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

Entrepreneurial Personality Types and not like the rest of the world. As momentum based beings, we are constantly driving ourselves forward, forging new territory, and creating new outcomes in the world.

While the rest of the world gets up every day and prays that everything stays the same, we get up on a daily basis and asked what can we change, what can we make better, and how can we create even more momentum. When these questions are answered and we see a new outcome we want to create in the world, we going to a major transition.

This happens when our market finally clarifies, we see the opportunity we want to pursue, and now we just need to get there. Major transitions are as much a part of our lives as anything else. The challenge for many of us is when we enter a major transition we almost immediately get stuck and can't understand why we aren’t making more progress.

We know where we want to go, we even know who we want to help, why is it that we aren’t moving forward towards the destination we can now clearly see?

There's a clear path for people like us to do more than survive transitions, you should be able to thrive. As evolutionary hunters, getting through transitions and creating momentum is part of what we were hardwired to do.

As an evolutionary hunter you are a physiologically sensitive momentum based being that is highly reactive to constraints. This includes any kind of constraint. The constraint in our lives, in our thinking, and how we feel, and yes even the food we eat.

There are more food options available for us then there have been at any other time in human history. Often there are three or four options within the same shopping center. The convenience and ease with which we can get food have increased consistently over the past 50 years.

Today you don't even have to leave your house, in most areas you could have an endless supply of food delivered to you.

In this age of advancement, why are so many people sick, exhausted, suffering from one of the many epidemics we have, and losing momentum due to their health?

There is a reason, and there is a clear way for an evolutionary hunter to eat and win. Anything else is just a logical and will rob you of your momentum.

All you have to do is ask a few entrepreneurs about their challenges with hiring and growing a team and you will get countless stories about how difficult it is. It's difficult to delegate, manage more than yourself, make sure everyone is doing what they should do, and keep the whole team going in the same direction.

As the business grows and your level of success increases, it only gets more difficult to build a team around you. If your business grows fast, that you have to build your team at an exponential rate in order to keep up with your growth. I know, I have been there.

This makes everything in the business feel harder which makes everything in your life feel harder. And this comes at a time when the business is demanding even more from you. Bringing in the right people is critical, and building a team that will support you Will change everything.

That is why this is the only person you can hire.

The vast majority of entrepreneurs are caught in a trap. What we want to do requires far more help than the average person, but any request for help makes us feel vulnerable and exposed.

On top of that many of us aren't great at interpersonal communication. We are misunderstood, often trust the wrong people, and end up feeling taken advantage of.

This is what stops the majority of entrepreneurs from experiencing success. 22 million of the 29 million businesses in the United States make less than $100,000 a year.

Sometimes I am called a natural born entrepreneur, but what came naturally to me in life was failure. I had trouble in school, was always a behavioral disorder, and had a hard time making any system work for me.

The only way I haven't been able to achieve massive outcomes in my life is by creating teams of people who are capable of doing what I can't do.

This is the process I have used to delegate just about anything successfully, as you'll see I have a different take on delegation.

As entrepreneurs, we learn more through leading a team than anywhere else. Unfortunately, the vast majority of entrepreneurs will never try to lead a team. Growing a business is overwhelming and many don't get past the stage where they can see that it would be easier with more than just themselves.

Getting a business off the ground and creating some level of profitability is so hard it often feels impossible. From profitability to hiring people and adding them to a team the difficulty only goes up and for most entrepreneurs, the gap seems insurmountable.

There are strategies that will allow you to easily lead anyone successfully. I know, I am socially awkward and have a difficult time around people. Speaking to 3000 people from a stage is easy for me, talking to the group of people at the foot of the stage after the event provokes anxiety attacks.

If there was anyone who shouldn't be able to lead a team, you're listening to him.

I had to find strategies that would allow me to work with anyone and get a result, even when I didn't know how. I learned many by watching some of the most successful people in the world build massive organizations.

This is one strategy that will permanently change how you lead people and next financially increase your chances of success.

One of the fastest ways to grow your business, and possibly one of the most exciting, is to use joint ventures, partnerships, and affiliate relationships. In all three cases, you shortcut the time it takes you to do something him by finding someone who's already there and partnering with them.

This may be something as simple as a JV partner advertising your product to their list, or as complicated as a full partnership where you join forces with someone.

When entered into correctly, these relationships can create massive momentum and help you grow your business faster than you could on your own. When these relationships are ambiguous and mistakes are made in the setup, rarely does anyone get what they want. Instead they can end in anger, frustration, broken relationships and bad will.

There is an easy way to make sure that your joint ventures, partnerships, and affiliate relationships succeed and everyone wins.

Evolutionary hunters are sensitive. Not cry at the drop of a hat sensitive, sensitive like any evolutionary hunter would be. We are hyper-aware of our surroundings. We observe, see and feel more than most people do. These characteristics have kept us alive for millennia.

Our ability to feel what is going on around us can be a superpower. When there is low pressure and noise in our lives, the accuracy of our sensitivity goes, and it will guide us down a path to consistent momentum and success.

When pressure and noise go up, I've sensitivities can get overwhelming and stop us in our tracks.

This is the reason I have a different take on dressing for success than most of the thought leaders out there.

George Bernard Shaw said The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

As a consultant, I saw first hand when he meant. It was shocking how often meetings were held, things were communicated, people thought they had a meeting of the minds, only for everyone to pull in different directions.

This was in Fortune 500 companies with established communication Systems and structures. In entrepreneurial companies, it is much worse.

Entrepreneurs are notoriously challenged to be good communicators. Our excitement is often taken for aggression, our confusion is often seen as irritation, are need to ask questions can often be seen as insulting. I have watched some of the wealthiest people in the world in each of these situations.

If they can happen to them, it can happen to you.

Even though I am a speaker and I'm able to record a podcast like this, I am often misunderstood one-on-one and have a difficult time being heard.

As a result, I obsessed over the processes and strategies I can use it to improve my communication. This is one of the most important I have.

Let's be honest most meetings suck. As a consultant to Fortune 500 for over 10 years I sat through more worthless and painful meetings than I want to admit.

Most meetings I was in should've never been held. There was never a clear outcome, rarely did the entire room know what was trying to be achieved, and there was very little if any process.

It drove me crazy to be in a worthless meeting. I would always think about everything else I could be doing and everything I could be accomplishing if only I didn't have to be there.

This isn't only in the Fortune 500, meetings are notoriously one of the things we all can't stand the most.

Only a very small fraction of meetings actually are well-run and accomplish their intention.

As a result many entrepreneurs fight against scheduled meetings of any kind. There are even some coaches out there who will tell you-you shouldn't have scheduled meetings or structure of any kind.

This is one of the most dangerous ways to run a company. If you are running a business of any size, this episode could change everything for you.

Let me explain how having these meetings will grow and scale your company like you never thought possible.

Working with entrepreneurs I have always obsessed with the base level foundational habits that will create success in all areas of lives. I've asked the question over and over "what is the one thing that makes everything in an entrepreneurs life easier?"

After working with thousands of entrepreneurs, I have realized there isn't just one thing. There is a series of foundational habits

I call these Keystone Habits.

When you improve a Keystone habit you will improve everything in your life. The interactions you have, your relationships, your family life, your physiology and your business. Keystone habits change everything and are 100% progressive, there is no negative trade-off.

This is arguably the most important Keystone Habit and also may be the most effective at creating success in all areas of your life.