The JP Revolution

One of the greatest temptations we have in life is to compare ourselves with other people. We see their success and imagine that they simply aren't facing the same challenges which hold us back. That's out fixed mindset at work. We like to imagine that it's our circumstances and talents (or lack thereof) that determine our ability to succeed. That is simply not true. It's our willingness to put in...

The Georgia Bulldogs are the College Football National Champions. Former walk-on quarterback Stetson Bennett had a monster second half to lead the dogs to their first championship in more than 40 years. His coach, Kirby Smart, got a chance to defeat his friend and mentor, Nick Saban. The legendary Alabama coach was going for his 7th championship since 2009. Smart modeled his Georgia football progr...

The ego is a very mysterious thing when it comes to success. You have to be confident enough (at least on the outside) to accomplish the things you want to make happen. On the other hand, you can't let your ego get so out of control that you run over those around you and refuse to listen to the people who can help you along the way. We all have known very talented people who were never able to ach...

Life is hard! Success is hard! Building a business is hard! Achieving your dreams is hard! If that wasn't true, every person on the planet would have a full bank account, a rocking business where other people did most of the work, and beautiful homes all around the globe. The problem is that we all want those things to come easy. It's not that we are lazy necessarily; it's just that we are hard-wi...

Becoming a champion on the football field doesn't just happen. Becoming one in the business world doesn't either. reaching the pinnacle of what you do (or even just getting really good) requires hard work and a certain amount of laserlike focus on the tasks required to get better and better along the way. The first step, however, is making the conscious decision that you are going to be a champion...

If you are like most of us, it gets harder and harder every day this week to stick to your New Year's Resolutions. If you can make it for a couple more weeks, your new habits will start to form. That's when real change begins. In the meantime, you are going to have setbacks and failures. You will then have a choice: either let them derail you or simply begin again and proceed forward. In this epis...

There is an old saying that if you could build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door. That saying is flat-out wrong!!! There have been hundreds of "better" mousetraps designed over the years; most never made it to production and never made their inventors rich. Why? Because despite modern mythology to the contrary great ideas very seldom lead to massive success. The idea is th...

The new year is upon us and it is now time to put up or shut about those resolutions you set for this year. If you are truly committed to making this your best year ever, you have a choice to make. Do you make the sacrifices that you know you need to make to accomplish real change or do you continue to kick that can down the road? In this episode, we turn to the world of sports. The Alabama Crimso...

The new year is here and the time to plan those resolutions is over. Over the past several episodes, we have mapped out just how to make sure those resolutions become reality. We have focused on looking for your deeper reason for wanting to make change. Knowing that will help you keep focus. We then looked into setting those resolutions and breaking them down into manageable parts. Now it's time t...

As we continue to ramp up towards New Year's Day, it's time to be finalizing those resolutions. Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to make resolutions than it is to keep them. Over the last few episodes, we have discussed techniques to help ensure the success of this year's planned changes. First, we focused on the importance of understanding why the changes you want to make are so important to you....

What are you planning to change about yourself when the calendar rolls over this weekend?  Over half the people in the U.S. will kick off the year with at least one New Year's Resolution.  Two weeks later, most will have returned to their old habits cursing themselves inwardly for failing in their quest for change.  It turns out, as we all know, making serious improvements to your life is just as...

In just a few days, we kick off a new year. All around the globe folks are making plans to change their lives for the better in 2020. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these New Year's Resolutions will fall by the wayside long before the calendar flips to February. Some of those failures will simply be caused by a lack of willpower, but the majority will result from poor planning, overextension,...

As we enter the last few days of 2021, we start focusing on the big changes we are planning to make in the upcoming year. We are assembling that list of New Year's Resolutions. On the outside, we are pretty pumped because we have a "plan" to start the new year. Internally, however, most of us have already resolved that we are not going to keep those resolutions. We are making wages with ourselves...

One of the hardest things entrepreneurs ever do is to shut their minds down and stop thinking about their business. It's easy to take some time off and not actually do any work. In fact, many of us do way too much of that. It's a whole different ball game when we try to actually stop thinking about our business, or more to the point, worrying about it. But the ability to let our mind rest and rech...

Christmas shopping is all wrapped up (or should be, at least). It's now time to think about a gift for yourself. Not just any gift, though, but a gift that will actually help you reach your goals and move you closer to your dreams. There is one trait that nearly every uber-successful person shares and that is an intense thirst for knowledge. They all set aside time every day to read (usually early...

Everyone wants to believe that success comes all at once with a flash of action, but that's just not the case. The truth is that success comes slowly. It requires consistent action over a long period of time. Most successful people literally outwork and outlast their competitors. Success usually comes after what feels like an eternity of sweating and struggling. It seems like nothing is happening...

There's a long list of reasons that we start our own businesses. They range from unlimited income to being fed up with the corporate world to being able to determine our own future. Above all of those hovers the freedom to set our own schedules and take off whenever we want to without having to get approval from above. The problem with that, however, is that many of us lack the discipline needed t...

Success is and always has been about finding a way to do those things that you know you should do but just don't feel like doing. To power through those moments, you have to find your true purpose and motivations. At its core, "I want to make more money" just doesn't give you the juice to make things happen. You have to know why making more money is important to you? Sometimes the answer to that q...

We want to do it all. We really want to. We try so hard to be everything for everybody, but end up feeling like a complete failure who doesn't do any of it right. Sounds familiar? This is the life many of us lead. Our inability to ever tell anyone, "No", and our lack of focus leaves us in a constant state of beatdown. It is no wonder that we are not able to reach our goals and achieve the level of...

One of the biggest struggles that an entrepreneur or sales professional faces each year is the intense desire to end the year early and just not work those last couple of weeks. We tell ourselves that the customers are spending time with their families and won't want to hear about my business. That's how we rationalize not working even though our business might not be where we hoped it would be by...

Facebook and other social sites are now part of the very fabric of our world. However, when anything impacts society on such a large scale there will always be unintended consequences. Those who remember the days before Facebook recall a time when you weren't easily able to keep track of all your former friends and acquaintances. While it's often fascinating to know what's going on with your old h...

How often do you tell yourself you are going to start making big changes in your life "starting Monday." Then Monday comes and goes without you actually doing anything at all. Perhaps, you attempt to make the change on Monday but with a lack of enthusiasm that ensures failure. Many of us repeat this cycle over and over and never actually move any closer to our goals. In this episode, we take a clo...

How often in your life have you talked yourself out of something that you really wanted to do that you were sure you'd enjoy or that would move your business or career forward in a big way? It happens all the time. We all have an inner voice that's a real jerk sometimes. While it's true that voice might occasionally stop you from doing something really stupid in your personal life, more often than...

There is perhaps nothing that brings our dreams to a halt faster than the fear of looking silly and embarrassing ourselves. So many things that we want to achieve in life require us to take risks. When we take risks, we have to put ourselves out there in ways that others might ridicule. That can be pretty scary for some. To avoid that many of us simply don't ever try. In this episode, we explore a...

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...