Episode 290: How to Grow With Intention & Avoid Growth for Growth’s Sake (FS290)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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To scale or not to scale? When is the right time to take a step up and bust through that glass ceiling with your business? Is getting better preferable to getting bigger?

In this episode we are talking about growing with intention. The topic of this conversation was sparked by a question about scaling in the Fizzle forums and after some rumination on the idea of scaling and the right times for this, we settle on the idea and that intentionally growing is always preferable to growth for growth’s sake.

We also talk about what this really looks like, unpacking balancing your ambitions, finances and lifestyle as well as the opportunities that challenges and problems offer us. There are no definitive answers for everybody here, but hopefully the discussion will lead you to your own conclusions.

For a great conversation on a indispensable question, be sure to tune in with us!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Fizzle is hiring! [0:04:49.2]
• Keeping a business lean and profitable [0:07:20.1]
• The conundrum of balancing the glass ceiling, the itch and lifestyle. [0:08:58.7]
• Reaching your goal and the lack of satisfaction that can occur. [0:13:54.4]
• The usefulness of challenges and problems in our businesses. [0:17:12.2]
• The example of Basecamp and their growth philosophy. [0:24:35.6]
• What is entrepreneurship becoming? What do you want it to feel like? [0:27:18.4]
• Why slowing down and stabilizing your business and purpose can be difficult. [0:32:55.3]
• Grounding your ambition and desire for exhilaration. [0:37:24.8]
• The range of feelings and emotions that are possible at any point in your path. [0:42:50.5]
• Implementing a practice intentionally and sharpening your edge. [0:45:58.1]
• What the question of scaling really signifies. [0:49:40.7]
• Growing with intention and getting better rather than bigger. [0:53:35.4]
• And much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:10.3	What is up?
0:12.2	What is going on?
0:14.3	What is happening?
0:15.7	How is it going?
0:17.0	How is it working?
0:18.2	Is it working?
0:19.2	Is it going very well?
0:20.7	Are the wheels kind of wobbling a bit? Is it going to fall apart? Are you worried? Do you feel like it's going okay? Are you kind of excited and hopeful? Or are you sort of depressed and despairing? Are you bored? Are you bored? And you're just kind of listening because it's like, God, pump me up or something. I don't know.
0:39.8	Hey, welcome to the Fizzle show.
0:48.8	You know, building a creative idea into reality is no walk in the park for most of us.
0:51.1	Because we get stuck in our heads.
0:55.8	Because we don't understand how certain things that are very simple things work and nobody ever taught us that that's no bad that there's a lot of us a lot of us in
1:01.5	that situation i'm one of them and so we had to learn some things but one of the biggest things
1:06.3	we're going to learn is how not to get trapped in our head. Have you heard that statement?
1:11.4	Like that idea of being like, no, I'm stuck in my head.
1:14.1	God, I'm stuck in my head again.
1:15.3	Hold on, you're stuck in your head.
1:16.7	Hold on you're thinking too much about it.
1:17.8	Oh, you're thinking too hard about it.
1:19.5	Let it go.
1:20.5	Let it go.
	...

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