Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

If you're in this because there's a change in the world that you are convinced HAS to be made and you're the person to make it, then you have to be a huge fan of your team!  You shouldn't just trust your team, you should be excited to work with them.  When your team has wins, you should be excited for them, not just for your business. If you feel like that towards your team, you're going to have a...

If you have a brilliant or sensitive kid, this one is for you. The concept of defending brilliance is something that I'm very passionate about. Your child is a tiny evolutionary hunter, a momentum based being that's driven to create, to make things happen, to figure things out and understand them better.  If kids don't have a place to inquire about what's bothering them and offload what's making t...

Don't let anyone convince you that you have to live a life of sacrifice to be successful. For me, I create the life I want today. I intentionally build my business around who I am so that I can live the perfect day of my life every day.  If you're constantly hustling and working yourself into the ground so that someday you might have some payoff, ask yourself what if someday never comes? Don't put...

"Never show weakness" - "Don't let them see you sweat"   How many times have you heard phrases just like these?  We are conditioned to believe that you need to hide your weaknesses to be successful but in reality, when you stop hiding your "handicaps", they can actually become your strengths. Let people know where you don't feel confident and competent.  Let your team know where you feel weak so t...

The people on your team are your only irreplaceable asset.  Your culture is only going to be as strong as the team member you treat the least congruently. You want absolute transparency and confidence in everyone that you work with.  Be intentional in your hiring process and you will see a group of people around you who are excited to build your business and you will feel the momentum of having a...

As a business owner, it's always our goal to have the biggest impact, the biggest influence, the biggest effect we possibly can on our clients.  Dwight Pecora runs a dental practice where they were doing exactly that.  However, they ran into a massive brick wall when they were trying to grow and scale their business.  It takes a motivated, visionary entrepreneur to create the extreme growth discus...

Do you feel like you're always putting out the fire you just had, like you're always solving the problem that just went by?  Until you put a strategic planning process into your business, this will always be the case. When you have a process and everyone in the organization knows exactly where they're going next you can't help but create massive momentum.  Are you making the progress you want?

To be an entrepreneur takes creative thinking and intuition. Intuition is an incredible thing.  But if you rely solely on your intuition to build your business rather than using process, you're going to come undone. In business the more we can commit to process the more consistent the outcomes will be.  Maybe the next step for you to making the impact you know you're destined to make is to step aw...

I've worked with entrepreneurs for over 20 years and one thing I can tell you is that you need systems in your life that will help you ask for help. We have a hard time seeing where we need help let alone reaching out and asking for it. It doesn't matter what you do, if you want to do it at the highest level you are capable of, you need to be able to take care of yourself. 

The toxic top producer will destroy your team faster than anybody else. When you have a top producing team member that's treating other people in a negative way and you don't stop it happening, you're telling your team firstly, it's acceptable behavior and, secondly, if you are a top performer it's okay to be a jerk. This will destroy trust amongst you and your team and rob you of momentum. You ca...

I've just finished an incredible day at the Billionaire Code Summit and I'm catching up with a client of mine, Brad Gibb. He's going to share with you why the systems we use make you a better leader but maybe not in the way you would expect.

It's the mark of an excellent organization when you know what you're doing, everyone on the team knows where they're going, and everyone feels that they play a part.  When your team has clarity, it's crazy how fast they'll go.  One of the tools we use to align teams is the Waterfall. It's a dynamic document that essentially acts as a 30-day strategic plan. It ensures you maintain momentum and give...

To be a successful entrepreneur you need to figure out where your pinch points are. What is getting in your way and stopping you from moving forward? Ask yourself, do you have a strategic plan? Do you know where your company is going and what you're going to do next? Until you do, you have to accept the fact that you are purposefully your company's biggest bottleneck.    

It's debilitating for me when I start watching an entrepreneur make bad decisions and sabotaging themselves and their team.     When you're overwhelmed by an opportunity and you don't have clarity on where to go next you will sabotage that opportunity because it only feels like pain. Consciously or unconsciously,   you sabotage the opportunity in a protective way. If you don't have clarity, strate...

The first person you should hire is the person who will make life easier for you.   As entrepreneurs we rarely ask for help, we hire people to work around us but we don't hire anyone to help us directly.   The way you end up building a team so you can get leverage is by first finding someone who's going to take the pressure off of you.   Every visionary, strategic thinker needs someone to help the...

Here's how I coach building businesses, build a business around who you are, make it self-funded, build your team and then live the dream! The only logical way to build your business is to make money.   If you're running a business that isn't profitable it's near impossible to make the right decisions.   If you're not making decisions based on what creates profitability, then what are you making d...

If you've been told as an entrepreneur to withhold information about your business from your spouse, I can tell you, it's going to be a disaster. I have two rules for entrepreneurial success, the first one is your marriage is most important and the second is transparency in your marriage is absolute.   If you're a married entrepreneur that's how you win.   So often when I hear an entrepreneur say...

Every time you say yes to something, you're saying no to something else.   Everything is not an opportunity and sometimes you have to be relentlessly selfish with your time.   When something is going to take your time, energy and focus you have to slow down and ask yourself if that decision you're making is supporting you as an entrepreneur.   

I have news for you, as an Entrepreneurial Personality Type you've committed to a life of constantly being in a transition and struggling with something all of the time. Being an entrepreneur means that you are always a beginner at something.   The rest of the world doesn't want to have struggles and challenges, they don't want growth.   If you're not putting up with some deficit or overcoming som...

Here's what I know as an entrepreneur, when you go out and create a following you have to be polarizing. A lot of people will fall in love with what you're saying and really listen but for every person who loves you, you're going to have people who show up and hate on you. There's no way to avoid the haters if you expect to do anything significant. When somebody goes to battle against you I want y...

If you're comparing your challenging day to someone else's best day that they intentionally choose to share with you on social media, you will lose 100% of the time. Today more than ever we have so much inside access to peoples lives through social media.  We look at successful people and think "why am I not more like them?", "why can't my business be perfect like that?" The comparisons are out of...

When you get to an airport and look around you, everyone seems to be stressed out and in panic mode.   Whether I'm traveling alone for business or with my family on a holiday I always set my travel intention.  If you do this too I promise your whole day will turn out differently. Think about why you are traveling and what you can do to make things as simple as possible.  Remember, live with intent...

If your business has plateaued I'll ask you, where are you feeling bottlenecks & constraints? Where could you be holding the business back? As entrepreneurs, we are hardwired to press forward and always be in momentum. Most of the time when we feel uncomfortable about something in our business, that is a place where we need to lean in because our discomfort is almost always pointed at a deficit in...

Have you been running so fast for so long that you've never stopped to think "how do I make my life easier?".  As an entrepreneur, we have a hard time asking for help even though we need far more help than the average person to reach our full potential. I call this the entrepreneur's dilemma. It's so much easier today than it has ever been to take care of things through systems. There are services...

In the right context joint ventures, partnerships, affiliates, and endorsements can all be incredible but do your due diligence because list vampires are brutal. A list vampire will have a broad business opportunity for something very generic, they sell hope and dream products.  If you are contacted by one of these people be cautious, slow down and do your research or they will hurt your relations...