Let me share my story about this. Years ago, I got the opportunity to run a construction level business.  I had year of corporate experience and had even run a small division, but this was a real business – one that I could grow, and prove to myself and others that I could do it.

The company was in a tough spot.  They had been trying to break into the US market for a decade, and were almost out of money.  $100,000 per day behind in shipping.  Losing money on some key customers.  A well-intentioned but unsuccessful team.

A year later, that team had turnd things around in an amazing way.  The business broke even in 12 months, and by year 2 were double the size and profitable.

Sounds great!  Big success!

But there’s a back story. 

For those years that I was running that company, I was running everything – leading my team, in person at every sales call, running the operation, figuring out the marketing, financial reporting, making sure orders got out the door on time – everything.  To the tune of 70+ hours a week plus nights and weekends.  Most weeks I was on an airplane, away from my family.  The workload was insane.  I was exhausted.  I don’t think I slept for a full night during those years.  I’d wake up like clock work at 3:30 am; my mind racing about the next sales meeting, or could we ship on time, or are we ging to run out of cash.  I couldn’t turn it off.

You can’t keep up that pace for long – it’s a straight line to burnout.  I decided it wasn’t wor4th my marriage or my health.  I left. 

It wasn’t until after I bought ActionCOACH, and the pattern started to happen again, for the same reasons, that I finally turned a corner.

My Turning Point Was Threefold:

1. I learned that’s okay, actually a sign of my maturing as a leader, to see out, outside consult.

2. I invested in myself – hired a coach to guide me through my blind spots and the areas where I wasn’t strong 

3. I learned the proven blueprint for a successful business.  It wasn’t that I was doing the wrong things – it was that I was building a business without a roadmap.  So I was making things way harder than they needed to be.  Once I got the blueprint – how to work right and not just hard, everything got easier and faster.

So what’s is business coaching?  It’s an investment in yourself and your business that has the potential to make you more money, give you a stronger team, have a business that simpler to run and transferrable – you gain freedom.

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