Let’s be real for a minute about building real businesses. 

It’s not all rainbows and sunshine. 

We’re in a strong growth phase in our business, where in the past 3 years, we’ve basically doubled our company year over year.

For many years, when I fantasised about achieving just this, I imagined all the joy and excitement I’d feel from “living my dream in business”.

But now I’m here, the truth is, I feel nothing of the sort. 

Probably worse, I’m even more stressed and frustrated than before. 

I’m reminded daily why it’s called Growth Pains.

From dealing with team productivity issues, cash flow constraints and client relations, the ever-growing feeling of having to constantly put out fires is exhausting.
But this is not about complaining either,  because even despite the stress, when I reflect on where I started, and my journey thus far, I see the progress, and in those moments of reflection I am grateful and appreciative.

This is more a reminder to self and a message for those who are also in the building phases of business, it is tough, it is frustrating, and it is stressful.

Most days you’d probably feel like shit but you still have to show up and do your best the same way. As Alex Hormozi nicely says: Building a business is hard. And this is what hard feels like.

Coming to terms with some of the challenges you face in scaling a business, you learn to appreciate the importance of having the right team members and developing your internal process and systems but most importantly, you’re forced to develop the ability to focus on what matters, because you quickly learn, you can’t do it all and there’s always something vying for your attention.

So if you’re in it, keep going, this is just part of the growth process, and it gets better in time when you can look back and see it was all worth it….or so I’ve been told.