(And run your business, instead of your business running you!)
By: Gil Effron
It seems like wherever you turn these days, someone is telling you that you should be working “on” your business, and not so much “in” your business.
They’re telling you that you should be focusing on your company’s purpose, vision, direction, strategy, structure, systems, people, goals, and accountability processes.
It’s good advice. However, for many business owners and professionals, it’s hard to slam on the brakes suddenly and say, “I’ve had it with working 60-plus hours a week… I’ve had it with too many restless nights… too few days off… and no relief in sight. I’m going to change and magically do it differently… starting right now!”
It’s not easy to make the transition from the do-all, know-all, touch-all owner/manager/worker/slave to that of a Strategic Business Owner — an owner that’s truly in control of the business, and not the other way around. But one thing is for sure. If you don’t start the transition, you’ll never break the 60-plus hour habit and the stresses that come with it.
If you don’t do something now, you look in the mirror in a month or two or three… or a year or two or three… and nothing has changed. You’re still working 60 plus hours a week.
Because for things to change, you must change!