Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

Nearly every issue in any relationship can be traced back to communication issues. Regardless of if it is a relationship with your family, spouse, or team, the core of every successful relationship is communication. Communication within a business can be challenged by any number of things, and the reality is that it is often difficult to determine how to move forward and overcome these challenges....

The current crisis facing the world has dramatically shifted the needs of entrepreneurial business. In many ways, it has shifted the expectations of success, and particularly what it takes to be successful in business. Matan Gavish was told that he had two weeks before he would be out of business. Two weeks. What would you do if someone told you that you had two weeks to get your business profitab...

Understanding your avatar, your ideal client, is the key step to ascending the Billionaire Code and growing your business. When you have a clear picture of who you are going to serve, you can respond to their needs and create products to get them the results you want. At a recent event for our coaching members called The Charfen Summit, we had the opportunity to hear from Dre Baldwin, the CEO of W...

Entrepreneurs are the small percentage of the population that wakes up every day, goes into the future, creates a new reality, then comes back to the present, and demands that it becomes real. That process requires a high level of decisions to be made on a daily basis. This responsibility is enormous, and it can lead to entrepreneurs reacting to situations instead of proactively overcoming them wi...

Committing to a plan is the third step of the Charfen Process. The question is, how do you commit? Especially if you are so deep in the day-to-day operations of your business, it can feel overwhelming to hear that you need to commit to something that is unknown to you. The reality is that there are four stages that all of us go through in learning, and they are directly related to our ability to c...

Prioritization is a powerful tool for effectively solving problems in your business. The problem is that it is also one of the most overlooked. Many companies take the concept of a parking lot and put it in place in their business. They take the ideas they have and put them in one place with the assumption that they will be taken care of someday in the future. The challenge with this approach is t...

One of the most overlooked opportunities for entrepreneurs is to analyze their current situation in order to understand how they should best move forward. Most entrepreneurs move from idea to action quickly because they feel like, otherwise, they are doing nothing. The reality is that the best thing for your business, your personal life, and your relationships is for you to take a step back and an...

The Charfen Summit is the ultimate community of entrepreneurs banding together to grow and scale their businesses. It is normally reserved for members of our coaching programs, but today, we are going to give you a peek behind the curtain into the room. At the Summit, members of our programs get to take a deep dive into the foundational content of our systems and get direct coaching from Alex. Eac...

Transactional management versus transformational leadership is a topic that I speak about often. I shared this yesterday with the attendees at Stephen Larsen's event. Each time I share this information, I have new awareness is an understanding of just how critical these concepts are. When I was speaking yesterday, I became acutely aware of just how fast and how damaging transactional management is...

As entrepreneurs, we have a hard time when the world around us doesn't go fast enough. This can cause us to challenge the people around us and destroy the plans that we make. Our restlessness can cause us to slow the growth of our business down when what we are trying to do is speed it up. I am very familiar with this. It's something that I do often and have to go back and repair with my team. I t...

The path to growth for an entrepreneur goes directly through behavioral change. At each new level of growth for our company, our behaviors change almost completely. One of the reasons so many entrepreneurial businesses get stuck and stop growing is that entrepreneurs stop changing behavior and growing themselves. It's incredibly difficult for a business to grow when the owner doesn't. In the past...

So often, for entrepreneurs, there is a hesitation to face the realities of your business. Many of us feel the pressure of making our numbers sound better than they are with the people around us, or worse, ourselves. When we make the situation in our business sound better than it actually is, we run the risk of missing the important steps we need to take to ensure our business is growing. In this...

I define discipline as keeping the commitment that you make to yourself. I have a confession to make; naturally, I'm not very disciplined. It's actually difficult for me to remain disciplined. I can intend to do something, get up in the morning, think about it, forget that I was going to do it, and then realize a day later I didn't do it. It's incredibly frustrating. Even if something is important...

So often these days, when I share advice with entrepreneurs, I'm sharing contrast between what I used to do and what I've learned to do with experience. When it comes to recruiting, hiring, and motivating teams, this is often the case. Unfortunately, when I was younger, I was a pretty challenging leader. I was myopic and almost entirely focused on the business, I didn't really want to know what wa...

For many of us, it feels like the world is more chaotic than it ever has been. We are dealing with a number of crisis situations as a society and as a global population. There are political issues in many countries, social issues in the same countries, medical issues that the entire globe is dealing with, and radical financial and economic issues. The world is as chaotic as it has been in my lifet...

We help entrepreneurs around the world grow and scale their businesses in our coaching memberships. One of the comments or questions we are getting often today is "what do I do when I feel like I am drowning?" Variations of this question are when I feel like I am falling? When I feel accelerated? When I feel reactive? There is no question why so many of us are feeling this way today. The world is...

This morning we had an issue with a member of our team. Eddie who works with us missed a couple of the deliverables that he is responsible for each week. He reached out to Hayley our director of operations and she reached out to Cadey and I and the four of us connected. The second we got on a zoom call, I could tell how badly he was beating himself up. Had this been years ago, I would've reacted....

These days, if you watch most thought leaders in the entrepreneurial space, you will probably think that in order to grow a business and do well, you have to live in a world of chaos. Getting things done at the last minute, pulling all nighter's, making everyone around you work until the very last minute, seems to be the way to create success. Don't get sold on this lie. The reality is the most su...

This episode of the Momentum Podcast is a mold-breaker. In this episode, we are sharing an unedited interview between George Bryant from the Mind of George podcast and Alex Charfen. This episode is longer than any other in the entire history of the Momentum Podcast, but it is also one of the most powerful. The message is simple, yet compelling. You can build a business that makes an impact on the...

Sometimes as entrepreneurs, we are in such a hurry to help someone, or even correct someone, that we invalidate them without trying. Here is the scenario, someone asked you for advice, and without any clarification, you get it because you think you know the answer. You may actually have the right answer, and know exactly what they need, but if you have not clarified with them, they probably are no...

In 2011 we had the 21st fastest-growing company in the country. We were on the Inc. 500 List, then again in 2012 and 2013. We even won Best Places to Work awards all three years. We did so well, we sold ourselves out of an opportunity and ended up having to cut the size of our company and do layoffs. So many companies right now are in the same situation. Where your business has shifted, numbers ha...

I just got off my Monday morning huddle and it uncomfortable. Two of my team members are dealing with personal issues that are keeping them up at night and making them anxious. They shared with our team what is going on and how they are feeling. All of us could tell just how difficult it is for both of them. I consider this a massive success. In most companies, when someone is uncomfortable, they...

Sometimes when I share my story with people, it sounds unbelievable. The reason is, when you are telling someone your background, you only hit the highlights. most people don't share the challenging details. As entrepreneurs, it's important that not only we are aware of the challenging details of our stories, but that we are also radically transparent about them. That's how we learn, and the peopl...

It's inevitable, as an entrepreneur you are going to experience a crisis. It's part of the game that we have decided to play. I often tell my members, crisis is normal, crisis is part of the human condition, the world is always in crisis. Even though crisis is inevitable, how it affects you is not. Throughout my career, there has been a consistent difference between the entrepreneurs who do well,...

I was recording a podcast yesterday with one of our members and I asked him what was different about our company when he started working with us. He immediately replied, "no one had ever described momentum the way you did. It felt like you were reading my mind" This was validating and confirming for me. See I believe that entrepreneurs need momentum as much as the rest of the world needs oxygen. W...