and maximize “high value” activities like creating systems, building marketing campaigns, strategizing, getting exercise and so on. The goal is to minimize “low value” activities like answering email, other admin work, watching Netflix etc. I’ve even gone so far as to document how I spend my day in 30-minute increments so I have an objective view of where my time is going. Personally, I’ve been radically taking stock of everything I do. Use this sacred time wisely because it really is a blessing in disguise. In other words, they’re stuck in a self-perpetuating spiral of working IN their business, instead of ON it.īefore long, your business has you in its grips because you spend all your time fixing the SAME problems, leaving you no room to set up the systems to ensure they never happen again.Ĭall me crazy but I think this virus has been a bit of a blessing because it’s allowed entrepreneurs across the globe to finally slip free of the very thing that was supposed to give them freedom in the first place.

This is just a reality for most local business owners because they don’t spend enough time analysing, strategizing, and systematizing. The purpose of The Sticking Point Solution is to help entrepreneurs and executives recognize the ways in which their businesses may be stuck, and to then give them tools for getting unstuck and enjoying exponential growth. I hate to say it but that relief was that result of you accidentally escaping the clutches of a business that was running YOU. … Relief that you could finally “step away from it all” and just breathe? … Relief that you no longer had to “put out fires”? When you closed doors due to COVID-19, did you feel a strange sense of relief?

In the book Jay states that the biggest problem for small to medium-sized businesses can be summed up in three sentences: A stuck business, whether entrepreneurial in nature or a Fortune 500 company, is one that fails to grow predictably every year, every quarter, every day. Here’s my #1 insight from this book that’s super applicable to Medical Spas: Our starting point is to ask, respectfully and reverentially, whether your business or enterprise might be stuck.

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