Shortcuts Slow You Down in Business - Here's Why

Summary

If you are serious about building a business that survives in the long term, you should never take a shortcut because it is a recipe for disaster in the long term. Unless you pay all the necessary costs needed to get what you want to get, your progress will be fake. Any success built on shortcuts doesn't provide the perspective, the learnings, and the systems to replicate that success further down the line.

Transcript

If you're serious about beating the odds and building a business that survived, you shall never take this short. Let's get to it.

[INTRO] Hey, I'm Leon Castillo, founder of Selfmastered, a peak performance training company that helps entrepreneurs scale their businesses by solving their silent bottleneck their own performance, which was formed the unproductive, overwhelming and focused entrepreneurs into laser focused business athletes that can achieve in one day, what they previously achieved in one week.

Hello friends, today I want to talk about shortcuts and why you shop never take one if you are serious, or whatever it is, that you are trying to build. And this may go against the wisdom of the crowds have said that you need to get your goals in whatever fashion you need to do a everything and anything you need in order to get where you want to get.

But this is a recipe for disaster in the long term, how you get to a goal is meaningful, because unless you pay the old unnecessary costs, you need to pay in order to get to that goal, that progress will be fake, it will not provide you the perspective the Learning Center systems, you need to replicate that success further down the line. And that's essentially because of two reasons.

Reason number one is that taking a shortcut is like taking a loan, you are essentially mortgaging your future use because you will have to eventually pay the dues. Just because you were able to achieve something at a fraction of the time by doing some sort of due to work doesn't mean that you will have this available further down the line. Or that you will have learned how to actually replicate this success. So it gives you an idea of fake competence.

And as all things fakes, eventually to truth is now then it's obvious that you do not know how to get that goal. Again, which leads me to number two, when you take a shortcut, you are essentially bypassing the root cause of the problem that you're supposed to tackle. And if you do not understand inherently what it is that you're working with, and what's the goal you need to get to essentially you are again back to this idea mortgaging your future, you are willing to trade a good present for a bad future because you will not have paid all the necessary cost that needs to be paid in order to get you to that goal. So always make a list of all the costs that shall be paid in your pursuit of growth. And make sure you pay them if you want your business to have predictable and reliable growth.

Now before we get into specific examples of this and business that product, typical shortcuts most entrepreneurs make in their lives and businesses that compromise the future growth throughout your life, subscribe and hit the bell because we release a few videos every week to help people like you grow their businesses at record speed. And also because it is the right thing to do. Right. We are publishing cool videos every week. And there's people that need to learn this material so they can have a much better impact in their life. So show them so how do people make shortcuts in business. Well, let me tell you every single day because it is always the easiest thing to do. But easy choices lead to a hard life hard choices lead to an easy life. And the same thing applies to business. So product typical examples of people taking the shortcut is hiring out of position because they do not want to learn the skill of that position.

Also, raising rounds, instead of actually devoting time to understanding the business model creating a minimum viable product and making sure that their business is able to survive bootstrap DOS, you are the product typical mistakes. Geometry printers make thinking that raising rounds and hiring people are markers of success, but what they are really doing is hiding problems on the rug. Because if you do not know how to do something that you hire for when that person is gone, unless you hire someone, someone back again, you will be compromised, your system will have a bottleneck that needs to be solved, and you will not have as much time to learn that skill.

So essentially, the more you shortcut your way to growth, the less stable that growth will be and therefore the results you see will not materialize in the long term. So if you're serious about surviving in business, remember that 80% of business fail within the first five years you need to be serious about this. pay the costs, learn the skills, develop the character traits, create the beliefs and nurture the team that will allow you to get where you want to get.