I just want a nice business, not a big one.
Her brother offered the money, and she felt chained.
She runs a medical device business with a junior sales team, and her brother is the one with the money.
On a group call this week she repeated what he keeps telling her.
"Hire the doctors. Hire the sales rep that will talk to doctors. Get an agency team. I have the funds for you."
Then in the same breath, she said this.
"I don't want to build a big business. I just want to build a nice business."
I said that if he has the funds for her, it also comes with numbers she has to hit.
She said, "for me, it feels like I'm honestly chained."
That's what I call I want but don't want energy.
Neither one of those wants is wrong.
She wants a calm business she actually enjoys running, and she also wants to grow it and help her family.
Both are real, both are switched on at the same time, and that is why nothing moves.
I told her straight that until she sorts this out, there will always be a cap on her growth.
What moves her is deciding out loud which want she's running this season.
It sounds like this: for this season I'm going to push a lot harder, I'm fine with that, and I know this is not what I do for the rest of my life.
That sentence takes the chain off, because now the pressure is something she picked instead of something being done to her.
And if something inside you won't let you make that call, that's what you work on first.
✅ A want you never say out loud still runs your calendar.
She said one more thing before we moved on, that it all sounds so logical while we're talking about it, but the emotions are tangled up in it.
That's exactly why smart people sit in this one for years.
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