Sometimes we end up building a business that just doesn't fit our lives.
Not intentionally. Sometimes it just happens that way.
Maybe you don’t have the freedom you thought you’d have. Maybe you’re doing group courses but you really want to be 1 on 1 with clients, or vice versa.
Sometimes when you step back and examine what it'll take to get to maintenance mode or what it will take to scale or grow, you realize that you don't actually have the capacity to grow this thing you built. The business you built isn't designed for that.
In order to get to maintenance mode, you need to shift.
Ryan Lazanis and I talked about this in Episode 75 - we'd each built businesses that didn't fit how we wanted to live our lives and so we ended up starting new businesses and specifically building them for maintenance mode.
But you don't have to burn the whole thing down.
Meet Mark Butler. He's the founder of the accounting startup Let’s Do the Books, as well as a freelance CFO for life coaches. And instead of shutting his business down and starting over when he realized that something needed to change for him, he created a complementary business with a different business model–one that was designed for maintenance.
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Resources:
Navigating Breaks In Business and Life: Inside My Unplanned Hiatus
Introducing Beyond Margins
Taking a Break
Bake In Boundaries in Your Default Settings with Brittany Berger
Examining Your Relationship With Your Business With Nicole Lewis-Keeber
Busting Productivity Myths and Redefining Work Life Balance with Tanya Dalton
The End Goal of Maintenance Mode, What it Is, and What it Isn't
Self Awareness as the Key That Unlocks Consistency with Marie Poulin
When to Quit and When to Persevere in Your Business with Margo Aaron
Building Healthy Habits That Facilitate Consistency with Sarah Von Bargen
Preparing Your Business So You Can Take a Real Break with Claire Pelletreau
Hiring, Selecting Business Partners, and Growing a Team That Enables Maintenance Mode with India Jackson
Leveraging People, Processes and Technology with Jason Staats
Develop a Sales Process With An Eye Toward Consistency with Allison Davis
Work on a Consistent Message and Marketing System to Prepare For Maintenance Mode with Michelle Mazur
The Maintenance Mode Mindset: Stop Breaking Your Business with Racheal Cook
Finka Jerkovic - Assessing + Addressing Your Capacity as Founder
Assessing Your Business' Capacity with Anna Wolf
Startup vs Maintenance CEO: Is it One or the Other? with Sarah Avenir
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