Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

When you tell someone that their job is easy, you invalidate their contribution before they even get started. A couple years ago we were in a partnership with someone who consistently and constantly told everyone on our team that what they were doing was easy. He would say crazy things like,"we need this entire website updated in the next two weeks but if we all pulled together and put in some ext...

A business is nothing more than a series of processes that are repeated overtime to generate a consistent results. It seems pretty simple, so why is running a business so difficult? There is a reason why over 90% of businesses in the United States are sole proprietorships. Very few business owners ever build processes that are clear enough for them to get help. By building processes, on paper firs...

Multiple times a week I get asked the question "should I work with my spouse?" I believe that working with your spouse, given the right process and environment, is one of the biggest accelerators to entrepreneurial growth. Working with your spouse is one of the greatest privileges an entrepreneur can have. We get to plan together, achieve together, and change the world together.  When done correct...

There is an infinite number of things you can be exposed to on a daily basis. You could watch the news, read a newspaper, pick up a political magazine, and so much more. Are any of those giving you momentum? I encourage every entrepreneur I work with to build a bubble around them that insulates them from anything that will distract from momentum. The people places and things in our lives are eithe...

Let's be honest, there is a reason why the majority of the world thinks that meeting sucked. They are disorganized, difficult to get through, and often feel like they don't have a point. Sitting through a bad meeting is torturous. It's time of your life that you will never get back. There is however a different way to hold meetings. When you create a structure, and then get real, raw, and vulnerab...

Every entrepreneur I work with dreams of being able to call their shots, tell people where they are going, and then have their team lead the way there. Unfortunately very few entrepreneurs actually have a team that can lead the way they're going because on most entrepreneurs' teams, don't know where they are going. Instead, on a daily basis team members come in and work on as much as they possibly...

I don't meditate. I can't meditate. I don't want to meditate. I hear all of these from entrepreneurs when I asked them the simple question "do you meditate?" I understand why. For people like us who can't turn it off and don't know why anyone would want to, the idea of clearing our minds seems impossible and unnecessary. The way meditation is presented by most people who have figured it out it's s...

Running a successful business is one of the most spiritual undertakings we can elect in our lifetimes. It is more difficult than just about anything else we do. As we start to build our team, building our business becomes exponentially complicated. This isn't something you can do in a weekend or read a book and take care of. Building a team is a commitment, it is a process, and if you are willing...

Most entrepreneurs start the day reacting to other people and letting the world manage them. They get up in the morning, check email, and start a cycle of reactivity that destroys productivity on a daily basis. By checking the email first thing in the morning, you are proactively making the decision to let anyone who sent you an email manage your time. You are conditioning your body to react and b...

Finance and accounting are an absolute function in a business. It's either done or it isn't, there is very little ambiguity. Either a business is provided with clean financials on a monthly basis, or they aren't. Over 90% of the entrepreneurs I talk to are not getting clean books on a monthly basis. A lot of them do not have a solution in place, so not having books is understandable. What is shock...

I often share that there are two simple rules for success for married entrepreneurs: - One, your marriage is most important. - Two, make transparency in your marriage absolute. The question comes up, "what if I am single?" The rules of success are just as simple, but different: - One, get clear on the type of person you want to be in a relationship with. - Two, become that person. I look forward t...

Evolutionary hunters who understand their place in the world look like professional athletes. It's OK if you have slipped, or you are not in great condition right now, today is a great time for a change. We have the earning potential of a professional athlete, we have the affluence potential of a professional athlete, we should take care of ourselves like a professional athlete.

Sooner or later every entrepreneur parent realizes that their ultimate success is dependent upon their ability to build relationships. Unfortunately this is hard for most of us. This was a particular area of weakness for me. I always felt like I was born with a different operating system and I did not understand the people around me. There were very few shortcuts I found in understanding other peo...

As entrepreneurs we work all our lives to have freedom. Freedom from people telling us what to do, freedom from feeling controlled, freedom from constraint of any kind. We aspire to be ultra successful and have the freedom of choice to do whatever we want. Many entrepreneurs confuse being able to choose to do whatever you want, and avoiding routine of any kind. Far too many of us fail to create ro...