1: Sometimes, entrepreneur and author Dan Martell plays a little game with his coaching clients.
“It’s a mini-test disguised as a simple question,” he writes in his book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire.
He sends a text: “Do you have time for a quick call in the next hour?”
How they answer gives Dan insight into how that coaching client is … continue reading
1: “I’m really sick of all the day-to-day stuff,” said Andre, the owner of a manufacturing company, to his friend Simon in Dan Martell‘s book Buy Back Your Time. “I think I need to hire an operations manager.”
“Okay, Andre,” Simon said. “But before you do that, talk to me about your day. What’s the biggest chunk of time you spend each week on something you hate … continue reading
1: We often think of successful entrepreneurs who end up like Richard Branson or Oprah Winfrey as “lucky,” “wealthy,” or “privileged,” Dan Martell observes in his book Buy Back Your Time.
“Any of these may be true,” Dan notes, “but in general, that doesn’t take into account the capital-T Truth. Oprah achieved her monumental success not because she found luck, wealth, or privilege—she had next to none of those—but … continue reading
1: All of us are likely familiar with Andy Warhol‘s Campbell Soup pictures or his Marilyn Monroe prints.
What we might not realize is that Andy’s name is attached to eighty-five thousand pieces of art (!) and over five hundred films.
“In 2014, his artwork accounted for about 15 percent of the entire world’s art trade,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time.
“Think about … continue reading
1: “I feel like I’m letting the team down,” Miranda said.
Miranda, a superstar team member, was sitting across from her boss, entrepreneur Dan Martell, for their weekly one-on-one.
She “admitted she felt overwhelmed after a recent promotion to team leader,” Dan writes in his book Buy Back Your Time. “She went from specialist to managing more people than anyone else in our company,”
Miranda told him: “I’m … continue reading
1: “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience,” said the educational reformer John Dewey.
Our ability to think, to reflect, to “think about our thinking” is integral to our ability to learn.
The term used to describe our ability to be aware of our thinking is called metacognition.
Which author Anne-Laure Le Cunff calls “the forgotten secret to success” in her book Tiny Experiments… continue reading
1: “I can’t afford it.” That’s what many entrepreneurs tell themselves.
“Far too many entrepreneurs,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time, “spend their time grinding because they erroneously believe that they’re the only person for the job, they can’t afford any help, or they feel guilty not doing certain work.”
What gets in their way? As their business grows, they hire wrong. They hire to … continue reading
Yesterday, we looked at how Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, Tom Clancy, and Andy Warhol spent their time.
How can we apply the lessons from this diverse group of incredibly successful people? Dan Martell asks in his book Buy Back Your Time.
We begin by creating a 2×2 matrix where we analyze how valuable each task we are doing in terms of (1) money and (2) … continue reading
1: “Oprah Winfrey had a rough childhood,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire.
“She bounced between her grandmother, her mother, and the man she calls her father, Vernon,” Dan writes. “As a young girl, she was abused. As a teenager, she had an unplanned pregnancy. Those were just a couple of the many troubles she … continue reading
1: GSD. Getting stuff done.
Perhaps replace stuff with a less polite word.
This trait is fundamental for most entrepreneurs. “Born entrepreneurs have to find a way to live fully, in their business and in life,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time.
“If we’ve been eating the GSD fruit for some time now, we’ve probably found some success,” Dan notes. “Hard work, even at … continue reading
