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Do you beat yourself up for your weaknesses?  What if the very thing that you see as a weakness is actually your biggest strength? In this episode, Stephen unpacks strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots.

1- Pause think, take a break, look at where you’re at now ask questions to yourself.

why am I where I am today? 

How did I get here? 

2-Journal

3- Ask people that you trust what are my strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots?

Episode 14 Decision Making Made Simple

4- Get a coach. 

5- Take personal inventory. 

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Have you ever made a wrong decision?  If you've lived life long enough and you can be honest with yourself, the answer for all of us is yes. The older we are and the larger the decision, the more negative impact the wrong decision can make on our lives. You can be in business for twenty years and decide to move locations, and if you don't take all the steps in the decision-making process, the move can put you out of business. 
 In this episode, Stephen lays out the steps he took to move business locations successfully and later started a second successful business. We all make decisions. Let's be sure we're making the right ones!

Episode 13 The Road Map To A Million Dollar Business

Six steps for successful decision making  

1- Pray

2- Ask your spouse

Proverbs 31:10, 11 

3-Get a board of directors

4- Do your research

Luke 14:28

5- Talk to an expert

6- Move slow

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Starting a business is hard; growing one to $1 million a year in revenue is even harder, but it's not out of reach. In this episode, Stephen gives you the road map to follow so you too can grow your business to $1 million and more in annual revenue.

How many businesses do $1 million in annual revenue?  Only 7%, yes you read that right, that means 93% do less than $1M you too can be in the top 7%.

Do these 6 things to do over $1million in revenue-
 
1- Mission statement
  It must be beyond money
   - Inward-facing
   - Out of bounds marker
   - Must be big

2-Core Values
What is driving you at your core?

3-Niche business
Commodity  (noun/ com-mod-i-ty) : A mass-produced unspecialized product
   - Systematized pricing
    -Deliver a quality customer experience 
    - Answer the phone

4-Create systems
Simply said, this is how we do business

5-Have the right people in the right seats on the bus
Jim Collins (book) " Good To Great"

6- Strategic planning
Take an afternoon, a day, 3 days and think and solve problems in your business

Episode 12  17 Years Of Wisdom

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After 17 years in business, Stephen Capps has made a lot of mistakes but he has also gained a lot of wisdom.  In the episode, Stephen lays out 2 myths to avoid and 2 words of wisdom that you want to be sure to do. Also how to get any business to over $1 million in revenue.

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Avoid these myths -
Myth 1- Hard work fixes everything

Do these 6 things to do over $1million in revenue-
1- Mission statement
 2-Core Values
3-Niche business
 4-Create systems
5-Have the right people in the right seats on the bus
 6- Strategic planning

Myth 2- We’re not in the same industry

Simple words of advice 1 - Give yourself some credit
Simple words of advice 2- Slow down and make a plan

Strategic planning questions
1- what’s my biggest challenge right now

2- If I did the opposite of what I was doing right now, what would that look like?

3- Where do I want to be a year from now 

4- What’s holding me back

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  I love road trips? The open road, the countryside, friends, family, people you love and care about. I don't know if I can think of anything more enjoyable than that, add in an exciting destination and wow, life doesn't get any better than that. Take the same road trip but instead of people you love and care about it's random, crazy, toxic people and someone is driving that you don't even know, and they are calling the shots, but your paying for everything! Your business is like a road trip, but how's driving?  In this episode, Stephen lays out 3 easy steps you can  follow that will put you in the driver's seat of your business and answers the question, who's driving the business anyways?

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THE THING

Boundaries book Dr. Henry Cloud

Episode 5; How Do I Create Systems

Episode 6;  3 Myths Business Owners Believe About Hiring

The Pumpkin Plan  book  Mike Michalowicz

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This is the final episode of season 1. In this week's show, Stephen will lay out the steps you can take to change your life and will reveal the one thing holding you back from the life and business that you want.  Stephen will return in February for Season 2 of Pull Up And Thrive.

Episode 9 Don't Set Goals! Do This In Stead

Dave Ramsey's FPU

“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live” Deuteronomy 30:19  NIV

3 steps to changing your life-
1- Chose
2- Fill your life with actions that no one sees
3- Accountability

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Goals and aspirations are great, but I think we’re missing something very valuable. Instead of setting goals, we should be doing something else. In this episode, Stephen Capps lays out the best way to get the outcomes you most desire.  Goal setting for 2021

 Jerry Seinfeld "How to write a joke" video
 Jerry Seinfeld "build the system" video

Traditional Goal Setting
1- in writing
2- reasonable
3- measurable
4- relevant
5-  specific
6- time limit
7- be your goal

Don't set goals, do this-
1- Have outcomes, not goals
2- Put systems in place that will breed constancy, which will foster success
3- Don’t equate systems with total organization

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 Everyone faces pain, tragedy, or failure at one time or another all of this can be summed up in one word, hardship,  In this episode,  Stephen will answer a listeners question "how to overcome fear after a failure?" he'll also share his hardships and how he overcame bringing you answers, solutions, and hope for a brighter future. Find out why he considers hardship a gift.

Intervention (TV Show A&E)

Psalm 30:5b   "Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning” 

Isaiah 46:10 “declaring the end and the result from the beginning”

2 Chroithians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. 

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Are you overwhelmed? Is there too much to do and not enough time in the day? It sounds like we need to start delegating, but where do I start? How do I delegate? In this episode, Stephen lays out the 3 steps to crushing is at delegation.

Dictionary definition of  Delegation-
1: to entrust to another
delegate authority
2: to appoint as one's representative 

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1- Get menial tasks off your plate today!
2- Delegate the outcome, and not the task.
3-Before you delegate ask 3 questions...GWC
      1- Does the person Get it?
      2- Do they Want it?
      3- Do they have the Capacity? Simply put do they have the skill, talent, and ability?  

Traction book

Episode 2  7 Mistakes Business Owners Make That Are Guaranteed To Give You Heartburn

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What does a pair of Bluetooth headphones have to do with hiring? In this episode, Stephen will explain and bust some of the biggest myths business owners believe about hiring.  Also, he'll lay out his 11 step hiring process, yes 11 steps.

Counting down the top 3 myths business owners believe about hiring-
3- You need to hire for skill
2- If you want it done right do it yourself
1-No one wants to work!

Episode 2- 7 Mistakes Business Owners Make That Are Guaranteed To Give You Heartburn

1- facebook post
2-  Look at their social media
3- Ask them to come in a fill out an application
4- Are they clean, do they pass a smell test.
5- Check references
6- 30-minute interview
7- Do you like them?
8- personality assessment DISC Assessment  Enneagram Test
9- Bring them in for a more in-depth interview.  Patrick Lencioni ideal team player You want people on your team who are hungry, humble, and smart (smart with people)

 Humble, Hungry, Smart Interview Questions

10- Skills test
11- Final interview do something unconventional.

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