Genius Network

There was an Entrepreneur who had reached out to me some time ago looking for some help to grow their Business. Let's say his name was "Steve". I thought about who might be most useful for Steve to talk with, and I realized Genius Network® Member Jason Fladlien would...

You may have heard the phrase: "The world doesn't revolve around you." But, if it doesn't revolve around you, then who does it revolve around? It's YOUR life. And YOUR world actually DOES revolve around YOU. It really does. Most of the time you are thinking about YOUR...

When I was a Dead Broke Carpet Cleaner living off credit cards, I had to figure out how to successfully sell something nobody wanted to buy: Carpet Cleaning. One of the very first things I did before the internet even existed was I created a “Consumer’s Guide To...

Most people aren’t “loyal” unless there is such Value-Creation that people grant you business because they see you as one-of-a-kind. My dear friend, and Founder of Strategic Coach®, Dan Sullivan calls it a Value Creation Monopoly. This is where you don’t get business...

Napoleon Bonaparte said, "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon." When you ask most people who go to college, "What are you going to college for?", what I've noticed is they rarely, if ever, state the RESULT they are hoping to get out of...

In business, there are rituals that make everything else work better. Oftentimes these rituals start with YOU. To be a Great Entrepreneur involves setting up the Right Rituals. Sometimes people start off doing something, and it's working, but then they slack off. For...

A lot of people talk about joint venturing, collaborating, and working together. The way they put this into action is interesting. Many times people unwilling to invest in themselves ask other people to schedule calls to “see how they can work together”. This is often...

In Arianna Huffington's book Thrive, she explains we need more than Money and Power as Measures of Success.  One of the most successful people I know - by all accounts of 'Success' - is one of my dear friends, Dan Sullivan, Founder of Strategic Coach®. There's a...

If you read the book Tiny Habits by my friend BJ Fogg (Founder and Director of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab), he describes how all Human Behavior is MAP. In fact, here’s the formula from the book:B = MAP Behavior = Motivation, Ability, Prompt. This is called...