Being a startup entrepreneur is a struggle.
As some of you know, I recently joined the ranks of a startup founder. In November we launched Intertru and boy, my world has moved to light speed to a totally new dimension. It has become ridiculously exciting!
But there is one huge challenge… maintaining operational discipline.
My struggle comes from the need to put out fires and execute critical projects outside of my expertise. Making it difficult to stay disciplined in a workflow cadence that produces results.
Today we are going to key in on 10 Disciplines that you can implement today in your life to produce consistent results to the benefit of your company growth!
Guest Bio:
Gino Wickman is the Author of Traction & founder of EOS Worldwide, an organization that helps tens of thousands of businesses implement EOS with the aid of an international team of almost 600 professional and certified EOS Implementers and online support. There are over 180,000 companies using the EOS tools worldwide.
Today Gino focuses on helping entrepreneurs and leaders maximize their freedom, creativity, and Impact through his books:
Entrepreneurial Leap, Rocket Fuel, The EOS Life, and The 10 Disciplines for Managing And Maximizing Your Energy.
TODAY WE DISCUSS:
- What are the 10 disciplines
- Discuss the most relevant to startup entrepreneurs
PROBLEM:
- Discipline
- We are all balls of energy – some burn bright, some don’t
- You are racehorses (entrepreneurs/leaders) – harness energy
- Don’t have to motivate/teach basics – eat, sleep, exercise, work ethic
- Each stands on its own, fully customizable
- Fast, simple and powerful
Challenge?
- 10-year thinking
- Take time off
- Know thyself
- Be still
- Know your 100%
- Say no…often
- Don’t do $25 an hour work
- Prepare every night
- Put everything in one place
- 10. Be humble
How do we solve the problem?
- 10-year thinking
- Shift your mind from short-term thinking, to thinking in 10-year timeframes
- Every decision is a 10-year decision/thinking, not a goal
- Sam Cupp – 10-year business cycle
- When you do – time slows, a peace comes over you, make better decisions and
- get there faster
- Quote “Overestimate one year…”
- Les Brown “Good Decade”
- Shifts energy
- Action – write date 10 years from now, write age, write goal
- Other things are ok
- Now think about everything you are doing today
- See it every night
- Say no…often
- Say no to everything that doesn’t fit in the first 5 disciplines
- Warren Buffett quote/”No! No!”
- “…physical discomfort/guilt…” – Essentialism, Greg McKeown
- Eat a worm?
- If it doesn’t fit with the first 5 disciplines – say no
- Turn to person – say “No!”
- Action – say no to something in the next 7 days/cancel an appointment
- Prepare every night:
- Before your head hits the pillow every night, document the next day’s plan
- Go to bed knowing exactly tomorrow
- Sleep better
- Spontaneous – BS, come one, if you’re running a company, you don’t have the luxury
- Subconscious does the work
- Wake up with ideas/solutions
- Get more done
- As opposed to waking up and figuring it out
- Use any technology – I use a legal pad
- Action – do it tonight
- Put everything in one place
- Pick the one place you will capture every idea, commitment, thought, action item and promise
- Let people down/chaos/sticky notes
- The legal pad
- Throughout the day write down your commitments, promises, ideas, to-do’s
- Compartmentalize all at the end of the day
- Action – pick your “one place” and do it tomorrow
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