Having Your Cake & Eating It Too!

A golden slice of glazed bundt cake, symbolizing the sweet rewards of redefining your entrepreneurial legacy without walking away.

You know that feeling when you’re supposed to be planning your exit... but you’re not actually ready to EXIT?

>>>>>That’s where Robert was.

Sitting across from me at hunt camp, wood smoke clinging to our clothes, his eyes reflecting campfire flames as he talked about the business he’d built.

No succession plan. No exit strategy. No desire to just... stop.

And why should he?

Ephesians 2:10 whispers this truth: we are “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

Notice it doesn’t say: “...until you hit 65, then please stop immediately and watch TV until you die.”

(I actually knew a banker who did that. Retired at 65. Went home. Turned on the TV. Was gone within a year, King Charles).

Your unguarded strength as an entrepreneur? That DRIVE that built everything? It doesn’t just switch off.And it shouldn’t have to.

Robert joined our Breakthrough Mastermind because he was STUCK.

With our help, he’d already handed his first business to his son (smart move). But business #2? Total gridlock.

His general manager wouldn’t buy it. He couldn’t figure out why. The succession planning books weren’t helping.

>>>>>Then came the hot seat.<<<<<<

You know what the “hot seat” is, right? When everyone in the Breakthrough mastermind focuses their collective wisdom on YOUR problem?

Here’s what the “tens” in our group saw that Robert couldn’t:

His general manager didn’t just want the BUSINESS. She wanted HIM.

Not romantically!🤣

She wanted his wisdom. His presence. His expertise.

The breakthrough came when Robert realized:

“The smallest minds in a room can shut down the biggest ideas.”

But the BIGGEST minds in a room? They help you see what you’re too close to notice.

Clarity comes before breakthrough. 

Your challenge: What if finishing well doesn’t mean LEAVING? What if it means TRANSFORMING your role?

Succession planning requires a shifting of roles. You may have always been the leader in suggesting and promoting solutions. However, you now need to become the guiding coach with probing questions.

Robert’s breakthrough?

He agreed to stay involved on a per diem basis. The deal closed by December 31st. His general manager became the new owner.

And Robert?

He’s living Succession planning breakthrough #7: Having your cake and eating it too.

Picking only clients he loves. Traveling with his wife to jobs across the country. Working when he wants, with whom he wants.

No more material possessions. Just experiences. Adventures.

The world ahead is nothing like the world behind.

(Ted Bolsinger wrote that in “Canoeing in the Mountains”)

That’s why 70% of businesses fail to make it to their second generation.

But you? You don’t have to navigate alone.

>>>>>Begin these conversations now to minimize relational conflict later.

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Because finishing well doesn’t mean quitting. It means flourishing in a new chapter.

Harry T. Jones

P.S. Sometimes... you really can have your cake and eat it too!