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

Sooner or later every entrepreneur parent realizes that their ultimate success is dependent upon their ability to build relationships.

Unfortunately this is hard for most of us. This was a particular area of weakness for me. I always felt like I was born with a different operating system and I did not understand the people around me.

There were very few shortcuts I found in understanding other people that really worked. This is one that not only worked, it permanently change my life.

As entrepreneurs we work all our lives to have freedom. Freedom from people telling us what to do, freedom from feeling controlled, freedom from constraint of any kind. We aspire to be ultra successful and have the freedom of choice to do whatever we want. Many entrepreneurs confuse being able to choose to do whatever you want, and avoiding routine of any kind. Far too many of us fail to create routines that create success, and get stuck, plateaued, or lose momentum. The shortcut to success, is to make it routine

As a fortune 500 consultant I used to know that if we were going to have a meeting about marketing, we would talk about things you could measure. If we were going to have a meeting about branding, we were going to talk about peoples opinions. For this reason alone, “branding” meetings used to drive me crazy. I’m not saying that branding is never important, but far too often there is too much emphasis put on “branding”. There is one way it will in sure you have incredibly strong branding, but more importantly an incredibly strong tribe.

In order for us to feel momentum, we have to have a way to keep score. Something has to give us perspective to let us know that we are actually making progress and winning. For a lot of people the idea of measuring a marriageIs surprising. I know I have this conversation all the time.

I've also found that there is a consistent metric that will...
Reduce or eliminate the number one argument that couples have.
Create foundational stability in a relationship.
Create new levels of alignment in your marriage.

If you are married, this one is a game changer.

It doesn't matter how long you been an entrepreneur, or how long you have a running team, sooner or later you have the thought “wouldn't it easier if I just did all of this myself?”

Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs get stuck in the place where they are doing it all themselves. Less than 10% of entrepreneurs ever build a team and any type of foundational stability.

Adam and Jennifer Sewell ran a medical practice what they were doing everything themselves. The pressure got so high that it wasn't good for them, their team, or the patients they were helping. Many doctors just stay in this condition, grinding it out every day and having a marginal effect on those around them.

That wasn't enough for adamant Jennifer, they decided to radically change the way they run their practice. As you will hear in this interview, they went from being overwhelmed and doing it all themselves did focusing on their health, their business, and creating massive momentum.

I know you are going to be as inspired by them as I am.

It is one of the last things we think about as entrepreneurs when we are growing a business there is so much to focus on…

Are we doing the right things, are we bringing in the right people, are we getting enough leads, are we taking the right steps to grow our business?

One of the easiest ways to ensure we are doing all of these things is to grow ourselves. When we put foundational processes in place that support us as an entrepreneur everything in our lives will start to move in the right direction.

Jay Berube is a client and a friend of mine. He is also an amazingly aware entrepreneur. In this interview, he shares how he is creating momentum in all areas of life, by focusing on himself and his marriage.

You will hear how putting focus on the right things has empowered Jay to do more than he ever thought he could.

Management By Walking Around is a recognized management system that consultants teach and management courses encourage. This is something entrepreneurs are encouraged to do in order to help their teams grow.

Sometimes there are strategies that people share because they don't know any better. Management by walking around is one of them. It may be one of the worst ways to manage people.

Even though just about everyone else recognizes this as a strategy for success, let me explain why this is a strategy for sure failure for entrepreneurs

There is a reason why most people who set goals don't achieve them. They have been sold a bill of goods that setting unachievable unrealistic goals is somehow it way to motivate ourselves.

When I go to an event and the overenthusiastic "goalsetting" speaker gets up I always have to go out in the hallway. The person who tells everyone in the room to write down the biggest income goal they have ever imagined, then cross it out and double it.

I cringe every time I hear this. Anyone who tells you to set goals like this isn't going to stick around to make sure that you actually achieve them. Most people who teach people how to set goals, don't have a lot in the way of tactics of how to get there.

Let me help you hack your goal setting this year so you can teach your team to win.

It is not uncommon for an entrepreneur to hear “you are cheating on me with your business" from their spouse.

As entrepreneurs, we have a hard time admitting it, but our spouse is the most important person there is to us. None of us wants to intentionally disappoint our spouse. We want them to be happy because we know it makes everything feel better for us.

If you've heard this, I want to help you. If you haven't heard this, you don't ever have to.

There is a process to how we get to the point where our spouse says this. There is also a process for you to walk yourself out of this.

As entrepreneurs, we want to make progress, move things forward, and of course get into momentum.

As a result, we are willing to do just about anything to get there. We will work hard, take on more than we should, makes sacrifices, push ourselves to the point of illness, and do just about anything it takes.

There's a point time in our career where this is exactly how we should be. When we are first starting out, we have to do everything and make things happen. The problem is if we continue down this path, we not only hurt ourselves we fundamentally limit the growth of our team.

It's a hard connection to make, but the more we let go, the more we help our team.