Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

It is one of the last things we think about as entrepreneurs when we are growing a business there is so much to focus on… Are we doing the right things, are we bringing in the right people, are we getting enough leads, are we taking the right steps to grow our business? One of the easiest ways to ensure we are doing all of these things is to grow ourselves. When we put foundational processes in pl...

As entrepreneurs, we want to make progress, move things forward, and of course get into momentum. As a result, we are willing to do just about anything to get there. We will work hard, take on more than we should, makes sacrifices, push ourselves to the point of illness, and do just about anything it takes. There's a point time in our career where this is exactly how we should be. When we are firs...

I realized that the concept of becoming them to money may seem difficult to conceive. There was a time in my life I never would have believed I could become numb to making more money. For me, like most entrepreneurs, money was the most compelling metric in my life. I did everything I could to make more, and when I made it I tried to make that money make even more for me. But I can remember the tra...

One of the biggest complaints entrepreneurs have when building a team is that they have to repeat themselves. They feel like their team doesn't listen to them and has a hard time understanding what they want. The issue is one of perspective. For you things are clear, you can anticipate the future and see where the company is going. For your team is the opposite, they're taking a step off a cliff e...

Keystone habits are life-changing. They're the habits that mom we add them to our lives, they help create momentum everywhere, and they don't cause constraint in any way. When you add one keystone habit, it can be life-changing and you will feel momentum. When you add several Keystone habits at once, everything in your life will feel like momentum. Your business will grow faster, you will feel bet...

For most of us, it's near impossible to see the correlation between vulnerability and momentum. How can something that makes us feel so exposed and precarious move us forward?

Entrepreneurial panic is real and it can come out of nowhere. As evolutionary hunters, we are compelled to go forward, achieve, and create new outcomes in the world. We are hardwired to create momentum and anything else makes us feel like we are standing in place. When we don't create the momentum in progress we want in the world, we can feel the panic of the motivation we naturally have, not havi...

The fourth quarter is a time of year where either due to tradition, habit, or excuse, the crowd has already predetermined that it will lose momentum. Most people make up their mind in advance that they are going to overeat, drink more than they normally would, and exercise less during the fourth quarter. There is no other way to look at this than pre-determining that you will lose and lose momentu...

The most important asset in building your business is your time. The challenge we all have as entrepreneurs is that the second we start building our business, everyone wants our time. There is an endless stream of requests that lower the time we have available to grow the business. If you aren't careful, these requests can take over your schedule. It is subtle at first… You accept a meeting reques...

When we travel we get to see new places, have new experiences, and meet people who don't live near us. Travel has provided our family with some of our most incredible adventures ever. My daughters have been traveling since before they were six months old and they love it. Traveling can also be exhausting, trying, and let's be honest it can break you down. Most people are overstressed when they are...

Every one of us has made a mistake. If you are like me you have made many, public, avoidable, gruesomely embarrassing mistakes in your life. We all know how it feels, the second you recognize that you did something wrong and it is going to cause a problem… Your heart jumps into your throat. You instantly feel accelerated. And pressure annoys goes up immediately. This is how you feel, and you are i...

The reason that you should hire true believers is that empires are always taken down from the inside. You can do everything to guard your culture and put the right people in your organization but sooner or later a non-believer will sneak in. At first, they are tough to see, they might act and talk like everyone else. They did enough to get onto your team and now that they are there, they are ready...

Getting a business to $1 million is easier than it ever has been in the past. There is more leverage available to individual entrepreneurs today than any other time in human history. There is more leverage available to individual entrepreneurs then there ever has been. The marketing automation platforms available today cost millions of dollars a year to maintain just a few years ago. Growing a bus...

Very few entrepreneurs actually set out to be punishing leaders. We want to grow successful teams, deliver amazing client results, and help the people around escrow. We are driven to do more, be more, and create amazing outcomes in the world. We push ourselves harder than most and the people around us as hard as we push ourselves. We help people break barriers and create new belief systems and ach...

For most of my career, I have worked with a disproportionate number of women in executive in leadership positions. This probably has a lot to do with the way I was raised and the fact that I relate very well to women. The relationships I've had with incredible female entrepreneurs throughout my career has shown me that men and women feel the guilt of working with kids very differently. For men it...

Every entrepreneur I've ever coached has a tendency to make their lives uncomfortable.  I want you to learn to recognize where you're uncomfortable or you will put up with too much.  I want to give you license to go through the people, the places, the things in your life and ask yourself are they giving you momentum or are they taking it away?

The only reason your company is growing is because you have been able to attract a market or a group of clients. It is their belief in you an investment in your products that are allowing your company to exist at all. A company that does not have a market to serve does not have a reason to exist. As the leader of your organization, you should be passionately in love with your market and ready to m...

It is horrifying how often one of my client comes to me after they've been given terrible advice from their accountant or bookkeeper. While there are some good finance and accounting people out there, there must be a class somewhere in the accounting curriculum called "dumb advice to give entrepreneurs." The problem with this is that accountants are seen as business professionals who should be giv...

There was a point in time in my life where I would not have listened to a podcast with this title, much less recorded one. If someone told me that gratitude was a gateway to success I would've laughed at them. I was all about results and didn't have time for fluff or woo-woo strategies. If it didn't move me forward towards my goals I wasn't interested in talking about it, and if it didn't do it fa...