Entrepreneurial Mindset with Florin Lungu

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

As entrepreneurs and leaders in our businesses, one of the things we have to be on top of is our agenda. Knowing where to invest our time, what is required from us, and what activities give us the greatest return on investment is paramount to success in any business.

 Show Objectives - The Why

 Arguably the two most important resources in any business are time and money. While we can make more money or bring in an investor, the thing that no one has been successful at is making more time. Although we often say “I have to make time” or “I have to find the time,” what we’re actually talking about is managing our priorities. And that’s what we’ll teach in this show. 😉 

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making priorities a priority is the illusion that we are too busy to sit down one or two hours a week to prioritize our businesses and our lives. However, it is essential for any kind of personal and professional success.

What You Need to Know - The What

 Five questions we should all ask ourselves more often:

1.      What should we do more of in 2021?

2.      What should we do less of in 2021?

3.      What should we stop doing?

4.      What should we start doing?

5.      What should we continue doing?

What You Need to Do - The How

Applying the 80/20 in your business.

John Maxwell’s 3R’s to managing your priorities:

1.      What is Required of me?

2.      What gives me the greatest Return?

3.      What gives me the greatest Reward?

Paul Martinelli’s 3 D’s rule for managing your To-Do list:

1.      DO

2.      DELEGATE

3.      DUMP

 Shows:

●       Previous:            Episode 1-4 – Personal Growth – Future-Proofing Your Business

●       Next:                    Episode 03 Season 4 - Intentional Growth – The Only Guarantee of Continuous Business Growth

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

As entrepreneurs and leaders in our businesses, one of the things we have to be on top of is our agenda. Knowing where to invest our time, what is required from us, and what activities give us the greatest return on investment is paramount to success in any business.

 Show Objectives - The Why

 Arguably the two most important resources in any business are time and money. While we can make more money or bring in an investor, the thing that no one has been successful at is making more time. Although we often say “I have to make time” or “I have to find the time,” what we’re actually talking about is managing our priorities. And that’s what we’ll teach in this show. 😉 

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making priorities a priority is the illusion that we are too busy to sit down one or two hours a week to prioritize our businesses and our lives. However, it is essential for any kind of personal and professional success.

What You Need to Know - The What

 Five questions we should all ask ourselves more often:

1.      What should we do more of in 2021?

2.      What should we do less of in 2021?

3.      What should we stop doing?

4.      What should we start doing?

5.      What should we continue doing?

What You Need to Do - The How

Applying the 80/20 in your business.

John Maxwell’s 3R’s to managing your priorities:

1.      What is Required of me?

2.      What gives me the greatest Return?

3.      What gives me the greatest Reward?

Paul Martinelli’s 3 D’s rule for managing your To-Do list:

1.      DO

2.      DELEGATE

3.      DUMP

 Shows:

●       Previous:            Episode 1-4 – Personal Growth – Future-Proofing Your Business

●       Next:                    Episode 03 Season 4 - Intentional Growth – The Only Guarantee of Continuous Business Growth

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

As entrepreneurs and leaders in our businesses, one of the things we have to be on top of is our agenda. Knowing where to invest our time, what is required from us, and what activities give us the greatest return on investment is paramount to success in any business.

 Show Objectives - The Why

 Arguably the two most important resources in any business are time and money. While we can make more money or bring in an investor, the thing that no one has been successful at is making more time. Although we often say “I have to make time” or “I have to find the time,” what we’re actually talking about is managing our priorities. And that’s what we’ll teach in this show. 😉 

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making priorities a priority is the illusion that we are too busy to sit down one or two hours a week to prioritize our businesses and our lives. However, it is essential for any kind of personal and professional success.

What You Need to Know - The What

 Five questions we should all ask ourselves more often:

1.      What should we do more of in 2021?

2.      What should we do less of in 2021?

3.      What should we stop doing?

4.      What should we start doing?

5.      What should we continue doing?

What You Need to Do - The How

Applying the 80/20 in your business.

John Maxwell’s 3R’s to managing your priorities:

1.      What is Required of me?

2.      What gives me the greatest Return?

3.      What gives me the greatest Reward?

Paul Martinelli’s 3 D’s rule for managing your To-Do list:

1.      DO

2.      DELEGATE

3.      DUMP

 Shows:

●       Previous:            Episode 1-4 – Personal Growth – Future-Proofing Your Business

●       Next:                    Episode 03 Season 4 - Intentional Growth – The Only Guarantee of Continuous Business Growth

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

As entrepreneurs and leaders in our businesses, one of the things we have to be on top of is our agenda. Knowing where to invest our time, what is required from us, and what activities give us the greatest return on investment is paramount to success in any business.

 Show Objectives - The Why

 Arguably the two most important resources in any business are time and money. While we can make more money or bring in an investor, the thing that no one has been successful at is making more time. Although we often say “I have to make time” or “I have to find the time,” what we’re actually talking about is managing our priorities. And that’s what we’ll teach in this show. 😉 

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making priorities a priority is the illusion that we are too busy to sit down one or two hours a week to prioritize our businesses and our lives. However, it is essential for any kind of personal and professional success.

What You Need to Know - The What

 Five questions we should all ask ourselves more often:

1.      What should we do more of in 2021?

2.      What should we do less of in 2021?

3.      What should we stop doing?

4.      What should we start doing?

5.      What should we continue doing?

What You Need to Do - The How

Applying the 80/20 in your business.

John Maxwell’s 3R’s to managing your priorities:

1.      What is Required of me?

2.      What gives me the greatest Return?

3.      What gives me the greatest Reward?

Paul Martinelli’s 3 D’s rule for managing your To-Do list:

1.      DO

2.      DELEGATE

3.      DUMP

 Shows:

●       Previous:            Episode 1-4 – Personal Growth – Future-Proofing Your Business

●       Next:                    Episode 03 Season 4 - Intentional Growth – The Only Guarantee of Continuous Business Growth

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

We are the start of a new year, a new season and I am delighted to share this show with you as we start season 4 on IBGR Network.

 And throughout this season I’ve created a roadmap for us to go on a growth journey together because as John Maxwell wisely said, “The only guarantee that tomorrow is going to be better is if we improve ourselves today.”

 So in the next twelve weeks, we will be working on the business owner. As one of my mentors, Christian Simpson would say we’ll develop the owner, not the business. We’ll cover essential topics to building our entrepreneurial mindset and I am so excited you embarked on this journey with us. 

 Show Objectives - The Why

 The world stops for no one. If we are not moving forward, we are moving backward. With that in mind is obvious that we have no choice but to grow.

And if we think about the law of vibration, we know that everything in the universe is in constant movement. Nothing is still and everything either grows and develops or is disintegrating. There is no such thing as inertia. We are either growing and moving forward or moving backward.

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making personal growth a priority is that we wrongly assume that activity is growth. It is not. Running your business doesn’t guarantee you grow.

 Moving from a goals mindset to a growth mindset.

 What You Need to Know - The What

 Albert Einstein asserted that “Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

 True education and growth come from the school of life and in order for us to succeed as entrepreneurs and business owners we have to constantly challenge our thoughts by asking ourselves these three questions John Maxwell shares in one of his books:

-      Learn: What do I need to learn today that I didn’t know yesterday?

-      Unlearn: What do I need to let go of today that I held on to yesterday?

-      Relearn: What do I need to change today that I was doing yesterday?

 In the book Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, John Maxwell shares Five Ways to Intentionally Not Act Old so we stay active growth seekers at any age. Here they are:

1.   Ask Questions

2.   Keep the Bar of Excellence High

3.   Be People-Centric

4.   Be Posture-Conscious

5.   Remain Today-Focused

 You might not feel you need this list but I can assure you the are some golden nuggets in this list if you take the time to contemplate. 

 What You Need to Do - The How

 Where to start:

1.   Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

2.   Decide Who Do You Want to Be in Three Years

3.   Make An Inventory of Where You Are Now

4.   Create a Personal Growth Plan to Close Gap

 Here is a four-step strategy

1.   Big picture: Where do I need to focus my growth?

2.   Measurement: How can I measure and affect my growth?

3.   Consistency: How can I grow daily?

4.   Application: Can I act on it?

 Shows:

●    Next: Episode 02 Season 4 - Priorities - Maximizing Your Impact - How to Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing and Manage Your Priorities Not Your Time. 

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

We are the start of a new year, a new season and I am delighted to share this show with you as we start season 4 on IBGR Network.

 And throughout this season I’ve created a roadmap for us to go on a growth journey together because as John Maxwell wisely said, “The only guarantee that tomorrow is going to be better is if we improve ourselves today.”

 So in the next twelve weeks, we will be working on the business owner. As one of my mentors, Christian Simpson would say we’ll develop the owner, not the business. We’ll cover essential topics to building our entrepreneurial mindset and I am so excited you embarked on this journey with us. 

 Show Objectives - The Why

 The world stops for no one. If we are not moving forward, we are moving backward. With that in mind is obvious that we have no choice but to grow.

And if we think about the law of vibration, we know that everything in the universe is in constant movement. Nothing is still and everything either grows and develops or is disintegrating. There is no such thing as inertia. We are either growing and moving forward or moving backward.

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making personal growth a priority is that we wrongly assume that activity is growth. It is not. Running your business doesn’t guarantee you grow.

 Moving from a goals mindset to a growth mindset.

 What You Need to Know - The What

 Albert Einstein asserted that “Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

 True education and growth come from the school of life and in order for us to succeed as entrepreneurs and business owners we have to constantly challenge our thoughts by asking ourselves these three questions John Maxwell shares in one of his books:

-      Learn: What do I need to learn today that I didn’t know yesterday?

-      Unlearn: What do I need to let go of today that I held on to yesterday?

-      Relearn: What do I need to change today that I was doing yesterday?

 In the book Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, John Maxwell shares Five Ways to Intentionally Not Act Old so we stay active growth seekers at any age. Here they are:

1.   Ask Questions

2.   Keep the Bar of Excellence High

3.   Be People-Centric

4.   Be Posture-Conscious

5.   Remain Today-Focused

 You might not feel you need this list but I can assure you the are some golden nuggets in this list if you take the time to contemplate. 

 What You Need to Do - The How

 Where to start:

1.   Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

2.   Decide Who Do You Want to Be in Three Years

3.   Make An Inventory of Where You Are Now

4.   Create a Personal Growth Plan to Close Gap

 Here is a four-step strategy

1.   Big picture: Where do I need to focus my growth?

2.   Measurement: How can I measure and affect my growth?

3.   Consistency: How can I grow daily?

4.   Application: Can I act on it?

 Shows:

●    Next: Episode 02 Season 4 - Priorities - Maximizing Your Impact - How to Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing and Manage Your Priorities Not Your Time. 

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

We are the start of a new year, a new season and I am delighted to share this show with you as we start season 4 on IBGR Network.

 And throughout this season I’ve created a roadmap for us to go on a growth journey together because as John Maxwell wisely said, “The only guarantee that tomorrow is going to be better is if we improve ourselves today.”

 So in the next twelve weeks, we will be working on the business owner. As one of my mentors, Christian Simpson would say we’ll develop the owner, not the business. We’ll cover essential topics to building our entrepreneurial mindset and I am so excited you embarked on this journey with us. 

 Show Objectives - The Why

 The world stops for no one. If we are not moving forward, we are moving backward. With that in mind is obvious that we have no choice but to grow.

And if we think about the law of vibration, we know that everything in the universe is in constant movement. Nothing is still and everything either grows and develops or is disintegrating. There is no such thing as inertia. We are either growing and moving forward or moving backward.

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making personal growth a priority is that we wrongly assume that activity is growth. It is not. Running your business doesn’t guarantee you grow.

 Moving from a goals mindset to a growth mindset.

 What You Need to Know - The What

 Albert Einstein asserted that “Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

 True education and growth come from the school of life and in order for us to succeed as entrepreneurs and business owners we have to constantly challenge our thoughts by asking ourselves these three questions John Maxwell shares in one of his books:

-      Learn: What do I need to learn today that I didn’t know yesterday?

-      Unlearn: What do I need to let go of today that I held on to yesterday?

-      Relearn: What do I need to change today that I was doing yesterday?

 In the book Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, John Maxwell shares Five Ways to Intentionally Not Act Old so we stay active growth seekers at any age. Here they are:

1.   Ask Questions

2.   Keep the Bar of Excellence High

3.   Be People-Centric

4.   Be Posture-Conscious

5.   Remain Today-Focused

 You might not feel you need this list but I can assure you the are some golden nuggets in this list if you take the time to contemplate. 

 What You Need to Do - The How

 Where to start:

1.   Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

2.   Decide Who Do You Want to Be in Three Years

3.   Make An Inventory of Where You Are Now

4.   Create a Personal Growth Plan to Close Gap

 Here is a four-step strategy

1.   Big picture: Where do I need to focus my growth?

2.   Measurement: How can I measure and affect my growth?

3.   Consistency: How can I grow daily?

4.   Application: Can I act on it?

 Shows:

●    Next: Episode 02 Season 4 - Priorities - Maximizing Your Impact - How to Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing and Manage Your Priorities Not Your Time. 

Recorded Live at International Business Growth Radio (www.IBGR.Network)

We are the start of a new year, a new season and I am delighted to share this show with you as we start season 4 on IBGR Network.

 And throughout this season I’ve created a roadmap for us to go on a growth journey together because as John Maxwell wisely said, “The only guarantee that tomorrow is going to be better is if we improve ourselves today.”

 So in the next twelve weeks, we will be working on the business owner. As one of my mentors, Christian Simpson would say we’ll develop the owner, not the business. We’ll cover essential topics to building our entrepreneurial mindset and I am so excited you embarked on this journey with us. 

 Show Objectives - The Why

 The world stops for no one. If we are not moving forward, we are moving backward. With that in mind is obvious that we have no choice but to grow.

And if we think about the law of vibration, we know that everything in the universe is in constant movement. Nothing is still and everything either grows and develops or is disintegrating. There is no such thing as inertia. We are either growing and moving forward or moving backward.

 Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

 The biggest challenge to making personal growth a priority is that we wrongly assume that activity is growth. It is not. Running your business doesn’t guarantee you grow.

 Moving from a goals mindset to a growth mindset.

 What You Need to Know - The What

 Albert Einstein asserted that “Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

 True education and growth come from the school of life and in order for us to succeed as entrepreneurs and business owners we have to constantly challenge our thoughts by asking ourselves these three questions John Maxwell shares in one of his books:

-      Learn: What do I need to learn today that I didn’t know yesterday?

-      Unlearn: What do I need to let go of today that I held on to yesterday?

-      Relearn: What do I need to change today that I was doing yesterday?

 In the book Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, John Maxwell shares Five Ways to Intentionally Not Act Old so we stay active growth seekers at any age. Here they are:

1.   Ask Questions

2.   Keep the Bar of Excellence High

3.   Be People-Centric

4.   Be Posture-Conscious

5.   Remain Today-Focused

 You might not feel you need this list but I can assure you the are some golden nuggets in this list if you take the time to contemplate. 

 What You Need to Do - The How

 Where to start:

1.   Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

2.   Decide Who Do You Want to Be in Three Years

3.   Make An Inventory of Where You Are Now

4.   Create a Personal Growth Plan to Close Gap

 Here is a four-step strategy

1.   Big picture: Where do I need to focus my growth?

2.   Measurement: How can I measure and affect my growth?

3.   Consistency: How can I grow daily?

4.   Application: Can I act on it?

 Shows:

●    Next: Episode 02 Season 4 - Priorities - Maximizing Your Impact - How to Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing and Manage Your Priorities Not Your Time. 

Episode recorded Live at IBGR.Network

Happy New Year! Make 2021 your best year yet!

Let’s recap what we’ve looked at over the last weeks in our season three.

We looked at the value of implementing SOP’s in your business and why it pays off to put the time into creating them.

Then we looked at assigning roles to your players and how clarity of responsibilities is key to any winning team. Every high-performing team has two things in place: each player knows exactly what their role is and everyone knows who’s in charge.

The next episode has been about the difference between leaders and managers: managers try to solve problems while leaders focus on building momentum.

We looked at how do we create a problem-solving culture in our organizations? And why do we have problems in the first place?

 The purpose of a problem is to call us forward so that we may go before the very conditions, circumstances, and thinking that created it.

 “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein

Problems are opportunities for us to become the solution, rather than seek a solution.

A question I love asking business leaders I work with is, how does your organization look like three years from now? What about five years? Or ten?

As you look at the things you want to achieve in your business over the next years, how big of a team you need around you to allow you to do that? Who in your current team is still with you five or ten years from now?

If 2020 was a difficult year for you, and I know it was for many of us, don’t put it behind you and move on to 2021 with the hope that things will get better, give some thought to what contributed to it being as it was and what you could do differently in the future to futureproof your business.  

What You Need to Know - The What

• Episode 1-4 - Creating Your Business Owner's Manual
• Episode 5-8 - Assigning Roles to Your Players
• Episode 9-12 - Creating Your 90-Day Plan - The Foundation For Growth
• Episode 13-16 - Leadership By Objectives – How To Build A Growth-Driven Organization
• Episode 17-20 - Creating a Problem Solving Culture in Your Organization
• Episode 21-24 - Reorganizing - The Right Structure For Your Future Organization
• Episode 25-28 - Reflection & Mindset - Making 2021 Your Best Year Yet

Before you forget about 2020 and you start the New Year with hope for a new beginning and a different kind of year, make sure to take some time to reflect upon what did you learn in 2020 and what do you want to take with you in 2021.

 Here are 5 Reflective Questions to start your year with:

1. What would I stop doing?
2. What would I start doing?
3. What would I do less of?
4. What would I do more?
5. What would I continue doing?

​Shows

·        Previous: Episode 25-28 - Reflection & Mindset - Making 2021 Your Best Year Yet

·        Next: Season 4  

Episode recorded Live at IBGR.Network

Happy New Year! Make 2021 your best year yet!

Let’s recap what we’ve looked at over the last weeks in our season three.

We looked at the value of implementing SOP’s in your business and why it pays off to put the time into creating them.

Then we looked at assigning roles to your players and how clarity of responsibilities is key to any winning team. Every high-performing team has two things in place: each player knows exactly what their role is and everyone knows who’s in charge.

The next episode has been about the difference between leaders and managers: managers try to solve problems while leaders focus on building momentum.

We looked at how do we create a problem-solving culture in our organizations? And why do we have problems in the first place?

 The purpose of a problem is to call us forward so that we may go before the very conditions, circumstances, and thinking that created it.

 “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein

Problems are opportunities for us to become the solution, rather than seek a solution.

A question I love asking business leaders I work with is, how does your organization look like three years from now? What about five years? Or ten?

As you look at the things you want to achieve in your business over the next years, how big of a team you need around you to allow you to do that? Who in your current team is still with you five or ten years from now?

If 2020 was a difficult year for you, and I know it was for many of us, don’t put it behind you and move on to 2021 with the hope that things will get better, give some thought to what contributed to it being as it was and what you could do differently in the future to futureproof your business.  

What You Need to Know - The What

• Episode 1-4 - Creating Your Business Owner's Manual
• Episode 5-8 - Assigning Roles to Your Players
• Episode 9-12 - Creating Your 90-Day Plan - The Foundation For Growth
• Episode 13-16 - Leadership By Objectives – How To Build A Growth-Driven Organization
• Episode 17-20 - Creating a Problem Solving Culture in Your Organization
• Episode 21-24 - Reorganizing - The Right Structure For Your Future Organization
• Episode 25-28 - Reflection & Mindset - Making 2021 Your Best Year Yet

Before you forget about 2020 and you start the New Year with hope for a new beginning and a different kind of year, make sure to take some time to reflect upon what did you learn in 2020 and what do you want to take with you in 2021.

 Here are 5 Reflective Questions to start your year with:

1. What would I stop doing?
2. What would I start doing?
3. What would I do less of?
4. What would I do more?
5. What would I continue doing?

​Shows

·        Previous: Episode 25-28 - Reflection & Mindset - Making 2021 Your Best Year Yet

·        Next: Season 4