Bill owns a successful construction business. Not only that, but he has secured enough personal assets to retire comfortably while his business is earning 7-figures annually. While many would envy his position, his dilemma was that he didn’t want to sell his business. Instead, he wanted to pass it onto his kids who worked there because he felt a strong sense of obligation to the employees who gave their working lives to the company.
The problem was that the business still needed his skills to run properly, so he couldn’t just stop working or risk business failure. To make matters worse, Bill’s doctor even broke the harsh news that his business was costing him heartbeats: “Every day you go to work, you shorten your life.” There wasn’t an ideal solution – he didn’t want to sell it, but he couldn’t keep working so hard to put his health and life in danger.
Luckily Half-Retirement saved the day. It offered the perfect solution which would allow Bill to stay involved in the business but without the high toll on his health.
Being a super-salesman with the ability to close deals like no one else was also a sticking point; however, instead of needing to delegate it like he previously thought he had to, he changed his mindset to offloading work. The five-step process revealed in the Half-Retire system allowed him to offload nearly all the sales functions. In fact, just 1-year into living the Half-Retirement lifestyle, he had removed 100% of his sales responsibilities!
Still, to this day, Bill enjoys going to work, and he never wants to fully retire because his socal connections are at work, and it gives him happiness to contribute to the community there. Most importantly, at the last health checkup he had, his doctor said that his business is no longer costing him heartbeats.
“Running a $100M+ company means you are responsible for a lot of people’s livelihoods. I was scared to death about removing myself from the primary sales role. I was worried that without my relationships, we could not close deals. It took a year, but I’ve completely removed myself from any sales work and have taken on a more strategic role at the company.”