When you started your business you probably just wanted to have control over your own life and do something you were good at. Maybe you had grand visions of creating an empire but you certainly didn’t know what you were really getting into, did you? Once you crossed the six figure finish line you realized that most of what you envisioned has changed and you no longer have a clear picture of what lies next.
You may even realize that all of the priorities and accomplishments that motivated you up to now are not necessarily as exciting anymore. Also, you will eventually realize that you are now stuck in a routine that you will eventually get tired of. You want to enjoy more of your life. You want to experience more passion and joy. You want to just do all the things that you want to do but just do not have the time to do. And for some, it is not even about the money anymore. You want to have meaning. You want to be able to just sit back, relax, and just do what it is that you desire.
Do you think now is the time to give your vision a tune up? I would say it is!
I have found in my own life that my vision is significantly affected by the kinds of people I spend time with. For instance, a former mastermind partner and close friend has always been about 4 steps ahead of me. She hit 6 figures first by hiring a Virtual Assistant. Then she hit 7 figures by creating more “scalable” programs. Now she is approaching multi-7 figures by hiring an operations manager. Her goal was always to free herself up from anything that was not her core strength. The strategies she used always gave me clues to what I could look at in my business.
When you refocus your day to day actions on the things you do best, you unleash more energy and creativity again. You may need to re-evaluate your work habits to ensure you are showing up as the leader who is not sucked into the email time bandits. You probably need to learn how to lead a team vs. manage projects and deadlines. You may even need to re-discover your core strengths and passions because sometimes it is easy to forget.
All of these are possible if you just really set your mind to doing it and find all the courage to just let go and start trusting people who would love doing some of your daily, mundane tasks that they would love doing more than you do.
Melanie Benson Strick is the Million Dollar Lifestyle Business Coach. If you’d like to learn more about how to get out of your own way and stop hijacking your success, you can download her new report, The CEO Factor Manifesto at TheCEOFactorManifesto.com.