Pants Around Ankles Prevention

I’m going to assume you're a little more fixed than you think you are when it comes to your mindset. So, today, I have some suggestions that will help direct you toward a more growth mindset.

In today’s episode, I want to share a new way of thinking about mindset that I recently discovered. Get ready to learn about the GAP and the GAIN.

Journaling? (gag!) You have to be kidding me. You can't really be expecting me to sit down and write about my feelings every day, can you? You do not understand! Listen and learn.

Are You Settling or Settling In? L find out!

We have an UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED, WORLD-CLASS EXPERT to introduce you to in this episode. They are going to help you extend what you learned in the last episode.

I’ve got a tool that will help you as you begin to make progress on the challenges that come with transitions. P.S. You’ll need a pen and paper!

In episode 2, we talked about the secret weapon that you have that can help you move through life’s transitions, and it's right brain thinking. In this episode, I am going to give you some suggestions as to HOW you access that side of your brain and WHY it’s so important.

It's not a magic wand, but you and I do have a secret weapon that I want to share with you.

This is the first episode in season 2 and I will be focusing on Transitions. Transitions such as retirement, loss of a passion for work, getting a job or losing a job you loved. Whatever your transition is, this season of Pants Around Ankles Prevention Podcast is aimed at helping you transition successfully. And I think the first thing you have to understand to navigate any transition is what the...

Yes, plans are worthless. So that's not the whole quote. The full quote by Dwight Eisenhower is, plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Now, I don’t think he’s suggesting that we don't plan. However, one of the ways that I see people ending up with their pants around their ankles when it comes to planning is when they plan and they plan and they plan… That's a problem.

If you're stuck in business and most of the people that I know that are viewing these podcasts or listening to them are business people, they tend to read business books. I get the fact that there can be merit that comes to you by reading business books if you're working on business problems but we've established that you've been doing that and you already have your pants around your ankles. So le...

Recently, I participated as a presenter at an event that was in my area of expertise and it was interesting to me because there were many people at this event that were already paying ME to help them get better. So why were they there? Here’s why!

When you're standing there with your pants around your ankles and you're thinking to yourself, “how did I get here?” The answer is you weren't paying attention. So how do you pay attention? How do you find problems when they're big enough to see, but small enough to easily solve? Fair enough questions. Today, I want to introduce you to a very, very effective tool that will help you PAY ATTENTION.

In the industry in which I spent most of my life the last 20 years, commercial roofing, many of the contractors are starting to discover that it's no longer enough to take a price they've put together and put it into an email and ship it off to somebody and expect to get the work. They're discovering that they actually need to sell it. This is something that makes most of these contractors very un...

Most of my work has traditionally been done with commercial roofing contractors. I was recently asked a question from a commercial roofing contractor in regard to his service department. And the question that came in was this. Who's the ideal person to run our service department? Find out my answer in this episode.

In this episode of pants around ankles prevention, we've got a different approach because we had a question come in from someone who already has their pants around their ankles! The questions is: "It seems like we either have too much selling going on and can't get it all done or we have excess operational capacity and need more sales. How do you balance this?"

I'm pretty sure that you can relate to the experience that I've had when I have been driving a car down the road and I take my foot off the gas because when I take my foot off the gas, my experience has been that the car starts to slow down. So there's this expression that many of you have heard that if you're not growing, you're dying. I'm 70 years old, my body doesn't work the way it used to, so...

If you're like me, there have probably been times in your life, maybe in your business life, no, not maybe in your business life and in your personal life where you've wanted to make some changes. You've got some goals that you wanted to set. You've got some things that you were striving for, and so you, you really didn't know how to get there, which is probably a sign that's a worthwhile endeavor...

There is a mistake that I see many people make in the industry in terms of how they run their business, and they end up with their pants around their ankles. The mistake they make is that although they build a big business plan for how to go into business and how to build their business, they have no plan for how to build succession and exit plans, and it's a tragedy.

Today's episode is on a very important topic, and that topic is your life! So many people I work with have goals for their businesses, but very few have goals for their life. Listen to this podcast and find out why it is more important to have the latter.

A couple years ago, I had a meeting where a contractor came in and he came in with his pants around his ankles because of a series of events that he really had no control over and could not reasonably have been expected to fully anticipate. He was in a cashflow crisis and he didn't know what to do... Find out how we were able to help him get his pants buckled firmly back on his waist!