It occurred to me the other day that I used to be really excited about my business, and now I’m not.
The thought came during a brief moment of excitement, and I realized it wasn’t something I had felt for a while.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am happy with my business and certainly with the flexibility it gives me in my life.
But there was a time in the past where the possibilities seemed endless and when it felt like I would achieve exponential growth forever.
After a few years of that failing to happen, I no longer feel that way. While I’m just as confident that growth is possible, it just hasn’t been exciting like it was at one point. I no longer have much hope that the growth will be extreme.
So the question is: what can I do about that?
First, I need to start growing again. I need to make a concerted effort to identify ways to grow, and possible more important: identify the obstacles I have to accomplishing it.
For instance, it’s likely that I will need to change how I’m managing many aspects of my business now, because they aren’t scalable. But I also simply need to actually do some of the growth initiatives I’ve been talking about doing for ages.
I like to think that once some of that growth happens, the excitement will come back and I’ll start feeling like anything is possible again. And that, in turn, while encourage me to do even more things to improve.
I just have to get the ball rolling now.
This may have been more or less a temporary feeling. I’ve continued to grow a lot and am now acquiring another business, and it feels much more like I could grow my company massively over the next few years.
It definitely comes and goes in waves. I am more focused on growth initiatives and talking to people about acquiring their businesses, and my initiatives to attract these business owners are paying off.