{"id":2114,"date":"2011-08-04T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/central-ohio-north\/growth-coach-challenge-are-you-a-prisoner-to-your-business"},"modified":"2011-08-04T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:25:21","slug":"growth-coach-challenge-are-you-a-prisoner-to-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/central-ohio-north\/growth-coach-challenge-are-you-a-prisoner-to-your-business","title":{"rendered":"Growth Coach Challenge – Are You a Prisoner to Your Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a business owner, do you ever feel like a prisoner to your business?\u00a0<\/strong> A prisoner to your employees and customers?\u00a0 Do you sometimes feel like you work a demanding job instead of owning a thriving business?\u00a0 If so, you are not alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n As your virtual Growth Coach<\/a>, allow me to ask you some additional tough but revealing coaching questions:<\/p>\n If your answers were mostly \u201cno\u201d, odds are you don\u2019t have a successful and self-sustaining business, but rather a glorified job in which you are trapped!<\/strong>\u00a0 Odds are you don\u2019t have an effective business system<\/a>; YOU by default are the business system!\u00a0 In a large sense, you are a prisoner of your success and trying to do too much on your own \u2026 being the Chief EVERYTHING Officer<\/em>.\u00a0 That is an exhausting way to run a business. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n No matter what industry you are in, you should not be a prisoner to your business!<\/strong>\u00a0 If you are, you have it backwards. Your business should serve you and your dreams.\u00a0 It should give you greater freedom, not less.\u00a0 In fact, your business, properly designed, should function practically without you, not because of you.\u00a0 It should run predictably and automatically whether you are in the office or not, in the store or not, out in the field or not, on vacation or not.\u00a0 Your business should not depend upon your presence, personality, problem solving and perspiration for its daily operations and survival.<\/strong> If so, your business does not work, you do!<\/p>\n Please don’t be offended by these frank business coaching<\/a> observations and comments.\u00a0<\/strong> Such honesty and insights come from The Growth Coach franchise<\/a> system serving several thousand small business clients each and every year.\u00a0 Please understand, at the Growth Coach franchise, all of our certified business coaches<\/a> throughout North America deeply admire, respect and love serving and helping business owners, their managers, and self-employed professionals.\u00a0 However, we are paid to share the truth and get clients to make changes and get results \u2026 that requires some tough-love coaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n As such, we earn our coaching fees by helping our clients to \u201cface reality\u201d and “deal with the truth” \u2026\u00a0 the good, bad and ugly.\u00a0 That is the only way our small business clients will improve and advance.\u00a0<\/strong> After we help them define their ideal future and goals and create focused action plans to get there, we then provide on-going accountability to keep them on track. This tough-love business coaching and accountability process<\/a> is critical to help entrepreneurs achieve greater success, balance, freedom and fun.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here comes some more real world business coaching.\u00a0 Bottom line, you should run your business; it should not run you, your family or your life.\u00a0<\/strong> Your business should work harder so you don\u2019t have to.\u00a0 It should be systems-dependent and not owner-dependent or even expert-dependent for its success.\u00a0 Your systems should be consistently directing your employees on what to do and how to do it.\u00a0 Your business should have its own heart, mind, and soul … it should not steal your vital organs and spirit!<\/strong><\/p>\n Stop for a moment and think of the consequences.\u00a0 If everything in your business flows through you and is dependent upon you, then you are dramatically restricting the growth and profits of your company.\u00a0<\/strong> As a single human being, there are natural limits to the amount of work, transactions, problems, and decisions that can flow effectively through you in a given day.\u00a0 Stop being a bottleneck or clog.\u00a0 Otherwise, you will continue to restrict the development of your employees and business and ensure your persistent exhaustion.\u00a0 Stop missing out on greater personal freedom, money and happiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n Let me be very clear, you are the expert in your business and industry<\/strong>. We at The Growth Coach are not and will never claim to be.\u00a0 Our expertise is helping business owners<\/a> to unlock greater potential in themselves and their businesses.\u00a0<\/strong> To get them to work “on” themselves, “on” their businesses, and “on” their lives.\u00a0 To guide them through a proven and powerful coaching process to help them discover for themselves what they want to change and what solutions are best for them.\u00a0 Here are some resources to help you stop feeling like a prisoner to your business:<\/strong><\/p>\n As a business owner, do you ever feel like a prisoner to your business?\u00a0 A prisoner to your employees and customers?\u00a0 Do you sometimes feel like you work a demanding job instead of owning a thriving business?\u00a0 If so, you are not alone. As your virtual Growth Coach, allow me to ask you some additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[687,689,708,763,938,784,690,692,693,892,695,729,696,768,697,770,699],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-coaching","tag-benefits-of-business-coaching","tag-business-coach","tag-business-coaching","tag-business-coaching-advice","tag-business-coaching-guarantee","tag-business-coaching-tips","tag-business-owner","tag-business-owner-mindset","tag-business-systems","tag-delegation","tag-entrepreneur","tag-growth-coach","tag-leadership","tag-marketing","tag-small-business-management","tag-strategic-business-owner","tag-strategic-mindset"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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