Archive 1 of Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

Hiring a good assistant can almost double your productivity.  A good assistant is someone who wants to support you like crazy and that person is going to want clarity as to what that actually means. Your assistant needs to have a documented position with clear expectations to succeed.  A lack of explicit expectations equals a lack of confidence in the role.  Provide your assistant with clarity and they will charge forward with momentum. 

If you're running a business, listen up, building a company on an unstable foundation will leave you exposed and unprotected. The new world of DIY legal services online is exposing entrepreneurs to a host of liabilities. A lot of people don't take care of the legal issues and challenges associated with starting a corporation for fear of the expense, some attorneys out there are taking advantage of the rush of entrepreneurs wanting to start a corporation and are overcharging for their services, avoid them. Find a good attorney, good legal advice is worth your money and it may not cost as much as you might think. I want to make sure you're building only on a solid foundation and will be protected moving forward.

When you think negative thoughts about yourself, who is really talking? Is it you or is it somebody else? For most people, what they were taught about themselves as children, becomes the baggage they carry around through life.  As an entrepreneur you are incredibly important to the people on your team,  the comments you make influence them and become a part of their inner voice.   If you unload your frustration, irritation & anger on your team you shatter their confidence.  I tell my team how much confidence I have in them and build them up! You have an incredible impact on those who choose to work with you and if you want to honor the impact you create as an entrepreneur you need to remember that you help create your team's inner voice. 

In the deep end of the pool you can't touch the bottom, you must be constantly active, alert & aware.  I've always committed that I would be the guy who owns the deep end of the pool.  I'm obsessed with hydration, breathing, nutrition and moving my body in the right ways.  I don't ever want to lose my intensity and my presence in my company, or my personal life.  Is your company growing the way you would like? Are your actions moving your forward and having the desired effect?  If the answers are no, look at how you are taking care of yourself, how long can you keep treading water in the deep end? 

Why have a daily huddle? What may seem like a waste of precious time to begin with, will actually save you so much time throughout your day.  The huddle connects everyone and creates accountability within your team, if you can commit to a daily huddle you'll notice the distractions and breaks in your momentum will go down dramatically.  Emily Hirsh is a client of mine, she runs an incredibly successful business and is an incredible Entrepreneur and Huntress.  Her business has almost doubled in size since working with me and she attributes a huge amount of that growth to the Charfen Cadence and the systems in our Billionaire Code program. 

If you're building a team the success of the company is not all on you. As a leader, the success of the company relies on your ability to lead a team.  This means to have them join together as a cohesive unit that protects and helps each other. Leadership is what either makes a company grow or stagnate and fade.

The seven figure transition is tough! It can be so difficult because you can't keep running your business in the same way you always have.  If you try to go through the seven figure transition alone it will chew you up and spit you out. The element of the business that has to transition the most is you, the entrepreneur.

I don't believe in the concept of 'one size fits all' it never works in real life and when it comes to building a team, it simply doesn't exist. Follow your own path and see how easy it can be to determine and eliminate your pain points by finding the right people for your team.  Stop trying to use somebody else's system to build YOUR business.

If you're in a place where you feel stuck and can't create forward progress, stop and ask yourself 'how do I help someone and make a difference?' In business we get so busy, the focus is on selling or making the next deal but here's what I know about people like us, when we help people around us, we feel the positive effects. The easiest way to get back into momentum is to give it to somebody else.

Do you feel guilty when it comes to taking time out for self-care?  This is a major hurdle for a lot of entrepreneurs.  If you're growing a business chances are you're living an overwhelming life where it seems you can find time to do everything other than taking care of yourself.  This is where we need to do some rewiring, the reality is if you're not taking care of yourself, you're not optimized and you're not utilizing one of the greatest pathways to success.  When we get weighed down by pressure and noise, future focus turns into daydreaming.  Are you taking care of yourself enough to achieve what you actually want?

In the beginning growing your team can be difficult, when you interview people they're not their normal self, they are their interview self, it's an unnatural situation that can leave you wondering what would it really be like to work with this person? In our company we don't wonder, we actually test and it's a game changer!  You and your team are concocting a future together so it's crucial you get the right people on board.  I want you to hire people that you're excited about and build momentum for you and your team and that's why I'm sharing my process with you.

Click Funnels are a revolution happening in business right now.  Founded by Russell Brunson, it is an online platform that allows you to quickly and easily build pages online that will walk people through what's called 'The Funnel'.  But here's where things get interesting; Click Funnels isn't just a platform, it's also a training company, when you combine the simplicity of Click Funnels with the training it's crazy how fast you can start winning! Do you use Click Funnels in your business? If you're not you're missing out on the future of business today.

My opinions on Multi Level Marketing have evolved over time.   My experiences with MLM led me to believe it was all just a scam.  Being around some of the biggest entrepreneurs has completely shifted my mindset.

Being an entrepreneur in an over saturated market gets more and more difficult over time.   How can an entrepreneur find a blue ocean?    

Unless we prepare for future constraints, we won't be prepared for growing the structure within our business.   If you don't plan for the future, the only way you understand when there is constraint is by feeling pain in the present.      

Are you being transparent your team when it comes to working together?    If someone behavior is affecting you in a negative way, your silence signifies approval.  

How do I scratch the entrepreneurial itch while doing the 'boring' stuff that produces results?  If you're doing the same thing over and over and do no understand the strategy behind it, you'll sabotage your own projects.  

'The Goal' is one of the most important books with regard to building team.  There is not a better book on the theory of constraints.  In fact, it's one of the first books I recommend to clients when we start working together.    Businesses change once their founders read this book. 

Once we get past survival mode, we begin to start needed existential meaning.  What do you do when money loses it’s meaning?  There comes a time when money is just a way to keep score. Do you understand what drives you?

How do you scale when you have the question "How can I scale when the only reason people buy is me?" There is a reason why this type of thinking limits your ability to grow.  When someone buys from you, it's most likely for the outcome.   Do you think Richard Branson ask's himself the same question?   Elevate what you're doing on a daily basis.      

Working with the right consultants can provide valuable shortcuts within life and business.  When you find the right person, you'd be surprised with just how fast things can move.   It make's it much more difficult for someone to help you when you aren't fully transparent.  Are you telling your consultants what's really going on?  

There is a reason why we share our revenue, expenses and profit with our team.   I want our team to know the score.   The more simple the business is to me, the bigger I can grow it.  The more clarity, the faster we can make things happen.   If you start with complexity, you'll have to scale it forward.   Let me share with you how we manage projects within our company.    

I coach from a place of helping you to create keystone habits that make everything easier.   You'd be surprised as to how much leverage hydration can give you.  This is a simple concept but one that seems to become lost.   Drinking water might appear to be easy.  However, what do you eat to create momentum?  

There are five things I cover when working with spouses that run business.  Working with your spouse can be amazing unless you have these core components.  In fact, it can become a meat grinder.   The pressure of running a business is huge.  There is no relationship that is perfect.  These foundational concepts will help you significantly.  

As entrepreneurs, we should just do what we do in our natural strength, we should move into the position of leadership in our company and stop trying to manage anything because we’re not good at it.  Get out of management and ascend to leadership. I can teach you how to stop transactional management where you tell people what to do and shift to transformational leadership.  When you step into transformational leadership you will be shocked at how much your team is capable of.  

I don't listen to coaches unless I'm willing to become more like them in every way.  I'm at Taki Moore's event in California and it's phenomenal.   Are you trying to make results happen without looking at the path?  

The five to one rule is one of the most foundational and game changing concepts for me as an entrepreneur in understanding how to work with, lead and manage teams.  Do you want to know how you create better relationships? What are the tactics that create cohesive relationships where everybody works together long term? Five positive conversations to every one corrective conversation, that’s the key!  

If you couldn't tell, I've obsessed over the question 'How do you make businesses grow?'   One of the biggest challenges here is understanding what to focus on during the right times.   Working hard can be a great thing.  Working hard on the wrong things (even unintentionally) can take you backwards.   Have you ever thought to yourself 'I wish I could just go back to doing it all myself.' What happens when focus hurts you?  

My client Annie Grace is literally changing the world.   There comes a time in business when you're growing that you can no longer do it all yourself.  Until you've built a team around you, you don't understand one of the greatest gifts to an entrepreneur. 

This topic is important in the environment in which we find ourselves in the world today.   Is it ok to discriminate against a human being in 2018?

My doctor once told me I was the most likely to have a heart attack.   10 years ago I was over 300 lbs and my belt was clearly fighting for it's life.  

There's this perception that entrepreneurs are risk takers.   I don't buy that.   We make the decision that we are most certain and that we believe will give us the right result.   Let's Ryan Lee from Atlas Wealth Solutions share with you just why perspective creates action. 

The Huntress may be as important as the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.   See, there is a subset within the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  The women I know would blow you away with what they're capable of.   The age of the female entrepreneur is here.  

If you have a business and are a parent (or think you might be),  The entrepreneurs that involve their kids and are transparent with them have the most successful kids in the long term.   Here are a couple reasons..  There is a massive liability if you don't.   Everyone in the world isn't going to be kind to your kids just because you're an entrepreneur.  

There comes a time when we realize our ability to be successful correlates with our ability to focus and be present.  Believe it or not, there are ways you can buy away pressure and noise.  Get rid of your debt and build your net worth.

Every one of us needs a first follower.  Someone who believes us and what we do.   As entrepreneurs, we're constantly stepping into the unknown.   When you're creating the future, you just need one other person's confirmation to change everything.  

There is a difference between open communication with your team and an open door policy.   An open door policy with a small team can work but will hurt you as you start to grow bigger.  

Deals give us the ability to work together and move forward.   Let me share with you the biggest hack in negotiating contracts.  You might be surprised with just how simple it is.

While we have specific roles, everyone can and should do what is necessary.  The question your team members should ask is ‘What else can I do to help?’  Expect to carry boxes.

How do you motivate your team to get more done and show up the right way?   When an entrepreneur asks this type of questions, it typically indicates that the elements for momentum aren't there.   Is your team excited about what you're doing?  

It happens to everyone, including me. All of the noise and short term tactical urgency can make you want to just give up.

ard kid growing up and I didn't know how to make things better.  I can recall multiple challenging instances growing up that made things difficult.  

We create businesses that challenge the status quo and demand that our dreams become reality.

If a business doesn't create profit, it doesn't stay in business. Most CEO's don't transparently share numbers. If you're not sharing profitability with your team, they're likely making assumptions that aren't close. By having a discussion around numbers, it becomes a non issue.

How can you get into a state of fluid momentum and stay there? In order to create momentum, you need the infrastructure to make it predictable. The fastest way to get into momentum is to give it to someone else.

There are a lot of entrepreneurs that are convinced that having a great relationship and a great business are mutually exclusive. I can share from experience that this is most certainly not true.

I'd like to share one simple and effective way to eliminate pain throughout the body. It might be more simple than you think. One of our clients has had massive relief of pain just by implementing this game changer.

Too often we believe that achieving a singular outcome will give us fulfillment and success. However when we look at successful entrepreneurs, they don't have just one success event. Too many of us have been sold that this is what we're looking for only to be left disappointed. 

Ryan Lee and Brad Gibb have one of the same passions that I have, they are obsessed with working on helping and supporting entrepreneurs to do better, feel more confident in the world and to guard their wealth.    If you know that you’re leaving money on the table and you could be doing more, this interview is going to reveal a ton to you in the context of business growth.  

Today I’m chatting with Carissa Hill of Wolf Pack Mastermind, she’s so unique in the current entrepreneurial world and I’m so excited to catch up with her.  In the past year, Carissa’s business has experienced crazy growth, she’s reached her seven-figure goal, but now what?  Going forward Carissa wants to help women who are obsessed with business step out of the shadows and own their success. Carissa is a Huntress and you can be too!