Work Smarter Not Harder and Fast Track Your Business

  My definition of success that I got from Tom Hopkins many years ago is that success is a journey towards the achievement of predetermined worthwhile goals. When you take a deeper look at this statement, it is expressing that success is different for everyone. Each of us is on our own journey towards our own success and so we must focus on our own journey and not someone else's success or someone else's journey. If we're looking at someone else's success, we are taking the eye off the ball. We're taking our eyes off of our journey and that could quickly lead us to get off the tracks. Have you ever looked at a co-worker or another entrepreneur and think, "How did they become so successful so quickly?" It's easy to focus on what we see , that being successful seems to be little time or requires very little effort. The problem is that we're just seeing the results and not the effort that it took for them to get there. When we do this, we are losing

  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