There is an error in thinking that I’ve made often that results in a lot of stress

There is an error in thinking that I’ve made often that results in a lot of stress

I know I’m not alone in it. In fact it’s pretty common, particularly in those with their own business.

I walked out onto the beach this morning at about 6am.

The sun was low and too brilliant to look at and it was both hot and cool like it can be on spring mornings.

There was a group of 20 people doing sprints together and laughing.

There were maybe 7 or 8 people doing stuff in the sea, some diving, some swimming, some dipping.

There were a few people walking their dogs, they often chat to you. Beautiful dog, how old... all that stuff.

All of them, up early and enjoying life,

care free,

you think,

Must be nice,

You can catch yourself thinking.

The thinking error is this. The business isn’t where it needs to be. So I will give it ALL of my time and energy.

We remove these moments. We remove some sleep. We remove exercise, we remove some family time, we eat on the go if at all.

We stop looking after the hardware and so we hugely limit the softwares capacity.

But it’s more than that.

Since when was time and energy the secret ingredients for success?

I know plenty of people who work insanely hard who only just make ends meet and always have.

Success is the result of a predictable and repeatable process.

Hard work and time is really the lazy solution.

Mapping and testing the processes can be uncomfortable but if the current process isn’t working, doing it more isn’t going to change anything.

And it gets worse I know.

What makes it worse is that when a degree of success IS achieved the brain has ample evidence that hard work and punishing the hardware of life IS the cause of the success.

So now it becomes a habit that’s hard to break.

I’ve fallen into this and I see many others do the same.

I’ve helped some move away from it and create more success while falling in love with life again.

The chances are you got into this to experience more life, love and freedom.

If that’s not what’s happening, it’s not the businesses fall, and more hard work won’t change it.

Just thought someone might need to hear that.

Do you recognise this story?