Why Holding on Too Tight Is Holding You Back — And What to Do Instead

It feels like the right thing to do doesn’t it? When business gets tough – grit your teeth and push harder? That’s certainly a mistake I’ve made over the past 18 years in business. When you’ve seen a recession or two and been through a pandemic, our default mindset can be to hold on tight, double down and work harder.

After all hard work delivers results, right?

Right, and wrong.

Focused work delivers results. Holding on too tight can leave us welded to past ways of doing business. Ways that no longer work. Holding on too tight can leave us closed off to fresh, innovative and new ideas.

“The definition of sanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

Release the control – become less of a blockage to business growth

In a bid to control all aspects of the business, you’ve become a blockage. A blockage to growth, to your teams’ development and it’s likely having a detrimental effect to your own confidence and self-motivation.

What we need most in tough times is to physically and mentally sit back.  Gift yourself the time to reflect. This may feel counter-intuitive. And can feel hard to do when you’re working in the trenches.

Now is the time to review what’s working well in the business, what could work better and what needs to change first?

3 simple headlines to journal through. No filter.

A recent business owner, let’s call her Jane, worked through this exercise and realised she had become so involved with every aspect of client delivery within the business, her team no longer felt confident to make any decisions without her, she was all over each and every client from enquiry through to sign off and was working long hours and weekends to manage the work load, despite having a capable team behind her.

Unable to see a way out and ready to exit the business she reached out for business coaching…

What step will you take to relinquish the control, release the tight grip and become the visionary once again?

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