I think as humans we think that there’s something wrong with us when we’re faced with a challenge or we fall into victim mode aka “Why me?”……
It’s quite normal to get all flustered and break out into sweaty armpits when we’re faced with a problem.
In business, this can range from cashflow to staff issues, to customer service, to shitty customers, and everything else….
AND you know what – THAT IS LIFE.
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚.
It doesn’t’ matter how successful you become THERE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE PROBLEMS.
However, as you grow and you can afford to take on a manager – your manager will take some of those responsibilities off your shoulders.
I’ve got staff that deals with customers for two reasons. One because I don’t want to be dealing with emails all day and having someone else deal with it keeps the negativity away from me BUT also – it stops me having to have any confrontation with a client so that our relationship is preserved, which is really important since I am the face of my business.
The good thing is ……
𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠 – 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒!
So when you start to notice different challenges arising guess what?
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞! 🕺
Your business is moving to the next level!
And I will be honest the more successful you become the easier the problems are to deal with – in my opinion.
𝑂𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒!
I’ve also learned to delegate more to my team so that I don’t have to carry everything on my shoulders…..
👉Being a business owner is not easy.
👉You will cry.
👉You will want to throw in the towel.
👉You will want to punch a hole in your computer screen.
👉You will argue with your spouse.
BUT……
When you start seeing the fruits of your labour and you see that amazing life that you are creating for you and your family AND how your business is helping other people to have a better life …..
THEN all that other stuff just disappears.
You forget all about it.
Sometimes I sit back and reflect on my journey (which is very important to do by the way)…..
And I’m amazed at how I got here. 🤩
I’m amazed and how I got through all the challenges we’ve faced. 🤩
And I look at our beautiful studio that has had our blood, sweat and tears poured into it and it’s all been absolutely worth it and I love what we have. 💜
𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒.
Maybe you’ve had clients asking for refunds because your Terms and Conditions need to be made clearer or your instructors are trying to steal your clients because you haven’t got a contract in place…. (and they will still try! – that’s for another post!)….
When you start to look at it from a place of “𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒”, you’ll be able to deal with the challenges from a different state of mind and made better decisions.
Keep going!
Lots of love,
Tanja
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