go to the next
level which is when you become the CEO
so think about this a little bit right
what does the CEO do that is different
from the business owner well I think the
criteria of when you go from business
owner to CEO you know one of them is the
size of your team that would be a bit of
an indicator that you've progressed but
I think the main indicator that you've
got a CEO is that now you can take
extended periods of time away from the
business and it maintains itself or
grows okay that's when you've got to the
point where you're the CEO if you can
take a four week holiday a six week
holiday or you know four lots of four week
holidays or whatever like extended
breaks which means that you've
systemized set of team leadership
structure you've got to have that in
place to be able to you know withdraw
yourself so you can go and do something
and then when you come back you come
back to something better than a burnt
down business in a car park right if
you've got that then you've
probably migrated to the level of CEO so
what happens here basically you're the
captain, right now you think about what a
captain does captain of a ship captain
of a pilot right you know basically
they've got knobs and dials and reports
and their job is to maintain set the
course make sure everyone's happy we're
having a win managing any issues on the
way to the destination right that's the
captain as the CEO their main role is to
deploy cash and resources so
they're hardly in the business at all
and let me just say at the
CEO level of business owner level you
may still want to be in the business so
please understand that this is not about
saying you can never be in the business
far too many of you are far too
much in the business but you're allowed
at these levels, you can go back and be
in the business for a period
overtime because you love it right if
you genuinely love what you do you may
choose to go back and be in the business
and do some of the products and services
whatever that is but you don't have to
be right so your goal as the CEO is to
deploy assets and deploy resources and
say okay
um I want to go and chase this
opportunity I'll raise the finance and
we'll go and get that bit done and we'll
grow the business that way and then
we'll chase this opportunity and then
we'll go here and we're gonna handle
this negotiation and so forth
that's what a CEO is doing at this level
and then basically you get to just
project manage which by the way please
understand is far less taxing on you
then being a technician alright at this
point here you literally get to you know
deploy assets deploy resources and see
projects come to fruition but you know
let's just look at a tradie situation at
the bottom if you're a Tiler you're the
one on your knees laying the tiles
laying the grout mix it all you've got a
little apprentice right at the CEO level
right you've got a whole team you're out
there and as a project, you're like okay
what am I need to do I need to go and
get vehicles for my entire team that's
my project deploy the resources get them
all negotiate them sign run it's nowhere
near as hard on your knees as the CEO as
it is as a technician of a tiling
business right so so that's kind of like
one of the reasons why you want to try
and progress up to here and so forth
right so then we get to this last level
here which is Investor and let me tell
you this one is fun this one is where
you get most of the upside this is when
you get the chute the biggest amount of
output for the least amount of input
right so at this point here, your job is
to accumulate and multiply assets
and there is an unlimited upside when you
when you hit the investor level because
because you've got you've got you got
things rolling you've got assets you've
got yield they're growing they're
multiplying you've got cash flow off
them and you can buy some more which
means you get more you know it's
basically four green houses one red
hotel if you've ever played Monopoly
right things start to really you know
expand and so forthright quick question
for you guys what level of the ladder
are you at right now put that answer in
to the comments below for me what level
on the ladder are you at right now
remember we're gonna champion you no
matter which level of the ladder you're
on it's okay that you're there it's just
not okay to stay there all right so at
the investor level right you know you
you basically you don't worry about it
taking extended breaks at the investor
level you this very little you can
actually do your acquiring assets
there's not a whole lot you could do to
make that asset you know better or
faster like if you give an example if
you were to go and buy a whole bunch of
stocks in a blue chip company for
example this is very little you could do
to make that company more valuable less
valuable helping out you know like you
can't do anything so so it's it's
incredibly time valuable because it
takes a little bit of time and then and
you can't add any value to it you can't
do much you know if you bought a house
and you've renovated it and you put a
tenant, in there's not a lot you can do
then you just collect rent so the inputs
are really low but the outputs are
absolutely massive right now a couple of
thoughts here ah that the mistake a lot
of people make and perhaps even I did
when I first started in business
definitely, a mistake that most younger
generation people do is they want to be
an investor that don't invade what they
think the ladders upside down they think
I want to be an investor like yeah but
the problem with starting out as an
investor is you've got no money right
you've actually got to go through the
ladder to be able to do this well and
for example I meet people all the time
that say to me I want to be an investor
my business is throwing off two grand a
month profit you know that I could start
to invest I'm like if you start an
investing portfolio with two grand
it's gonna take you your whole life to
get hardly any assets if you've got two
grand a month invest it back in the
business right go from a technician to a
business owner by employing someone and
then you've got more money more output
which then your business is
producing three grand a month and then
put that back and you know it
listen it's probably not until you
can start to take harder know seven to
15 grand a month out of your business to
invest that you're really gonna warrant
doing it right underneath all of that
you better to put the money back in the
business to multiply the profits to be
able to do it better all right so
there's a couple of thoughts here right
don't jump too early and try and be an
investor because it looks good and
sounds good right just stick to what God
has for you and stay on the path and
you'll do a much better job these three
levels here by the way these three
levels here the purpose of these is to
build your cash cow the reason why you
progress from technician a business
owner CEO is to build that cash cow so
that you can invest incredibly well
another thought I've got for you though
is you know I've often said to you guys
the pursuit of wealth is noble and I
fully believe that as a Christian
entrepreneur as a Bible-believing Holy
Spirit-filled God-fearing man, I believe
that the pursuit of wealth is Noble as
long as it's about other people the
other reason up apart from apart from
ending up with more money so that you
can fund more projects and fund more
churches the other reason that's the
obvious reason the other reason is that
as you climb the ladder right you get to
become the person that God had for you
all along when you decide to play the
big game and go through this and chase
down the dream of investor, you're forced
the journey is so long and so hard that
you're forced to refine your character
and you're forced to lean on God and so
just as much as as the money and maybe
more the reason why you want to go
through this process is to become a
person that looks more like God at the
end you
grow in His image far more through the
mill right and and and through the
valley and through the hardship of the
journey than you ever will if you tap
out early take the easy road and play
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alright a couple more thoughts here your
comfort zone will be the killer to you
extending your way through the ladder
some people get to technician and
they're like this is my lot in life I'm
just happy to be a single operator and
do that I would say great it's great
that you're there please don't stay
there okay you're going to make more
money if you expand maybe not in a three
six nine twelve-month window but over
time but it doesn't require the
leadership right and the more people
you've gotten the bigger vision you've
got the more you step into it the more
you have to become and that's so
valuable and then I kind of want to do a
bit of a picture here with these hats
you know depending on where you are as
we all start out we are the technician
and by the way it's okay if you're the
technician we were all the technician
you take the largest companies in the
world once well one person grinding it
out and then they grew every big
business started out small so if that's
where you are today I want to champion
you that you're doing a ripper job but
just don't stay there when you're the
technician you're the person on the
tools you're doing the grind you're
doing the work and that's a good thing
we all have to do that but I want to say
to you at some point in your day in your
week in your month you need to start to
remove the technician hat and at some
point for some period of time put on
your business owner hat okay in the same
week that you're probably wearing your
technician have for 47 hours you need to
find three hours to put on your business
owner hat where's the vision where's the
growth what's the strategic objectives I
need to be doing right now
do I need to raise capital do I need to
turn on Adwords don't need to upgrade
the website should be running Facebook
Ads don't need a recruitment process do
I need some software right business
owner and then once you've been business
owner and then you can go back to being
your technician okay it's okay to go
backwards
we're all gonna go through periods of
time where we go up and down in our
roles and then you do this for a little
in your technician then you get to be
the business owner for a little bit
longer and then you spend most of your
time being the business owner this is
where this is where most of your time
sits right what a blessing that would be
you've got a team it's a bit of pressure
for you but you're multiplying your
output right but then you always want to
be aiming for the next hat even if it's
for a small period of your week because
then you get to be the CEO all right so
you might spend the bulk of your week as
the business owner but now you're the
CEO you're raising capital you're
deploying assets you're deploying
resources you're picking strategic
direction you're able to get a break
take the family away right get to get
some time to recalibrate but you may not
get to be the CEO all of the time you
need to go back down and be the business
owner from time to time I want to tell
you that that's okay because after a
while what's gonna happen is you're
going to spend more time in the CEO hat
and you're gonna really start to enjoy
it because the fruits of your labor are
there but we always want to be chasing
the next hat so at some point in your
week you're going to have to take this
down now your business is profitable and
you're going to start to become the
investor and maybe it's only a short
part of your week but that's okay you're
going to start to think about what's the
assets what entities do I need to
start am I doing these kinds of trusts
these kinds of trust
holding trust me to learn all about that
so that I can then buy assets and asset
protect myself all right and then you'll
be like I can't get carried away as an
investor because I've got a business to
run I need to be the CEO and that's fine
because it's great to be the CEO but
you'll spend the bulk of your time like
this and then after a period of time you
will get to make the switch and you can
sit in the seat of investor for the rest
of your life let me tell you that that's
the ultimate joy you're gonna have not
only are you going to make more money
but you're gonna and have some
fruits of your labor because you don't
have to do all the input to get the
whole thing moving but let me tell you
at some point there you're going to grow
into the potential that God put inside
of you and the worst thing I believe you
want to do is get to the end of your
life and realize that God had a lot more
seeds inside of you but you never plumb
the depth of your potential and you
never got to see them but it's too late
to ever go that's my little rant there for a moment
so that's my thoughts for you right the
reason, why I want to cast this vision, is
because in my opinion one of the things
that we need to do in the kingdom of God
for it to advance is fun things yes
there is a whole school of thought that
says God doesn't need our money in my
experience from a be God doesn't need
our money but churches do soup kitchens
do Crusades do buying other businesses
so you can employ people and give people
opportunities and jobs requires finance
and that's why we should be progressing
through all of this and going for as
much as we can so it doesn't matter
where you sit today and how much of this
hat you wear and how much of this hat
and then it doesn't matter how much time
you're spending with each of these hats
I guess what I would say to you is spend
more time in the next hat spend more
time there because it's gonna drag you
up the ladder you'll be more strategic
it'll be far more rewarding your start
to see the fruits of all your labor and
that's gonna bring you a peace and a joy
that you will not experience if you stay
small well that's my thoughts put in the
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