Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Why Obstacles Are Actually A Good Thing
Most people don’t seek out obstacles. It can be tough to get past them and daunting sometimes to even think about them. For many entrepreneurs, though, obstacles are actually a necessity. They come up whenever we set big goals and create a big vision for the future. The key is not to avoid them, but…
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What Free Days are, and how to know when you need them.
If we know entrepreneurs — and we’ve coached over 18,000 of them — we’d confidently say that the majority of you are naturally driven to grow your businesses to your greatest potential. Guilty of feeling guilty? The not-so-great flipside of this exciting prospect is that you often feel guilty for taking time off. You think…
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10 Of Our Favorite Growth Quotes For Entrepreneurs
To any entrepreneur, growth is as essential as breathing — essential not only to their business but to them as a person. It’s exciting, fulfilling, rewarding. In fact, as entrepreneurs, we confidently put forward that the most exciting feeling in life is having the mindset that tomorrow will be bigger and better than today. Rather…
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The Alternative To “Giving Back”
The concept of “giving back”—the idea that with success comes the responsibility of returning some of your prosperity to the world—is so ubiquitous that few people even question it. Successful people, including entrepreneurs, are often made to feel a sense of guilt for their success, for achieving levels of wealth and freedom that few others…
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What Is Unique Ability®?
Dan Sullivan first noticed how beautifully unique we are when hired to interview people with disabilities for a Canadian Parliamentary report. It became clear to him very quickly that the most successful people are those who have learned how to focus on and leverage their unique strengths. In other words, they build their lives around…
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15 Of Our Favorite Teamwork Quotes
Imagine your dream team. What does it look like? How does it differ from the team you’re currently working with? What do you need to stop procrastinating on to turn this vision into a reality? One of the major benefits of entrepreneurship is having complete freedom to design the team you want. You get to…
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What To Do If You Haven’t Achieved Your Goals
At some point in your childhood, you noticed the horizon for the first time and discovered that, no matter how far or fast you ran, it always stayed “out there.” Once you learned how this trick of perception worked, though, you probably stopped thinking about it and certainly weren’t bothered by it. So why do…
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10 Inspirational Quotes To Fuel Your Ambition And Success
Dan Sullivan has been an entrepreneurial coach to thousands of business owners over the past 40 years. His workshops and conversations, as well as his own personal experience as the founder and president of an always growing company, have given him a solid understanding of what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Among the…
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50 Great Reads: Dan Sullivan’s Reading List
Dan Sullivan has been a great reader for much of his life—from poring over The Encyclopedia Britannica in the town library as a child, to studying The Great Books Of The World at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, to the many, many books he’s discovered or been introduced to in the years since. As…
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Eight Advantages Of A 10x Mindset
The brain can’t do extraordinary things (like growing 10x); it can only do ordinary things. So, the way to accomplish extraordinary things is to make the extraordinary seem ordinary. Practice thinking about your future being 10x bigger and better, and you’ll develop a new 10x standard for viewing the world. This is a 10x Mindset,…