Are You Feeling Like a Slave to Your Own Business
Are You Feeling Like a Slave to Your Own Business
by Jonathan Goldhill
To Begin, let me ask you some revealing questions. As a business owner, can you walk away from your business today for one or two months and come back to find it operating smoothly and profitably? Can you even escape for two weeks? Have you ever had a work-free vacation? If Your answers are "no", you don't have a successful business, you have a glorified job in which you are trapped. You don't have an effective business system; you are the business system. In a large sense, you are a prisoner of your own success.
Please do not be offended by these very direct and frank statements. You must realize I get paid to help my clients "face reality" and then hold them accountable for the changes and goals they desire. Facing reality is a critical step owners must take to begin to build a better business and a better life.
Go Ahead, ask yourself the following questions and be brutally honest with yourself.
Do I often question, "Why do I have to do every darn thing myself"?
Am I still working too hard and making too little?
Am I trapped working "in" my business instead of "on" my business?
Do I ever wonder if business ownership is truly worth the time, effort, headaches, hasles, and sacrifices?
Do I feel trapped on a treadmill, moving faster and faster, but going nowhere?
Do I constantly face frequent interruptions and repetitive questions from my staff?
Do I go home many nights feeling mentally and physically drained?
Do I dread the drudgery of facing and solving the same issues and problems each and every day - the burden of re-creating the wheel time and time again?
Do I daydream about regaining my sense of freedom, joy, passion, and peace-of-mind?
Do I have anxiety about drowning in projects, problems, deadlines, crises, meetings, employee issues, unanswered voicemails, emails, customer complaints, administrative trivia, and on and on?
Do I feel like a master juggler with too many balls up in the air and dreading they will soon begin hitting the floor?