A short vlog-style YouTube video (Jan 2020) in which the speaker combines personal routine updates (returning to the gym, Monday planning rituals) with business reflections. The speaker describes conversations with another agency owner about scaling challenges—high headcount but low profit—and argues that small businesses should prioritise protecting profit and deliberate strategic planning. The video ends with a call-to-action to like/subscribe and leave comments for weekly Q&A videos.
So start of January, that's the first workout of the year done. It was tough. So start of January, that's the first workout of the year done. It was tough. Haven't been to the gym for two or three weeks now, so it was tough getting back into it. But it's important and still a habit. You obviously see a lot of people in gyms in January, they're always full and by the end of January they're always petters out because people don't have the consistent habits that they set themselves. Accountability is important as well to make sure that you. I don't have a gym partner, but if you've got a gym partner, it's quite good to have one because it's quite important to have that accountability. So stay tuned for the next one and make sure you're in the gym because health is important. So now, because it's Monday, it is time to go to my coffee shop and I've got a couple of favourites in and around this area that I go to. A mixture of Starbucks, Cafe Nero. I've already had my Costa for the day. I am going to be planning a little bit more for quarter one in terms of of my recruitment company and also the plans for the marketing agency in 2020. So I always feel it's really important to take a little bit of time out the business. So every Monday I try and have Monday off, but it's not really off, it's just off from being in the office and doing the operational stuff to make sure that I can think strategically around the business, a lot more thinking time and a lot more planning as well. So I'm now here getting my weekly car wash, so do that normally, sometimes on a Monday afternoon. So I just came off the phone to another business owner who runs an agency and he was talking about his frustration because he used to have an agency that had over 50 staff and now it's went down to under 20. And he's had a lot of stress, frustration, anxiety, trying to grow and scale past that figure and he actually didn't really make a large amount of profit in the year as well. So it makes you realise that like, just because you have either high revenue or a high volume of employees, it doesn't necessarily mean that that is success. So you need to reevaluate your business plan in terms of making profit first. A lot of these companies, like Twitter, Netflix, yes, they make no money, but they're very heavily private equity backed. When you are a small growing business, it's important to protect your profits first. Hi, thanks for watching today's video. If you like what you've seen, like and subscribe button with Entrepreneur James so you keep up to date with all of the updated videos. If you've got any questions or comment, I'd love to hear from you. So please drop a comment in Entrepreneur Gems below and we'll look to answer those on a weekly Q and A video. Keep an eye out for any future videos that we'll be posting. I'll be popping the video in here probably every one to two days. Thank you.
