Work Smarter Not Harder and Fast Track Your Business

  Do you ever get frustrated with constant interruptions from your team? How many times a day does someone on your team come and interrupt you with a question like "Hey, do you got a minute?" Probably happens a lot more than you like, right? Let's face it - it's never a minute. It's always four or five plus or however long it takes you to get back to the task once you remember what you were doing in the first place before you got interrupted, right? These little interruptions can end up absorbing our entire day and keeping us from getting done what's most important for you to be focusing on in your business. I'm going to share with you a strategy that will help you eliminate it or at least reduce the amount of time these interruptions are taking, and eventually eliminate these interruptions all together. Take a step back and ask for something when our team comes and interrupt us. They know we're busy. We'll probably ask them not to interrupt us at

  How do you create an automatic business that runs without you? This is not just theory. It comes from guidance, a system, and a commitment from the business owner that they want to work on it. Let's get started with the definition of a Business according to ActionCOACH.  It is a commercial profitable enterprise that works without you - the business owner. You see, when I work with my clients, I get them to just work on one of these areas. Is it a commercial enterprise? Or is it a profitable enterprise that works without you? See, I meet lots of entrepreneurs that want to start, maybe, one, two, or three businesses, and guess what? They all have the same problems. Because the fundamentals are not set up correctly. Commercial means that you're selling something that people value or something that they want to buy. Profitable means that you understand enough about your business finances that you could possibly increase your profits without even increasing your revenue or even l

  Let's start by digging into some of the frameworks that ActionCOACH has to help entrepreneurs understand their real role in business and how to run an automatic business that runs without them. You see, as a small and medium-sized enterprise, what is your product? Is it the food that you serve? Or the service that you sell? We say that your product is actually your business, and the only reason that you would want to build a business is to eventually sell it. Now some of you I think might disagree but some of you might decide to franchise it. Well, that's selling. Some of you might decide to bring in new shareholders and that's selling it, partially. Some of you might want to sell it all together and then again, some of you might want to go IPO with this business. The essence is that the name of the game in owning a business is “How can I further expand my wealth by using other people's money?” Whether it's expanding my business or selling it or building other bu

  Today, we're going to talk about how we can improve the quality of life and businesses for small and medium-sized enterprises right here in North Florida and beyond. ActionCOACH is a globally proven system that I want to talk to you about and how we could really work for you and your business, to provide a different way of guidance and support for your businesses and really other small and medium-sized Enterprises right here in the North Florida area. You see, 80% of small and medium-sized businesses closed their doors within 5 years. That's pretty sad, isn't it? But why is this? Because many of the small and medium-sized business owners just burnt out. They're not getting enough results. And this is not the dream that they had. And so they had to close their doors and they had to try to maybe go into another business or go back to work for other people. This is why we have to bring a different way or a different kind of business education and business guidance to t

  My definition of a successful business is a commercial profitable enterprise that can work without you. I want you to think about this. If you haven't written down your dreams or goals, most likely you are helping others to achieve theirs. This reminds me of the childhood story "Alice in Wonderland". Do you remember the point in the story where Alice came to the fork of the road and she didn't know which way to go? She looked up and up into the tree and she saw the Cheshire Cat. She then asked, "What road should I take?" The Cat replied, "Well, where exactly are you going?" Alice responded by saying, "I'm not sure." "Well, in that case, it doesn't really matter which road you take." Over my many years of coaching, I found that there are lots of businesses that are not exac tly clear on where they're going with their organization or with their businesses. They don't know what they are creating or are even aware

Everyone knows that creating a plan is going to help you become more efficient and more effective. If we know that having a plan is going to help us be more effective then why do most small business owners do not have a plan? Most of us we have at least a to-do list to make sure that we're going to get the most urgent tasks that we have to get done on that particular day. But unfortunately, the most important urgent tasks aren't necessarily the most important task. We're spending most of our time just really putting out fires rather than doing what's most important that's going to be moving us towards reaching our goals. What decides whether a task is important or not is our goals. If your goal is just to get through another day doing the most urgent task on your to-do list, that will just get you by. If your goal is to create a successful business or a commercial profitable enterprise that can work without you, then you have to have clarity of how you want it to

  Do you and your leadership team find that you're overly busy putting out fires and gently running around and not getting to any of the strategic things that you really want to be working on? In this business tip, I'm going to guide you to understand how to set and execute your most important priorities. Senior Leadership Teams seem to always be super busy. Unfortunately, it's not on the strategic priorities. They're putting out fires and dealing with issues that pop up all day long so they are just being reactive instead of being proactive. In most cases, this is because we have not set clear priorities for our organization. I know what you are thinking. " We have priorities... we actually have tons of priorities". Well, let me be clear -- if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. You might be just going too wide and not deep enough into the issues to gain momentum. In this tip, I want to guide you understand how to set clear priorities. First, sta

Have you ever tried to delegate something in your business, only to have it not go as planned and you're left wondering what caused the breakdown? You thought your instructions were clear and now you're left scratching your head trying to figure out why the results aren't what you expected. You see, when trying to create an automatic business there are actually 9 steps to follow. When we skip steps... that's when problems pop up. Most people start with the 8th step which is creating your How to List and think that's proper systematization and delegation.   Being able to delegate those lower-level tasks off your plate so you can work on higher-level activities will allow you to scale your business and not get stuck is only part of the process.  To delegate properly there are actually 5 steps. It's more than likely that you skipped one of the critical steps to delegation and this is leading to more chaos instead of harmony in your business.  Let's assume you h

  I'd like to talk to you about the 3rd step in the ActionCOACH 6-Step Process of Creating a Commercial & Profitable Enterprise that can work without you. You see the third step is Leverage. This is where it really gets exciting in your business where most small & medium-sized business owners and entrepreneurs work way too hard and it takes away from their time to enjoy life. If I told you that the secret to success is “ you just have to work harder ,” What would you say to me? " Are you kidding? I'm working my butt off right now. I don't have time to do anything else. I don't have time for a coaching program. I'm way too busy." Really? Most people don't understand how they can increase their volume and level of activity and still survive or just be awake during the day because they're working way too many hours into the night. This is where the ActionCOACH third step of Leverage comes in. In the first step of how leverage is applied is