How can we get ourselves and our teams to lean into SYSTEMS and STRUCTURES that work?!
The answer … DISCIPLINE.
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will be easy.” – Les Brown
One thing most maverick entrepreneurs struggle with is structure.
It’s hard to create structure and it’s hard to operate within structure. It feels confining and restricting to our untamed shiny-penny syndrome.
During a week with Simon Black in Lithuania years ago, his good friend Craig Ballantyne shared his formula for freedom … And freedom is ultimately what we’re striving for!
Structure = Freedom
The idea is simple … and we have all experienced this truth on some level.
When we have predetermined standards and actions based on principles and priorities, mental chatter, resistance, and straying from our purpose fade away.
We stop negotiating with ourselves. We simply get up every single day and take aligned actions.
This is the entire premise ofOrganize to Scale™ … “If it’s not on the calendar, it doesn’t exist.”
The entrepreneurial path is already harder … Let’s not make it even harder.
Make the entrepreneurial journey easier …
Show up prepared for the team meeting instead of canceling it.
Say no to chasing the next big idea and follow through on the current plan.
Manage our emotions so we don’t make abrupt decisions.
Eat the salad instead of the cookie so we have sustainable energy.
The list of do this and not that could go on and on. BUT, the question now is …
How do we get ourselves to do the harder thing now so life is easier later?! How to do we build the DISCIPLINE muscle?!
I offer two solutions …
Create Structure WITH ACCOUNTABILITY
Change WHO you hang around
In next week’s email … I’ll dive deeper into exactly how to do both.
In the meantime … If you want help implementing structures to build and scale your business without losing your sanity, drowning in operational chaos, or sacrificing your relationships … Let’s connect!
Staci Gray has over two decades of experience organizing real-world businesses to scale. She puts an emphasis on quickly collapsing the gap between ideas and profits by persistently executing for progress and results. Staci envisions a world where innovative leaders are no longer trapped by operational chaos and instead are empowered to efficiently and effectively solve real-world problems, impact real-people on a human level and generate profits quickly. Staci loves coming alongside mission-driven leaders who are using their ideas, influence and intellect to build successful businesses and empowering them to scale without losing their sanity, compromising their values, sacrificing their relationships, and drowning in operational chaos. Supporting leaders one business at a time!
