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Ramp up Your Business with the Right Money Mindset
It may be hard to believe, but lottery winners are three to five times more likely to go bankrupt than the average American. How is that even possible? Most lottery winners are completely unprepared for their sudden wealth. Many of them ignore advice from financial experts. They take all of the money as a lump sum,…
How to Flip Fear into Financial Fortune
When the stock market spirals downward, it’s known as a crash. When people react to market shifts by rushing to sell off their stocks, it’s known as panic selling. Crash and panic selling are not positive terms! The folks who unload their stock in a panic are reacting emotionally and ignoring all investing fundamentals. They…
The First Thing on Your To Do List: Create a Better To Do List
Success is about figuring out what you want your business life to look like. How do you want to spend your time at work? If you’re checking everything off of your to do list yourself and micromanaging your team, you are depleting your energy bank and you probably won’t achieve your scaling goals or your…
Don’t Let Procrastination and Perfectionism Ruin Your Company
This is time management for most people in a nutshell: You do the simple stuff at the beginning of the day and push the most challenging tasks toward the end of the day. When the end of the day comes, you feel frustrated that those big leaps did not happen and then you carry them…
A Proven Method to Stop the Business Bottlenecks in Your Company
You’ve put years of blood, sweat, and tears into your business. You continue to devote everything you have—time, freedom, and money—to ensure that things get done exactly the way that you want them done. Your blood, sweat, and tears might have been crucial to getting things started, and even now, you feel like you donate…
Four Simple Steps to Executing Your Roadmap
These past few weeks, I have introduced several of my SCALEit Method™ concepts to help guide you along your scaling journey. We’ve covered Strategic Vision, Cash Flow, Alliance of the Team, and Leadership and now we are in the midst of tackling Executing Your Roadmap. By now you have divided your schedule among Prep Days,…
Celebrate Both Work and Life with the 3 P’s of Planning
In my last blog installment, I presented you with the gift of a free month. Now I am going to share with you the secret of how to maximize the time of the eleven “working” months—and also reap the rewards of the free twelfth. The Three Ps of Planning—Prep Days, Pinnacle Days, and Play Days—help you…
The Surprising Reason Why Most Execution Fails: Entrepreneurial ADD
In business, a brilliant idea is just a fantasy if it stays only in your head. Execution, the final stage of the SCALEit Method™, is when you set your strategy in motion and make everything happen. It’s all about taking action. You are the idea magnet, the visionary, the leader. Implementation—well, that’s another story. Execution…
Six Surefire Ways for Your Team to Feel Appreciated
In all likelihood, you think you are doing everything right when it comes to how you treat your team. After all, you give them a regular paycheck and do your best to offer a competitive benefits plan. You’ve doled out raises and promotions when you felt they were deserved and the business could sustain them.…