Are You Holding Back Your Business Growth?
Do you remember when you first started your business and realised how much ‘stuff’ you needed to get to grips with. Instead of just doing that one fabulous thing that you’re amazing at, suddenly you were the person in charge of accounts, invoices, quality control, marketing, planning, branding, you name it!
And until you got to grips with it all you knew you were holding back your business growth.
Soooo much pressure!
You got there though. By a mixture of learning, scrambling, blagging, pretending and a healthy dose of winging it, I don’t doubt!
And then just when you start to think you actually know what you’re doing some lunatic like me comes along and tells you that your grip on all of these things is what’s holding back your business growth.
Whaaaaaat? How is this possible?
Let me talk to you about the growth & control cycle. It starts with minimal control of everything, and that means minimal growth. And then you start to build momentum in your business by taking control, becoming responsible, getting a grip. But then you have control of sooo many things that your own capacity becomes the upper limit to that growth and momentum stalls.
At that point, you’ve quite literally become the blockage to your business growth. You’ve become the brake not the accelerator.
And it’s not because you’re deliberately holding yourself back. It’s not because you’re slacking or slow. It’s probably the opposite. You’re working so hard because you’re absolutely maxed out.
It’s time to let other people help you.
And yes, you’re absolutely right. Nobody else can do a lot of those things as well as you, or in exactly the way you like them done. But guess what …
Most things in your business don’t need to be perfect! They need to be good, they need to be professional, they need to be up to a certain standard. But that standard doesn’t need to be the best in the world bar none!
So, this week’s business tips video goes into more detail about exactly how you might be holding back your business growth, and gives you a 3-step process to help you start building and trusting a team that can support you to grow faster and further.
Please have a nosy and let me know what really resonates with you. And if this hits a nerve and makes you realise you need some help to get out of your own way, book a 15 minute call with me and let’s have a chat.
