Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

Entrepreneurial Personality Types and not like the rest of the world. As momentum based beings, we are constantly driving ourselves forward, forging new territory, and creating new outcomes in the world. While the rest of the world gets up every day and prays that everything stays the same, we get up on a daily basis and asked what can we change, what can we make better, and how can we create even...

As an evolutionary hunter you are a physiologically sensitive momentum based being that is highly reactive to constraints. This includes any kind of constraint. The constraint in our lives, in our thinking, and how we feel, and yes even the food we eat. There are more food options available for us then there have been at any other time in human history. Often there are three or four options within...

All you have to do is ask a few entrepreneurs about their challenges with hiring and growing a team and you will get countless stories about how difficult it is. It's difficult to delegate, manage more than yourself, make sure everyone is doing what they should do, and keep the whole team going in the same direction. As the business grows and your level of success increases, it only gets more diff...

The vast majority of entrepreneurs are caught in a trap. What we want to do requires far more help than the average person, but any request for help makes us feel vulnerable and exposed. On top of that many of us aren't great at interpersonal communication. We are misunderstood, often trust the wrong people, and end up feeling taken advantage of. This is what stops the majority of entrepreneurs fr...

As entrepreneurs, we learn more through leading a team than anywhere else. Unfortunately, the vast majority of entrepreneurs will never try to lead a team. Growing a business is overwhelming and many don't get past the stage where they can see that it would be easier with more than just themselves. Getting a business off the ground and creating some level of profitability is so hard it often feels...

One of the fastest ways to grow your business, and possibly one of the most exciting, is to use joint ventures, partnerships, and affiliate relationships. In all three cases, you shortcut the time it takes you to do something him by finding someone who's already there and partnering with them. This may be something as simple as a JV partner advertising your product to their list, or as complicated...

Evolutionary hunters are sensitive. Not cry at the drop of a hat sensitive, sensitive like any evolutionary hunter would be. We are hyper-aware of our surroundings. We observe, see and feel more than most people do. These characteristics have kept us alive for millennia. Our ability to feel what is going on around us can be a superpower. When there is low pressure and noise in our lives, the accur...

George Bernard Shaw said The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. As a consultant, I saw first hand when he meant. It was shocking how often meetings were held, things were communicated, people thought they had a meeting of the minds, only for everyone to pull in different directions. This was in Fortune 500 companies with established communication Syste...

Let's be honest most meetings suck. As a consultant to Fortune 500 for over 10 years I sat through more worthless and painful meetings than I want to admit. Most meetings I was in should've never been held. There was never a clear outcome, rarely did the entire room know what was trying to be achieved, and there was very little if any process. It drove me crazy to be in a worthless meeting. I woul...

Working with entrepreneurs I have always obsessed with the base level foundational habits that will create success in all areas of lives. I've asked the question over and over "what is the one thing that makes everything in an entrepreneurs life easier?" After working with thousands of entrepreneurs, I have realized there isn't just one thing. There is a series of foundational habits I call these...

Many of my clients are growing businesses from around $1 million and they are quickly scaling to eight figures. If you do this successfully and maintain your margins, you will very quickly have a lot of money at your disposal. The people I work with grow their net worth at an exponential rate compared to the majority of business owners with similar profitability. One reason is that I believe that...

For Entrepreneurial Personality Types the most important relationship in our lives is our spouse. We spend years denying it, some of us even try to pretend like it isn't true but the fact is that for all of us our spouse's opinion is the one thing that matters more than anything else. In a recent interaction on one of our mastermind calls, Byron Harold shared with us how a simple concept of curios...

Howard Brinton, an incredible mentor of mine used to say "get out of judgment and get into curiosity." I have shortened it to simply curiosity over judgment. When I first heard this I thought it was simple advice. It is hard for me to quantify just how much this simple statement has changed my life. With my kids, with Cadey, and in my business simply leading with curiosity has made everything in m...

For entrepreneurs winning is important. Making progress, creating new outcomes in the world, and getting into momentum is everything for us. When we are in momentum we feel most alive and we create more momentum. When we feel constraint of any kind its throws us off and can prevent us from moving forward. There is a simple and predictable way to make sure you win every day. You shouldn't compromis...

Every entrepreneur or I have ever worked with is tolerating far too much. It is who we are and in our nature to put up with things, overlook what we are uncomfortable, and be optimistic. Our lives have conditioned us to be this way. Every one of us has been in a situation where we didn't have the right resources, time, money, the cards were stacked against us but still, somehow we pulled through....

The amount of information available for an entrepreneur to consume today is unlimited. If you started today and listened to just the free content it's available you can spend all day every day and you would not come close to finishing what is available in your lifetime. This presents an opportunity but also a challenge for entrepreneurs. The opportunity is the information we need to move forward f...

As entrepreneurs, we should all want engaging, passionate clients that are enthusiastic members of our tribe. We want them to be excited about the services we provide and share their excitement with others. When we are able to attract the right clients, and get them excited enough to talk about our business, our business becomes a movement, and movements create momentum. Every great business in hi...

Movement is crucial for Evolutionary Hunters. For millennia we existed on the move, chasing something down, and going on the hunt. Movement is as natural for us as oxygen is for the rest of human beings. Unfortunately today we get a fraction of the movement that we used to get throughout history. Many evolutionary hunters like you and I spend a lot of time at a desk, in a car, or in meetings where...

Only 3% of businesses ever get to $1 million in annual gross sales. If you have achieved this already you are in the minority, it takes a lot to get a business over a million dollars… You have to understand the value you are creating, understand your clients and the effect you can create with them, and then you can repeat that effect over and over again with a level of consistency. Most entreprene...

If you asked me just a few years ago if I knew how to meditate, I probably would have said no and changed the subject. My relationship with meditation started when I was in my early teens. It has been a them session of mine for most of my life but I never thought that I was actually meditating. Sure I reached the levels of clarity that lead to massive breakthroughs, through visualization I was abl...

DOUBLE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN TWO WEEKS This is one of my most effective coaching tactics when working with a new client. The challenge that almost every one of us has is that we are doing entirely too much tactical work. Most of us know it. We feel the drag of doing far too much each day that doesn't feel productive or like our highest and best use. The problem is for most of us that drag has been...

When I'm coaching high-level entrepreneurs who are growing teams I have a phrase I share help them feel comfortable with growing their business "your business is broken and if things go well and always will be". Far too many entrepreneurs expect their businesses to feel perfect, they beat themselves up over gaps or flaws, and they have challenges when things don't go exactly right. Businesses are...

Only 3% of businesses will ever eclipse $1 million in gross revenue year. Only four out of 1000 businesses Will ever grow to over $10 million dollars a year. There is a reason. In order to grow foreword and get the help you need, you need to know what you're going. Most businesses work on a project by project basis deciding what to do in the moment and then trying to get everything done going forw...

Growing a business through transactional management is overwhelming, exhausting, and will rob you of your momentum. Managing transactionally means you do the following: Tell people what to do -> make sure it got done -> tell them what to do again… This won't only wear you out, but you will chase away A players and people who can help grow your company fast. Unfortunately, you will only hold onto t...