Archive 2 of Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

A lot of business owners feel like they should accommodate their clients. I’m here to tell you that you no longer need to. The more you accommodate, the more you create a business with no process, system, and everything is customized. There’s no way to create a consistent delivery with your clients if you keep making exceptions for them. It will kill you, exhaust your team, and hold your business back. Decreasing accommodation in delivery increases your value. When you stop making exceptions, you will create a system, process, and structure that runs the business for you. A culture of accommodation will kill you, but when you don’t allow it, your momentum will go through the roof. Drive accommodation out of your business, and you will see your success in delivery go through the roof. Resources mentioned: Billionairecode.com

When you let yourself become trapped in the day to day, it's one of the least empowering ways to run a business. It will stunt your business growth. The challenge for most people is when they started a business, the success created was entirely by themselves. They did everything. But once your company has grown and you've gotten to the place where you can no longer do everything alone, you need to rely on a team. To do this, you have to make a massive behavioral shift from doing everything to stepping back and doing things you should be doing. The issue is it feels natural and helpful when we jump back in the business. But in reality, it traps us in day to day and disrupts our team. Stepping back creates space for your team to step up. If you're always there helping, your team will continue to depend on you. When you're caught up in the day to day, your team isn't creating process, systems, and structure in your business. When you get out of the tactical day to day, your mind will instinctively switch into strategic thinking. Your entire perspective will shift in every area of your life. You can start to create massive outcomes without tactical involvement. The possibility of what you can accomplish and what you are capable of explodes! Resources mentioned: 5 Reasons Why Companies That Should Scale, Don’t Presentation: billionairecodesecrets.com

Most entrepreneurs have a hard time scaling businesses because they don’t make things easy enough on themselves. To scale, you need to simplify. Typically, businesses start with one person doing everything. As the company generates more success, it’s difficult to jump out of the place of doing everything yourself to outsourcing work. Once you get to the level of success where you are no longer able to do everything alone, evaluate your business. Look at where you are struggling and how you can make things easier. In our coaching program, the clients who have experienced fast growth have a common denominator. They simplified like crazy. As entrepreneurs, it’s difficult for us to make things easy on ourselves. Complexity, work, and struggle all feel natural to us. As we grow, everything becomes more complex, and the success we achieve creates a deficit. It’s important for you to know that simplicity scales naturally, and it’s nearly impossible to scale complexity. Here are three things you can start simplifying today in your business: tighten up your avatar, streamline your delivery, and clarify the promise you provide as a company. Trust me, when you simplify everything gets easier. Resources mentioned: Billionairecode.com

Entrepreneurial anxiety is real. The faster we come to terms with it, the faster we can do something about it. So where does entrepreneurial anxiety come from? It comes from people like you and I wanting to be in momentum, make progress, get things done, and not being able to. If we lean in and embrace the anxiety, it will help us move forward. I experienced entrepreneurial anxiety last week while I was out with a nasty sinus infection. Thankfully I had a plan and team in place that allowed our business to still make massive progress in my absence. If you are experiencing entrepreneurial anxiety, you need to have a plan. Not only is it important to have a plan in place, but you also need to make sure every member of your team understands it. That way if you have to take a few days off, your team can still move the business forward. You also need to recognize and eliminate where you are uncomfortable. Don’t deny the anxiety. It only makes it worse. If you build the right team, have a plan, recognize where you are uncomfortable, and eliminate what’s holding you back, you will reduce anxiety. Resources mentioned: Billionairecode.com

There's a recurring issue we see in our coaching program, entrepreneurs creating overwhelm for themselves. Even after we put our systems in place to lower the pressure and noise in their life, they almost immediately want to add something new they can chase. They start feeling the momentum and want to do more. They don't realize that adding more usually slows the business's growth down and distracts their team. They get shiny object syndrome and try to do it all, but fail to realize that they can chase one thing with a tremendous amount of simplicity to 7 and 8 figures. Sometimes the most important thing to do in our business is to create space for what's coming next. You're constantly going to be changing and growing, which is a good thing because if you don't grow as an entrepreneur, the business won't grow. Remember that every time you say yes to something, you're saying no to a bunch of other things. As soon as things start going well, don't create new overwhelm. Life will overwhelm you already. Like attracts like, if you're overwhelmed you're going to develop more overwhelm. Begin removing the things in your life that aren't producing momentum and don't allow yourself to put up with more. Optimize and put effort into what you're already doing, and your business will grow like crazy. Life will already overwhelm you, don't add to it. Resources mentioned: https://billionairecode.com

We just had the close of our second full year in business. The last six months have been exceptional for us. Our company has been growing like crazy. One of the major things we’ve focused on is planning. I always say that if you don’t have a plan, you’re going to be the biggest bottleneck. We’ve used our strategic planning process to coach 100’s of millions of dollars in growth with our clients. Another thing we’ve really cracked down on is documentation of key processes and simplifying everything we possibly can to scale. To put things into context, in September of last year, we pulled all of our paid marketing so I could get out of sales and delivery. As a result, we grew our team to 15 people and had our most profitable year yet. We also launched our newest product, Billionaire Code Foundation. We started the Foundation with a small beta group. Our goal was 25 sales, and we ended at 32, with NO paid marketing. In the past few months, we also dealt with some serious health issues with my wife, Cadey. With my wife out of commission and me working at 30% productivity, our business still grew thanks to our incredible team. I can’t stress this enough...having the right team is everything. We’re currently at a $3 million run rate and on our way to the $3 - $10 million growth phase on the Billionaire Code. Stepping into this leader phase and delegating success has led us to have an amazing team culture. But the biggest and most exciting thing that has happened in the last two years is our client success stories. So many of our clients are exploding and hitting new milestones. Tune into the show for a full overview of what the past 24 months in business have looked like for us!

Entrepreneurs face resistance constantly. The day you decide you're going to do something, the whole world is going to tell you not to. But in this case, Ashlan Nelson was the opposite. Before creating her company, Unstoppable Stylist, she was a hairstylist for several years. She had an idea to help other stylists figure out how to make more money, but kept getting conflicting messages from her friends and family. From being a stylist herself, Ashlan knew hairstylist are taught to do hair, not to run a business. Everyone kept telling her to launch the idea, but she kept hesitating. Ashlan felt pressure in starting her business and succeeding with it. Once she pulled the trigger, she went from feeling like "I don't know if I should do this" too "I need to do this and serve others." She went through Momentum Masterclass at a point in her life where she felt a ton of constraint, lack of clarity, and unsure of how to move forward. If this sounds like you, tune in to hear Ashlan's story. Ashlan has been there, broke through, and now she's in crazy momentum. Resources mentioned: https://momentummasterclass.com `

A few episodes ago, we discussed why some employees torch the place on their way out. In this podcast, we talk about what to do when it happens. People who threaten your business when they go are looking for a way to justify leaving. It's that simple. They need to place blame on you, or the company, and come up with a reason to leave the team rather than just walking away. The more you react to someone torching the place on the way out, the more damage that will be done in your business. Any emotional reaction you have is going to unsettle your team, don't let one person leaving trigger everyone. Calm your reaction and remember this is part of being an employer. Building relationships is your job, and sometimes they fall apart. Know nothing is perfect, and there will be times ahead with massive challenges. Prepare yourself for someone torching the place on the way out. Know it's going to happen and remember not to react. Understand it's about the position you're in, and that you're not alone. It happens even to the best of us; it's part of life. Resources mentioned: billionairecode.com

“Momentum is real and it’s powerful.” - Nik Robbins Tune in for an incredible success story with one of our Billionaire Code Accelerator clients, Nik Robbins. Nik is the Co-founder of Be Top Local, a marketing agency out of Utah that focuses on generating new patients for medical doctors. His team does everything to get and keep new patients in doctor’s offices. Nik has been in our program for six months. Before working with us, he was great at bringing in new clients but struggled with processes and operations. His business reached 3 million in revenue, and he considered shutting it down. He was overwhelmed and didn’t have the right framework and systems to maintain the clients he had. After working with us on operations, Nik and his team had their biggest profit month ever. Nik found momentum in the process, and his business grew like crazy. Resources mentioned: betoplocal.com billionairecode.com

Success is the greatest personal development vehicle there has ever been. You can read as many books as you want, take numerous courses, and hire a coach, but if you aren’t out there making things happen, you won’t feel the personal development you desire. When you move forward, that’s the best personal development. If you’re like me, you’re an evolutionary hunter, and you learn the most when you’re on the hunt. The more you’re on the hunt, the more you’re out there succeeding and developing. Get yourself into momentum by learning and growing. Success creates growth, and it’s only going to happen if you’re out there making it happen. If you want to improve your mindset, and explode your business, reach out to us at https://billionairecode.com.