How do billionaires think? Are their brains different than other peoples? Success isn't magic, it's cause and effect. There are actions people have taken in their life that have had profound impacts that made them successful. Success doesn't happen by chance, it happens by taking specific actions. What causes somebody to take action? Their thinking! It's their analysis, rationalizing, decision making, tradeoffs, problem-solving, etc. What part of a human is responsible for these functions? The m...
Oct 23, 2018•41 min•Ep. 36
Why does your business exist other than for the purpose of making money? This is the MOST important question you can ask! And what's scary is that most entrepreneurs don't have an answer to this question. The only reason their business exists is to make money for themselves. What's wrong with this? Legally there's nothing wrong with this at all and people can do whatever they want! The problem is that these people will fail at making money and wonder "WHY?". Money is a byproduct of value when yo...
Sep 20, 2018•21 min•Ep. 35
Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions? Tired of projects lying in limbo and not completing anything? Chances are, you've suffered "death by 1,000 cuts". It's the little things that waste our time and suck our energy dry. Its the "got a minute", "quick check" or "just this once" that sneak up on you and suffocate you. The worst part is that you never see it coming because it disguises itself as a tiny task and we're standing guard for big tasks. If you want to get anything m...
Sep 04, 2018•27 min•Ep. 34
Confused? Frustrated? Not sure why you're doing what you're doing? Confusion occurs when you don't know what to do. To figure out what to do, you must first define what you want. Once you know what you want, you can select what to do based on its a likelihood of achieving what you want. Once you know what to do, you do it until you get what you want. Sound too simple? Common sense isn't common practice. This podcast explains how to cure confusion, get focused and win.
Aug 22, 2018•24 min•Ep. 33
Do Billionaires think differently? How does their thinking differ compared to normal people? This question has fascinated me and finding the answer became an obsession. For more than 5 years I searched for clarity on this... One day I found out what the difference was -- something called "systems thinking". This is THE THING that makes all the difference. Check out the full video + downloadable resources here: https://www.consulting.com/channel/systems-thinking-how-billionaires-think...
Aug 14, 2018•40 min•Ep. 32
What should you focus on as the CEO/Founder of a brand new company? Most people have no idea and they waste their time focusing on the trivial many instead of the vital few things that move the needle. The truth is the role of a CEO/Founder changes with time and there are different priorities depending on the stage of the business: Stage One: Product-market fit. Stage Two: Distribution. Stage Three: Talent and culture. If you want to start and grow a profitable business for the long-term, you ne...
Aug 08, 2018•25 min•Ep. 31
The difference between "exceptional people" and "good people" isn't incremental, it's exponential. Exceptional people are 10x better than good people. They produce 10x the output. Our social and education systems mislead us on this fact. We think an "A" is only 1-step above "B" and exceptional is only 1-step above good. This is dead wrong. Why are exceptional people 10x better than good? It's because they're good at a broad range of things, they're generalists with wide and deep worldly wisdom a...
Jul 30, 2018•32 min•Ep. 30
Why do most businesses fail? What do they do wrong? And most importantly, how can you avoid making these fatal mistakes? Most entrepreneurs and business owners are obsessed when it comes to studying success, but few of them turn to the dark side and study failure. Warren Buffet once said: "I want to know where I'm going to die so that I never go there". Buffet knows that avoiding fatal mistakes is a better business strategy than studying and implementing successful actions. I did a postmortem an...
Jul 10, 2018•24 min•Ep. 29
How do you grow your business from a scrappy 1-man band to a well oiled 8-figure machine? This transformation is hard and most entrepreneurs don't make it...You need to change who you are at a fundamental level. You need to evolve from a "promoter" to an "operator". History shows us that promoters never last, they thrive in new markets but quickly get taken out by disciplined operators. If you want to win in business over the long term -- you must become an operator -- this video shows you how....
Jul 03, 2018•43 min•Ep. 28
How do you come up with those 10x ideas that get you exponential growth? How do you break the linear growth trajectory and go exponential? I can tell you this: It doesn't happen by doing more of what you're doing now. Exponential growth happens when you rethink everything and take a radically new perspective. Jeff Bezos said: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points". How you see things and take a perspective is worth more than raw intelligence. The best way to see things in a different way is to ri...
Jun 26, 2018•21 min•Ep. 27
More with less -- That's the objective of evolution, to remove waste and optimize for value and efficiency. Darwin was right: Life is a game of "survival of the fittest"... Only the strong survive. If you want your business to survive the evolutionary arms race, you must continuously improve efficiency. The best way to do that is to "machine everything". Eliminate the need to think. Squeeze every ounce of utility out of every resource possible, and then figure out how to squeeze some more. If yo...
Jun 14, 2018•6 min•Ep. 26
How do you find the TRUTH in today's world? How do you navigate the minefield of misinformation, fake news, propaganda, biased views, and blatant lies? Most people are walking around blindly with their umbilical cords hanging out looking for something to plug them into. Being successful requires good decision making and good decision making requires accurate information and beliefs. Plain and simple: If you listen to the opinion of most people, you will believe a lie, make poor decisions and fai...
Jun 07, 2018•35 min•Ep. 25
Most people fail to see long-term cause and effect relationships...They're shortsighted and they only think in timeframes of today, this week and this month. If they don't see rewards from the actions they take immediately, they give up or find a new shiny object and the same pattern repeats itself again. It's a vicious cycle like a snake eating its tail. If you take action today, the true reward of that action will occur 1-2 years from now, not today. Most people are blind to this. If you want ...
May 31, 2018•26 min•Ep. 24
Most people suffer from the "natural giftedness" delusion. They think that successful people are born naturals who master things immediately -- and -- If they try something new and they're not good at it and confident on the first few tries, it's just not meant to be. This sort of thinking is fucked up. Everybody is born into this world the same way. Everything must be learned through practice. Sheer repetition, consistency and time. You will NEVER be successful in life or business until you tur...
May 25, 2018•40 min•Ep. 23
How can you do things that others can't? That's the question you must ask yourself if you want to gain a competitive advantage, slaughter the competition and win in business. Most entrepreneurs try to gain "easy advantages". They ask the question: "What's fast, cheap and easy to build that will give us an advantage?". The problem with easy advantages is that they are replicated easily and when that happens, they are no longer advantages. Billionaires ask the advantage question another way...They...
May 16, 2018•28 min•Ep. 22
Why do people like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Dre wear the same clothes every day? It's because of something called "decision fatigue". It doesn't matter what the decision is, all decisions zap the same amount of brainpower and you only have so much of it each day. Should I wear my white shoes, red shoes or blue shoes? Should I hire a new sales rep or continue slaving away at it myself? These two decisions use the same amount of energy but they have very different outcomes ...
May 08, 2018•29 min•Ep. 21
Do you struggle to stick to things and get distracted by new shiny objects? If you look back over the past month or the past year -- How many different niches, opportunities or methods have you tried? Shiny object syndrome is something that plagues most entrepreneurs and renders them helpless in their fight for success. Here's what it looks like: Somebody chooses e-commerce as their area of interest and starts learning the game, absorbing information and putting in the work...Two weeks go by, an...
Apr 27, 2018•28 min•Ep. 20
Most people think they're hustling and grinding, but really they're just going hard on maintenance. And no matter how hard you go on maintenance -- You're NEVER going to make the boat go faster! You're never going to win the race. To win in life and business, maintenance is never enough, you have to get better. You have to get leaner, faster, lighter, stronger, more agile, etc. This video shows you how to differentiate between maintenance tasks and performance tasks and how to channel all of you...
Apr 24, 2018•20 min•Ep. 19
Do you know that Amazon has 560,000 employees and 300,000,000 customers? Right now, today, there are people out there that are struggling to reply to their emails or get 1 customer -- So how does Amazon get 300 million of them? The secret Jeff Bezos uses is something called "chunking". Chunking is the process of clearly defining the end goal and then reverse engineering all the way back to the current day -- By doing this, he takes a monumental task and turns it into small bite-sized chunks that...
Apr 20, 2018•16 min•Ep. 18
Are you tired of burning yourself out trying to do 1,000 different things and feeling like you're going nowhere? Time is the most finite and precious thing we have in life -- What you spend your time doing, the decisions you make, this will determine how good or bad your life is. Rather watch it? Click here -> https://www.consulting.com/channel/tired-of-wasting-your-time-watch-this (P.S. For the free tool, click the link above)
Apr 13, 2018•39 min•Ep. 17
We all have the same amount of time and energy, so why do some people achieve 1,000x more than others? This question fascinated me. Did it become my obsession to figure out WHY? I feverishly studied all of the "GOATS" (greatest of all time) to try and figure out why...I uncovered a common theme, a pattern that repeated itself in every single case of greatness...In today's video, I reveal it to you and show you how you can use it yourself to 1,000x your progress.
Apr 04, 2018•31 min•Ep. 16
This is because most people don't fact check themselves throughout the year and by the time year-end comes around -- it's too late. In this podcast, I discuss the importance of quarterly reviews. These are simple fact checks of your performance that occur every 90 days. Right now I'm on vacation in Saint Lucia with my family and I just completed my Q1 review. I thought I'd share my process with you quickly so that you can use it to lift your own performance.
Mar 29, 2018•12 min•Ep. 15
When it comes to achieving something great, people tend to think that it's "magic" or the person is "gifted" or "lucky". This couldn't be further from the truth. Magic is something that we don't understand, cause-effect relationships we can't see with our naked eye and untrained mind. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Everything you see is the result of cause/effect relationships that have occurred somewhere upstream in the evolutionary river that flows with time. If you want to b...
Mar 20, 2018•11 min•Ep. 14
If there's anybody in the world you should learn from, Jeff Bezos should be one of them. Bezos has grown Amazon to be the most valuable company in the world and from that, he’s also the richest man in the world. Success leaves clues -- And since Amazon is a public company, Bezos has left a carefully articulated set of clues that dates back to Amazon's inception -- Amazon’s annual letters to shareholders. Every year Bezos writes a 1-3 page letter to his shareholders where he reports on the progre...
Feb 28, 2018•37 min•Ep. 13
Ever wondered how companies like Amazon, Google, Uber, and Facebook grew to be so big? The answer isn't luck, chance, raising capital or timing... It's something much deeper than that...The secret behind all of these companies' success is something called a "Flywheel". If you have a flywheel in your business you will enjoy exponential growth. If you don't have a flywheel the best you can ever hope for is linear growth...The truth is that most companies don't have a flywheel -- They actually have...
Feb 22, 2018•29 min•Ep. 12
One thing that fascinates me is why people believe they can't do things that they are clearly capable of. Some people call these "limiting beliefs"... I prefer to call them delusions. Most people think they aren't delusional, they like to think they're smart, rational and of sound reason and sanity... The truth is -- they're nuts! They're just not aware of it... In today's podcast, I dismantle one of the largest delusions to ever plague the planet Earth -- The belief that you need to become an e...
Feb 16, 2018•18 min•Ep. 11
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Feb 01, 2018•13 min•Ep. 10
It's not often that I come across something this accurate and this powerful. I have taken almost every behavior and personality test there is and nothing comes close to this one in terms of accuracy and ease of understanding the outcome. It's called the Myers Briggs Test (MBTI) and it has been around for a long time and I'm sure some of you have done it already. It's worth the 5mins it takes to complete the test and based on your answers I can tell what you need to do in entrepreneurship to be s...
Jan 22, 2018•22 min•Ep. 9
As business owners, we are constantly faced with the internal and external conflict of achieving "work-life balance". At times we can feel guilty for working too much and at other times for not working enough. We hear the saying to "work smarter, not harder", but how do we know if we're working hard enough? On the contrary, there are people working extremely hard with very little reward for their efforts who may need some time for reflection and planning to gain perspective of the bigger picture...
Dec 17, 2017•14 min•Ep. 18
Finding focus in a world full of distraction can be an extremely hard thing to obtain. Sometimes we need to think outside the box by inverting the equation and adjusting our lens to which we view things. The first step toward finding focus is to ask yourself "what is the opposite of focus?" -Distraction. We can then identify our main distractions and eliminate them one by one, taking back control of what our mind focuses on.
Dec 11, 2017•26 min•Ep. 17
