Christo: In today‘s tip, I want to share something that relates to business motivation, once again. Recently, I had one of our business owners who we work with in the Clever Bunch program at Basic Bananas, he has a very successful business. Being in business for a very long time, 10-15 years in manufacturing, he makes good money and the business does very well. However, he just said he‘s at a point where he‘s bored, basically. It‘s been running so long where it‘s like a treadmill now and it just goes round and round. It‘s like the new challenges feel like the same old challenges and it‘s like just things keep coming up, so kind of spin.

Having this conversation, we have this conversation with lots of different business owners at all different levels. But it‘s interesting when you speak to someone who‘s very successful and it seems like everything‘s working amazingly well, but they‘re bored.

Now what we did with him, he joined Clever Bunch and started to learn new things. One of the things I said to as to try, basically, and which come up in a conversation, I won‘t take all the credit. One that came up in our conversation was just keep “upskill-ing” yourself. Like learn something new and apply that to the business. Even if it‘s purely for your own enjoyment, basically. Like learn something new in regards to marketing and let‘s put that out to the world as a campaign. So that will bring a new challenge and new life and fresh air and new thoughts into his mind. So, basically, the big lesson was, if we feel like we‘re starting to plight town, we‘re kind of just on a tread, most of the time go round and round in circles, it‘s probably we‘ve stopped educating ourselves. We‘ve stopped kind of growing. Someone smart once said, “you‘re either green and growing or you‘re ripe and rotting.” So sounds a bit scary. I never want to be ripe and rotting. But let‘s make sure we‘re on the green and growing side but always upskill-ing and learning new things so that we keep ourselves growing and expanding and even if it‘s just to keep it interesting for ourselves rather than starting to fatigue on things.

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