THE TRUTH ABOUT GROWING A BUSINESS:
WHY I ALMOST QUIT
A couple of weeks ago, we had a record-breaking launch that outperformed my income from many years in just a single week.
We enrolled short of 1,400 Kaizen students and we more than 2x our previous season's enrollees.
Add to that my personal record of closing 400 people the night of the webinar day itself.
Knowing na wala naman ako sa wealth industry, it's pretty cool to be sharing such numbers.
Kasabay pa nyan yung pagtaas din ng # of team members and now we're nearly 80 people in total.
Now, you might think I am all gleeful and happy that I was able to scale the business to this level.
But you're wrong.
The truth is...
I was burning inside and experiencing the biggest stress of my life.
𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗
So I can paint for you the full picture of what happened and why I dreadfully came to this point..
Let's circle back muna two seasons ago.
We were at the beach, celebrating the end of the successful Kaizen Season 3. Around 80 people (a combination of my team and students) were there and we were having the best time of our lives.
There were games, team building activities, awarding, walwalan (sila), and staying up 'til morning.
At sa sobrang saya, I found myself wondering:
"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 1,000 𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑔-𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙?"
It was a scary question for me because we only had 7 main team members back then, and there's no way we would be able to handle 1,000 if mangyari man yun.
However, I LOVED the idea of serving more than a thousand people per season and I felt eager to know what that actually feels.
So, when our next Strat Plan came around, my proposal was to reach out to our former students for help, seeing it as the easiest yet most impactful move we could make.
And it turned out, I was right.
Suddenly, our team grew from under 10 members to a whopping 50.
"𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑!" I said. Or so I thought.
Nagsimula kami na relax lang because handling many students wasn't a big issue anymore. But as the weeks went by, more challenges began to surface to replace what we just solved.
Challenges that we hadn't anticipated, and those that pushed our workload and stress levels through the roof.
These were challenges regarding:
◾ Hiring
◾ Management
◾ Culture
◾ Core Values
◾ Margins
◾ Accounting
◾ Communication
◾ Infrastructure
And just the overall business complexity.
Due to my lack of experience and ignorance, I wasn't able to anticipate many of these, and they caught us off guard.
Push lang ako ng push because all I had was that '𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗿𝗲'.
Comparing it to video games, it's like entering a level 50 dungeon when you're still at level 10 and you don't even have a map to navigate the terrain. It's that challenging.
Even Vanessa Lau (a famous content creator on IG/YouTube) mentioned this in her recent video titled 'Why I Quit'.
She refers to it as '𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽'..
.. indicating that as the business grows, more tasks and responsibilities pile up, making it feel like an endless cycle.
She said (paraphrasing):
"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦.
𝘐 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘮𝘺 9-5 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 24/7 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴."
Totally. Absolutely. Right on point.
I'm not the type to complain about hard work, but I felt that. 😦
After a while, dun na ko napa-isip. Napa-reflect. Napa-journal ng mas madami.
To get myself to answer this horrifying question:
"𝙂𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙤 𝙥𝙖 𝙗𝙖 '𝙩𝙤?"
After all, these weren't what I signed up for.
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