If You Are Working All the Time…

Summary

• If you're working nonstop but your business isn't growing, you're focusing on the wrong tasks.
• Stagnant revenue despite constant work means the structure of your day is the issue.
• Imagine money-making like building a bridge; adding strength to one part doesn't help if there's a bottleneck elsewhere.
• It's ineffective to increase your business's capacity without removing bottlenecks that impede growth.
• Essentially, expanding business potential is pointless without first addressing the constraints that limit immediate progress.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest taking a hard look at where you spend your time each day. If you're putting in long hours but not seeing results, you're likely not working on the tasks that actually grow your business. To fix this, let's look at your daily tasks like the parts of a bridge.

• First, identify the 'bottlenecks' in your business. These are the parts that slow down everything else, like one narrow lane on a bridge. Find these by asking, "What holds me back from making more money or getting more clients?"

• Once you know your bottlenecks, stop wasting time on strengthening parts of your business that are already strong. If you have a great product but are not selling enough, don't keep refining the product—focus on improving sales.

• A good way of doing this is to prioritize tasks that directly lead to making money or growing your business. This could mean spending more time on marketing, sales calls, or customer service.

• After tackling the bottlenecks, you can work on expanding capacity slowly. Think of it as widening the bridge only after you've made sure all lanes are open.

Remember, addressing the things limiting your progress is the fastest way to grow. Fix what's broken first, and then build on what works. It's about working smarter, not harder.

Quotes by Alex Hormozi

"If you're working all the time and your business isn't growing you're working on the wrong [ __ ]"

– Alex Hormozi

"It's hard to swallow but like if your day doesn't change and your Revenue hasn't changed the day is the problem"

– Alex Hormozi

"If you think about money making as a bridge and you got to get a dollar across"

– Alex Hormozi

"Most people spend all their time reinforcing a pillar that already is Way Beyond the capacity of the dollars that you're going through"

– Alex Hormozi

"You add potential to the system but they don't debottleneck it"

– Alex Hormozi

Full Transcript

if you're working all the time and your business isn't growing you're working on the wrong [ __ ] simple as that it's hard to swallow but like if your day doesn't change and your Revenue hasn't changed the day is the problem if you think about money making as a bridge and you got to get a dollar across most people spend all their time reinforcing a pillar that already is Way Beyond the capacity of the dollars that you're going through they add potential to the system but they don't debottleneck it it's like making it wider when there's still a on Lane Highway you go from four lanes to eight Lanes but there's still one here doesn't really matter you had potential so in the future when you debottleneck it you'll be able to go faster further but you still have't de bottle netive