• The dangers of the hustle and grind mindset
• Why business owners are resistant to change
• How to build a scalable business

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The Dangers of the Hustle and Grind Mindset

Being a business owner is a really tough journey. It’s filled with trials and errors, ups and downs, failures and setbacks. But once we reach that breakthrough where our business is finally at a successful point, it makes it all worth it.

It’s almost like we can breathe a breath of fresh air. From there we get into routines to maintain the success we have achieved.

But we’re forgetting something.

Yes, we achieved success in our business, but is that the furthest we want to take our business?

Most likely not. We want to grow and expand our business to the point that we can retire, vacation or even sell the business. We don’t want to keep doing the same routines to maintain the business for the next 20 years.

In fact, you likely won’t even make it to 20 years due to burnout. This is because the hustle and grind that is needed when starting a business is not sustainable long-term. This is why ActionCOACH constantly preaches the importance of building a business that will run WITHOUT the owner.

Otherwise the business will plateau because it’s built around the owner’s capacity.

Why Business Owners are Resistant to Change

As mentioned previously we can become tempted to sit in contentment once we reach a breakthrough. This is a great accomplishment but sometimes we confuse contentment with gratefulness.

We should feel grateful for any successes in our business, but living in our past failures causes us to be content with the present.

These past failures paralyze us from creating or pursuing higher goals.

What happens when we set new goals is that we are setting a new destination that we want to reach. Once we have set the destination, we’ve created a gap between where we are now and where we’re going. The gap, of course, must be bridged or filled.

But what if, in order to move ahead, we need to learn how to do something new? Or what if the gap is big? A big gap to our destination or the need to learn something new can stop people before they even get started. This is because we don’t have the time or capacity to learn something new or to fill in the gap because we’re stuck in routine work to maintain the business.

The destination suddenly looks unachievable.  In addition, setting a big life-changing goal that calls for really big changes all at once, often makes us very uncomfortable and we won’t do what makes us that uncomfortable.