Showing Up
How do you show up in your life? Do you care? Does it mean anything to you? Are you doing something about it? Are you giving yourself permission? Are you willing to be who you are?
Business Fundamentals40 Videos
Your Urgency is Throttling your Business
This is going to sound like it’s coming from an old man standing on his porch yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn, but it needs to be said: all of you need to slow down and take a breath. I talk to a lot of business owners. And one common thing […]
FUCK YOU PAY ME
Every day we’re faced with choices. And the best way to make those choices is to find out the story you want to tell about your life. If you know that, then all you have to do is to make the choice that aligns most closely to the story you want to tell. It’s that […]
Your Disorganisation is a Habit
The word “addiction” brings up an awful lot of nasty images: we tend to associate it with vices like drugs, alcohol, or gambling. But it can be a lot more benign than that. There are tons of people out there addicted to being disorganized. This can be particularly nasty, especially in business. And the worst […]
The Most Constrained System
There can only be one. At any given time, there is only one most important thing that you should be working on to produce the highest return on investment in your business and your life. Do you know what it is?
Trying to Have it All Leaves You With Nothing
The biggest threat to any business is the owner of that business. As entrepreneurs, we’ve already decided to tackle one of the most challenging things anyone could possibly do: build a business. For one reason or another, we’ve committed ourselves to take on accountability when so many people spend their lives desperately trying to avoid […]
POINT OF VONCURSION
You guys have heard me say before that dissatisfaction drives innovation. Well, I started off the day today dissatisfied with something: how can we turn our website traffic into customers? We started breaking down the problem and dove into a rabbit hole: what’s our single point of conversion? What does our funnel look like? What […]
Role Roulette
Happy Halloween, everyone. Take care to watch out for all the ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and other monsters wandering about today! Although, I have to admit that there’s one thing I find scarier than any monster: spending my time doing low-priority work. Sometimes that can be hard to distinguish. Like many business owners, I have so […]
The Polymath
Every system in a business is a pipe. You’ve got your sales pipe, your marketing pipe, your operations pipe, and so on. Each pipe is responsible for taking the effort of the people who do the work in that system and turning it into a result (the result depends on the pipe, naturally). Let’s say […]
Schedule or Suffer
There’s a limit to how much any of us can have in our heads at any given time. As businesses scale and get bigger, with more needing to get done, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the time to work on everything that needs your attention. After all, even if you’re getting new clients, you’re […]
