Take Action by Paper Napkin Wisdom

I so often hear about entrepreneurs, leaders, and difference-makers wanting to get more results - scalable results - exponential results. They talk about their hearts being into it, but they are not driving the results they want.

The answer is simple, you have to couple passion and process to get crazy results - exponential results. 

You have to be wildly committed to the goals that you set, and make progress on them every day. You cannot do this without a process that permits you to focus on them, to relentlessly execute on them.

If you want a structure to help you do this, I want to give it to you. Please go to www.PaperNapkinWisdom.com and sign up, we'll send you the e-book that contains the secret structure that will build more scalable, even exponential results than you had thought possible.

You have so much to give, you had better start now.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

Too often we get stuck. 

Caught.

Stopped dead in our tracks. 

Usually we end up blaming ourselves for something we did or got wrong in the past. Or because we "wish" we were doing something else right now.

Remember one thing:

You are frekkin' unstoppable ... 

Remind yourself ever day, all the time. And take epic action ... 

Move forward, you can do it. In fact, you're the only one who can.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

It's time to draw a line in the sand and end the double standard.

With recent public events on my mind, I've been paying a little more attention (and asking questions) of my female teammates, colleagues, and other entrepreneurs, leaders and difference makers and have been stunned to hear their stories of having to "work harder" to be heard than their male colleagues.

I'm not saying this is everyone's story - in fact I've been mostly oblivious to the issue in the bubble that is my entrepreneurial world. I say it's time to draw a line in the sand and for men to ensure they #ManUp and no longer let their male counterparts, colleagues, and teammates to treat women in any lesser way than their male colleagues.

I know that the events of the last week will lead to other women, in other walks of life, to come out and speak about what's happened to them in the workplace. 

Let's make sure they're heard.

And let's end this ...

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

Who among us doesn't want better results?

So often we look at the bottom line and continuously set better goals and watch for the outcomes that we want to see. Whether it's improving the bottom line, better customer service, client retention or other outcome based metric - we want to improve them.

Rarely, however, do we look to the process that created the outcomes and structure time and energy toward reviewing the process and making improvements. If you build a system around improving the processes of your organization, you're guaranteed to get better results over time.

Try it out for yourself. The faster you apply the process improvements, the faster you can go up the hockey stick of growth.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

Everyone is talking about the greatest PREDICTOR of success is how much "grit" or resilience someone has. How willing are they to slog through the rough stuff before reaching for the prize. Some call this delayed gratification, though I don't think they are the same thing.

The secret source of resilience is within you ... it lies with passion, love, and faith. Feeling passionately for what you're doing, caring deeply about the work and the people you serve with and for, and faith in the vision are all lessons of the heart. Some call this the "soft stuff" ... I call this the tough stuff.

Connect to that inner passion and you'll find limitless resources not just for you but for everyone around you. 

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

So many times our teams look to us to articulate clearly the future vision of the company or the project. It's up to us to detail it for them. We have to show them where we're going, what it looks like, what it feels like, what it smells like, even what it tastes like and sounds like. 

How do we do that if we've never been there - it's a future state after all. It's a future vision that requires us to CHANGE what we're doing to make happen.

The answer is simpler (but not easy).

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

Bottom line ... when we are under pressure and stress (or distress) out pulse quickens. We need to distribute vital energy to various parts of our bodies quicker in these situations.

Our companies are no different. We need to speed up our communication rhythm in these situations and there is no doubt that there is value to having a regular heartbeat - a regular structure to daily, weekly, monthly communications.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

Resilience is not an accident. It doesn't arrive at the moment of need by default.

The reality is that resilience is there when we need it when we plan for it. Part of this is, of course, planning for it by having a great Playbook, aligned with your Path, and articulated with predictable communication structures to your Key Players. Without planning there's no chance that you'll have resilience when you need it.

The thing is, however, practice is important too. How do you practice resilience? Listen in ... but it starts with building predictable structures of communication and collaboration. It continues with practicing these habits in good times - maintaining them during great times.

Holding space for your team (and yourself) daily helps.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

If you're a Rebel, Rule-Breaker and Renegade this is for you ... 

If you're the kind of person that likes to follow along with all the rules (especially from other people) and loves doing JUST what their told this won't make sense.

As an entrepreneur we like to color outside the lines ... even our lines. 

STOP IT! It's the most challenging thing to do ... but in this week's episode I share why we need to stop and how it can move us forward.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.

As I was speaking to a group of entrepreneurs, we discussed the value of changing our Perspective as leaders to not think that we were out front, but rather out back of our teams supporting them as they charged forward.

The discussion evolved toward understanding the value of how elephants lead. While elephants have obvious size and strength, that's not how they lead the herd. The alpha female is the leader of the herd and she leads from the back of the group using skills like Problem Solving, Social Intelligence, Openness, Decisiveness, Patience, Confidence, and Compassion to guide the group.

Take Action is a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, and the focus is on the small, 1% improvements we can make in our businesses and lives. Small changes make a big difference!

This podcast will help you make small changes that will change your world, so we can together save the world one entrepreneur and small business at a time!

Based on The Book Paper Napkin Wisdom: Your 5 Step Plan to Life and Business Success ... get yours now on Amazon or at Paper Napkin Wisdom.