Author: Dan Sullivan
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Starting A Business Based On What You’re Very, Very Good At
[contentblock id=mmp-3] When I was around five or six years old, I figured out that I had a real opportunity in adults. I discovered that if I asked adults questions about their experiences in life, they had all the time in the world to talk about it. Adults will take a lot of time to…
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Courage: The Key To Confidence
[contentblock id=mmp-3] In 1965, I was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Vietnam war was beginning. I was twenty-one years old. A few days into basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, I would learn a new definition for fear and courage — valuable lessons that I use to this day. Boring until it…
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Why Falling In Love With Your New Idea Is A Bad Idea
[contentblock id=mmp-3] Successful entrepreneurs are highly creative people. On a very consistent basis, they’re able to come up with new and creative solutions to the emerging issues and opportunities of ever-present change in the world. But, if they become too attached and act too quickly on their new idea, disaster can strike. Hard-wired creativity? I…
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The Best Leaders Let Go Of Control
As your business grows and you add people to your team, you might find it difficult to see where and how much you need to be involved in watching over them. Here’s a distinction I make that a lot of entrepreneurs find helpful: You can be in charge without having to be in control. In…
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How To Be Intentional And Grow Your Future
[contentblock id=mmp-3] Purely from an ambition standpoint, there are two types of entrepreneurs. The difference between the two centers on how they each define their own success. One of them has discovered that tapping into their past with focused intentionality provides the secret to never-ending growth — growth that’s not only easier but exponential. For…
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Forget About Giving 110%
[contentblock id=mmp-3] I believe that much of the unhappiness on the planet comes from wanting a 100% result on any action you take, whether it’s in your business life or personal life. In other words, you will not take action, will not attempt to do anything, until you’re guaranteed it’s going to be 100% successful.…
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Test Or Guess? How The Legendary Entrepreneurs Do It
[contentblock id=mmp-3] Out of the millions of entrepreneurs in the world, only a very, very few are truly great entrepreneurs whose ideas have changed our lives in previously unimaginable ways. What puts someone in that one percent category of entrepreneurial legends? What differentiates them from everyone else? No guessing. The truly great entrepreneurs don’t guess…
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How To Overcome The Biggest Obstacle To Innovation
[contentblock id=mmp-3] Innovation makes everyone, not just the entrepreneur, better off as a result of getting a new idea out to the marketplace and into widespread use. It’s hard to imagine any true entrepreneur wouldn’t want to be part of that. Now more than ever, innovation has to be a critical focus for every entrepreneur…
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Creative vs Reactive
Nobody goes to snail races. Why? Because slow is boring. Right now, fast change is not only possible, it’s inevitable. So the question becomes, are you going to be creative with that experience or reactive? Whether the consequences of change are good or bad will be entirely a function of your mindset.
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Why Entrepreneurs Are The Planet’s Greatest Game Changers
[contentblock id=mmp-3] Originally, the word “game changer” came from the sports world and referred to a moment in the game when one team’s energy shifted, and along with it the outcome of the game. Sports commentators called this moment, this particular play, a game changer. In the 1980s, with the introduction of the personal computer,…