Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

This is a really cool podcast today. I'm sitting in ClickFunnels headquarters with a friend of mine, Dave Lindenbaum. Dave has been using the Momentum Planner and Momentum Masterclass systems consistently for the last 12 months and has noticed massive changes in his life. So many entrepreneurs have an all or nothing mentality. But you don't have to be perfect as long as you're taking small steps in the right direction. We'll get you aligned with yourself, your relationships and your business in a way you never have been before. If you want to know more about what Dave was talking about today visit www.momentummasterclass.com

I make the argument that 99% of companies don't need a CFO. Yes, you need clean bookkeeping, you need a profit and loss statement and you need to understand where the money and finances are in your business. But you don't need someone in a full-time finance position in your business. It's been proven over and over again that the best way to handle accounting and finance is to outsource. Don't let anyone talk you into a CFO because you just don't need it.

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NOTE: In this podcast I mention the name of a service firm that we used to work with for our outsources finance and accounting. We no longer work with that firm so rather than eliminate this episode where is a tremendous amount of value, instead we decided to just remove the name of the firm from the audio.

As an entrepreneur, if you don't find a way to offload pressure and noise every single day, it will catch up to you. Do you sometimes have feelings of panic, chest tightening, eye twitching? Whatever your symptoms of stress may be, they all make it harder to see the future. Stress makes it harder to be creative and it shuts down any feelings of intuition or insight that help us move forward. I've been working with entrepreneurs for long enough to recognize the patterns that put us in this place but more importantly, I know that there are some simple shortcuts to get you out of that physiological pain. The walk changes everything.

One Saturday afternoon, a few years ago, I sat down and started writing and I just couldn't stop. I was trying to describe the Entrepreneur. Before the weekend was out I had written 25,000 words and that's how the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book was born. I printed only 500 copies of the book and gave them all away. It meant so much to me, the books went to people all over the world, some I knew and some I didn't. The only request was that If you got a copy you would read it and pass it forward and the next person would do the same. Can 500 books change the world? I think so!

The rest of the world describes entrepreneurs as risk takers but I deny that definition. They see us as risk takers because we're constantly moving forward. We try every day to make our greatest contribution and create change in the world. Accepting the status quo, being like everyone else and playing it safe, doesn't that seem like the riskiest thing in the world to you? The biggest risk of all, is standing still.

On the path to success, there is one transition that is the absolute toughest for entrepreneurs. It's the time when we have to move from 'me' to 'we'. When you evolve from doing everything yourself to growing, managing and inspiring a game changing team, there is an entirely new world of possibilities! Don't let your ego get in the way of your contribution.

If you're in this because there's a change in the world that you are convinced HAS to be made and you're the person to make it, then you have to be a huge fan of your team! You shouldn't just trust your team, you should be excited to work with them. When your team has wins, you should be excited for them, not just for your business. If you feel like that towards your team, you're going to have a game-changing organization and momentum is nearly guaranteed.

If you have a brilliant or sensitive kid, this one is for you. The concept of defending brilliance is something that I'm very passionate about. Your child is a tiny evolutionary hunter, a momentum based being that's driven to create, to make things happen, to figure things out and understand them better. If kids don't have a place to inquire about what's bothering them and offload what's making them uncomfortable, their frustration level is going to go up and you'll see this in behavioral challenges. Taking the time to connect on a daily basis could change everything.

Don't let anyone convince you that you have to live a life of sacrifice to be successful. For me, I create the life I want today. I intentionally build my business around who I am so that I can live the perfect day of my life every day. If you're constantly hustling and working yourself into the ground so that someday you might have some payoff, ask yourself what if someday never comes? Don't put off being excited about your life and doing what you actually want. Build your life right now, the way you want it.