81: These FIVE Things are BLOCKING Your BUSINESS
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
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🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Have you hit a plateau with your business and can't seem to figure out why? Give my following list of five a read (and listen) and I bet you'll likely find an area to improve upon.
- Trying to be a one-man show. I get it, you take pride in being able to do it all on your own, but my advice? Get help sooner than later. Save your time (and sometimes money) by getting someone else to do it faster and better. Hint: This is, in my opinion, the No. 1 reason people hit a plateau.
- Not upgrading your tribe. Seek out people (even if you're intimidated by them) who are already successful and doing what you want to do. This was a game-changer for Lori and me.
"Upgrading your tribe is the world's greatest shortcut to get from where you are now to where you want to go with your goals."
- Not upgrading your personal software. It's all about working on your own mindset! Keep learning new things.
"If you're not growing, you're shrinking."
- Losing your passion. Keep in mind that love is a verb, but it doesn't just apply to relationships, it applies to your business too. Don't let the daily (often boring) tasks bring you down. Make sure to take a break every now and then from working "in" your business and instead work "on" it. Think mastermind groups or something similar that gets you out of the day-to-day briefly, but also keeps that business passion spark alive.
"Money is in the monotony."
- Paying attention to too many shiny objects. Keep your eye on the prize even when other shiny prizes are being flashed at you. Every time you turn your attention away from your path, you're putting your business on hold. Stay the course, but find that sweet spot of educating yourself on new trends but not letting it take over everything else. Keep your focus on your original goals.
There you have them! Did any sound familiar? Once you're aware of any blocks that apply to you, you can be on guard so you don't fall into their traps. And that, of course, means more success – faster!
In This Episode You Will Learn:
- What five things are blocking your business
- Why you shouldn't try to do everything on your own
- About the importance of hanging out with already successful people
- And much more…
Resources:
For more stories and tips on becoming unapologetically wealthy, follow me @Chriswharder on Instagram and check out fortheloveofmoney.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:08.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:21.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome back everybody to another amazing mini episode of For the Love of Money episodes that I like to call my two cents and today we're going to talk about the five things that will stop |
| 0:46.4 | your business right in its tracks these are the five things that way too often we |
| 0:52.3 | find ourselves doing usually by accident but |
| 0:56.5 | unfortunately they are the biggest killers of momentum they're the biggest |
| 1:02.1 | murderers of your business and your goal. Now the first of the five is trying to be a one man show and this is kind of a shout out to all of the solopreneers out there with dreams to one day become you know a larger company with several employees well the time to do that is always sooner than later. |
| 1:27.0 | Listen, I get it. You're just starting to create some revenue, you're just starting to make some money, |
| 1:31.6 | you want to keep your overhead low and so you feel like you |
| 1:34.4 | can bootstrap everything you can do it all yourself you can figure it out because you're totally |
| 1:38.4 | resourceful and up to a certain point in the very beginning, those are great traits. But way sooner than you typically |
| 1:46.5 | think it comes time to reach out and hire your first person. It comes time to reach out and start delegating some of those jobs |
| 1:54.6 | that are robbing you of your income producing time. All too often we kind of wear this |
| 2:00.6 | badge of honor like hey I got this done myself I figured this out myself |
| 2:05.3 | I saved the money on this website by figuring out this funnel by creating my own logos |
| 2:11.7 | whatever it is that you might be saving your money on. |
| 2:14.0 | The problem is it could be done way better and it could be done way faster if you just hired |
| 2:19.8 | it or delegated it or if you just asked for help all too often you don't even have to pay for it. |
| 2:26.8 | Just set your ego aside and ask for help instead of trying to be that one man show and everything will fall into place much quicker than it has |
| 2:37.0 | been already up to this point. |
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