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She Was Stuck For 10 Years..

Name: She Was Stuck For 10 Years..
Uploaded: 2025-05-01T00:00:47+00:00
Duration: 31 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker recounts a conversation with a female entrepreneur who has been stuck at $1 million in annual revenue for ten years…

1 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker recounts a conversation with a female entrepreneur who has been stuck at $1 million in annual revenue for ten years. When asked why she hasn't grown to $3 million, she cites the inconvenience and extra time required as the main deterrent, labeling the effort as "hard." The speaker argues that this perception is misleading: the real issue is not the difficulty of scaling per se, but a reluctance to take on new kinds of hard work. People often master one type of challenge, then become stuck when the next growth phase demands a different, unfamiliar form of effort. The talk highlights how mischaracterizing scaling obstacles as mere inconvenience can trap businesses in long‑term plateaus.

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I talked to a lady yesterday. She was stuck at $1 million a year for 10 years. I said, why haven't you gone to $3 million a year? Like, what's, what stopped you? Because she had a very clear model. I was like, why don't you just double how much you're doing? And she was like, well, it's a pain. And I was like, oh, because it's hard. No, no, it's not because it's hard. It's just like, it's inconvenient. And there's like, it's more, it's more time allotment and all this stuff. And I was like, yeah, that sounds like hard. It's hard for us to hear that we're not willing to do hard things because the hard changes, hard morphs. That's what makes people get stuck is because they learn how to conquer one hard, but not the next kind of hard.