Humor me for a minute.
Stop thinking about all the ways in which you believe you should be running your online empire.
Instead, take a bird’s eye view of your business.
Forget about being bogged down by the day-to-day details, soar above it.
What do you see?
If you’re like most small business owners, you probably see some of these common frustrations.
Distractions that are taking you away from your focus on the urgent and important priorities. You’re bogged down by the transactional activities instead of focusing on the big picture. You’re trying to do all the things yourself. You abandon great ideas because your current workload doesn’t allow for them to be fully explored or executed. You don’t have enough control of your time or your calendar. You’re working too much. Perhaps the business is controlling you.
Let me explain, in detail, why that’s happening:
1. The be all, do all attitude
Be honest with me. How many times when you get started on a new project, you feel beyond
overwhelmed? There are a million little things attached to what seemed like ONE good idea
and you end up feeling tired, irritable and anxious (resulting in either never getting the
project completed or poor results).
Listen up! Not releasing control and delegating in your business is the NUMBER 1 roadblock
that doesn’t allow you to focus on YOUR zone of genius and reach your biggest boldest
goals.
While it’s good to know every nook and cranny of your business, it doesn’t serve you to
have the be-all, do-all attitude. You CANNOT do every little thing that your business
demands and be everything to everyone.
Point? You need to delegate. Period.
And when you do that? You’ll see MORE growth in your business and have MORE freedom
in your life than you could ever imagine.
2. Getting in your own way
When you try to get involved in every last detail of your business, you lose focus. And when
you lose focus?
You’re not clear on where you are going and why.
Instead create a friendly, trustworthy and collaborative atmosphere rather than
concerning yourself with little tasks, micromanaging and having your hands full all
the time.
3. Hiring the wrong people
You need to delegate to be more productive, creative and profitable, right? That’s what
every successful entrepreneur tells you (myself included). While on the other hand, if you
hire the wrong people, you’re back to square one.
Hiring is puzzling, there’s no denying that, and it’s holding back and slowing down so many
AMAZING entrepreneurs out in the world from truly reaching their potential.
So, what do you do to cure this?
Know what you are good at, what you don’t like, and what you don’t have the
time to do … focus on your superpower, and find the relevant people to help you get things
done and scale your business!
4. Lack of simplified systems
What would your life look like without a routine?
Chaotic, right? Just like we human beings need values, principles and a routine to live by,
your business needs practices, structures and processes to operate.
In simpler words?
Your business has to have SYSTEMS that define, facilitate and optimize performance, user
interaction and results.
You cannot run various parts of your business individually and expect to scale as a WHOLE
(this roadblock is killing more dreams and businesses than you know!).
Your business is one BIG system where every part should run like a well-oiled machine,
taking your profits and impact to greater heights.
5. Decision making
No one wants to set themselves up for failure.
The whole reason to have a business of your own is to be your own boss, create your own
set of rules, and have unparalleled income & impact.
And to achieve all of the above? You gotta know what’s going on in your business, what
your numbers are and what decisions to make to grow your business by leaps and bounds.
Poor or misaligned decisions are eating more businesses than anything else! Those
decisions may have a short-term ROI but in the long run, they could be damaging.
And why, as a leader, a business owner, and a CEO, you end up making the wrong
decisions?!
Due to lack of clarity.
When you don’t know the ins and out of your business the way you should OR you don’t
have a COO (your right hand in business) on your team making sure everything
is on track and finding out & reporting where the lack is, you usually make decisions based
on your emotions. #sadbuttrue
And businesses? CANNOT be run on emotions.
To take your business to the next level, you need to set aside your feelings, think
objectively and make tangible, measurable decisions.
If you’re ready to stop doing everything and start getting traction, do yourself a favor and schedule a call with me.