Overwhelmed and burnt out
Just looking for some general advice, mindset stuff, tactical help, who knows. I’ve been running my business for 2 years now and have managed to scale it to $18k/m recurring revenue, doing SEO and marketing services for local businesses.
The past month or two have been tough mentally. My service quality has gone down as I’ve added more clients, so my clients have generally been unhappy, and i can’t seem to get the right team in place to get good delivery (and I know it’s on me to set up the SOPs for them to run it). This leads to me shifting focus from sales to delivery, which is stagnating my growth. Now I’m at a place where I feel like I’m doing everything and am spread super thin.
At this point, I dread waking up every day to work on the business (or should I say, in it), I feel like I just kind of suck at everything right now. My motivation has been super low and I feel like everything is just skidding to a halt. My self belief and confidence and drive are just gone.
I’ve generally been a pretty optimistic and positive person all my life and I workout regularly.
The other factors here are that my wife just lost her job, and we have a kid on the way, so the entire brunt of our finances is falling on me. This means I’m pulling more cash out of the business for our personal expenses, so I can’t hire the help that I need.
A big part of me also just feels like I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing, I don’t have much passion for my business, but I know that can also just be symptom of avoidance.
I don’t know what to do. If I should just quit and get a job or what. But I can’t keep operating the way I’ve been operating.