{"id":1961,"date":"2011-02-24T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/boston-west\/15-question-business-owner-quiz-do-you-own-a-real-business-or-a-demanding-job"},"modified":"2011-02-24T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:37:32","slug":"15-question-business-owner-quiz-do-you-own-a-real-business-or-a-demanding-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/boston-west\/15-question-business-owner-quiz-do-you-own-a-real-business-or-a-demanding-job","title":{"rendered":"15-Question Business Owner Quiz &#8230; Do You Own a Real Business or a Demanding Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a title=\"Business Coaching, Growth Coach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growth Coach<\/a> business coaching blog will be quite simple.\u00a0 It will consist of a series of <strong>fifteen tough business coaching questions<\/strong> every small business owner should answer for himself\/herself.\u00a0 <strong>Find out if you truly own a business or simply a demanding job.<\/strong> Be brutally honest and face your current reality &#8230; the ways things truly are &#8230; not how or what you wish them to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you can&#8217;t answer &#8220;YES&#8221; to a vast majority of the questions below, unfortunately, you are a prisoner to your business &#8230; I mean to your demanding job.<\/strong> If that\u2019s the case, you should seek some <a title=\"Business Coaching Help, Talk with a Growth Coach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/Services\/TalkwithaCoach\/tabid\/389\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business coaching help<\/a> so you can learn how to work less, earn more and enjoy a richer life. It is very possible to have a great business and life with the right mindset, actions and on-going coaching and accountability.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After these fifteen questions, you will <strong>meet a <a title=\"Business Owner Client Testimonials\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/Services\/ClientTestimonials\/tabid\/1168\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business owner<\/a> on a short 3-minute video who discovered a powerful business coaching process that allowed him to say &#8220;YES&#8221; to each and every one of these questions and dramatically improve his business and personal life<\/strong>.\u00a0 In fact, with the proper structure and systems in place, he was able to leave his business for seven weeks and came back to find it running as smoothly and prosperously as when he left.\u00a0 Could you do that now with your present business?\u00a0 Could you even do a work-free, quilt-free three-week vacation?\u00a0 If not, set a goal to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <strong>tough-love business coaching questions<\/strong> for you to answer honestly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you constantly growing as a leader and owner?<\/li>\n<li>Have you sufficiently differentiated yourself from your business and established a proper level of separation?<\/li>\n<li>Are you working more &#8220;on&#8221; your business than &#8220;in&#8221; your business?<\/li>\n<li>Have you taken yourself out of the &#8220;business details&#8221; and replaced yourself with systems and other people?<\/li>\n<li>As an owner, are you able to work mainly on the things you truly enjoy and are good at doing?<\/li>\n<li>Have you learned to dramatically reduce your working hours?<\/li>\n<li>Have you learned to dramatically increase your free time and family time\u2026time away from the business?<\/li>\n<li>Have you increased your overall enjoyment of life and business ownership?<\/li>\n<li>Do you regularly pull away from the details of the business and properly reflect on the big picture?<\/li>\n<li>Do you regularly and systematically slow down, face reality and set new business\/personal goals?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have the proper discipline, structure and accountability in place to achieve such goals?<\/li>\n<li>When you leave work at the end of the day, does your work truly stay at work?<\/li>\n<li>When at home are you truly &#8220;at home&#8221; and in the &#8220;present moment&#8221; with family and friends?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have the proper structure, systems, people, and delegation mindset in place to provide you with true flexibility and freedom?<\/li>\n<li>Can you leave your business for seven weeks and return to discover that it continued to prosper in your absence?\u00a0 (<em>that&#8217;s truly having a systems-dependent instead of an owner-dependent business<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Did you answer the vast majority of these questions with a solid \u201cYES\u201d?.\u00a0 If not, seek some <a title=\"Business Coaching Help, Locate a Growth Coach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrowthcoach.com\/LocateaCoach\/tabid\/210\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business coaching help<\/a> as soon as possible.\u00a0 <em>You deserve to get more out of business and life<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300\">Watch this 3-minute video to the very end to discover how a business owner was able to finally answer &#8220;YES&#8221; to all the questions above after he learned to alter his mindset, priorities, focus and habits<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><abbr title=\"Advanced Responsive Video Embedder\">ARVE<\/abbr> Error:<\/strong> id and provider shortcodes attributes are mandatory for old shortcodes. 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