Emma Greyson

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Dealing with the Drama of Staff

When you have a serviced based business the biggest issue in it is staff. Finding them, hiring them, training them, firing some of them … rinse and repeat. It’s a never ending headache.

Why “Wait and See” is Not a Good Business Strategy

Strategy. What is the strategy you are using in your business right now?
It amazed me how many business owners were just “waiting to see what happens” a few months ago when it was declared that there was a worldwide pandemic happening.

A Reflection On My Journey

Reflecting on my journey in business over the last 12 years I can see the correlation between my own personal growth and the business growth plus also what my business looks like now.

Even my accountant a few months ago on a comprehensive analysis of my figures over the last few years said that there was a positive correlation between my travel expenses and turnover, my mentoring spend and my turnover.

Which I giggled at when I read, because mentoring is one of my largest yearly expenses, between $100K – $150K and I spend it every year. Travel is also normally another expense that’s in my top 5 highest spends.

Normally what accountants will do is try to cut those highest spend categories to put more money on your bottom line. Not my accountant, she told me to keep doing what I was doing as it showed up consistently year on year as a positive.

Part of the personal growth journey that I have had over the years has included a lot of inner work on myself in a personal development setting. But that can’t be the only thing that happens because going from event to event there are a number of issues.

It’s unsustainable. For so many reasons.
The event come down when it’s over, creates issues for actual implementation

You end up on a cycle of running from event to event to get your next high which is your next breakthrough – you get addicted to the breakthrough and that huge light bulb moment that happens.
You go back home and then a week or so later you experience everything that you left beforehand, the family, the friends, the business that HASN’T changed but yet you feel as though you have.

All you want to do is go back to the event room. Go back into the bubble of it.

It’s not long before the situation and the people around you tend to pull you back into what life was like before the event, to some degree. You lose the huge driving force you had, all the things you were going to change and create instantly and then start doing it a bit slower.

Your old thought patterns creep back in to some degree and you fight that internal battle daily.

Then you go to another event and the cycle starts again, you are all pumped up, you do all this shit at the event, then you go home and start on it but then get sucked back into the older stuff.

Overall throughout this cycle you are definitely better off on the long term scale, you do think differently and you have worked through some of your stuff, but you constantly have to be at an event to get that high.

I believe there is a place for personal development, but I also believe that it can’t happen on it’s own.

Why I Avoided Growing My Business….

I have a confession to make. When I first started working with my current mentors, I did hardly anything for the first 6 months.

Yep. Pretty much nothing.

Which also meant I didn’t make any money and didn’t go forward with my business at all.

I actually did everything that I could think of to avoid learning something completely new. I got caught up in my other business. I actually focused on building it and making more money there.

Running A Business Isn’t Like Everyone Reports On Social Media

A few days ago I wrote a post on my personal Facebook page about the real life struggles of parenthood when our kids are horrendous and the struggles I face myself as a single mum.

I decided to break the silence on social media to do with the fact that you only ever see parents posting the cute selfies with their kids, the cute things they say, the photos of them that are hilarious or cute but