 When does business get easier? Man, I love this question. There's a lot that I can say here, but let's roll straight into it. Welcome to the Build My Sports Biz Show, where we talk about how to create, build, and scale your own local sports training business. Let's go! It's time to get started with your host Ben Neighbors. The show starts right now. And I guess there's a disclaimer here when I go through this question that, I've been self-employed for a very long time, over a decade now. And not only that, but I've started multiple businesses. I have been very consistent doing things for a very, very long time. And this isn't coming from someone who just randomly started shooting some YouTube videos or randomly thought it would be a good idea to help coaches. This is coming from someone who has a ton of experience. So that's my disclaimer. And what I would say, too, is a lot of coaches that might watch this later on, they might unsubscribe from my channel because they might not have the same belief system that I have with business. So with that being said, here's my answer. A lot of coaches will reach out, they'll say, well, Ben, with experience, does your business get easier? Like when does it start to get easier? Cause it's feeling really hard right now. And the reality is it is always going to be hard. And if it was easy, nobody would have a job. Nobody would ever wanna work for someone if being self-employed was easy. Being self-employed is absolutely difficult. It's, even for me now, it's still very, very hard. The amount that you have to learn on a day-to-day basis, the amount of challenges and adversity that you're gonna face every day, every week, every month, it's not for everyone. Most people are not cut out to do it. And a lot of people now, they flock to starting their own business because they think it's cool. They think, oh, I wanna be like that guy, or I wanna be like this girl. But they don't know what it takes to succeed. And I'm not talking about the short term, I'm talking about long term, right? Being in business for 10 plus years, something most people can never do, right? Never. The amount of grit that you have to have, the amount of patience and persistence that you have to have. I mean, you have to have that an incredibly high level, otherwise you're gone, right? And the business, in my mind, unless you just wanna stay the same, if you stay the same, you'll be running into the same problems over and over and over. You're not gonna be willing to change. So if you aren't willing to change, then you're gonna stay stuck in your business. So that means business will always be somewhat difficult, but it's going to get a lot harder as you start to raise up a little bit. As you start to get to the next level, you're gonna have newer challenges that are more difficult than your current challenges, right? And those are things that just don't go away. Like just because you're more successful in your business doesn't mean it's easier, right? It doesn't mean it's easier. And what I've seen is, you know, when you start dealing with more clients, business becomes harder. Start dealing with more payments, business becomes more difficult. Start charging more money, the business is harder, right? Start cutting clients, it's uncomfortable, right? There's, when you go, when you evolve your business, it will always be a little bit harder and harder and harder. And I say that because I don't want to give the message that it's just gonna be a day in the park. It's gonna be easy, right? It's not. It's not. It's absolutely hard. And I'm at the point now where, you know, when coaches ask me, you know, should I start a business or should I do that? Like, you know, I always say now, like if you're asking me to start something, why would you ask me, all right? If we don't personally know each other, if I don't know what your work ethic is like, I don't know how disciplined you are. Like, you know, that's like me asking you, hey, should I start this? I mean, how would you respond to that, right? So, short answer here, no, it gets harder, all right? Business will get harder. It will, you'll have more challenges as you grow and develop, especially like if you hire someone, if you hire someone, like that's gonna completely change how you run your business or if you partner with someone, all right? Those things will drastically change the difficulty of your business, all right? And if you're looking for an easy way out, the easiest thing that you can do is just stop running your business and go work for somebody, because I can assure you it will not be easier. Now, I want to say that and you know, I'm gonna end this video here with one thing. As far as, you know, making it easier for yourself, if you have systems in place, if you're really disciplined, if you have processes in place, those things can save you time, right? So, technically, the business can be run smoother, right? As an operational, you know, from an operational standpoint, which is essentially what I do with coaches, I make that piece of their business run smoother. But the challenges are still going to be there and you're going to be facing new challenges year after year. For example, look at what happened with COVID, right? COVID wiped out millions of coaches and trainers across the world in a very short amount of time. And those who weren't persistent enough, they are working for someone else now. People that are like me that, you know, I put my head down during that time, I was like, no, I'm gonna figure it out, I'm gonna make it work, are still in this business. And I do believe this and, you know, this is just my opinion, but I think people that are in this industry, that coaches, trainers, that are still in it, they're the ones who deserve to be here in the first place. Everybody else who stopped because of a big challenge, right? Everybody else who stopped should not be here, all right? Should not be here, all right? So, again, as you grow, you will expect bigger challenges, harder challenges. You're gonna have to overcome a lot more than you currently are right now. But that's the whole point, all right? It's gonna be like that with everything. So, hopefully this helps. And if you are a coach watching this video, you wanna get in touch with me, it's very simple. You're gonna see my number pop up here on the screen. Shoot me a text message there. And like I say, I've been saying this in my recent videos, I set up 10 to 15 minute zoom calls with coaches that need some advice, need some help. I don't have anything to sell on those calls. I just wanna get to know you, talk with you. And if you are a good fit for one of our programs, we can talk about that. But my point of those calls is to chat with you and to try to point you in the right direction, all right? That's it for today's message. Hopefully this helps. I hope you can execute on what we're talking about here. Business is gonna get harder and harder. That's just life.