Build a business the way you'd build a woodpile.

Accountability partnership for people who are done waiting. Business or health — you pick the goal, I make sure you swing the axe.

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The Whole System In Three Moves

Cut. Split. Stack.

CUT

Decide what work you're actually in. Most people never decide — so they take every job, chase every plan, and stay stuck at every size. One tree. Drop it.

SPLIT

Break the big log into pieces you can actually move this week. "Grow the business" is a log too heavy to lift. "Call ten past customers by Friday" splits.

STACK

Put the wins where you can see them. Track everything. A pile you can see is the only motivation that lasts past Tuesday.

One Method. Two Arenas.

I'm not your guru. I'm your witness.

Your Business

Thirty years running service businesses. I've lived the ceilings, signed the bad paperwork, made the desperate hires — and learned what breaks through. Weekly calls, real numbers, one log split at a time.

Your Health

I'm 52. I finished a triathlon in June and I'm training for my first marathon in November. No workout plans, no meal charts — just somebody who knows what you said you'd do this week and asks if you did it.

The Six Steps

Every woodpile — and every business — gets built the same way.

PREP
EFFORT
EFFICIENCY
OBSTACLES
ENDURANCE
RESULTS

Season the wood before you burn it.

Pick Your Pile

Three ways to work with me.

Founding — Limited Spots

Woodpile Crew

$97/mo
  • Group accountability partnership
  • One call every week
  • Daily check-in with the Crew
  • Your goal: health or business
  • Founding price locked while spots last
1-on-1 — The Real Work

Chop Wood Coaching

$497/mo
  • Weekly private call with Tim
  • Phone access between calls
  • The 6-step method run on YOUR business
  • Health accountability included
  • No revenue requirement — skin in the game required
Owners — Group

FRAP Chapter

$225/mo
  • Twice-monthly chapter meetings
  • BNI-style accountability group
  • JV partners + lead sharing
  • The four growth levers, worked together

Running past $300K and want me in the business with you? Inner Circle is five seats, by application only. Ask on your audit call.

Who's Swinging

I split my own wood.

I've spent 30 years in the service business world. I built a flooring company to $190K and hit a ceiling made of my own habits. I built the next business to $590K and hit another one. Today I help lead a 70-year-old family service company — and I coach owners so they break their ceilings faster than I broke mine.

The woodpile isn't a gimmick. It's where I figured this out. Every fall I cut, split, and stack the wood my family burns all winter. Nobody claps. The pile just grows — one honest swing at a time. That's business. That's health. That's everything.

Sundays matter at my house. That's the whole reason to build it right.

The woodpile

"Nobody cares. Work harder."

Nobody is going to care about your business — or your health — as much as you do. Once you accept that, you stop waiting and you start working. And the day you want a witness on the woodpile, I'm here.

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