Why You Need to Break Up With Your Compulsion to Work

with Brad Farris

The Growing your Team Podcast: Episode 268

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Does this sound like you? You started your own business so you could have the freedom to enjoy your time on your own terms. Now, however, you feel like you’re always working.

Many small business owners end up having a compulsion to work. We believe that if we just put in a little more time, we’ll reach that next goal. We have our foot fully on the gas, and we’re afraid that if we let up slightly and step back, the progress that we’ve been feeling will come to a halt.

The truth is, you don’t have to be a workaholic to achieve success, and letting go of specific tasks in your business might be what takes you to the next level.

Brad Farris joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share how you can go from working obsessively in your business to the entrepreneurship freedom you desire while growing your revenue. 

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In this Episode You’ll Hear:

  • What drives so many CEOs to work obsessively when the goal of entrepreneurship is freedom
  • The biggest risk to the success of your business

  • The steps to overcome your work-compulsion behavior

  • What is workaholic behavior is linked to 

  • Examples of formerly work-obsessed CEOs and the positive changes they’ve made

  • The cycle of compulsive work and how to find other sources for performance endorphins 

About Brad Farris:

Brad is known for helping agency and expert firm owners grow through the $1M — 2M barrier to become thriving $3M — $5M agencies. For over twenty years, Brad has worked alongside agency owners to help them sharpen their focus, raise their prices, and hire better people so that their firms can scale. In his work with hundreds of agency owners, he’s learned that success is driven less by what you do than who you decide to be, and the biggest hurdle to your agency’s growth is between your ears.

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