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Month: May 2017
This is not a mistake, it’s a change
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There is no mistake today, there is no blog post. While I did not love the book Pivot (my review will come out in a bit) one great idea in it was to run pilots. For a while now I’ve looked at my content and wondered if I would read it. I make a point…
Are you listening, or waiting to speak?
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I’ve come back to this topic a few times…are you listening or are you waiting for your turn to speak? Today I talk about what listening sounds like (hint you don’t talk) and give you a few resources to improve your listening skills Links Read to Lead Episode #170 My series on effective questioning
What do you do when your spouse doesn’t support your business?
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In an ideal world you and your spouse would be on the same page all the time. You’d operate like a well oiled machine. A word here and there would communicate volumes. But it’s not an ideal world. Despite your overwhelming desire to start a business, your spouse may not be on board with your…
Boundaries can be painful, but they help your business grow
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Boundaries are one of the best things you can institute in your life. Without boundaries around our work we’ll need to start making so many more decisions and we have a limited pool of will-power to use on our decisions. By having boundaries in your life you no longer have to fret about that 2nd…
What is your business in service of?
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It started as a bit of a throw away comment on a run as I saw the mountains. I don’t run the roads or do hill repeats just to be a faster runner. I don’t do it to ‘win’ the ultramarathon I’ve got on the calendar. I do it so I can move fast in…
What if there was a way to 4X your results this year?
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Most people say they want to be more productive. I get it, you want to get more done. The problem is that you don’t want to get some random ‘more’ done. What you really want is to get more of the right stuff done. For that reason I don’t say I want to get more…
Negotiating work seasons with your spouse
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I once had a coaching client once who proudly told me about his new ‘lighter’ work schedule. He was only going to work 14 hours a day 6 days a week. On the seventh day he’d work 2 hours. Yup I called him crazy and when I did he told me his wife had already…
How Brent Weaver uses a 35 hour a week constraint to grow his business
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Today we talk to Brent Weaver from ugurus.com about how he runs a business. We talk about his 35 hour rule and how that shows itself in his business and how he uses the constraint of 35 hours to help grow the capacity of his business. The show ends with some banter at the beginning…
How much mess do you embrace in business? Should you be embracing a more Messy business?
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Is it possible to take the ideas in books like Deep Work (my review) too far? Can you lock yourself away to focus on the work at hand and miss out on your best creativity? This is the central thesis of Messy by Tim Harford. The argument of this book is that we often succumb…
How to bring a family member in to the business
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If you’ve ever searched business and family you’ll know that most of the content out there tells you to stay far away from mixing the two. But they can’t be unmixed. Business and family interact with each other all day every day. The question today is, how do you integrate your family with taking actual…
