Your Business Can't Outgrow You

I am currently pretending not to know that 80% of what I do right now needs to stop. That's a hard thing to admit.

In this episode, Matt Robinson shares that admission honestly, and uses it to unpack one of the most important ideas from a recent presentation to his own 1-1 clients: your business can't outgrow you.

Every time you get close to breaking past where you've been before, your identity pulls you back. This is why people hit a certain number and fall back. Why they make changes and regress. Why some PTs are still doing exactly what they were doing years ago, working with the same clients, charging the same, stuck in the same place. It's not a strategy problem. It's an identity problem, and no marketing tactic or business hack can fix it.

Matt walks through the concept of the borrowed dictionary, the number and the Tuesday test, and why resetting your expectations around problems is essential if you actually want to grow.

In this episode:

• Why your business's growth is limited by your own identity, not your strategy
• The question to ask yourself: "What am I currently pretending not to know?"
• Why using words like freedom and success without defining them keeps you stuck
• The Tuesday test: what actually changes at your next revenue number
• Why growth doesn't mean fewer problems, just different ones
• The honest question to ask yourself about the rest of this year: are you optimising for stability, or for becoming the person you've been avoiding becoming?

If you're a personal trainer or fitness business owner who feels like you keep hitting the same ceiling no matter what you try, this episode will help you understand why, and what to do about it.

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