Donna and I were chatting the other day about our dog.​
He’s an eleven-year-old German Shepherd with a few health issues.

Thankfully, when we brought him home as a pup, we also signed up for pet insurance.
Even better, that insurance has covered most of the big bills over the years.
​(As Donna puts it, “they definitely lost money on that deal.”)

But even with their help, we still have to chip in.
This latest round of meds was going to cost us an extra $100 a week.

Donna, being Donna, said she’d pick up a few extra jobs on Monday to cover it.

Now, Monday is normally our day off.
We only work around 20 hours a week in this business, and we like to keep it that way.

But she was willing to bend the rules to make it happen.

Then she had an idea.

While I was outside working in the garden, she disappeared for about 90 minutes.
When she came back out, she said,
​“All sorted.”

Turns out, she’d hopped on the phone and texted a few customers who hadn’t had a price increase in a while.

We have nearly 200 lawns on the books, and while we raise prices for around 50 of them each year, many hadn’t been updated in a long time.

She reached out, made a few small changes…
And just like that, an extra $100 a week was coming in.

That was it.

This is one of the best parts of running a lawn business:
✅ You can shape it around your lifestyle.
✅ You can adjust your income when you need to.
✅ You don’t have to grind 40–60 hours a week to earn a solid living.

Give yourself a pay raise on demand?​
If you build your business right,
​you absolutely can.

It’s not always about working harder.

Until next time, Get out there, mow lawns, and have fun.

Stuart​
Lawnmowing101

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