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The Invisible (+ Sometimes Painful) Side of Business Growth
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison
I can’t begin to tell you how many conversations I’ve had with business owners who are feeling deflated, discouraged and like they want to give up on their business out of sheer frustration. Why? Because they’re not yet seeing the results that they are both wanting and needing to see.
These are difficult conversations for me to have for a few reasons. Not least because I now find myself on the other side of this particular business dilemma and I worry that people think I don’t truly understand what they are facing and because in many cases there is no easy fix to this situation. Not what people want to hear when they are suffering.
My hope is that what I share in this piece helps to make this aspect of the business journey, at least somewhat easier to navigate.
The entire business journey in a nutshell goes from starting a business to succeeding in business with a whole load of stuff in between. I wrote a whole post about the various stages of business growth which you can read here but for the purposes of this piece, the stages themselves are less important than the problem that we as business owners face on our way to the…
