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Has Your Business Become Your Prison? Improve These 4 Areas For More Freedom.
Most business owners start a business for freedom, but they build a prison instead.
As they begin to build their future, they start to trap themselves into working more hours, doing more things, and carrying more stress. Starting a business isn’t just about the idea; it’s about the execution of the idea.
If you’re wondering where to start or what you need to fix, start here:
Develop your leadership skills.
Owning a business beyond yourself requires leadership skills.
The sooner you become intimate with knowing how to lead with and through other people, the better you’re business will become — without you. Your business needs people who are motivated, inspired, and are there to do great work.
It’s up to you to find, retain, and hold people accountable to your company’s standards.
Focus is everything.
If you focus on everything, you focus on nothing (trust me, I’m ADD).
At the beginning of my career, I set a sales strategy that would hunt whatever was breathing. It was the shotgun approach to sales. Until we focused our sales strategy on the best targets, we weren’t nearly as…