About this episode

This episode discusses the frustrations business owners face when their operations become annoying despite outward success.

Is your business starting to do your head in, even though it looks like it’s all going fine? This episode is for the business owner who’s getting more and more irritated by how their business runs. In this episode, I’m talking about that point where things just start to grate. Nothing is obviously wrong. You’ve got clients. Money is coming in. From the outside, it all makes sense. But day to day, it’s becoming annoying. Tasks feel bigger than they should. You put things off. You find yourself avoiding parts of your own business or wondering why you set it up like this. That’s worth paying attention to. Because if you built your business to have more control over how you work, it doesn’t make sense to stay stuck in something that feels like a chore. I talk about what’s usually going on underneath this. It’s rarely the work itself. It’s how the work is structured. The format you’ve chosen. The way you deliver things. The tools you’re using. The extra layers that have crept in over time. I also talk about the two common reactions at this point. One is to try harder by doing more, posting more, taking on more. The other is to scrap everything and start again. I’ve done both. Neither…

People in this episode

Host: Libby Langley

Topics covered

• business frustration
• work structure
• entrepreneurship challenges
• task management
• business control

Keywords

• business irritation
• task avoidance
• work structure
• entrepreneurship
• business management

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