8 Steps to Start Enjoying Your Business Again

28 Steps to Start Enjoying Your Business Again
1. Make a “Stop” list
• Business owners always say, “I’m the only one who can do X” and then their days
are filled with work they hate.
• Make a list of work you do not enjoy and find a way to get rid of it.

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2. Trade out Problem Employees
• Nothing saps energy like a problem employee.
Think of how much more enjoyable your work
day will be with someone else in the problem
employee’s position.
• Admit it, you will eventually have to replace
them or they will quit, bite the bullet and
replace them now.

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3. Fire bad customers
• Not all business is good business. Some
customers are overly-demanding, harass your
people, or beat every last dollar of margin from
the organization.
• Instead of taking what these bad customers give
you, get proactive and demand better treatment
or pricing from them. If they quit, so what.

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4. Get out of the office
Go to a coffee shop for a couple hours and strategize. Stepping away from your business
for just a few hours can recharge your batteries more than you think.

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5. Make a timeline
• Create an annual timeline for your business highlighting the accomplishments and
business model innovations.
• If you cannot think of many, perhaps that is the problem? Make a list of how your
business model may have become stale and what initiatives you can do to recharge
your business.

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6. Invest time in your best people
• Your top people can vastly improve your
business and your happiness along with it. In
order to grow these stars, you need to mentor
and nurture them.
• Find the time to meet weekly with each key
employee for only fifteen minutes and watch
the magic happen.

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7. Take a customer field trip
• Take a few days to simply visit with
customers. Step out from behind the counter
or go to the customers place of business.
• After just a handful of these meetings you will
be reminded of all the benefits you bestow
upon customers.

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8. Quit
If you truly make an effort to reinvigorate
yourself but you simply cant, don’t waste your
life on a business that doesn’t make you happy.
Sell it, give it to the employees, or just walk
away – life’s too short.