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

DOUBLE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN TWO WEEKS

This is one of my most effective coaching tactics when working with a new client. The challenge that almost every one of us has is that we are doing entirely too much tactical work. Most of us know it. We feel the drag of doing far too much each day that doesn't feel productive or like our highest and best use.

The problem is for most of us that drag has been there for months if not years and we've done very little about it. Is difficult to wake ourselves up, and start offloading what we don't need to do. Most of us subconsciously just start going as fast as we can and before we know what we end up with part of our time giving us much less value than it should.

We all know who pays in the scenarios. Our families and our teams. Our families don't get the best of us because we are usually pushing ourselves too hard. Our teams don't get the best of us because we are doing too much tactical work we should have offloaded to them so they could help the company grow.

This is a tactic entrepreneurs for the last 20 years that has worked 100% of the time that someone has tried it. This successfully increases awareness, shows you exactly how to offload what you should not be doing, and will almost immediately show you how much more you can be getting out of your time.

When I'm coaching high-level entrepreneurs who are growing teams I have a phrase I share help them feel comfortable with growing their business “your business is broken and if things go well and always will be".

Far too many entrepreneurs expect their businesses to feel perfect, they beat themselves up over gaps or flaws, and they have challenges when things don't go exactly right. Businesses are meant to be broken, they are constantly shifting and adjusting to growth, market conditions, and things are going well an expanding team.

All of these dynamics can lead to challenges, issues, and constraint that you as the business owner will learn to adjust and move forward. Far too many business owners are trying to build the perfect business. The fact is the only business that is perfect, and doesn't have any problems, is one that is closed. Once you're out of business, there are no problems.

If you pursue a perfect business, you may end up without one. Instead understand that businesses break and each time we close a gap or correct an issue, our businesses get stronger.

Only 3% of businesses will ever eclipse $1 million in gross revenue year. Only four out of 1000 businesses Will ever grow to over $10 million dollars a year. There is a reason. In order to grow foreword and get the help you need, you need to know what you're going. Most businesses work on a project by project basis deciding what to do in the moment and then trying to get everything done going forward.

The most successful organizations in the world are able to plan forward, know clearly where they are going, gain perspective along the way and most importantly share all of this with the entire team.

If your company is not doing this, regardless of how far you've gone, you are not reaching your full potential.

Every Evolutionary Hunter loses momentum. Some days it is difficult to make forward progress, others it feels like the world is literally working against you. When the right combinations of things go wrong, it can make us feel like we are in full constraint and the feeling is almost immediately overwhelming. Even though I discovered the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and the theory of the Evolutionary Hunter, it does not prevent this from happening to me. I have days where I feel like I am running through molasses that is getting thicker. No matter how hard I try, it feels like I can't make progress. Don't be surprised, this happens to all of us. When I was younger sometimes I would spend days feeling this way. That doesn't happen anymore because I discovered the evolutionary hack that puts every Entrepreneurial Personality Type back into momentum almost immediately. Try this and prove it to yourself.

Growing a business through transactional management is overwhelming, exhausting, and will rob you of your momentum.

Managing transactionally means you do the following:

Tell people what to do -> make sure it got done -> tell them what to do again…

This won't only wear you out, but you will chase away A players and people who can help grow your company fast. Unfortunately, you will only hold onto the most loyal for those who don't have the talent to go somewhere else. This will cause your company to stagnate and for you as an entrepreneur to feel like you are doing everything.

When you transition to transformational leadership, the process is completely different:

People clear outcomes -> coach them along the way -> get leveraged results…

This will change the dynamic of your entire business because instead of you as the owner and entrepreneur trying to grow everything, each person becomes an owner of the outcomes they are creating.

The majority of Entrepreneurial Personality Types don’t play to win, they play not to lose. This may sound like the same thing but it isn’t. Unfortunately far too many of us make a commitment to an outcome or a goal and immediately begin de-escalating that commitment. This is clearly playing not to lose and will rarely get you what you want.

If you set a goal that you are committed to, prove it to yourself by consistently escalating your commitment. Play to win and you will achieve your goals and so much more.

I started seeing an EMDR therapist when I was 26 years old. I used to park behind his building and walk around the front because I was afraid someone would see my car. I was terrified someone would know I was going to a therapist and would see it as a sign of weakness. I went in nervous and apprehensive and I walked out feeling better than I thought I should have only after one session. It was like someone had immediately dialed down the pressure and noise I was feeling.

It wasn't until I was in my early 30s that I finally shared this with one of my clients. He shared with me that he had had panic suicidal thoughts and didn't know what to do so I broke my silence and let him know that I used EMDR therapy to lower pressure and noise. He called me about a week later and told me how amazing his first EMD our session was. He said he felt lighter walking out of the room then when he walked in, I knew exactly what he meant.

Since then, I have shared this with hundreds of entrepreneurs and I continue to get positive feedback. Almost all of my private clients use EMDR therapy as needed or regularly to help them create momentum and offload pressure and noise.

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Millennial's and younger entrepreneurs have made an impression on today's marketplace. Unfortunately, the conclusions that the market has come to are for the most part incorrect.

A simple Google search on "millennial's and work" turn up titles like:
- Eight Reasons Millennial's Seem Lazy At Work
- Do millennials Have A Lesser Work Ethic? 
- The Problem With The Millennial's And Work Ethic

There are of course some articles that are not negative however the overall consensus seems to be that millennial's are lazy, don't want to work, and are incredibly difficult to motivate.

The real problem with millennial's is perception, it's true that millennial's don't want to work if they don't feel like it matters. But in my experience, millennial's will do anything for work the matters.

The world is changing at an accelerated rate, human beings are evolving faster than we ever had and this is all being driven by the younger generation.

When it comes to millennial's, I learn as much as I coach and teach.

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As Evolutionary Hunters we have preprogrammed to be more sensitive to the world around us. When there is low pressure annoys, our ability to see what other people don't see and this hypervigilance helps us create extraordinary outcomes in the world.

When the pressure and noise in our lives go up, our sensitivity becomes reactivity and the world can begin moving too fast. Some of us we feel overwhelmed, some feel a sense of acceleration and eventually, all of us can transition into flight or flight mode.

If we can change our state, we can very quickly work our way back to momentum. The problem for most of us is we do the opposite. Rather than actively changing our state, we push harder and unfortunately often make the situation worse.

We can use our evolutionary instincts to quickly change our state and shift our perspective.

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Everything I can to simplify concepts for entrepreneurs to create success. This is one of the simplest.

People like us are deliberate when we make major decisions in life. We don't typically enter into things lightly and we finally choose a partner it is life changing. Far too many entrepreneurs forget how important this choice was and do not put enough energy into their marriage or relationship and inevitably this affects our momentum and success period

When I was younger I was confused enough that I often saw dedication to a marriage as either a weakness for a constraint. As I gained perspective throughout my career I realized that dedication to a marriage or relationships critical to - And more importantly - drives our success.

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