The JP Revolution

To enter into a highly productive state of deep work, you have to master the ability to shut out distractions. Unfortunately, not all of the distractions you deal with are inanimate. Sometimes, it's people that vie for your attention. That's makes controlling your environment a little more difficult. Whether those human distractions are customers or well-meaning family members, it's important you...

We all live incredibly busy lives with dozens (if not hundreds) of potential distractions vying for our attention. Is it any wonder that entering into a state of deep work and incredible focus is nearly impossible as we pursue success? The phone is always ringing; notifications are always dinging, and the internet is always calling our name. Ironically, none of those things would happen if we turn...

How awesome is it to find your passion and decide to make a career out of it? Wouldn't it be really incredible if every step along the way to turning that passion into a booming lucrative business was packed with excitement and thrills? I hate being the one to burst your bubble about that, but the truth is that much of the path to building a successful business is boring... sometimes excruciatingl...

We leave in a world where we are constantly bombarded with people, entertainment options, and algorithms fighting for our attention. Unfortunately, when you are trying to grow a business these can become barriers to your success. You only have so much mental bandwidth, energy, and willpower, all of which can be stolen by these distractions. If you are overcome all of this to reach the level of suc...

Trying to build a successful career or business while also being a good parent can be incredibly stressful. Walking that tightrope can fill a mom or a dad with incredible guilt. Time spent working creates guilt about being away from the family, while time with the family pulls you away from building your career. It's easy to feel that the old adage "you can't serve two masters" is dead on. However...

Today's world of technology has created enormous opportunities for you to accomplish anything you want to in life. Ironically, it has created equally as many barriers to prevent you from achieving those things. Each of us has a very finite amount of energy and a limited amount of mental bandwidth. We are surrounded by negative influences that can rapidly drain both. The TV is filled with bad news...

Have you ever felt like you are swimming upstream with your business or your sales career? Do you feel like the revenue you are generating is out of line with the amount of effort you are putting in? Or maybe you are noticing a diminishing return on new investments of your time and resources. If you are like most folks in the business world, you are susceptible to the Pareto Principle... or the 80...

If you take a moment to think about every outstanding achievement in the history of the world, you realize that none of them just happened. These all sprung from long strings of start and stops, numerous small successes and large failures, and near-constant struggles by the men and women credited with the achievement. The heroes that made those great things happen, whether it was space flight, the...

Real Estate Tycoon and Motivational Speaker Grant Cardone claims the reason most people fail to achieve their dreams is that they grossly underestimate the amount of work and the change of mindset that is required to be successful. His answer to this is simple. Set your goals ten times higher than you think is achievable, develop a game plan to hit that larger goal, then follow that strategy to th...

When you first become an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges is learning to deal with freedom. When you have a boss "hovering" over you, it's easy to avoid many of the temptations and distractions that arise during the day. However, even the tiniest of distractions can pull you away from the work you know you should be doing when you are your boss. When working from home, this problem is e...

Do you consider yourself a perfectionist? On the surface that can appear to be a great strength when you are trying to build a business. It would seem that the attention to detail and minutia while driving to perfection would ensure success. Unfortunately, the opposite is often true. Since perfection is always unattainable, the quest for it can literally bring growth to a halt. In today's episode,...

When biographers of the future write your story will they be dreaming of the movie rights or just praying someone, somewhere will read it? Each day we write another page in the tale of our lives. Great stories are filled with plot twists, struggles, losses, recoveries, perseverance, and ultimately triumph. Great stories never feature a perfect hero facing no adversity or one that quits at the firs...

Sometimes very small tasks that seem completely unimportant can hamper our professional growth in ways we never imagine. So much of our ability to accomplish the things we want in life comes down to our energy levels, our internal strength, and our confidence. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much to throw those things into disarray and prevent us from doing the work we know we need to do. In this e...

One of the greatest temptations we face in life is to view the world from a position of scarcity. We want to believe that our options and the resources we crave are limited. This forces us to battle others for what we want and to hoard our assets rather than risk loss. The alternative, however, is to see through the world as an abundant place with plenty to go around for everyone. in this episode,...

One of the most powerful tools to change your life is gratitude. When you are thankful for the good things in your life and the wonderful opportunities that surround you, you don't get bogged down in the trivial concerns of the world. Gratitude is armor against the challenges in life. It's also one of the keys to the life you want. Successful (truly successful) people live lives of thankfulness kn...

There are two subjects in the world that it's absolutely taboo to talk about out in the open: sex and money. Both are treated as dirty subjects; anyone who ever publically proclaims they want more of either faces ridicule and shame. Both are absolute necessities, yet carry such stigma. In this podcast about success, we are going to focus on the money side of this equation. Why is it that many peop...

If you are going to have any chance of reaching the level of success you dream of you have to develop a growth mindset. The problem is that most of us are firmly entrenched in a fixed mindset. It's just ingrained into us to believe that we have limits based on the talents and circumstances to which we are born. In this episode, we wrap up our series on Carol Dweck's Mindset and the differences bet...

There's good news for all of you out there who now realize that you are stuck in a fixed mindset. We've spent the last several episodes breaking down just what it means to have a fixed mindset versus a growth mindset. One is conducive to success; the other is not. These mindsets derive from a book by psychologist Carol Dweck which breaks down the various traits associated with each. In this episod...

Your perception of hard work is a direct indicator of whether or not you will be able to achieve your dreams. Over the last several episodes, we've delved into the two mindsets that determine your ability to succeed. Folks with a fixed mindset resent having to work hard to achieve success. They believe that the truly successful don't have to work because of their situations and skillsets. Growth m...

Do you find yourself celebrating the success of those around you or do you resent it when someone else achieves a newer status or level of accomplishment? Those with fixed mindsets resent those who succeed. They tell themselves when someone else succeeds, that's it's because of the advantages that person had in life that gave him or her an edge. That absolves them from taking responsibility for th...

When you start something, especially something you find important. do you always finish it or do you quit the moment it gets tough? Everyone can keep going as long as the path is smooth, quitting at the first sign of struggle is one of the surest signs of a fixed mindset. In this episode, we continue our discussion of the two kinds of mindsets that determine our ability to achieve success. One thi...

From the time we are small kids many of us have it drilled into our heads that mistakes are bad and failure must be avoided at all costs. It's ironic when you think that when we are really small children, everything we learn comes from trial and error. Somehow, we are supposed to outgrow that. As adults, we are to avoid failure at all costs. At least, that's the way we believe if we suffer from a...

Good habits performed consistently create momentum that leads you to where you want to go. Whenever we start a new productive habit (reading, writing, cold-calling, practicing, etc.) we know that we have taken the first step toward success. However, it's not always easy for that first step to become a second step, and then a third, and a fourth, etc. Lack of consistency prevents us from gaining an...

Sometimes, the battles that take place in our minds and the thoughts we wrestle with just seem silly upon closer inspection. If we were to ever imply that an athlete could compete at their absolute best without ever practicing, we'd be laughed at and ridiculed (and rightfully so). Yet, we, as business owners and salespeople, NEVER practice and yet wonder why we don't achieve the level of success w...