Chaos feels like progress… until it isn’t.
Derek spent the first five years in reaction mode.
Whoever yelled loudest became the priority.
Every call was the emergency of the moment.
That works early.
It doesn’t scale.
The shift was simple. Not easy.
Break the business into steps.
Finding the house.
Funding the house.
Selling the house.
Managing the house.
Then build a process for each step.
Clean enough that someone else can run it.
Only after that do you push volume.
Overload the system.
Try to break it on purpose.
That’s how you find the constraints.
That’s how you actually grow.
If your business needs you everywhere…
you don’t have a business yet.
You have a job with good stories.