My Business On Purpose

The U of SC football program had just won the first Bowl Game in the 100-year-plus history of the school.   After joining the rugged and tough SEC in 1992, the Gamecocks were still struggling to be the elite SEC teams like Florida and Tennessee.   Tennessee had a young QB with a head-turning last name…Manning.  We had a pony-tailed enthusiast named Taneyhill, along with two offensive lineman, two...

After months of spending time with and getting to know a construction contractor partnership we got to the point where they thought, "We really need help." After a few days, they came back and said, "I think we'll really be ready in about six months… what do you think?" This is a multi-million dollar, 40-employee business where each partner is having to stay at the office till 10 pm many evenings...

Delegation… handing off things to your team to allow you to do what ONLY you need to be doing in your business. It's powerful and necessary, but how do you take a task from delegation to done the right way? Well, let's talk about that today.  Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. So last week I sat in on an interview and we were discussing how the candidate had implemented change in places...

Ok, we're finally sitting down to meet 1 on 1 with our employees. So what do we ask? Well, let's talk about that today. Good afternoon, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. The thing we have been pushing our clients to do more than anything is to sit down and meet with your employees. Spend time listening and learning. Good employees have become a currency in and of themselves, and the bus...

Hey, y'all Brent Perry with Business on Purpose. Legally and hypothetically speaking, of course, but the question to ask yourself today is this, would I bet on my business to be profitable this year? Hopefully, your answer is yes, but the more business owners I have the privilege to talk with the more I realize there is uncertainty in that answer.  Now I am not asking if you want your business to...

I had a client turn down a 1.2 million dollar job this week. 25% of his yearly revenue. Let's talk about why? Good afternoon, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. If there's a phrase that I've heard over and over this year, it's "we gotta make money while there's money to be made." There's a scarcity mindset that is going around in the contractor space. Prices are still on the way up, and...

A business owner called me and said simply, "my people are getting their rear ends kicked right now, do you know of a good motivational speaker?" Within a few weeks, I show up ready to deliver a powerful talk on the RPMs of leadership (repetition, predictability, and meaning) and then follow it up with our super fun and engaging DISC workshop so that this team of project managers, purchasers, warr...

Look at your calendar. Do it. Obviously, this week is slammed, how bout next? And the next? So when does the faucet cut off so that you actually have some time back on your hands and things slow down? Well, let's talk about that today. Good morning Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. I saw a meme the other day and I just laughed. Because it represents the way pretty much all of us live ou...

I was volunteering as the public address announcer for the team my son plays on at his local High School.   Armed with a cobbled-together sound system, a prescribed playlist, a microphone, and a few corny dad-jokes, we try to provide a little light humor throughout the competition of a High School game.  Most games are a lot of fun.  But the off-field activity of this last game was not. Parents fr...

Our family's mission is to be a light through wisdom, adventure, and time around the table. Our family mission ties directly into the mission we have here at Business On Purpose which is to liberate heroic business owners , just like you, from the chaos of working IN your business. So that you can ENJOY your business, maximize the impact that it can have on your family and your community, and make...

STORY The U of SC football program had just won the first Bowl Game in the 100-year plus history of the school.   After joining the rugged and tough SEC in 1992, the Gamecocks were still struggling to be the elite SEC teams like Florida and Tennessee.   Tennessee had a young QB with a head-turning last name…Manning.  We had a pony-tailed enthusiast named Taneyhill, along with two offensive lineman...

It's beautiful outside and if you're anything like me, you're getting excited for summer right around the corner. It's so easy to get distracted and to hit that wall at work, so here are 3 questions to ask yourself today, to push through that stall wherever you may work. Good morning everyone, Thomas Joyner here with Business on Purpose. It's natural that around April 15, you've mowed your grass a...

What are you holding onto too tightly as a business owner? And how is that holding your team back? Well, let's get into that today. Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. At our weekly Check-ins, Scott always asks me the same 5-6 questions, and he tends to sprinkle in one or two that come and go throughout the year. His question last week? What am I holding onto too tightly that I need to le...

What is the difference between a business mentor, consultant, and coach? And why do we choose to be coaches? Let's dive in and talk through that today. Hey there everyone! Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. We got a question last week from someone outside our network who asked us, "So what really is the difference between business mentors, consultants, and coaches?" I thought it was a gr...

3 weeks ago, Shackleton's ship the Endurance was located 9800 feet beneath the Ocean's surface near the antarctic. One ship: 144' long Crew of Shackleton and 27 men One aim: the first to cross the Antarctic continent and become the first to cross it  Foundational reality: Your seas are changing, the weather patterns are becoming more unpredictable.  Today the swells are 1-2 feet, and in an hour th...

The U of SC football program had just won the first Bowl Game in the 100-year plus history of the school.   After joining the rugged and tough SEC in 1992, the Gamecocks were still struggling to be the elite SEC teams like Florida and Tennessee.   Tennessee had a young QB with a head-turning last name…Manning.  We had a pony-tailed enthusiast named Taneyhill, along with two offensive lineman, two...

What do you value in life? Does it get the appropriate time that it needs every week? Maybe, maybe not. Today I want to talk about how to not stop short of making time for what matters most! Hey there friends, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. It's so, so easy as a business owner to have blinders on. To be the one that sacrifices every day and makes sure that nothing falls through the c...

Life and business necessarily intersect. In the last 13 weeks, we've seen births, divorce, death, war, inflation, new hires, sales records, con artists, cancer diagnosis, treatments, remissions, birthdays, renewed vision, record monthly revenue, and record monthly expenses. There is a word that is being suggested in the public discussion of psychology right now that is worth taking a look at… the...

Hey, y'all! Brent Perry with Business on Purpose. To get "pipped to the post"- To be defeated or overcome by someone by a very narrow margin or at the final, crucial moment, especially in a race, competition, or athletic event. I remember a coach once showed us a video of a college track meet. It was honestly just the last 30 or 45 seconds of the race, and the video only showed 2 runners. The lead...

Employees and hiring, hiring and employees… that's so much of what we're being asked about in our coaching sessions. So, what's the trick? Why is it so hard and is it going to ever get easier? While I don't have the answer to all of that, I'd love to give you some thoughts today on how to make it easier. Hope you're doing well today, Thomas Joyner with the Business on Purpose Podcast today! Excite...

We have a saying that we have found to be true over time and thousands of hours of 1 on 1 coaching with our heroic business owners, "life and business necessarily intersect". There is not a business owner or key leader that we have yet to meet that has figured out how to separate life and work. What happens at home cannot help but follow you to work.  What happens at work cannot help but follow yo...

Hey, y'all! Brent Perry with Business on Purpose. In the 2014 NBA draft, with the 3rd overall selection, the Philadelphia 76ers drafted big man Joel Embiid.  At the time of the draft, the 76ers had come off a season with 19 wins and 63 losses with a ranking of 14th in the eastern conference… making them one of the worst teams in the league at that point.  In a courtside, interview with Embiid the...

Two business owners in the past week have both said, "once we get (insert challenge here) wrapped up, then we will be ready for coaching." It sounds like a fore-thoughtful thing to say, and yet we know deep down it is likely not true.   We know that time typically breeds the soil for distraction to set in, for busy-ness to compound, for mis-aligned interruptions to continue unmitigated, and we wak...

What's the excuse that keeps holding you back from success? Is there a monkey on your back that you just can't shake? We see it all the time… and I want to talk about it today. Hope you are doing well today, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. We ask mostly the same questions every time we meet with a new business. We want to know what's holding them back from accomplishing the things the...

Dani Rojas steps up to the ball as he prepares for a game-winning penalty kick, and in one last deep-breath moment calms himself and exhales with his infamous dogma preached repeatedly on the Ted Lasso sports comedy-drama saying simply and profoundly… Football Is Life . For Dani, when the game seems out of his control, and life seems complicated, unfair, and uncomfortable, he calms himself and ret...