Why Your Growth Feels Like Chaos – Spoiler: I’ve Got the Framework to Fix It
You thought growth would make your business easier. More money, more stability, less stress. Instead, it feels like chaos.
Maybe you’ve been here: your phone won’t stop ringing, you’ve got more customers than ever, trucks on the road, sales climbing higher than you dreamed. From the outside, people probably think you’re crushing it. But inside? You’re collapsing on the couch at night, wondering when the next “big break” will finally make things easier. And it never does.
But – growth doesn’t fix your business. Growth magnifies the cracks.
Read that again.
Every inefficiency, every unclear role, every missed step; it all multiplies until you’re drowning in your own success. And if you’re like I was, you start playing business whack-a-mole: a little sales training here, a new tool there, maybe even a team workshop. But nothing sticks, because you’re fixing problems in isolation.
I know this cycle because I lived it over and over.
Build.
Grow.
Stall.
Scramble.
Like freakin’ Groundhog Day. Until I finally broke the pattern.
And here’s what I discovered: what saves you isn’t working harder or praying for luck. It’s having a repeatable system. A framework that forces clarity, exposes the real issues, and locks in fixes that actually last.
That’s why I built the C6 Cycle.
The C6 Cycle: Six steps to turn chaos into control
I tested this framework through Prosper Group, my business rescue lab, inside 24 struggling businesses. It worked every single time. And it’ll work for you too—if you follow it.
Here’s how:
Catalyst: Light the fuse
Growth won’t show up just because you want it. You need a trigger that makes change unavoidable. Think Profit First (taking profit before you spend) or Clockwork (a four-week vacation to force the team to run without you).
Commitment: Burn the boats
A spark fades fast unless you back it up with commitment. No half-in, half-out. No safety nets. Declare it to your team. To your family. Make it harder to quit than to push forward.
Cascade: Watch the cracks appear
Once you’ve sparked change and committed to it, chaos stops looking random. Patterns show up. You can finally see what’s breaking, and in what order.
Concentration: Aim at the constraint
Your business has one choke point that’s starving the whole system. Find it. Fix it. And resist the urge to chase everything else at once.
Cure: Install, don’t guess
Stop gambling. Test one solution at a time. Keep what works. Kill what doesn’t. Rinse and repeat until stability sets in.
Continuity: Make it stick
Change isn’t real until it runs without you. Build it into your routines, metrics, and accountability so the fix survives long after your attention moves on.
Why this works
Most frameworks give you theory. The C6 Cycle gives you movement. It forces you to act in the right order so chaos doesn’t just shrink—it transforms into clarity and control.
That septic company I told you about? Once they worked the cycle, the late nights ended. Not because the business got smaller, but because it finally got stronger.
For me, this framework ended my Groundhog Day loop. I stopped reliving the same problems in every company I built. Instead, I built systems that grew stronger with each turn of the cycle.
And that’s what I want for you, too: real clarity, real control, and a business that doesn’t eat you alive as it grows.
Growth shouldn’t feel like chaos. With the right framework, it becomes freedom.
Here’s to your success.
-Mike
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