You built the business.
Now build the life.
Most owners spend their best years running a machine they never meant to be trapped in. There is a better way and it starts with an honest look at where you actually are.
About Dave McKimmy
He has been
inside the machine.
He got out.
Thirty years of building businesses, learning the hard way, and developing a framework that actually works for the owner who is done waiting.
His Story
Dave grew up in a trailer park in rural Illinois. He joined the Air Force at 18, came back with military-grade discipline, and spent the next three decades building businesses the hard way. A minivan, a restaurant supply route, a financial practice, a spa, and eventually a platform that manages several hundred million dollars in assets.
None of it came from a good start. All of it came from one decision made early. He was never going to stop building.
At 56, sitting at his desk at 3am, he did a piece of math. 84 minus his age. He wrote the number down and stared at it. Not with dread. With clarity. That number became the 28 Summers framework and everything that followed.
30+
Years building businesses
Books published
The story became a framework.
The framework became two doors.
Everything Dave has built for owners comes down to two things: a philosophy that changes how you see your time, and a program that changes how your business runs. Start with whichever one meets you where you are.
The philosophy
28 Summers
84 minus your age. That is how many summers you probably have left. Once that number lands, everything looks different. Most owners have never done this math. The ones who do make different decisions about their time, their business, their legacy, and what they are actually building and for whom. 28 Summers is the book and the framework built on that single, clarifying idea.
The program
Performance on Fire
Most owners are stuck not because they lack ideas or ambition, but because their business still depends on them being in the middle of everything. Performance on Fire is a six-dimension diagnostic and program built to change that. Systems, Delegation, Time, Identity, Legacy, and Energy. The gaps in those dimensions are what is costing you.
"Most owners know what they need to do. They keep not doing it. That gap is not a strategy problem. It is a decision problem."
Why This Matters to You
Dave did not build the 28 Summers framework or the Six Dimensions to write a business book. He built them because he kept sitting across from owners who had everything they needed to succeed and were still stuck. Smart people. Real businesses. Wrong relationship with time and urgency.
The books, the diagnostic, and the program exist for one type of person. The owner who has already built something real and is ready to stop running the machine and start designing the life they built it for.
If that is you, you are in the right place.