Win The Hour, Win The Day

The Go-To Trap: Why Being The Capable One Is Costing You The Business You Started

Episode Summary

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Kris Ward. You're not tired. You're everybody's answer. And nobody has ever named that out loud, so you keep treating it like a discipline problem. Friends, family, clients, the team. Something breaks and the phone rings and it's you, because it is genuinely faster to handle it than to explain it. You have been that person since you were the kid taking somebody else's crisis at eleven at night, and twenty years of practice later you carried the whole habit straight into your business. Here's the thing, that isn't a work ethic, it's a setup. The more you can handle, the more you get handed, and the more you get handed, the more you prove you can handle it. I ran on that for years and called my speed a superpower. It was a symptom, not a strength. So watch the next moment somebody tells you a problem they haven't actually asked you to solve. That gap, between hearing it and fixing it, is where most of your week is going. The work that would move your business forward isn't lost to laziness, it's lost to everything you picked up before anyone asked.

Episode Notes

You're not tired. You're everybody's answer.
And nobody has ever named that out loud, so you keep treating it like a discipline problem.

Friends, family, clients, the team. Something breaks and the phone rings and it's you, because it is genuinely faster to handle it than to explain it. You have been that person since you were the kid taking somebody else's crisis at eleven at night, and twenty years of practice later you carried the whole habit straight into your business.

Here's the thing, that isn't a work ethic, it's a setup. The more you can handle, the more you get handed, and the more you get handed, the more you prove you can handle it.

I ran on that for years and called my speed a superpower. It was a symptom, not a strength.

So watch the next moment somebody tells you a problem they haven't actually asked you to solve. That gap, between hearing it and fixing it, is where most of your week is going.


The work that would move your business forward isn't lost to laziness, it's lost to everything you picked up before anyone asked.

 

This week’s episode of Win The Hour, Win The Day Podcast interviews, Kris Ward.

 

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The GO To Trap