Ever hear the common complaint from many long-term relationships?
The spark is gone.
The years, the children, the jobs, the stress have transformed the intensity and excitement of the initial honeymoon period to a daily and repetitive experience many years later.
It’s similar to a common complaint for many business owners.
When I ask them.. “Tell me how and why you started your business in the first place?”
Their eyes light up as they fondly recall the hope and dreams of their “business youth.” How they were going to be their own boss, have the freedom to set their own schedule, to capture the full rewards of their hard work, and to give the finger to the bad boss that haunted them.
They don’t answer that they started their business for dreams of:
• 80 hour work weeks,
• Answering the same questions day after day,
• Paying for the pleasure of baby sitting adults,
• Dealing with rude and obnoxious customers – often the ones who pay the least and take up the most time.
• And sleepless nights wondering if it will all be worth it at the end.
And so like the couple looking to reignite the spark in their relationships, the business owners needs to disover how to reginite and experience the spark in his or her relationship with the business.
How do they do that?
By turning into reality why they started the business in the first place?
If it’s for freedom than put in place what is needed to free the business from relying on you so you can be free to pursue what you want to pursue.
If it’s to capture the full rewards of what you built, then it’s making sure you company is set up to do so… both today and whenever you decide to exit.
And if it’s to give the finger to a boss that was an ASH… well what better way then shoving a thriving business in their face with the words.. “I told you so…”.
Best of all, you can do this 100% with what you have in hand.
But you have to have the right attitude and playbook which you can discover by taking these two steps:
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2. Attend our Next Owners table here.