Once your business is able to sustain itself without draining you of all your time and energy, your remaining capacity can be invested in building your long-term vision.

At the start of building a business, it’s not uncommon to be burning without earning.

What kind of customers do I really want in order to build the right kind of capacity?

If we don’t work, we won’t reach our goals – everyone seems to understand this part. What people often overlook is the fact that, similarly, if we don’t rest we ALSO won’t reach our goals.

The goal of the best business coaches is to make the business owner the only bottleneck in the business.

Don’t let yourself spin out of control and effectively worry yourself away from your goals.

Learning to flowchart may be one of the best things you can do for your business.

We have to concentrate our efforts since they are always going to be limited.

Our mental anchors limit us because they keep us grounded to a certain point.

Labeling a positive emotion reinforces it while labeling a negative can help diminish the negative because it has been acknowledged and understood.

If you’re not attending networking meetings online, you’re leaving money on the table.

The goal should be a better understanding of your clients needs, their wants, and their perceptions.

Replace the fluff with support.

Slowing down helps remove the emotional gut reactions to information and replace them with logic.

Choosing a business coach doesn’t need to feel like a blind leap of faith.

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity.

Just because something is easy for us, we often assume it’s easy for everyone else too. Similarly, we tend to assume that what’s difficult for us inevitably requires a lot of effort. These are misconceptions that can lead to missed opportunities.

Some coaches might not appreciate this post because it will teach you to see through the bad ones. But I made this for you, not them.

Since we can’t do it all, we have to be sure we spend our time where it counts.

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel! People are successfully implementing these technologies and have been for years.

“Under conditions of complexity, not only are checklists a help, they are required for success. There must always be room for judgment, but judgment aided—and even enhanced—by procedure.”
– The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

If you are vital to your business (a.k.a. “You are the business”), no one is going to buy it because you aren’t selling a business, you’re selling a job.

5 to 120 seconds may be all it takes to “do it now” and be proactive again.

We can’t just copy and paste someone else’s journey and expect the same results.

Building a complex system from scratch is very difficult and often leads to more frustration than actual success. So start simple.

If you’ve got all day, it’s likely to take all day. If you only have 4 hours, that may be all you need.