TO SUCCEED, YOU HAVE TO GRIND?
Waking up at 5 am, taking ice baths, and working until your eyes bleed. Do you think it’s true? I used to work 80 hours a week and thought I was a hero. Wore my exhaustion as a badge of honour. Realising that I was not the CEO and just confused with “busyness with business”.
Three Stages of Entrepreneurship
First Stage : The Doer Second Stage: The Manager Third Stage: The Leader
First Stage: This is where you do everything on your own. If you stop working, the money stops coming. This is not business at all, this is a JOB.
Second Stage: This is where you hire people, but you do not trust them. You keep on reviewing their work and fixing it. This is the stage where you feel burned out, and often the cause of giving up.
Stage Three: This is the ideal stage, where you, as a leader, set a goal, build the system, cast vision, and hire A-players. Most importantly, the revenue has doubled, but the work hours have been divided. How did this happen? Just stop being a HERO.
HOW DO WE FIX THIS?
First, audit your time. You have to monitor everything you do every week. Second, you have to document all the processes, for example, screen recording while you work, or even make a Loom video. Checklist creation is effective, too. Lastly, learn how to assign some of your tasks to your team. You should have in mind that it is alright 80% done by someone than doing 100% alone.
STOP WEARING BURNOUT AS A BADGE OF HONOUR!
Start building a machine that works for you. Feeling burned out won’t make you reach it will make you tired. Find the real freedom.
