Why are business owners so mean…to themselves?
I’ve seen too many business owners that don’t enjoy their work anymore. It’s a shame. Usually, it happens accidentally over twenty years of running a business. There are little pieces of work that the team can’t do, so they land on you. There are ten different reasons, but it doesn’t matter; your workload keeps increasing, not shrinking.
Twenty years of one task here and one task there adds up to a big, messy hairball of work that can’t be delegated and has to be done by the owner. After a few years of doing a bunch of work you don’t enjoy, and you start to get resentful. Yet you continue to show up for work every day because it’s your business.
Several years ago, a client. Blurted something out that encapsulates what I’m describing. He said,
“If I didn’t own this place, I’d quit.”
Most business owners don’t even allow their minds to go as far as his did. They just keep showing up for work and not enjoying their days. If they treated someone else this way., they would revolt.
If you treated one of your employees as badly as you treat yourself. They’d call you “mean” and quit. So how about you give yourself a break and find a way to start enjoying work again?
In the Half-Retire world, that process begins by untangling the hairball of work the business owner does each week. It’s not easy to do and almost impossible to do for yourself.
You can’t see it, Just like it’s hard to put on makeup or a tie without a mirror. It’s hard to see your own hairball.
If you’re wondering whether it’s possible to reduce your workload and stress, take the Half-Retire Assessment. By answering a few quick questions, you can see if it’s possible for you to Half-Retire and ditch the hairball.
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