Hi — Yann here. I hope you had a solid week.
I have been thinking about my years as an electrician: seventeen years before I became an entrepreneur. It sounds long. For me it was an extraordinary apprenticeship.
That craft is a large reason my business looks the way it does today.
In that trade, the smallest gap in method can become a disaster. I still remember a site where the plan was misread — the whole installation ended up off by a mile.
Result: everything had to be redone. Hours lost. Frustration for everyone.
I took more lessons from that than from most “strategy” books.
Everything starts with a clean foundation
It is the same for an independent operator. When you skip the foundations, problems stack:
You launch a campaign without clarifying the message — and it falls flat.
You accept a project without understanding the client’s real expectations — then spend hours correcting.
You chase a new idea without asking whether it fits the larger vision.
Like bad wiring, these errors look minor at first. Over time they weaken everything you have built.
What can the electrician’s craft teach you? Method, rigor, and building step by step — keys that change how you assemble a project.
Tinkering is not a strategy
I see this often with founders I coach. The urge to act fast wins — and the bill arrives:
You decide without checking essential information: you ship an offer without testing the audience — a temporary fix that costs for years.
You multiply useless actions: effort scatters and never converges on a real result.
You ignore warning signals: months on an idea with no feedback — then you discover a saturated market or an uninterested audience.
Acting that way is like laying cables without checking where they lead. In electricity you get a fragile network that can fail anytime.
In business it is the same: every incoherent or under-prepared action weakens the whole project.
Last year I coached Anne. She wanted to become a woman who could carry an ambitious project. The further she went, the more lost she felt — hours polishing tiny details, postponing the important moves.
She moved without a plan, energy in every direction, never feeling progress. In June she told me: “I want to be that ambitious woman — and I feel like I am running in circles.”
We started with foundations: reconnect actions to a clear vision, dismantle the fears, structure each step with method.
In her words:
“Yann is a coaching magician. His ability to take us to the right place while mastering our resistances still astonishes me. Through simple, precise questions he helps me drop the armor and meet myself. Thanks to him I cleared major obstacles that blocked the ambitious woman I am today. For all of that and more — thank you, Yann!!” — Anne
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Work like an electrician: precise, patient, effective
On every site, each step was anticipated to avoid errors and deliver an installation that lasts. Why not apply the same principles to your projects?
Start by reading the plans. In electricity I analyzed schematics in detail before touching a wire. For you: a clear plan before you launch — so you know where you are going and how you will get there.
Every connection must be solid. On site I checked each cable before the next step. If you advance without validating, invisible errors pile up and explode at the worst moment. Validate as you go.
Standards exist for a reason. Ignore them in electricity and you risk outages — or worse. In business, rigorous process is what makes the work durable.
Patience is the thread that holds it together. In electricity it means every plan respected, every connection checked, every standard applied without rushing. Entrepreneurship is the same.
As FasterCapital notes on patience and trusting the process as an entrepreneur, patience lets you lay solid foundations and make clear decisions — even when urgency pushes you to race.
That often-neglected quality is the difference: it keeps you aligned, methodical, and confident at each stage. Nothing durable is built in a hurry.
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A solid project is built one wire at a time
The best lesson from my years as an electrician: work rushed today is paid for tomorrow.
If you want a solid project, think through each action, verify each step, and never trade durability for speed.
You do not build a vision by tinkering. You build it one wire at a time. That is the secret.
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PS: The quality of your business decisions will never exceed the quality of your nervous system. We build recovery as competence — not as collapse after the sprint.