Welcome to the Growth Stacking Podcast. This is Dan Martel.

Most entrepreneurs, when they're growing their business, it doesn't matter if it's their first 100K or 300K or million, they get to a place where growing is painful.

Does that make sense? Yes, yes? Exactly. And in that spot, they usually do one to three

things. They either stall, okay, they say to themselves, this year, I made more money last year

than this year. I'd rather slow down, right? And just not grow. The problem with that

is that the market's growing, right? Gross domestic product grows.

Your customers will demand more from you this year than last year.

And the worst part is your top people, if you don't create a future that's big enough for them,

then they will go find somebody else can do that.

So that makes sense. Your dreams, write this down, your dreams have to be bigger

than everybody else on your team's dreams and goals.

Write it down.

So that's stall.

Number two, sabotage.

This one's fascinating.

Some of you guys don't even know you're doing this.

I have a friend of mine, Tracy.

Business was going through some challenges.

Six months of hell.

We've all been there.

It's tough.

And in that storm, Tracy tells herself,

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