There are too many business owners who don’t enjoy their work anymore. It’s really unfortunate. This happens organically over ten or twenty years as you run the business. There are tiny tasks or parts of work that the team can’t do. Those land on you as the only other person available. There are many different reasons this happens, such as lack of skill, experience, sensitive information, risk of losing a customer, urgency, etc., but it doesn’t matter; your workload keeps increasing, not shrinking.
Fast forward twenty years of adding one task here and one task there, and you get a big hairball of tasks that can’t be delegated and must be done by you (the owner). After several years of doing all this work you don’t like, and you can 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 won’t allow their minds to go as far as this client’s did. They keep showing up at the office and not loving what they do. They should; owning a business is supposed to be fun.
If you 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. Here’s a challenge. How about you give yourself a break and commit to start enjoying work again? It can be done!
In the Half-Retire world, that process begins by untangling your hairball of work. It’s not the easiest thing to do, and it’s almost impossible to do for yourself.
You can’t see the hairball, and its effect on you. 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 stress, workload, and hairball, take the Half-Retire Assessment. You can see if you can Half-Retire and ditch the hairball by answering a few quick questions.
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