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

Every successful entrepreneur has had to overcome, deal with issues, and create success when everyone around them thought it was an impossibility. We have all felt the pain of not knowing how we could create momentum but every one of us has somehow broken through and moved forward anyway. It's this very resilience that makes us entrepreneurial personality types.  However, it is also this resilience that can cause us to tolerate far too much.

Any successful person can explain to you how they created momentum and achieved success. For those of us who can extract the lessons from their stories and apply them, this is useful. I have found it is infinitely more useful to show entrepreneurs how they individually create success. As we examine your momentum equation, we will discover the exact path you individually take to create momentum in your life and your business. As you go through the exercise in this episode, you may be surprised to find that there is a consistency to how you create momentum. What once seemed like random periods of your life where you created massive forward progress, are now easily identifiable, and more importantly repeatable.

There is an epidemic in the coaching industry today. The vast majority of "coaches" are selling a result they've never gotten themselves. Hundreds of entrepreneurs are reaching out for help, being vulnerable, and asking for protection and support only to be let down. Asking for help is one of the hardest things we do, and when it doesn't work out it makes it even harder to do it again. There is a reason we stay in abusive relationships, our default thinking is that we are the problem, there is something wrong with us, and everybody else must be succeeding. Unfortunately, in many cases this isn't the case, some coaches have spent all of their time learning how to sell themselves, and very little time learning how to get a result. In my book, the only measure of my success is the success of my clients. Every great coach or consultant sees the world this way.  In this episode, I describe how to tell if you are in an abusive coaching relationship, and why you should get out.

Brilliant children are different, that is what makes them brilliant. If they were just like every other student or person, they would be average. Different is the very definition of brilliant. Brilliance is motivated differently than the rest of the world. Self-direction and self-actualization are the goals of every brilliant child although they can't verbalize this or explain this to an adult. A child that may struggle or even look dysfunctional in school, may be able to focus for long periods of time on their own. In this podcast, I share a couple simple tactics on how to better relate to your brilliant child.

Brilliance is under attack. It is alarming how many of my clients have shared they have been told something is wrong with their child. This isn't something people like to talk about and most of the time I am the only person they've told. There is a shame in having a child that has something wrong with them. We hide, don't discuss it, and may not even tell them. This is making the problem even worse because it makes each parent who hears this feel like they are alone. The number of children being diagnosed with disorders, disabilities, and cognitive issues is growing at double digits per year. We are missing clear cause-and-effect. Over the past 40 years schools have limited or eliminated movement, done away with self-direction, and have created almost an exclusive focus on standardization. Children like us have a fraction of the awareness, understanding of the world, and perspective that adults have and we ask them to endure the constraint of sitting in a classroom all day without moving. We spent 18 years telling children to sit down, pay attention, and be quiet and we wonder why so many children are having trouble thriving.

There are two ways to create momentum, one is to generate the energy, effort, and focus to go forward and make progress. The second way is to lower the pressure and the noise in your life and you'll automatically create momentum. If you are going to reach your full potential, both are required for your success. The challenge for many entrepreneurs today is they're caught up in the hustle and impression that the only way to create success is to endure more noise than anyone else. This just isn't how it works. There is a path that great entrepreneurs throughout history have taken, it begins with making a commitment to lower pressure and noise.

The Entrepreneur's Dilemma is that we need far more protection and support than the average person to reach our full potential, however any request for protection and support leaves us feeling vulnerable and exposed. This is the reason so many entrepreneurs don't get the help they need and struggle to become successful. The day you become an entrepreneur is the day you become a commodity and feel like admitting any weakness exposes you and your business. Every entrepreneur struggles with this on a daily basis regardless of their level of success. It is this dilemma that keeps many of us stuck, plateaued, and unable to make the contribution we know we should be making.

In this episode I read a chapter from my forthcoming book about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. When my writing partner Dennis Welch read this to me, I got emotional. I feel like it almost perfectly captures the essence of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and who we are. This podcast and my forthcoming book are not marketing pieces or lead generation devices, collectively they are my manifesto to people like us to shake off the suppression, lean into our strengths, and go change the world.

Entrepreneurial Personality Types create new, change things, improve the world around us, and challenge the status quo. We have an obsession with making things better. We aren't like the rest of the world because we are driven by change rather than stability, progress over perfection and improvement over stagnation. While the world obsesses over budgeting and time management, for EPTs, there is far more to creating success then understanding time and money, there are five currencies that create momentum for Entrepreneurial Personality Types and create our future.

Every great entrepreneur in history was driven by the need to make a contribution. They have called it different things, leaving your mark, making an impact, making things better or even leaving your dent in the universe. These great entrepreneurs followed a simple four step equation that allowed them to overcome any deficit, capitalize on their strengths, and change the world. The good news is, you can too, and once you do you will see your results increase and the pressure and the noise in your life immediately go down. The contribution equation is your path to entrepreneurial success.