Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

If you are anything like me, then you've probably tried more than one (way more than one) planners or organizing systems. My experience most of the planners I tried to use have been so complicated they took more time than what I was getting back from planning. Either that or others that I have tried to use just became a to-do list and had little to do with strategically moving me forward. I felt l...

Years ago I was meeting with a friend of mine and I asked him if his company had a Vision Statement. He said sure, and then got up and walked out of the room. I didn't really understand what was going on until he walked back in with a framed copy of his vision statement and read it to me. I remember asking him, "do you guys even use this?" His reply was no. They had hired a consultant a few years...

When I was younger, I wondered if there was one true path to success as an entrepreneur? In my early career, my impression of business was that each was so different, that they all needed something different, so they couldn't be just one path. But the more I study business, the more patterns emerged. I started to see similarities between all businesses, the foundational things that all of them nee...

For entrepreneurs, momentum is like oxygen for the rest of the population, we need it to feel alive, we need it to be alive. When we are in momentum we feel like we are unstoppable, we can do anything, and we are on top of the world. When we are not in momentum, we will do just about anything to get it back. Today we are in a situation where a lot of the world is out of momentum. Entrepreneurs eve...

For entrepreneurs, our productivity determines our success. It's difficult to make any argument to the contrary. What we are able to get done every day when we have a team or not, will determine our long-term outcomes. As an entrepreneur, I look for a habit that I can install in my life to help me be more productive all of the time. This is one of the reasons I'm so obsessed with hydration, it lit...

If you want to continue being triggered, then don't follow this advice. If you'd like to be more present, more aware, and even have a longer attention span so that you can get more done, then this is for you.   I have a confession to make. Starting in March when everything went crazy, I stopped following this advice for a few weeks and it cost me. I feel more tired, more reactive throughout the da...

It has gotten far easier to make a profit online in the past four or five years. There are incredible tools out there that are huge shortcuts. When Cadey and I first started selling online you would be shocked at how much effort it took. We had to hand-code websites, string together funnels, and everything was custom. Would you believe at one point we were spending over $1 million a year just on o...

There is a serious problem in the coaching, experts, and information products industry. We all know it, but it seems like everybody's afraid to talk about it. It's near impossible to understand who's a real coach, who can get your results, and who is a fake. This challenge is the credibility of everyone who is a coach or runs an online business which just isn't fair. There are tons of people out t...

Every time I get to interact with the members of our coaching programs, it is life-changing for me. And I don't just mean that moderately, it is a massively life-changing event for me. One of the things that come up over and over again when we coach our members and discuss our coaching as a team is energetics and the energy of situations. I may sound a little out there because I talk about energet...

We have been conditioned by society to deny discomfort. We grew up in school, work, and social environments where expressing our discomforts would be threatened and penalized. But contrary to what you have been taught, if you learn to eliminate discomfort, you will feel more comfortable, supported, protected, and you will grow a business that will make you a better human being. You can learn to ch...

One of the issues that we hear all the time from entrepreneurs is, my customers only want to deal with me. This is one of the most limiting conditions you can have in your business. If people only want to deal with you, then the growth of your business is constrained by how much time you have. No one wants to have a business where our time equals the growth of our business since it's limited. We w...

Thanks to Ryan E Ross and Lisa Saladino Garife I had the opportunity to speak to the Urban Leadership Foundation of Denver last night. I have had the opportunity to speak to some of the most exclusive crowds in the world. I've been on some of the most important stages out there. But there's something about having the opportunity to contribute in this way that lights me up like nothing else. Being...

When I was younger I did not want anyone in my business to appear anxious. If they showed up to a meeting or to one of our huddles and we're expressing anxiety I would be irritated with them and want them to stop. I'm the type of person that my irritation shows whether I say something or not, so they often would stop. Are used to think that this was a win. I got them to stop acting anxious and mak...

Professional athletes are some of the most optimized and incredible people in the world. The level of focus, intention, and ethic it takes to compete at the highest level of any competition are elite. Whenever I have the opportunity to talk to an athlete who has competed professionally and is now channeling themselves into a business, I get really excited. I know that an entrepreneur with the disc...

I have had the opportunity to be up close and personal with some of the most influential and successful entrepreneurs in the world during my professional career. I was a consultant to Fortune 500 companies in my twenties, and during that time I had the opportunity to witness decision making at a high level when companies experienced crisis or challenges. There is one thing that every massive organ...

We are in a crisis honeymoon period. This is a period where the crisis has taken hold and is having a massive effect on the world, but most people do not recognize it unless it is personally affected them. I saw this during the foreclosure crisis over and over, the numbers were clear, the crisis was coming, but people did not think it would affect their community - until it did. This crisis is no...

In the corporate world, it's an accepted fact that when you hire someone they probably won't be productive for 3 to 6 months. 3 to 6 months! As an entrepreneur, I can't imagine waiting that long for someone to be productive in our business. We want somebody to be up and running and making a contribution within their first seven days, not six months. We have a way of making this happen nearly every...

The way that most entrepreneurs hire people is challenging. It's usually a family friend or an acquaintance or someone who knows somebody. If I'm honest, this is how I used to hire people with very little success. When I realized that hiring decisions should be difficult, and you should have a hard time choosing the winning candidate, everything got better. Building a team can be life-changing whe...

When I was younger, I made it very difficult for myself to lead people. I had a hard time creating trust with my team, and I would break it often without realizing just how bad it made things. I would set up meetings, and normally I was late most of the time. I would make commitments and then break them. Sometimes I would miss meetings with my team altogether because something "more important" had...

The entrepreneurial personality type is defined as "a physiologically sensitive momentum-based being that is highly reactive to constraint". We are reactive to any type of constraint. When we are inflexible in our thoughts, we create constraint in our lives and can hold ourselves back. When we are inflexible in our bodies, we create physiological constraint that can keep us stuck in place. Whether...

If you are running a growing business, it is natural to get overwhelmed. It is natural to have too much to do, and it is natural to need help like crazy. One of the biggest issues I see in the entrepreneurial world is an entrepreneur who needs help but waits far too long to get it because they think it needs to be perfect. The reality is delegation is never perfect, there are always issues, and mo...

As entrepreneurs, we put up with a lot more than the average person. More stress, more ambiguity, and more discomfort. A lot of entrepreneurs even say things like if you want to grow your business you're going to have to make sacrifices. Any of us who has ever grown a business knows that it's one of the most difficult and stressful things you can do. The problem with successfully growing a busines...

When your team knows what's going on, everything gets easier for them. They can anticipate what is needed, understand what's happening in the company, and give you the help they need. When your team doesn't understand what's going on, it can create confusion and frustration, slow things down, and prevent you from getting the help you need. Transparency is critical for building and growing and alig...

Any attempt to be anything but yourself will only cause you pressure and noise. This may seem simple, but in the world of entrepreneurship is anything but. Most entrepreneurs feel like they are a commodity and they have to act in a certain way to grow their business. This is exhausting and takes a tremendous amount of effort. It's difficult to believe, but if you are unapologetically and unabashed...

Over the past few weeks I've been vocal about what's going on in the United States and my support for the Black Lives Matter. As a result I've had a lot of people reach out to me and ask me what they could or should do in this situation. I know this may come as a surprise but I've had many people reach out who had no idea things were this bad and are shocked at what's going on. Rather than beat p...