Stop "Trying" to Get Better

Intro

We hear so much about efficiency, speed, hacks, or easy buttons. But sometimes doing it the hard way is the best way. Sometimes doing the unscalable is what is best for that moment in the business.

The Story

Sometimes the answer or solution is just the hard way. There may be accelerators to solutions, growth, and more sustainable answers, but sometimes the best available option is the hard way. Doing hard things is a superpower many don’t like to talk about. It’s not cool and definitely not popular. This doesn’t mean to run yourself into the ground—it means doing more of what amounts to the answers to the test, and not trying to find that easy button. If you find yourself wondering, what those hard things are, they’re really hiding behind your “reasons” for not doing things. Hiding behind busy work, countless decks, sheets, and logos.

Here are a few other ways to get to the root of what hard work you’re avoiding:

> If you ask yourself, if someone replaced you today in your role or business, what would they do?
> What is your new competitor doing to replace you in the market?
> If this was our last week of cash flow to make payroll, what would we do differently?
> These are the hard conversations with team members and clients.
> This is that analysis that you need to do that will inform your critical decisions
> It’s that extra call, meeting, text, email
> It’s saying no
> It’s saying yes to that investment in the business
> It may be working all weekend or 90 hours next week
> That trip across the country to see that client or for that conference, while missing your family, missing that ball game, missing that party

This shit is hard, and sometimes it makes sense to face it, execute, and move on to the next hard thing, rather than avoiding the work that will build your business. If you want to get better, it’s in your hands, to build the team, enhance the product, improve your business—sometimes it requires doing hard things.

The best part? In my career, I have realized the hardest times, the most taxing moments, or stressful situations, are the good stuff. That’s when you are put to the test and build upon your experience and mistakes, you learn, grow, and find fulfillment. This is the work you will appreciate. Sounds like an experienced thing to say, and yes it is, but trust me, for most CEOs, founders, executives, and leaders, you take your work seriously, which means you care, which means you will look back on getting through that recession, or the boom, the downturn, or spike, or when you hired 500, or cut 5,000, and you will at least reflect as a time where you showed up, made things happen, making a positive impact in some way, or leading others through the muck. You pulled it off, or you failed heroically, but you were in the action. Great accomplishments or success don’t often happen without great sacrifice.

Get better by making things happen through action, producing great work.

Closing

No more trying, just doing to get better.

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"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

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About the Author, Graham Peelle