Read The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt It is written as a novel about a struggling manufacturing plant, but the central idea applies almost perfectly to what you have just described: a business improves by identifying its primary constraint and concentrating effort there—not by improving everything simultaneously. For Small Crown Productions, the current constraint does not appear to be: - the quality of the escape-room product; - your ability to deliver it; - the number of potential products; - your willingness to work; - or even your theoretical capacity. The constraint is turning available school-holiday sessions into paid bookings. Why this is a better recommendation for you 1. You have identified the bottleneck 2. It will help you stop confusing capacity with demand 3. It gives you a sequence for business decisions 4. It will help you see the VA issue correctly 5. It will help you decide what Self-Produced is for -------- Originally it suggested Essentialism by Greg McKeown, but I gave it some examples of my current operations that countered some of it's reasoning and it came back with this which actually feels like a better next book to me.

What I find really interesting about these book recommendations is so many of them are about us as creative people: -Focusing our efforts (Love Dan Martels FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful) -Fighting the Resistence of doubt and fear to act (The War of Art speaks about this a lot and is an amazing read) It also highlights how we are creative, driven and not afraid to work. Incredible to see the patterns across all of them.

very smart idea

oh no, good that you are ok though

Congrats - they look great