Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Mike Andes discussing the limits of time when scaling a business. Mike emphasizes that saying yes to more commitments consumes finite hours and can block growth; he advises prioritizing family/time and raising prices instead of overworking. The other speaker notes personal difficulty slowing down and a tendency to say yes to everything.
Well. And especially as you begin to scale and going past your time like you can, you only have 24 hours in a day and what you're going to end up hitting up against is like you'll run out of hours in the day. So now you're giving off Saturdays, right? Which is time that otherwise would go towards the whole objective of this business, which is time with family. Why do that if I can go raise prices and in a month make that much in profit?
That's my problem, honestly is I just like I care. I care too much about things, but I also have to look out for myself at the same time. I mean, everything I do is for my family. I have a really hard time with slowing down.
Whenever you're saying yes to something, you have to say no to something else because you have finite number of hours.
Saying yes to everything.
And as you begin to grow the business, saying yes to more things is actually going to keep you from growing.
