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10 Entrepreneur Life Lessons Learned from Being an Entrepreneur

Here are The Top 10 Lessons Learned From Being an Entrepreneur

1. 80% of everything will fail.

2. Be okay with failing.

Because it’s not a matter of “IF” we fail. It’s a matter of how hard and how fast the failures come. So; we either fail forward, or fail and quit. The choice we make comes down to our core purpose for the business.

3. Have a clear purpose for the business.

If the purpose is ONLY money driven, it is not enough to get through the adversities. Refer to #1

4. Have the 4 “C”s in place at all time – Confidence, Clarity, Commitment and Coaching.

The last one gets you further, faster and eliminates overwhelm and distractions. Everyone wants faster results – but In order to have coaching, we need the other 3 “C”s in place.

5. ALL the money is made on the back end.

If we expect million dollar launches and webinars because we focus on outliers, we are sure to be disappointed. Which leads to..

6. Have a back end in place before pouring money into the front end.

This doesn’t mean have an entire system in place. That will only trigger analysis paralysis. It means that we acknowledge rule #1 & #5 and…

7. TEST.

Everything is a test. It doesn’t matter what Joey, Tom, Tony, Mary or Bob does. If we expect the same result from doing what everyone else is doing, we are sure to be disappointed.

That doesn’t mean don’t listen to anyone. It doesn’t mean never model other people to speed up the process. It means let your “expectations” down a bit. Hope for the best, and expect the rest.

8. TIME is the only constant.

Nothing else. We either waste it or learn from it.

We can’t SLOW DOWN, SPEED UP or REWIND time.

If we are unwilling to invest the time to learn, build, make mistakes and grow slowly, the only rewards we get are disappointment, stress, frustration and exhaustion.

Which means we’ll want to give up sooner.

It takes what it takes.

9. As Russell Brunson says: we ARE only “1 funnel away”

..or sale, project, customer. Reread rules 1-8 so this rule sets in.

10- Hard truth# – there are only 2 types of people; profit-driven or purpose-driven.

There’s no judgement here.

But here’s what I’ve learned.

Profit-driven (money being the only driver) people quit sooner, faster and often feel confused, jealous, angry and unlucky because they are after immediate results. This is a big

Simply, profit-driven people ignore rules 1-9.

Here’s the counter-intuitive logic;

Even though Profit-driven people want and need money as fast as possible, Purpose-driven people NEED EVEN MORE MONEY.

Because purpose-driven people have a BIGGER reason to make money.

They have families, communities and causes they care about to support. They thrive on helping people first – even when it doesn’t make money at the start.

Because their true help turns into money.

And they know the more money they make, the bigger, positive impact they can make in the world.

In other words, purpose-driven people have a HUGE reason beyond their bank account to follow these first 9 rules.

There ya go.

10 lessons an entrepreneur must learn.

Great Speed Forward in everything you do.

Here’s a cool article that gives us Business Advice from George Costanza

BTW, if anything I just mentioned resonates and you are someone who wants to grow a business without the stress, anxiety, disappointment or overwhelm – let’s set up a time to talk to see if there’s a fit for us to work together. Click here to set up a call with me: Blueprint Session Invite

Spark Entrepreneurship

What P.T. Barnum said is inspiring entrepreneurs all over the world

“The Greatest Showman” is inspiring entrepreneurs all over the world.

The P.T. Barnum story.

Have you seen it?

We just saw it over the weekend. I know. It’s old news to those who go to the movies a lot, but we aren’t one of ‘em.

Usually, we see movies once they’re “on-demand” conveniently in our home.

But that’s not important.

What’s important is the powerful meaning and inspiration of the movie and how it’s inspiring entrepreneurs.

If you’ve seen it, did you catch everything?

Here’s a hint.

P.T. is quoted as saying:

“No one ever made a difference being like everyone else”

Now. If you haven’t seen “the Greatest Showman”, I won’t spoil anything by telling you it’s all about #confidence…

…and, the hidden agenda of inspiring entrepreneurs

The movie CRUSHES the #doubtingdan in our heads.

Especially in TWO spectacular parts (OK, now is a spoiler alert)

When a critic calls his show a “circus” (the beginning of the movie)
When P.T. loses his place in a fire (the end of the movie)

Those TWO parts of the movie identify a true visionary. In other words, an entrepreneur.

What did P.T. do when a critic tries to mock his show by describing it as a “circus”? He RENAMES his show using “circus” from there on in.

THAT’S brilliance.

It’s #confidence.

It’s taking the negative and spinning it to work for you. And negative stuff happens to us ALL the time. So how can you take a negative and make it work for you?

The second piece, when P.T. loses his building to a fire and realizes he can’t rebuild with the high real estate prices…

…spins it in his favor AGAIN!

“We don’t NEED a building, all we need is a TENT”

And the rest is history – as they say.

The movie is brilliant. It’s entertaining, inspirational and powerful for us as entrepreneurs.

I always look for motivation like this because I know how difficult our journey gets sometimes.

Stuff happens.

But I’ve learned from working with the best in the world, they do ONE thing differently than everyone else.

They just handle adversity better.

So, that ONE strategy leads everything else I do for entrepreneurs who are building their business.

When it gets hard, and you need a guide, advice, to vent, or even a shoulder to cry on (as corny as it sounds) the Strategic Profit Lab Insiders’ Circle is the place you want to be in.

Here’s where you can join us so we can help you too:

Entrepreneurial Mindset

The Truth About Making Excuses

This quote might help if you’re into making excuses about moving your business forward:

“People are always very confident to give you a reason why they can’t do something, and not at all confident to give you a reason why they can.”

It’s from Steve Sims…the author of Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen

Even though this is not about the book, it’s about the simple concept that’s IN the book.

So I highly recommend you get Bluefishing now…and read it immediately.

Here’s why.

EVERY person I’ve met tells me how much they want to do something.

I’m told how they want to better their lives, get more money, time, freedom…

They want to stop trading time for dollars…and make sure they’re around for their children as they grow up.

Problem is, they’re working ‘round the clock.

Or they’ve got a “good job” that they’re “OK” with…(read: they don’t HATE the job)…

…so rather than pushing forward on the dream…they push the dream BACK.

The simple reason is, their making excuses that their job is EASY – and of course, they’re making da moola.

However – WHAT are they TRADING away for that “comfort?”

You know already that in order to do anything impactful in our life, we MUST get into uncomfortable situations and stop making excuses.

I’ve known this all my life.

And I continue to do it.

Am I successful all the time?

Hell no.

In fact, I fail 80% of the time.

But it’s the 20% that matters.

It’s 20% of wins that make up 80% of my success.

Is it easy?

Let me assure you; taking on the demons, negative thoughts, fears, and so on to chase your dream is the HARDEST DAMN THING YOU’LL EVER DO.

And that my friend, is why only 5% of the population are truly successful.

NOT just with money dude, with EVERYTHING!!!

Listen, I’m no smarter than you.

And, the point of my examples is not to disrespect anyone with what I’m saying about how “they” make up excuses not to do something more in their lives.

I’m just stating the facts.

THAT’S who I am.

I make people get shit done because I won’t accept their excuses.

And if you’ve been in any one of my coaching arenas, you know what I’m talking about.

Perhaps you know someone who lives by making excuses all the time.

Believe it or not, people are MOST comfortable when they’re in a rut – not knowing what they don’t know.

People are COMFORTABLE in mediocrity and complain about it all the time…

…because they’re ‘confident’ in giving excuses for why they CAN’T do something.

That’s the truth.

The End of the Week is Well-Known for Making Excuses

What have you accomplished this week?

Where did you step out into something you had no clue was going to work?

What did you learn from it?

These are the questions I ask myself every week.

Guess what – sometimes I don’t get ‘em all because I too, fall into the same category of excuses.

What kind of a friend would I be to you if I stood on my soapbox and preached down to you like I’m a freakin’ god?

Truth is…we ALL get in the ruts…it just matters how FAST you shake out of it and get moving again.

Here’s the secret to success and recipe to stop making excuses: (stolen from my man Steve Sims)

Move, act, do go.

Action is everything.

I call it Speed of Implementation.

That’s why I TOTALLY COMMEND people who go to a workshop or something and then implement a piece of it right away.

My coaching clients are like that.

Or they wouldn’t be allowed in my personal tribe.

I can’t STAND people waiting around and giving excuses.

If I find that you specialize in giving me reasons you’ll fail, you won’t be in my tribe very long.

That’s just how I roll.

I work with action takers.

And YOU should work with action takers…beginning with YOU!

Do you know what will happen when you take action – EVERY DAY?

You’ll move forward.

You’ll also fail, but know what NOT to do again…and you’ll KEEP moving forward.

While I’m at it – let me share this last bit of gold with you:

When we say we’ve ‘failed’, that’s the END. Entrepreneurs don’t FAIL, we discover…and keep moving to get that dream fulfilled.

I wish ALL of your dreams are fulfilled – and fulfilled SOONER rather than when it’s too late.

Whenever you’re ready to tear down the obstacles and jump into your dreams without the excuses you may have held onto up to now, hit me up.

We’ll sit down for a serious no-BS, anti-sales pitch blueprinting session for your business…and you can join my inner circle tribe when you like what you see.

Here’s where you do that.

By the way, here’s a cool post on How to get life balance you might enjoy also.

If you want to learn a bit about Business High-Performance Behaviours, click here for some tips.

Improve Email Marketing

A Failed Email Marketing Plan You Want To Avoid

If you’re email marketing plan is about SCRAPING EMAILS…

If you’re “hacking” and “chopping” your way into people’s inboxes…

STOP right now!

Here’s what I’m talking about.

There are some “genius” email marketing dudes out there (you know I’m being sarcastic, right) who will sell you an email marketing plan like grabbing people’s email addresses and put them on your own list so you can offer them shit.

But it gets’ better.

These geniuses are saying “in today’s world, you have to target the right people. So don’t send stuff to people who are not interested in your stuff.”

That almost sounds professional.

And it kinda sounds right for email marketing plan .

But here’s where everything takes a turn for the worse.

Failed Email Marketing Plan

The way they “teach” this targeting is for example, you go to LinkedIN (or whatever else) and search for people who are in “groups” or have interests related to your shit.

Then you market to THOSE dudes.

Because they are “obviously” interested in the same stuff you’re selling.

AND, these genius gurus tell you it’s OK to “steal” these emails because people have generously put their email out there publicly, so you can use them in your new email marketing plan

I mean, if they didn’t WANT us to email them, they would keep those email addresses private, right?

Look.

If this is your email marketing plan, to PUSH your way into people’s inboxes and lives without being invited, you’re doing it all wrong.

Plain and simple.

How this email marketing plan pissed me off

And as I write this, I’m coming off another “email invite” from someone who clearly is using this very email marketing plan.

She sent me an email last week.

I didn’t know who she was.

Noticed she checked me out on LinkedIn and connected the dots.

I let it go.

Marked her email as SPAM because it was very convenient that there was NO WAY to unsubscribe the “official” way from her email.

Today, I got another one.

Again, CLEARLY sent from an auto-blast, auto-drip, hoping for the best email campaign thing.

I don’t KNOW this person.

I didn’t SIGN UP for her shit.

I WANTED to unsubscribe politely, but couldn’t…

So she received a VERY nasty reply…

I hope she responds because I’ll let you know how it goes.

Point is…

LinkedIn, Facebook or whatever it is you use is NOT there to INVADE people’s lives with your shit.

You ADD to their lives.

You educate them.

Sure, every once in a while you’ll post an offer or something like that…

But it’s an INVITE for them to learn more and ADD THEMSELVES to your email marketing.

I can’t tell you how WRONG it is to just push your shit in front of people who didn’t ASK for it.

How’d this sit with ya? Lemme know below and let’s start a conversation!~

Spark Entrepreneurship

The “Cost” of Entrepreneurship

You don’t have to get entrepreneurship perfect every time you’re out.

And you don’t have to tell me how hard things are sometimes.

That’s the “cost” of entrepreneurship.

Read between the lines of that last part carefully.

Because I said the “cost” of entrepreneurship is being OK with things being tough, and when they don’t always go the way you want them or believe they should.

I DID NOT SAY “the cost of entrepreneurship is to give up your life, grind yourself to the bone and sacrifice the moments of presence you owe yourself and your family.”

Yet MILLIONS of entrepreneurs do that very thing each and every day.

Can I tell you something?

If you believe you have to work harder and longer just because you’re struggling – in MOST cases, that only means you’ll have bigger and more problems.

That is, IF you don’t build your business strategically.

Here’s what I mean:

As entrepreneurs, we’ve got our backs against the wall multiple times a week. Sometimes multiple times A DAY!

And it gets tough.

Sometimes there’s not enough to pay ourselves.

And if you’re anything like me, there were a LOT of those times.

So what do we do??

Yea, we stay up late – work harder – work more –

– we go after “new” opportunities

– we throw quick promotions together to drum up business

In other words, we scramble.

We become MORE distracted because all we’re focused on is “shit – I gotta make some money here.”

Just me?

I dunno about that – I see a LOT of distracted entrepreneurs unfocused.

And I’m not pointing any fingers here.

I’m just putting this out there so you know that I know 🙂

What’s the Answer for Better Entrepreneurship?

TAKE OUT the trash.

All that trash in your head.

All that trash on your desk.

And look at what you are really trying to accomplish.

95% of the entrepreneurs I know have trained and taught, they want to really help people.

And I’m not talking about that “help people” thingy EVERYONE says, yet all they care about is their wallet.

The trouble is when we want to help people, sometimes our businesses struggle – and we’re stuck, we’re short on cash and we CAN’T help people the way we want.

And THAT’S the point of this article.

It’s to understand that things will not be perfect in our quest to help others.

And when we hit a low, we get distracted because we believe we need to “just get things in order first.”

Possibly.

But in my experience, I’ve seen people “get things in order” for YEARS.

And it’s like they’re stuck in a round-a-bout, not knowing which road to take.

I know it’s simple to say, but the answer is, STAY TRUE to your dreams.

And that means you gotta believe in your ability.

When things are tough – it’s the universe testing you.

Most will fail. They are biz-opp people. Not entrepreneurs.

That’s just how it goes – and if you’re an entrepreneur, you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.

Love Joey

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