Author: Dan Sullivan
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Do You Live In The Abundance Neighborhood Or The Scarcity Neighborhood?
A couple of weeks ago, Babs and I visited SoHo in New York. It’s such a vibrant mish-mash of chain stores, entrepreneurial shops, independent bookstores, and great restaurants to hang out in. It feels like anything’s possible there. A neighborhood is made up of lots of different things, and underpinning all of them is a…
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What Works Quicker Than Instant Gratification?
Critics blame consumerism for every kind of social ill—a widening gulf between the rich and the poor, degradation of the environment, and disintegration of traditional institutions, to name a few. Futurists once looked ahead to our time, predicting that technological advances would reduce our working hours and free us to spend idyllic, leisurely days with…
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What is the “confidence capability”?
What is confidence? We tend to think of it as a personality trait or an emotional response, but my experience is that it isn’t as passive or reactive as that. Real confidence is a capability, and when you know how to create that capability for yourself, you can have it in endless supply. What you…
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How To Escape “Technological Panic”
Are you worried that you’re falling behind technologically and your competitors are gaining advantages over you because of it? While it’s true that new technologies can commoditize — or even completely erase — very well-established businesses and industries, you don’t have to suffer from what I call “Technological Panic.” If you keep strengthening your relationships…
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The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the 21st century. Look back 50 years at the cultural heroes who made the cover of Time magazine or any of the other periodicals, and you’ll see military or political leaders, artists, or scientists. Today, they’re people like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs. So there’s a growing…
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Which World Do You Live In?
“[Moore’s Law] is really about people’s belief system, it’s not a law of physics, it’s about human belief, and when people believe in something, they’ll put energy behind it to make it come to pass.” –Carver Mead, colleague of microchip pioneer Gordon Moore. If you have a cell phone in your pocket, you own a…
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How Do You Keep Score?
Entrepreneurs are great at many things, but one thing a lot of us are bad at is keeping score. I’ve coined a term for this issue, which we deal with in depth at Strategic Coach, and I call it “The Gap.” The Gap is the permanent distance between you and your ideals. Your ideals can…
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Pondering The 10x Organization
Recessions are the economy’s way of telling you to sit back and ponder the wisdom of your ways. So over the past few years, I’ve been thinking back over my development and the growth of Strategic Coach. As an entrepreneur, I’ve had the experience of going 10x three times so far. I went from from…
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How To Achieve Entrepreneurial Forgiveness
Today, I want to share an energy-boosting strategy that’s been helpful to me and a number of my clients over the past several months. Some of you may be familiar with my saying that “forgiveness is when you give up the hope of having a better past.” I believe that every entrepreneur, by the time…