We're roughly halfway through a year of these notes, so here's one to reflect on rather than rush at.
A business rarely outgrows its owner. The skills, the mindset, the capacity you bring tend to become the ceiling the whole thing presses against. Which means the most important growth project in your business isn't a marketing campaign or a new product — it's you. The owner who keeps learning, keeps widening what they can handle, and keeps working on how they lead is the one whose business keeps finding new room to grow.
It's easy to pour every hour into working in the business and none into developing the person running it. But the founders who build something remarkable treat their own growth as part of the job — reading, learning, getting honest feedback, finding people ahead of them to learn from. They know the business will only ever be as good as the leader at its head.
So, at the halfway mark: what's one way you've grown as a leader this year — and what's one way you'd like to grow in the next six months? The business is, in a real sense, waiting on your answer.
Thank you for reading these. Building something of your own is one of the harder, braver things a person can do, and I don't take it lightly that you spend a few minutes here each week.
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To the second half,
Annie
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