Hello and welcome to Business 300. My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300

seconds about business. We're all a busy people so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.

You're busy, I'm busy. Let's get this over with.

To have a disciplined offering that brings value to customers is the goal of every business owner.

And bringing value to your customer and improving that value offering over times that the customers keep buying from you is an active decision that requires initiative and agency on your part as the owner. It doesn't just happen on its own.

It requires attention. It requires work. To do so effectively, the demand on the owner is threefold.

First, it's emotional. We have to get over the emotional hurdle of acknowledging that there is

work to do, and that in itself is an emotional task. It's one thing to know that something needs to be

done, but avoid it as you abdicate the responsibility. Doing that is also emotionally draining.

But to be able to commit to doing what needs to be done requires emotional self-control,

and especially if what needs to be done requires an entire different mindset and approach.

Having to unlearn and relearn is an emotional challenge.

When you embark on the work, the emotional work doesn't end.

Your emotions tempt you to quit.

They rage and fight. They get bored and

complacent. They get scared and hesitant. You need to build the systems. You need to confront

employees. You need to persuade partners. You need to sell to customers. The entire time,

your emotions are fighting for the driver's seat. It's emotionally exhausting to build and craft

and design and produce. Creating and improving

the value to your customers effectively is emotional work. Second, it's mental. Much of business

ownership demands your mental energy. This is something that many of us aren't used to expounding

over long periods of time. We come across a problem that we can't solve after the first or second attempt, and so we

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