The Sam Ovens Podcast

Are you tired of burning yourself out trying to do 1,000 different things and feeling like you're going nowhere?  Time is the most finite and precious thing we have in life --  What you spend your time doing, the decisions you make, this will determine how good or bad your life is.

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We all have the same amount of time and energy, so why do some people achieve 1,000x more than others?

This question fascinated me.  Did it become my obsession to figure out WHY? I feverishly studied all of the "GOATS" (greatest of all time) to try and figure out why...I uncovered a common theme, a pattern that repeated itself in every single case of greatness...In today's video, I reveal it to you and show you how you can use it yourself to 1,000x your progress.

This is because most people don't fact check themselves throughout the year and by the time year-end comes around -- it's too late. 

In this podcast, I discuss the importance of quarterly reviews. These are simple fact checks of your performance that occur every 90  days. Right now I'm on vacation in Saint Lucia with my family and I just completed my Q1 review. I thought I'd share my process with you quickly so that you can use it to lift your own performance.

When it comes to achieving something great, people tend to think that it's "magic" or the person is "gifted" or "lucky".  This couldn't be further from the truth.  Magic is something that we don't understand, cause-effect relationships we can't see with our naked eye and untrained mind. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Everything you see is the result of cause/effect relationships that have occurred somewhere upstream in the evolutionary river that flows with time.   If you want to be successful in life and business -- you need to get good at tracing the cause/effect relationships upstream. You need to see the method behind the magic. In this podcast, I discuss how this universal principle has helped me succeed in my own business and life.

If there's anybody in the world you should learn from, Jeff Bezos should be one of them. 

Bezos has grown Amazon to be the most valuable company in the world and from that, he’s also the richest man in the world. Success leaves clues  -- And since Amazon is a public company, Bezos has left a carefully articulated set of clues that dates back to Amazon's inception --  Amazon’s annual letters to shareholders.   Every year Bezos writes a 1-3 page letter to his shareholders where he reports on the progress their making at Amazon as well as his predictions for the future.

Below is a list of the five things that I took away from the letters:

1. It's all about the long-term

2. Customer obsession

3. Benjamin Graham worldview 

4. Radical cult-like culture 

5. The Darwinian reality of surviving in nature 

I explain all of these in detail in the podcats -- make sure you hear it in full because there's a lot of gold nuggets you don't want to miss!

Also, I compiled all of the letters from 1997-2017  for you into one easy-to-read pdf which you can download for free here: 

https://www.consulting.com/channel/5-profound-lessons-i-learned-from-reading-jeff-bezos-letters-to-amazon-shareholders

Ever wondered how companies like Amazon, Google, Uber, and Facebook grew to be so big? The answer isn't luck, chance, raising capital or timing...  It's something much deeper than that...The secret behind all of these companies' success is something called a  "Flywheel". If you have a flywheel in your business you will enjoy exponential growth. If you don't have a flywheel the best you can ever hope for is linear growth...The truth is that most companies don't have a flywheel -- They actually have an "Anti-Flywheel".

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One thing that fascinates me is why people believe they can't do things that they are clearly capable of.  Some people call these "limiting beliefs"...  I prefer to call them delusions.  Most people think they aren't delusional, they like to think they're smart, rational and of sound reason and sanity...  The truth is -- they're nuts!   They're just not aware of it... 

In today's podcast, I dismantle one of the largest delusions to ever plague the planet Earth --  The belief that you need to become an expert and gather qualifications before going to the market and getting paid.  I share why most people live behind the veil of this delusion and why it's crippling their lives, incomes, and personal freedom. 

To your success!

HERE'S THE LIST OF THINGS:

1. Quest Bars -- The Best flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough

2. La Croix -- Best flavors are the tall skinny cans 

3. Bed Jet 

4. Oura Ring  

5. Incense sticks 

6. Boom volume booster  

7. Last Pass  

8. War Map Calendar

It's not often that I come across something this accurate and this powerful. I have taken almost every behavior and personality test there is and nothing comes close to this one in terms of accuracy and ease of understanding the outcome. It's called the Myers Briggs Test (MBTI) and it has been around for a long time and I'm sure some of you have done it already.  It's worth the 5mins it takes to complete the test and based on your answers I can tell what you need to do in entrepreneurship to be successful. 

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:

-What the Myers Briggs test is and how it can help you in business

-How to take the Myers Briggs test for free in less than 5mins

-How to understand your four-letter results

-My personality type and what I learned from it

-How I balanced my personality type so increase performance

As business owners, we are constantly faced with the internal and external conflict of achieving "work-life balance". At times we can feel guilty for working too much and at other times for not working enough. We hear the saying to "work smarter, not harder", but how do we know if we're working hard enough? On the contrary, there are people working extremely hard with very little reward for their efforts who may need some time for reflection and planning to gain perspective of the bigger picture.