Mark Osborne walks through why running a business feels overwhelming right now: staff turnover, client emergencies, AI adoption, payroll, and government shutdowns all pile up at once. The real problem is urgent tasks drowning out what actually matters.
It's really about the fundamentals. But here's the thing, and like, and my, my heart breaks for small to midsize business owners because I, I live and breathe this. I, I run a midsize business, right? I know it. Yeah. There is so much going on in our lives, both business and personally. Like, just think about how much we are bombarded with every day just from running day to day in our businesses. And so it's easy to sit here and say, okay, these are the 3 things you need to do, these are the 3 strategies. But when you get into the day-to-day, there are client emergencies you have to take care of. There are people quitting on a daily basis, right? Yeah. And you have to rehire them. There's marketing messages that are being blasted to you. You need to figure out how to catch up with AI and implement AI into your business. You need to balance, like, you know, your books and records. You need to make sure people are paid on time, figure out what the government shutdown's doing to your business, right? There's all of these things that are going on. And so, and I forget who said this, but it's a well-known author of balancing important versus urgent, right?
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