Everyone's out here romanticizing "operations" like it's some magical spreadsheet that's gonna save their drowning business.
Newsflash: Your Asana board isn't the problem. You are.
Yeah, I said it.
You can have the slickest CRM, the prettiest SOPs, and color-coded workflows that would make Marie Kondo weep with joy, and your business will still feel chaotic as hell.
Because operations isn't just about the systems you build. It's about how YOU operate.
It's about:
✅Whether you can make a decision without spiraling for three days
✅If you actually follow through or abandon ship when shit gets hard
✅How you show up when nobody's watching
✅Whether you trust yourself enough to delegate or if you white-knuckle everything because "nobody can do it like me"
Your business operations are a direct reflection of your internal operations.
👉If you're scattered, your business is scattered.
👉If you can't prioritize, your business won't either.
👉If you don't trust yourself, you damn sure won't trust your team.
The most sophisticated operations system in the world can't fix a founder who hasn't done their identity work.
So before you buy another course on "scaling your backend" or hire another VA to manage your mess, ask yourself:
🤔How am I operating?
🤔What patterns am I running that are creating chaos?
🤔Where am I the bottleneck because I haven't dealt with my own shit?
The external systems only work when the internal system is solid.
Unfuck yourself first. Then build the business around that.
Otherwise, you're just organizing chaos and calling it strategy.
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🔥ACTION ITEM:
Pick ONE recurring bottleneck in your business this week. Now ask yourself: Is this a systems problem or a ME problem?
Be brutally honest. Write it down. If it's YOU (spoiler: it usually is), identify the pattern or belief that's creating it—and decide what one thing you're going to shift about how YOU operate to fix it.
Drop your bottleneck below. Let's get real about what's actually breaking. 👇