Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

Today I am going to share the letter I wish I had received before I became a CEO over 25 years ago. There is so much about accepting this position that we are not told or warned about in advance. When we accept the position of CEO, we commit to being different than everyone else so that we can contribute greater than everyone else. It is a position that carries with it so much responsibility that...

In my experience, successful entrepreneurs begin their career running away from something. It is different for all of us, a challenging childhood, past traumas, being without money or food, not being accepted and feeling like an outcast. Running away is an incredible motivator that can drive us to create extraordinary outcomes and build amazing lives. Running away can drive us to create security,...

Every Billionaire I have ever worked with has used the same simple strategy to create success. The path isn't secret because they don't talk about it, it is secret because we don't see it in plain sight. Billionaire's don't approach the world as the average person does, they require the world to support them, to create their outcomes and to achieve their goals. Not one of them is capable of creati...

Over the last 20 years of working with entrepreneurs, it is shocking how often people tell them that there is something wrong with their children. I spoke with a friend of mine today whose son is three, he has been in school for less than a week, and they already had a meeting with his wife to let him know that he is "behind" academically. How can a three-year-old be behind academically?!? They to...

Bio hacking has become mainstream, and it feels like everyone is doing it. The reality is that the bio hacking community is made up of people like us. We are physiologically sensitive momentum based beings that are highly sensitive to constraint. Most of the population has realized that by optimizing ourselves, we optimize our results and our momentum. There is one bio-hack, one habit, that will i...

Obsession around routine is a trait that is shared by the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs in history. Sooner or later somewhere on our journey, we realize that success is important to us and we should make it a habit. One of the keystone habits of success is a morning routine, done correctly it will allow you to get more accomplished in the first hour of the day than many people accompli...

Individually self-made billionaires look fundamentally different. When we compare one against the other, it's hard to see what makes them similar, and easy to see what makes them eccentric and unique. Through obsessive research of successful people throughout history, I developed the 10 Habits of the Self Made Billionaire. I was able to confirm and get even closer to the results these patterns cre...

Individually self-made billionaires look fundamentally different. When we compare one against the other, it's hard to see what makes them similar, and easy to see what makes them eccentric and unique. Through obsessive research of successful people throughout history, I developed the 10 Habits of the Self Made Billionaire. I was able to confirm and get even closer to the results these patterns cre...

On a Saturday afternoon in Southern California I recorded a podcast with Daniel Gefen who was on the other side of the world in Israel. Even though we have never met before, in the hour we spent together we recognized we were brothers and we had more than we could ever imagine in common. During our podcast, Daniel explained to me how he felt complacent and was having trouble getting motivated to c...

The entrepreneur getting out of a luxury or exotic car is a picture that has been taken so many times of successful people that it has become a cliché. I believe the reality is much different. We are physiologically sensitive, momentum based beings that are highly sensitive to constraints. When we turn the key to a car, it becomes an extension of our physiological capability that empowers us in a...

Every successful entrepreneur has had to overcome, deal with issues, and create success when everyone around them thought it was an impossibility. We have all felt the pain of not knowing how we could create momentum but every one of us has somehow broken through and moved forward anyway. It's this very resilience that makes us entrepreneurial personality types.  However, it is also this resilienc...

Any successful person can explain to you how they created momentum and achieved success. For those of us who can extract the lessons from their stories and apply them, this is useful. I have found it is infinitely more useful to show entrepreneurs how they individually create success. As we examine your momentum equation, we will discover the exact path you individually take to create momentum in...

There is an epidemic in the coaching industry today. The vast majority of "coaches" are selling a result they've never gotten themselves. Hundreds of entrepreneurs are reaching out for help, being vulnerable, and asking for protection and support only to be let down. Asking for help is one of the hardest things we do, and when it doesn't work out it makes it even harder to do it again. There is a...

Brilliant children are different, that is what makes them brilliant. If they were just like every other student or person, they would be average. Different is the very definition of brilliant. Brilliance is motivated differently than the rest of the world. Self-direction and self-actualization are the goals of every brilliant child although they can't verbalize this or explain this to an adult. A...

Brilliance is under attack. It is alarming how many of my clients have shared they have been told something is wrong with their child. This isn't something people like to talk about and most of the time I am the only person they've told. There is a shame in having a child that has something wrong with them. We hide, don't discuss it, and may not even tell them. This is making the problem even wors...

There are two ways to create momentum, one is to generate the energy, effort, and focus to go forward and make progress. The second way is to lower the pressure and the noise in your life and you'll automatically create momentum. If you are going to reach your full potential, both are required for your success. The challenge for many entrepreneurs today is they're caught up in the hustle and impre...

The Entrepreneur's Dilemma is that we need far more protection and support than the average person to reach our full potential, however any request for protection and support leaves us feeling vulnerable and exposed. This is the reason so many entrepreneurs don't get the help they need and struggle to become successful. The day you become an entrepreneur is the day you become a commodity and feel...

In this episode I read a chapter from my forthcoming book about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. When my writing partner Dennis Welch read this to me, I got emotional. I feel like it almost perfectly captures the essence of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and who we are. This podcast and my forthcoming book are not marketing pieces or lead generation devices, collectively they are my man...

Entrepreneurial Personality Types create new, change things, improve the world around us, and challenge the status quo. We have an obsession with making things better. We aren't like the rest of the world because we are driven by change rather than stability, progress over perfection and improvement over stagnation. While the world obsesses over budgeting and time management, for EPTs, there is fa...

Every great entrepreneur in history was driven by the need to make a contribution. They have called it different things, leaving your mark, making an impact, making things better or even leaving your dent in the universe. These great entrepreneurs followed a simple four step equation that allowed them to overcome any deficit, capitalize on their strengths, and change the world. The good news is, y...

Entrepreneurs are driven by a foundational set of questions that propels us through our lives. You may be hearing these for the first time as they are revealed in this podcast. These are the questions that move us forward, create our successes in life, but can also keep us stuck in place. These questions are the foundation for the path that every great entrepreneur in history has taken to success....

Entrepreneurial loops and spirals are the behavioral patterns that keep us stuck in our lives or even worse move us backwar ds. Society may call these patterns of addiction, self destructive behavior even dangerous and with good reason. When an entrepreneur is in a negative loop or spiral it can cause us to look distressed, unreasonable, and at risk. In my experience change happens in an instant,...

As entrepreneurs, we struggle with a peculiar set of behaviors.  We know what we should do, but we don't.  We know the behaviors we should avoid, but we are called to repeat them. Regardless of how successful we become, we can be plagued by doubt and fear with each major step forward.  Most of us are terrible at asking for help or expressing what we want. For almost all of us, the single greatest...

Entrepreneurial Personality Types are driven by the need for momentum and for progress but we are highly reactive to constraint. We are the small subpopulation of humanity that drives our evolution, but we can go from looking talented to disordered in a moment. When we don't understand this reactivity to constraint it can confuse us, cause us to judge ourselves, and hold us in place. When we under...

Let me confirm your suspicions, you are not like the rest of the world. You are driven to move forward, hardwired to contribute and you need, momentum. People like us are physically, cognitively, and chemically wired to challenge the status quo and create new outcomes in the world. When the crowd is going in one direction, we are compelled to go in the other. While the rest of the world strives fo...