Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

Our ego is one of the most important things in growing a business. It convinces us we can do it, it helps us put up with the negative feedback and the frustration. Our ego is what keeps us going and pushes us forward when times get tough. A strong ego is critical as an entrepreneur and it will help you in so many ways.  But when it comes to scaling your business you need to get your ego out of the...

As a business coach, I want you to be safe, confident and be able to sleep at night. There is a grey area around what the difference is between a contractor and an employee.  I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who are transitioning from dealing with contractors to hiring a full-time team and this is a hot topic.   I want you to build an empire so if someone is an employee, not a contractor, treat...

How often do you find yourself saying "it's not a problem?". Language patterns have a tremendous effect on communication. When someone thanks you for something try saying "it's my pleasure" instead of "it's not a problem".  This small shift from dismissive language to inclusive language has helped me so much in coaching, with my team, and with my business. Give it a try and see for yourself how th...

How often do you find yourself saying "it's not a problem?". Language patterns have a tremendous effect on communication. When someone thanks you for something try saying "it's my pleasure" instead of "it's not a problem".  This small shift from dismissive language to inclusive language has helped me so much in coaching, with my team, and with my business. Give it a try and see for yourself how th...

Entrepreneurs have a bias for deficits. We are good at finding when somebody has missed something or pointing out where someone has done something wrong. We have a hard time recognizing when something is right, giving credit, and telling our team when we're happy with them or really grateful for what they're doing. You're team will go towards the energy in your business.  If you're in that place w...

Entrepreneurs often feel a lot of uncertainty when it comes to growing a team and making the all-important hiring decisions. How do you hire the right people? How do you go out and build a team so that it can help you build your business? Not every entrepreneur has to have a team but if you want to create something truly world-changing then a team is a necessity! I want to share with you some of t...

As entrepreneurs, we get to a point where the momentum we can create on our own simply isn't enough. It takes a team to get to where we want to be. Your success is dependent on the team you build and keeping those great people around you. One of the questions I get asked most often is "how do you keep great team members?". In this episode, I'm going to go over two of the main complaints that busin...

When pressure and noise becomes too high and you don't know what your next step is going to be, you start having a hard time creating momentum. We've all been there.  The symptoms of sabotage pop up when we don't have clarity or purpose. Here's what I know about you, me, and every other entrepreneur I've ever worked with.  When we know exactly what to focus on we go all in and that's when we make...

If your days are getting tactically harder, you are building a house of cards. As an entrepreneur, you're probably doing too much. You're doing too much to support yourself, too much to support your household and too much to support your business.  If you can examine those three areas of your life and start making changes, you'll notice radical changes in the levels of success that you have. Do th...

If you're an entrepreneur I can tell you with certainty that throughout your life you're going to face massive resistance.  Some take the road less traveled but entrepreneurs don't wait for a road, we cut one ourselves.    You've probably heard the phrase "the calm before the storm", but for entrepreneurs I want you to know that often it happens in reverse. You're on the cusp of momentum and you'r...

All too often I speak to business owners who are trying to dig themselves out of a series of decisions that were made when times were tough.  Tough times can cloud your judgment and cause you to make choices out of desperation . If you're an entrepreneur who is in a place of desperation for any reason this is a time to stop trying to use your intuition and lean on a solid foundation of processes a...

I've always had a love for cars.  The fastest way to learn to race on the track is to tuck in behind someone and follow them.  The fastest way to learn how to grow and scale your business is to tuck in behind someone and follow them. Make sure you work with someone who's actually doing exactly what they tell you to do so they can show you when you need to lead and follow. It's by far the fastest a...

I was called a loser for most of my life. Every single one of us has been made fun of, put down or bullied. When we refer to other entrepreneurs as losers and create that impression, we are hurting our own tribe.  If you're having trouble creating momentum and moving forward, I want to ask you, are you respecting the other members of our tribe? As an entrepreneur, you might sometimes be upset, cha...

Far too many of us have an addiction to the feeling of chaos.  In chaos we get this massive adrenaline rush, we feel the excitement around us and so we continue to over-commit leaving us playing from behind. I am consistently helping entrepreneurs pull back, get focused and stop doing too much. If you're ready to create massive focus around exactly what's going to move you forward our product Mome...

Just because something is positive and is moving us in the right direction doesn't mean that it comes without stress, pressure, and noise.  Movement in a positive direction can be just as stressful to our systems as challenging times.  But we never really recognize it that way. When you're in momentum you feel invincible but if you push aside your self-care things can come tumbling down. I want to...

When you feel frustrated with someone, do you talk to them about it or do you keep in inside because you don't want to upset them? You might think that by doing this you're saving someone's feelings but you're not fooling anyone! Eventually, that frustration you're trying to hide will show and you will explode in one way or another. If you suck it up, when it finally does come out it will be ugly....

Your habits create your life. Every single day you are creating the life you will have tomorrow. If you are not habitually doing the things that will move you forward, that is why you don't have the life that you want today! As entrepreneurs, we all want to talk about the future but these days everyone  seems to want something that's easy or fun, a new tactic or hack. If you want long-term success...

A question I often get asked is how do you find the person you want to be in a relationship with? Sometimes it seems like all the good ones are taken.  The biggest shortcut to finding the person for you is to make a list of what you want and adopt those qualities because that's the type of person you're going to ultimately attract.  Last week my wife Cadey and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniver...

This is a really cool podcast today. I'm sitting in ClickFunnels headquarters with a friend of mine, Dave Lindenbaum.  Dave has been using the Momentum Planner and Momentum Masterclass systems consistently for the last 12 months and has noticed massive changes in his life.  So many entrepreneurs have an all or nothing mentality.  But you don't have to be perfect as long as you're taking small step...

Too many startup entrepreneurs are being convinced that the way to be successful and to have freedom is to be a 'solopreneur'.  To work without a team, to not have anyone that helps or supports you leaves you totally exposed. The reality is, anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something. Don't let anyone sell you on staying small.    If you're looking for support to grow and scale y...

I make the argument that 99% of companies don't need a CFO. Yes, you need clean bookkeeping, you need a profit and loss statement and you need to understand where the money and finances are in your business.  But you don't need someone in a full-time finance position in your business. It's been proven over and over again that the best way to handle accounting and finance is to outsource. Don't let...

As an entrepreneur, if you don't find a way to offload pressure and noise every single day, it will catch up to you. Do you sometimes have feelings of panic, chest tightening, eye twitching? Whatever your symptoms of stress may be, they all make it harder to see the future. Stress makes it harder to be creative and it shuts down any feelings of intuition or insight that help us move forward.  I've...

One Saturday afternoon, a few years ago, I sat down and started writing and I just couldn't stop.  I was trying to describe the Entrepreneur. Before the weekend was out I had written 25,000 words and that's how the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book was born.  I printed only 500 copies of the book and gave them all away.  It meant so much to me, the books went to people all over the world, some...

The rest of the world describes entrepreneurs as risk takers but I deny that definition. They see us as risk takers because we're constantly moving forward. We try every day to make our greatest contribution and create change in the world. Accepting the status quo, being like everyone else and playing it safe, doesn't that seem like the riskiest thing in the world to you? The biggest risk of all,...

On the path to success, there is one transition that is the absolute toughest for entrepreneurs. It's the time when we have to move from 'me' to 'we'.  When you evolve from doing everything yourself to growing, managing and inspiring a game changing team, there is an entirely new world of possibilities! Don't let your ego get in the way of your contribution.