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…
Are you profitable? Are you paying yourself market rates?
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Despite having the best year financially in my business last year, it felt like the hardest. Today I’m going to talk about some of the changes I’m making in 2017 to make my business way more profitable. Hear the Digital Agency Show where they talk about paying yourself market rates and how profitable you are.
Don’t let email overwhelm you, Unsubscribe
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Oh email how we hate it. We can spend an entire day in the office pushing email and feel like we did nothing of value. For most of us that sentiment is true. We did almost nothing of value with our email time. This state is a place we all exist in at some point.…
What to talk about in your business conversations with your spouse
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Most business content misses one of the most crucial roles in a business. it makes the faulty assumption that work is work and home is home. Narry the two shall meet. That’s not the truth of life though. Your life outside of work and your work an intertwined. They can’t be separated. This month, we’re…
Don’t fool yourself, it’s a long hard road to a successful business
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Don’t fool yourself in to thinking that you can start a business with anything but a lot of work. It’s a long hard road to start a business and keep it successful. Today I talk about that work in the context of running and the years it takes to really hit your peak.
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