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EPS 10: Your Personal Board of Directors

In this episode, you will learn how to:

• Identify who is on YOUR Personal Board of Directors and how they got a seat
• Choose the RIGHT people to support and advise you
• Vote the WRONG people off your Board

When making a major decision in your life, who do you go to for advice? Who is the voice in your head?

Your supportive partner? A wise mentor? Somebody who has your best interest at heart and cheers you on?

Or, is it a hyper-critical parent? Is the voice in your head that ex-boss or partner who excelled in exposing your weaknesses or failures?

Let's dig into YOUR Personal Board of Directors…You have one! We ALL do!

Even if you don't realize it, they are there in the background of your life. Some we have chosen purposely for the advice and experience that they add, but some have snuck through a cracked door, even have a seat at the table even though it does not benefit us or our goals.

The quality of our lives is influenced by these people and we may not even know it or realize that they are there! Not everybody gets a seat at the table!!! To make the cut, they need to be propelling you into the version of yourself that YOU want and what is best for you, NOT keeping you stuck in the version of your life that is more comfortable and convenient for THEM!

In this episode, I will give you tips and tricks on identifying who is on your Board and why, how to choose the right people to advise and empower you and how to vote those unhelpful people off the board so their opinions no longer hold you back from the life that you are designing.

Action Steps:

• Make a list of who is on your Personal Board of Directors and WHY! (12:04)
• Make a list of who is on the Board but does not deserve a seat and WHY! (12:29)
• CLEAN HOUSE as if the quality of your life depends on it…because it DOES!!! (13:10)

Suggested Reading:

Forbes Magazine Everyone Needs A Personal Board of Directors by Lisa Barrington February 20, 2018

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2018/02/20/everyone-needs-a-personal-board-of-directors/#77657f142bbc

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EPS 9: Choose Your People: 4 Tips to Staffing the Right Team

In this episode, you will learn how to:

• Define your hiring needs and communicate expectations to set your staff up for success
• Identify and hire for a good cultural fit
• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure effective and objective evaluation
• Give frequent feedback vs. annual reviews

Why is it so important to hire the right people for your business?

A whole truck-load of reasons!

To start, choosing the wrong employee will cost you a lot of time and money. Research shows that not only are you out the time spent on this staff member but a mis-hire can cost up to 3 times their monthly salary for a small company and 15 times their salary in a large company. OUCH! If you are a new small business the stats already show that 80% fail in the first 5 years, staffing definitely plays a part in the success or failure. Plus hiring the wrong staff is a morale killer for the hard workers on your team and be honest…firing people SUCKS!

Every successful business owner needs not just a good team of people, but the RIGHT people in order to grow and achieve their objectives.

Today, I will walk you through how to avoid hiring the WRONG people, quickly making (then executing) the hard decision of letting staff go and how to recruit and retain the RIGHT people to succeed in your business!

If you find these tips helpful, please share it! When you receive amazing information that changes your perspective--podcast, a book, Ted Talk, anything – SHARE IT! Let's encourage and help each other to reach higher and be our best!

Action Steps:

• Make a list of your team, and determine for each of these staff members: (23:00)

-How aligned are they with your mission/values?

-How effective are they at their job?

-Would you happily re-hire this person today?

• One extra step: How do you rate yourself with these same questions? (24:32) That one can sting!

Suggested Reading:

Good to Great by Jim Collins (1:45)

Buy here: https://amzn.to/2HcwW53

The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber (15:10)

Buy here: https://amzn.to/2E2Ffie

Traction by Gino Wickman (16:53)

Buy here: https://amzn.to/2PXVOAw

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EPS 8 Habits Part 2: 4 More Tools To Master Your Habits

In Habits: Part 2, April will give more tools and tips on how to design powerful, life changing habits to build the framework of a life that is productive and happy.

In this episode you will learn how to:

• Apply the 2 Minute Rule and get over the initial hurdle of action
• Use a habit tracker to create accountability to yourself around your goals
• Create a habit contract to motivate you to follow through using a reward or a penalty
• Narrow downtime and place to be as specific as possible in your goals to increase your chances for success

In part 2 of our discussion on habits, we will give you additional tools to help create the life that you want through measurable, sustainable habits!

We need to stay aware that we are "designing" our life. Build a framework with habits that help you reach your goals and become the best you. Tiny changes over time yield incredible results!

Action Steps:

• Name a time and a place. Be as detailed as you can, so you follow through on the things that you want. (12:43)
• Use the 2 Minute Rule! What can you demand of yourself for 2 minutes? Get started now! Stop putting things off and just start small. (13:16)

Suggested Reading:

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

by Jeff Olson and John David Mann (11:20)

Buy It Here

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EPS 7 Habits Part 1: 5 Tools to Master Your Habits

In this episode you will learn to:

• Identify your bad habits and evaluate the payoff to these behaviors
• Create new habits and decrease the friction involved with maintaining them
• Build success with small wins through Keystone Habits and learn the #1 most common habit among the most successful people in the world
• Fully leverage tools, such as your phone alarm, to keep you on track and set you up for success
• Develop a reward system to create positive associations to tasks through temptation bundling

MOTIVATION!!! Who wants more motivation? Well, what do you want it for?

Starting a business? Writing a book? Continuing a workout routine?

Spoiler alert! The answer to achieving these things and so much more is NOT motivation!!! Motivation will ebb and flow throughout the day, sometimes swinging wildly by the hour. If you are looking to create this better life, better health, better business, a better product- more motivation is not what you need! What you need are HABITS!! Positive, practiced habits that are consistently executed will bring about more results and change your life way faster than moments of "motivation" will.

Today, I will walk you through how to honestly evaluate your habits to see what is serving you and moving you forward to the life that you desire and which ones are holding you back. With tips, tricks and a look at 5 tools to master your habits, let's dive in and shake the myth that motivation is all that matters.

And stay tuned for Episode 2 as we continue to discuss habits and the power they have to change your life! Remember, if we can identify it, we can rewire it!

Action Steps:

• Remember a time where you had an excellent habit that benefited your life and goals. You can have this same success again! (3:37)
• Acknowledge your bad habits, what reward you gain from them and then create friction around it to make it easy to walk away from them! (9:27)
• Develop your Keystone Habits for small wins and make your freaking bed!! (10:44)
• Establish good habits and work to decrease friction to accomplishing them…AKA get out of your own way! (12:15)
• Set your alarms the day before and label them with a word that means something to you! Example: Unstoppable! (15:08)
• Set up a reward system or "temptation bundle" with the good habit so you have something to look forward to (17:03)

Suggested reading:

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear (7:28) Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2KieRq1

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg (9:47) Buy it here: https://amzn.to/2UmCbrj

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Word of Intention for Your 12 Week Year In This Episode, You Will Learn: • The power of choosing and implementing your Word of Intention • The importance of breaking your life into 12 week periods, instead of years.

Energy! Connection! Joy! Growth! Fearless! Strength! These are just a few examples of words that can be used to inspire, motivate and push you to be the best version of yourself. Having a word to intentionally focus on is a valuable tool to bring about change and to help you remember who you want to be and what you are striving to accomplish. It is important, when choosing your word, as with any goal, to decide on a deadline or "season" that you want to see this word come to life in order to maintain your motivation. This may be a time period that you determine or one that is determined for you. Are you a month away from school finals? You have a month to FOCUS and study. Do you have a marathon coming up in June? PUSH through your training until it is time to taper and then PUSH on race day. In this episode, I give tips for choosing your word of intention and give examples of how to live it out in your daily life. We will discuss the magic of planning and evaluating your life in 12-week blocks and I will share a personal story of how my own word of intention was lived out after an injury on a business trip to Nashville. Action: • Choose your word and decide how you will manifest more of this in your life. Plan for opportunities to live this word out! (26:37) • Write your word! Write it on the mirror. Put it on a sticky note next to your bed. Have it as an alarm on your phone. Put it in a place where you will look at it often as a reminder of who you are striving to be in this season. (28:55) • Take a photo of your word and post to Instagram! Tag me @theAprilGarcia so we can encourage each other! (30:32)

Suggested Reading: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Brian P. Moran (4:10) Link for the 12 Week Year: https://amzn.to/2F9r0sK

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