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How Entrepreneurs Rise Stronger After Setbacks, with Gary Mottershead 33:23

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An entrepreneur for over 35 years, Gary Mottershead is the founder and president of GCP Industrial Products, the largest U.S. importer of industrial sheet rubber, serving customers across North America. In this episode, he shares the highs and lows of his career, as well as his goals as a Program Coach for The Strategic Coach ® Program. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: What Gary considers to be his most important responsibility. How Gary’s entrepreneurial career started with an actual tire fire. How he and his team built up their “crisis muscle.” Why reinterpreting your past and protecting your present is crucial to entrepreneurial success. How Strategic Coach ® helps entrepreneurs sharpen their vision. Why Gary chose to write a book—and what he learned from the process. How entrepreneurs can overcome FOMO. Show Notes: If you’re going to bring children into the world, you should look after them. Having a support system at home is vital to the success of any entrepreneurial family. Stability in some areas of your life can give you the energy to handle changes in others. Sometimes, not making a decision is the greater risk. There are things entrepreneurs feel compelled to do without knowing why. Trying to be significant before you’re successful is doing things backwards. The time isn’t up unless you decide it’s up. The mark of an entrepreneur is not how often you get knocked down, but how many times you get back up. You’ll handle a situation more calmly if you’ve experienced something similar before. Being nimble is a mindset. Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You can rewrite your own story, keeping only what’s important. The future isn’t written yet—which means you can still shape it. Entrepreneurship is a lifestyle, not just a job. Without intention and direction, too much information can paralyze you. The hardest thing for an entrepreneur is being honest with themselves. You can only help those who want to be helped. Resources: Kolbe A ™ Index Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nimble Future: Reinterpret Your Past, Protect Your Present, Engage In Your Future by Gary Mottershead Unique Ability ® Time Management Strategies For Entrepreneurs (Effective Strategies Only) The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan…

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Sell Opportunity Instead Of Fear 19:27

22 дні тому19:27

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Many entrepreneurs use negatives to make a sale. But why sell fear when you can sell opportunity, and why sell pain when you can sell growth? Dan Sullivan reveals why positive messaging attracts the best clients, how ambition fueled by principles keeps you young, and why your community determines your growth. Learn why the most successful entrepreneurs never retire—they just keep reinventing themselves. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: How selling is both an intellectual and emotional activity. Why fear isn’t something to avoid—but a sign you’re growing. The mindset shift that keeps successful entrepreneurs innovating. How Strategic Coach ® accelerates growth for already successful entrepreneurs. The surprising link between ambition, aging, and fulfillment (and how to stay "young" at any stage). Show Notes: Most sales pitches use fear—but fear attracts the wrong clients and limits your growth. Selling has two parts to it: intellectually connecting people to a desirable future result, and then emotionally engaging them to take action to achieve that future result. To be effective, a sales pitch has to be both convincing and compelling. Instead of pitching that you can remove a negative, focus your pitch on amplifying something positive. You're ambitious because of your passion. You'd like to see your passion have an impact out in the world. Who you surround yourself with determines your trajectory: growth-oriented people keep you young, while stagnant people age you. Status entrepreneurs, as opposed to growth entrepreneurs, eventually run out of ambition. Ambition is driven by strategy. Growth is driven by principles. Your principles are your way of being. The moment you retire from fear, you also retire from excitement. Fear and pain go together, as do opportunity and growth. The biggest thing you're putting at risk when you're growing is your own past. In the Strategic Coach community, you're not the exception—you're the norm. Resources: 10xTalk Podcast with Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish Anything And Everything Podcast with Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff The Mindset Scorecard by Dan Sullivan The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan Growing Great Leadership by Dan Sullivan…

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How To Turn Your Solutions Into Profitable Intellectual Property 27:20

5 weeks тому27:20

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What if the solutions you’ve already created could generate value for decades—without more of your time? In this episode, Dan Sullivan reveals how packaging, naming, and protecting your ideas transforms them into scalable intellectual property. Learn why your “second company” (your multiplier) could soon be worth more than your entire business—and how to make it happen. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: How to make your solutions valuable by protecting them through intellectual property law. The thinking tool that lets you find the right person for the right role. How you can easily turn your ideas into intellectual property. The importance of sticking to your business model. How you can franchise your ideas. The future of Strategic Coach ® over the next 20 years. Show Notes: Your first company, your R&D company, creates solutions for people. Your second company, your multiplier company, packages your solutions as your intellectual property. If you record, package, and name a solution you’ve created, it will have massive ongoing value. Before you put your ideas out into the world, you must protect them. Boredom with your own solutions is a hidden risk—document them before you move on to the next idea. The value of Strategic Coach’s patents will soon surpass 55 years of coaching revenue—proof that IP compounds value. Protecting your creativity isn’t just a multiplier; it’s an accelerator of long-term wealth. A two-company structure makes you immune to market chaos because you control the value of your ideas. Your biggest breakthroughs will come from technology multiplied by teamwork, not from grinding harder. The same business model that built your success can scale infinitely—if you focus on IP, not just execution. Resources: Unique Process Advisors by Dan Sullivan Instant IP Casting Not Hiring by Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff Unique Ability ® Perplexity This Tool Will Help You Make Sense Of The Past AND Take Charge Of Your Future Everything Is Created Backward by Dan Sullivan Extraordinary Impact Filter by Dan Sullivan Growing Great Leadership by Dan Sullivan The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan…

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The Secret Behind Why Every Entrepreneur Has Two Companies 27:16

7 weeks тому27:16

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Do you feel torn between the company you have and the one you wish you had? In this episode, Dan Sullivan reveals The Second Company Secret—how successful entrepreneurs leverage their first (real) company to fuel a second (multiplier) company built on intellectual property. Discover how to eliminate tension between the two, protect your creativity, and unlock exponential growth. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: Why your real company frustrates you. Why your imaginary company seems perfect. What you can do with the new Second Company Secret thinking tool. What you’ll come to realize if you closely examine your two companies. Show Notes: Entrepreneurs often undervalue their real company while idolizing an imagined “perfect” version. Your real company isn’t the problem—your thinking about it is. Your most creative breakthroughs feel tied to this unrealized vision, but it lacks traction. Your second company allows you to see the value of your first company. You could be making money at one company while still resenting how much of your time it takes up. Your second company thrives through collaboration, not through your time and effort. Structure and partners are non-negotiable—they’re the multipliers of your vision. You bring the vision and capabilities, and your partners bring the reach. When your second company succeeds, it fuels even greater creativity and innovation in your first. The solutions you create are your intellectual property. Take steps to protect them. Resources: Unique Ability ® The V.C.R. Formula Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage What Is An Impact Filter?…

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Turning Tariffs Into Your Unbeatable Advantage 38:18

8 weeks тому38:18

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Are you prepared for the biggest economic shift in 80 years? In this episode, Dan Sullivan reveals how the new global tariff landscape creates unprecedented opportunities for agile entrepreneurs. Learn why the post-WWII economic order is over, how to adapt your business model, and why being alert, curious, and resourceful is the secret to success in this emerging era. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: The real history behind today’s tariffs—and why it matters for your business. How WWII transformed the U.S. economy into a global powerhouse. Why the U.S. dollar leads world trade (and why that’s changing). Why the U.S. Navy started protecting trade routes around the world. Five critical strategies every entrepreneur must adopt now. A simple framework to help clients regain confidence in uncertain times. Why China faces unprecedented challenges in this new era. Show Notes: On April 3, the U.S. announced tariffs of 10% for most countries, with higher rates for nations with significant trade imbalances. Post-WWII, the U.S. economy was self-sufficient, yet other countries charged tariffs on U.S. goods while enjoying tariff-free access to American markets. One-sided tariffs led American corporations to offshore factories, costing U.S. jobs and prosperity. Trump’s tariffs are a negotiation tactic to reset unfair trade terms and bring manufacturing back to the U.S. China’s current trade practices make it the primary target of aggressive tariffs (now 125%). U.S. companies abroad face tariffs unless they relocate production home—creating a surge in domestic opportunities for entrepreneurs. You want to be the buyer in every negotiation. The buyer is the one who can walk away from the table. The United States is the best place to sell a product created anywhere in the world because it has the most customers. Tariffs aren’t about fairness. They’re about trade. Entrepreneurs are skilled at responding very quickly to new dangers and new opportunities and developing new strengths in the process. Global supply chains are fracturing, forcing businesses to source locally and regionally. During uncertain times, people feel as though they’ve lost their future. You can help clients and customers rebuild confidence in their future by focusing on their dangers, opportunities, and strengths (D.O.S. ® ). The 1945–1992 economic order was a historical anomaly, and we won’t see anything like it again. AI reduces labor costs (and creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs as a result). Resources: Perplexity Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz The D.O.S. Conversation ® by Dan Sullivan The Great Meltdown by Dan Sullivan Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz…

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Growing Great Leadership 26:09

9 weeks тому26:09

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What if leadership isn’t about titles, but about creating new capabilities others can observe? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller break down the shift from bureaucratic management to self-leadership in the networked economy. Learn the four-step process to transform uncertainty into confidence—and why focusing on problems is the death of innovation. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: The four-step process that always makes you an inspiring leader. Why a goal isn’t a destination. The big difference between a role and a job. Why there are no orders in the network economy. How Dan is finally revealing his process in a new book. Why unique skills are generally wasted in bureaucracies. Show Notes: Self-leadership starts with creating new capabilities—not waiting for permission. Anytime you’re doing something that creates a new capability, and other people observe you doing that, that's leadership. Your activity of creating a new capability gives others the confidence that they too can have the courage to create a new capability. The pandemic created a network economy. Great technologies like Zoom have enabled people to work remotely. Many management activities within a company can now be handled by apps. Bureaucracies punish boundary-crossing, while networked teams reward it. When people get possessive about their territory, it shuts down creativity. Instead of trying to fix problems (or worse, just complaining about them), create solutions that make problems irrelevant. Confidence comes after courage—not the other way around. Resources: Growing Great Leadership by Dan Sullivan The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan…

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Clarify Your Thinking To Become A Better Entrepreneur, with Erik Solbakken 27:27

11 weeks тому27:27

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The Strategic Coach ® Program has been helping entrepreneurs achieve accelerated growth and personal freedom for over 35 years. Now, Strategic Coach ® is excited to welcome a new coach to the Program. In this episode, Associate Coach Erik Solbakken shares his unique journey from chartered accountant to successful entrepreneur, and what excites him about connecting with fellow entrepreneurs. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: How Erik responded after his professional dream was decimated. How Erik’s clients inspired him to become entrepreneurial. What led Erik to The Strategic Coach Program and how it changed his life. How Erik is helping accountants create better business models. What allows an entrepreneur to focus on their purpose. Show Notes: The way to create your future is by reflecting on your past. Entrepreneurship isn't always easy; it's a journey with ups and downs. Your ideal client wants the authentic you, not the pretend you. Self-discovery is a lifelong journey. Capabilities and confidence come from commitment and courage. Being part of the Strategic Coach community means being surrounded by entrepreneurs who can support you through tough times. Strategic Coach thinking tools help you clarify and simplify your thinking. Each time you use a Strategic Coach thinking tool, you gain deeper insights. Every coach at Strategic Coach is also a client, applying the tools and concepts to their own business. Our eyes only see and our ears only hear what our brain is looking for. Strategic Coach is one of the world's greatest philosophy programs wrapped in a business blanket. Resources: The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs How To Sell Transformation Using This One Question Unique Ability ® What You Can Learn From Failure “Geometry” For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy What Is A Self-Managing Company ® ? Viking Academy ™ The Accountant Success Formula ™ Accountants Kelowna BC…

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All Entrepreneurs Need To Have Courageous Creativity 15:52

13 weeks тому15:52

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Is complaining holding you back from your full potential? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss the surprisingly simple choice between complaining and creating when facing obstacles. Discover how shifting to a creative mindset, embracing courage, and taking full responsibility can unlock new capabilities and exponential growth. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: How complaining allows you to avoid responsibility by justifying why you can't move forward. The Strategic Coach ® thinking tool for transforming obstacles into capability and confidence. Why you need commitment and courage before you can gain capability and confidence. The kinds of people that give creativity a bad name. Show Notes: An obstacle feels like something is blocking your progress. There are only two ways of dealing with obstacles: creating or complaining. When you’re in creativity mode, you’re fully engaged with transforming or bypassing the obstacle. To deal with an obstacle, you have to create something new. Taking 100% responsibility is essential for creative problem-solving. Complaining involves blaming external circumstances or people. Committing fully to complaining offers a sense of freedom because you’ve absolved yourself of any responsibility for improving your situation. Few people are entirely creative or entirely complainers. Most are a mix of both. Creativity requires courage; complaining does not. Creators are more likely to be honest with themselves. You attract what you are: complainers attract complainers, and creators attract creators. Resources: The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan…

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Why Entrepreneurship Is The Safest Career Move You Can Make 28:33

15 weeks тому28:33

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Organizations have changed a lot over the past 50 years, and it’s vital for entrepreneurs to be aware of these changes if they want to achieve great business success. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, who has been coaching entrepreneurs for 50 years, talks to fellow business coach Shannon Waller all about the changes in companies that have taken place over the past half-century and the very different position that entrepreneurs are in today. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: What gave Dan confidence to become a business coach. How Dan’s desire to coach got married to entrepreneurism. How Strategic Coach ® helps entrepreneurs thrive in the current economy. The way to give your team members roles, not just jobs. Show Notes: The invention of the microchip allowed entrepreneurs to have a lot of power and capability they’d never had before. The introduction of the microchip meant large corporations would start to fracture and wouldn’t be as effective or useful. It might take three months to get a decision from large organizations, but entrepreneurs can decide to hire you, and write you a check, in the moment. About every 15 years, the number of employees required in an organization is about half of what it was 15 years previously. Now that small companies with microchip power can be powerful economic forces, government has adjusted to make the process of incorporation faster and easier. We’re partway through a 50-year period in which we’re shifting from large, pyramid-shaped organizations to network-based organizations. Artificial intelligence can do work that used to require many people to do. A lot more people can own companies and have leadership positions now than they used to. Canada, especially Ontario, is one of the easier places in the world to incorporate. Being a bureaucrat in a large pyramidal organization used to be the safest job in the economy, but is now among the riskiest. Being an entrepreneur has become the safest role. Resources: The Great Crossover by Dan Sullivan Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage Unique Ability ®…

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How Lucky Are You As An Entrepreneur? 21:45

17 weeks тому21:45

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Do you believe in luck, or do you make your own success? In this episode, Dan Sullivan explores the concept of luck in entrepreneurship. Drawing from 50 years of coaching experience, he reveals how successful entrepreneurs create their own paths, often starting young by seeking opportunities to grow their wealth. Discover how self-made success intertwines with luck in the entrepreneurial journey. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: The top ways Dan has been lucky. Why it’s more difficult for someone born into wealth to become an entrepreneur. The new Strategic Coach ® thinking tool that will help you recognize and increase your luck. Why being an entrepreneur requires a lot of courage. How Strategic Coach is run like a live theater company. Show Notes: 50% of your success comes from luck, and 50% of it comes from the ability to take advantage of the luck you've had. An entrepreneur’s success is an act of self-creation. Entrepreneurs create their own income streams and their own capabilities. Entrepreneurs understand intuitively that freedom requires money. It’s difficult to separate luck from skill. The U.S. is an entrepreneurial country created by entrepreneurs. Even the challenges you’ve faced have shaped who you are today. Recognizing the luck you’ve had keeps you centered and grounded. Whether your capability drives your luck or vice versa depends on your perspective. Resources: Unique Ability ® Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage…

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What Ambition Looks Like At 80 26:50

19 weeks тому26:50

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Do you believe ambition fades with age, or can it actually grow stronger? In this episode, Shannon and Dan discuss how ambition evolves over time, share Dan's desire to be even more ambitious at 90, and reveal how transforming ambition into action can lead to growth and fulfillment at every age. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: How Dan’s strongest ambition relates to ambition itself. What you can gain by sticking to what you’re great at and love doing. How Dan came up with the goal of living to the age of 156. Ways you can lean into expanding your ambition. Why it’s easier to move forward than to maintain your position. Why some successful entrepreneurs get discouraged when they think about their ambition. The dire consequences of giving up your ambition. Show Notes: People begin to feel old when they stop making commitments—and stop prioritizing courage. When entrepreneurs focus exclusively on doing what they’re great at and love doing, their impact multiplies. When combined with technology, the results are exponential. Since your skills and capabilities will be much greater 10 years from now, your goals can be much bigger in 10 years too. When you’re ambitious, all sorts of unexpected opportunities and experiences become available to you. When you view ambition as an action, it becomes something you can invest your talent, skills, and time into. Ambition is a skill made up of a number of subskills. When your brain normalizes the idea that you’re going to live far longer than normal expectations, it changes your understanding of the present. Time only speeds up when you think you’re running out of it. Being unable to imagine yourself with more ambition in the future robs you of your power in the present. No one’s interested in being in teamwork with someone who’s stopped growing. Your real age has to do with what lies ahead of you—and your imagination. What human beings most look for in other human beings is commitment and courage. Commitment and courage create capability. If you’re more committed and more courageous, it’s easy to be more ambitious. Confidence is the reward for acquiring a new capability. With a higher level of confidence, you can make greater commitments. To make any significant improvement or change in your life, you have to be 100% committed to doing it. You only truly start aging when you give up your ambition. Resources: Unique Ability ® My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan…

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Entrepreneurs Can’t Move Forward With Costs, Only With Investments 15:32

21 weeks тому15:32

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Entrepreneurs always want to be moving forward. What determines whether they’ll be able to is their understanding of the difference between cost and investment. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller talk about the growth mindset that lets you improve for the rest of your life—versus the mindset that means you’ll forever be stuck right where you are. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: The reason why small entrepreneurs are small entrepreneurs. Why you won’t get a return on investment if you think of team members as a cost. Why becoming a Strategic Coach ® member isn’t a cost, but an investment in yourself. Why it’s dangerous for your team members if you think of them as a cost. How to switch from operating in costs to operating in investments. Show Notes: Some entrepreneurs have essentially only created a job for themselves that doesn’t go anywhere. If you see hiring people as a cost, you might just do all of the work yourself. When entrepreneurs do everything themselves, 90% of what they do doesn’t actually make sense for them to do. Investing in team members means you’re freed up to do better work, and that will easily pay for the investment. When you hire someone, you’re investing more in yourself than in the other person. If you consider someone to be a cost, that person will know it. Making an investment is a risk, and it can require courage. Someone who treats other people as costs treats themselves the same way. With an investment, you'll put an enormous amount of thinking into it to guarantee that it’s successful. When you’re making an investment, have a goal for the return and a deadline for that goal. Resources: Casting Not Hiring by Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff…

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Business Lessons For Creating The Job You Want, with Patti Mara 31:10

23 weeks тому31:10

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When Patti Mara graduated from university in the recession of 1989, she couldn’t get a job—so she made one up instead. In this episode, Patti shares how she’s achieved entrepreneurial success, the exciting new project she’s launching to support local businesses, and what she’s learned as a long-time coach in The Strategic Coach ® Program. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: The invaluable resource that Patti turned to when she realized she didn’t know how to build a business. Some of the most helpful tools Patti learned in her first year at Strategic Coach ® . The difference between tasks and results. The value in separating the fault from the problem. “magic” that happens in every Strategic Coach workshop. Show Notes: Entrepreneurship often emerges out of necessity, but being good at making up a job for yourself doesn’t mean you know how to build a business. Strategic Coach concepts can dramatically shift an entrepreneur's mindset and ability to build a thriving organization. Every coach at Strategic Coach is also a Program member who uses Coach tools and concepts in their own business. What you sell is actually the vehicle for how you create value. Your business is the value you create to the people you want to work with. Everyone wants to feel like they’re winning. When team members feel like their roles serve a greater purpose, the whole company culture shifts. And once you recognize team members as experts in their roles, you can encourage their innovation and sense of ownership. When you empower team members to solve problems rather than to focus on who was at fault, customer interactions get much better. Awareness and mindset are more impactful than specific skills when training team members. Resources: Blog: Time Management Strategies For Entrepreneurs (Effective Strategies Only) Unique Ability ® The 10x Mind Expander by Dan Sullivan Turning Teams into Heroes and Customers into Raving Fans by Patti Mara UpSolutions Team Success Program Blog: What Is A Self-Managing Company ® ? Tool: The Positive Focus ® Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy Podcast: Team Success pattimara.com wechooselocal.com…

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The Right Way And The Dangerous Way To Think About Ambition 20:35

25 weeks тому20:35

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Entrepreneurs need to be ambitious. But what happens when you achieve your ambition? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explain the drawbacks of having ambition as a destination and describe the incredible benefits you can expect when you see ambition as a capability. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: Why Dan sees ambition as an internal capability. Measurements you should be making every day. What’s made Dan’s life simpler over time. How Dan gifts Strategic Coach ® members extra years to their entrepreneurial lives. What you need to avoid to be continually ambitious, and why. Show Notes: Ambition is a capability, not a destination. Simply by continually improving your ambition each day, you’ll experience exponential growth over time. Dan Sullivan feels more ambitious at 80 than he did at 50. To strengthen your ambition, it’s important to measure your daily accomplishments and strive for continal growth. You can measure your progress not just in achievements, but in the ability to accomplish more in less time with greater impact. Ambition itself should be measured in terms of increased capability and confidence. Simplifying life by eliminating distractions (like television) can reclaim valuable time for personal development and ambitious pursuits. Surrounding yourself with growth-oriented individuals, often younger, can inspire and fuel your ambition. To be continually ambitious, there are three things you should avoid: celebrity, retirement, and legacy. It’s important to focus on being useful and impactful in the present rather than worrying about future legacy. Viewing ambition as a capability can also help you feel more fulfilled personally—and have a greater impact on your community. Every day, ask yourself what you can do so that you’re more ambitious tomorrow. Being around people who aren’t invested in growth is an obstacle to your ambition. Resources: CliftonStrengths ® Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy…

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Success Traps Are Harder To Escape Than Failure Traps 18:39

27 weeks тому18:39