The Role of Passion in Business
What if we said there was a trait you could have as a business owner or professional that would keep your employees more engaged, attract your ideal customers and raving fans, magnify your resiliency and level up your creativity? There is, and it’s called passion. Passion plays an important role in business today as entrepreneurs and service-based professionals. Passion in business will drive loyal customers and employees, level up your creativity and magnify your grit. Let’s dig in! If you’re passionate about success, we have a free gift for you! We put together a FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our free gift to you. Access it here! Role #1 – Passion Inspires Business owners and professionals that are passionate drive loyal customers and retain loyal teams. People love to follow passion and businesses with passionate client’s and employees. Evidence suggests that businesses with a focus on passion are more successful than businesses without. Role #2 – Passion Gives You Grit It’s easier to stay motivated when we’re excited but sooner or later, we will all lose steam. Having passion will keep that fire that got you started stoked and burning hot. Business leaders with a lot of passion are better able to overcome setbacks according to a study by Gallup. Role #3 – Passion Raises Your Creativity When we’re passionate we have greater emotional investment into the work that we do. When it comes down to problem solving often, we need to get creative. Our level of emotional investment is going to be a determining factor in how easily we give up and how innovative we become when we try to solve problems. Passionate people have greater emotional investment, and this has been shown to drive greater creativity and innovation. Consider yourself passionate? Let us know at info@jbandthedoctor.com Did you know we work with professionals and leaders with 2 on 1 coaching that marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 sales executive. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
Managing to Results and Betrayal
You’ll hear coaches and sales leader say all the time to separate yourself from the results. In other words; it’s a numbers game, it’s not about you, don’t take it personally, you’re not being rejected only your offer is, remove yourself, distance yourself, etc and etc so on and so on. The personal saying I’ve used for many years is to ‘divorce’ yourself from the results. Truth bomb time. You cannot separate yourself from results, not completely, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to. Instead, you should manage to your results. Betrayal is the same. It’s something you can’t avoid. Sooner or later, you will take something personally and it will feel like a betrayal. If you’re not careful, betrayal can really sink your ship fast, and it’s why it’s so important to learn how to manage your results and betrayal. Before going any further, did you know that 70% of businesses will fail? We put together an absolutely FREE guide identifying the Top 6 reasons businesses fail and give you actionable steps you can take on every one of these to make sure it’s your competition failing and not you! It’s our gift to you absolutely free and you can access it right here. Betrayal was front and center in our podcast, The Entrepreneur Mastery Lab. In our most recent episode featuring Michael Buzinski betrayal came up and it was personal. Michael ended up shutting the doors of a multi-million-dollar company after experiencing epic level betrayal. Instead of letting it sink his ship, or more aptly, crash his plane, Buzz used it as inspiration to build a business more aligned with his values and his employees. Today he enjoys a thriving marketing business and is President and CMO of Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing. To hear more about how Buzz managed his emotions and the impact of betrayal you can listen in to our podcast here and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and give us a 5* review if you enjoy the episode! Why is it so important to manage our results and betrayal? Because we can’t ever separate ourselves from them. We can’t be emotionless when results aren’t what we want them to be. Every rejection is, to an extent, personal. It’s not like someone else is being rejected after all. This is your experience, and it is real. The old advice about divorcing yourself from the results? It’s not that it’s bad advice, we should be figuring out ways to handle negative results, it’s that it’s impossible. It is impossible to fully separate ourselves from negative results. If that is what you’re trying to do, it won’t get you to where you want to be. We need to manage our reaction to results. This is different than removing ourselves from the results. Think of results as data that we need to get better. Every failure, every rejection is an opportunity to learn and tweak what we are doing to achieve more success. As we love to say, it’s all just an experiment and failure is simply a result that we didn’t want or expect. By shifting our perspective here, we can start to manage to rejection. Rejection is something that we’ll still deal with, but we are going to start using tools that will make rejection more helpful. Your emotions will come into play here. Most people, when they experience poor results or rejection will deal with anxiety, imposter syndrome, fear, anger, frustration, and a whole lot of emotions we paint as ‘bad.’ Let’s get this straight. Emotions are neither bad nor good, they just are. We need to be able to acknowledge our emotions, allow ourselves to feel our emotions and then accept our emotions. In this way we can manage to our results and not try to remove ourselves from them. Again, removing ourselves from our results and emotions, that’s impossible. Managing to them is not! Back to betrayal. It will happen. We will feel betrayed. This is a result that nobody will ask for, but we will all experience. Betrayal and our response to it will determine whether we can step forward into our businesses or shrink away. If you experience betrayal, be like Buzz. Step up and out and use it as an inspiration to build something even greater and stronger. You’ll thank yourself later for it! If you’re struggling with your results, we can help. Our unique 2 on 1 coaching marries the expertise of a Doctor of Psychology and mindset coach with the business savvy of a former Fortune 50 external regional sales manager. We specialize in helping entrepreneurs and professionals like you master your time, sales, and confidence, to evolve you to your greatest potential. To learn more about our coaching you can contact us here! Feel like you need coaching but not sure you can afford the investment in yourself? That’s ok! We have a scholarship available to diverse candidates of need. You can apply for our scholarship for our coaching and our courses here. Not enough time in the day, we get it. Check out our AYOP course, 2x Your Time, right here. We walk through everything from time management and calendar basics to how you can supercharge your days weeks and months through practices and techniques that are grounded in experience and proven by science.
Affirmations or Ask-firmations how to make affirmations better
Popularized back in the ‘60s affirmations are something TONS of coaches, influencers and even psychologists will recommend their clients practice regularly. There’s science to back up the effectiveness of affirmations, too! After 60 years it’s worth asking, can we make affirmations better and the answer is, yes! Instead of a practice of affirmations, a practice of ask-firmations can make this practice even more effective. Before you read on we thought you might be interested in downloading our free guide: 70% of Entrepreneurs Fail – The 6 methods to make sure it’s your competition and not you! In this guide we walk through the most common ways professionals fail and most importantly provide you with immediate action items you can implement to make sure you’re ahead of your competition and successful! You can download the free PDF here. Affirmations are positive phrases or statements used to offset and challenge negative thoughts or beliefs. For those of us caught up in negative self-talk or looking to raise our self-esteem or create a more positive narrative of ourselves affirmations can be incredibly helpful. Research done in the 1980s as well as the last couple of decades shows the positive benefits of affirmations. They help to drive our self-identity and regular, consistent use of affirmations can shift how we think of ourselves. Talk about a powerful tool. After 60 years of popularity, it is worth exploring if simple affirmations can evolve and if we can level up the results we get from this practice. I first heard of ask-firmations from Coach Machen Macdonald, who joined us on our podcast. If you would like to hear him talk about ask-firmations you can head over to our podcasts here. Ask-firmations are another way of saying an affirmation. A traditional affirmation likely will have a clear formula of: Visualized and present tense, declarative sentences. For example: Today I am experiencing tremendous gratitude and am drawing my ideal clients to me. An ask-firmation on the other hand will rephrase this into a question formula: visualized and present tense, interrogative sentences. For example: How can I experience tremendous gratitude today and draw my ideal clients to me? Coach Machen isn’t the only one talking about ask-firmations, however. In one of my favorite sales books out there – To Sell Is Human, by Daniel H. Pink, Pink mentions the strength of ask-firmations. Both Coach Machen and Pink establish clear and logical rationale for an ask-firmation instead of an affirmation. Ultimately, affirmations are build me up declarations and ask-firmations are questions. The difference in how our brain reacts to being told vs being asked is immense. In sales, telling isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s not all that effective. The best sales tools use good questions. This is because people respond MUCH BETTER to questions than they do to being told. What’s true about other people is also true about us. Asking ourselves a question about how we are going to make our traditional affirmation happen, does something to our brains. It makes us problem solve! By asking ourselves a question we are much more likely to try to reason out ways we can achieve our affirmation. If our affirmation is to experience gratitude and draw clients to us, we will start thinking about HOW we can experience gratitude and in what ways can we help our clients find us. The difference can be startling, and we encourage you to try this methodology out. Run an experiment and see if it’s a change that benefits you. For more direct help with changing your behavior and your mindset you can always contact us directly for our 2 on 1 coaching. This is a truly unique coaching paradigm marrying behavioral modification expertise with blue-blood sales and presentation expertise. You can contact us here! If coaching is on your bucket list but you’re concerned it’s not something you can afford, that’s ok! We offer scholarships to deserving individuals. You can request us to review you for a scholarship right here! Not a member of the Entrepreneur Mastery Lab yet? For direct access to JB, The Doc and a ton of other professionals you can connect with us personally in the EML, our FREE, private Facebook community.
Belief and the beRICH mindset
Beliefs drive our behaviors, our actions and our reactions. They influence how people see and interact with us. They produce and determine our inner circles and even our perceptions of the world around us. Beliefs Matter It’s why we, JB and The Doctor created the Entrepreneur Mastery Lab (EML) and it’s why we built the #beRICH mindset as our core value system. Both the EML and the beRICH mindset are products of our belief systems. So what are our beliefs and how can you see and feel them? Here’s a few. We all want to be great and be a part of something great Community will allow us to become greater than ourselves and will create opportunities for legacy and impact There’s no real fulfillment in being materially successful, we need to lift others up with us We can always do better Life requires constant experimentation The beRICH mindset The beRICH mindset is about living a fulfilled and satisfied life. It specifically states: R – Rise to mastery Whether it’s in your profession, your craft, your personal development, we need to develop mastery to develop respect for ourselves. Without true dedication and mastery there is no true self respect. I – Inspire greatness Being an inspiration to others means leading by example. It’s earning the reputation of living a life aligned with your beliefs even when it’s hard, and even when no one is looking. C – Celebrate knowledge Knowledge is the tool we use to better ourselves and the people around us. Celebrating the quest for knowledge and rewarding ourselves for the development of our minds is a must. H – Help others along the way People are tribal. We are not meant to be alone. Everyday we make the choice to develop the community around us. When we do, we find we strengthen ourselves. We are the multiple and the prodigy of the community around us, as they are of us. Entrepreneur Mastery Lab (EML) If you’re in the EML it’s because of our belief system and that you share some, or all, of our beliefs. The lab was created as movement and a vehicle to better the way that we do business and live our lives. If you’re not a member we highly encourage you to join right now and become a part of something greater than yourself. Join our Facebook Group If you’re curious why we’re discussing beliefs at all, check out our most recent podcast where we spoke with Mark and John Cronin of John’s Crazy Socks, the worlds largest sock company. You can listen in here!
The Influence Of Mindset
Mindset can have great influence on who we are and what we achieve. If you didn’t check out our weekly newsletter on this topic, shoot us a note and we’ll send you a one off. We explore how the concept of our thoughts being our existence first came into the world of philosophy all the way nearly 500 years ago! But enough about philosophy, here is the simple truth. Our beliefs and our thoughts drive our actions. Our actions, our beliefs and our thoughts are who we are in this world. It’s no more complicated than that. Here’s proof. Who do you believe you are? What do you think you’re good at? What do you think you’re bad at? When you do the things that you believe you’re good at, are you good at them? When you do the things you think you’re bad at, are you bad at them? Even if you were wonderful at the things you thought you were bad at, if you believed strongly enough you were bad, if you thought strongly enough you were bad, even objective observers would start to be persuaded that you were bad. In fact, the power of thought is so strong that even something you carry expertise in can be cast into doubt with the smallest of questions. Have you ever been asked a question about something you at any other time would be 100% positive about? Something you knew so certainly that you’d bet your life on it? Then all of a sudden, that certainty is questioned and now you’re doubting your own knowledge that you would have bet your life on at another time. This happens to people all of the time. It’s perfectly natural and it’s also perfectly indicative of how strongly our thoughts influence who we are. Are we an expert, or are we a fraud? Do we know this for certain, or do we doubt our own expertise? Our mindset is an enormous driver of our success in our professional and our personal lives. Mindset is at the core of everything we do in the Lab and is central to our beRICH mindset and a foundation part of our process, Mastery With Science. Every day we have an opportunity to be aware of and control our own internal narrative. We think, therefore we are and we are what we think. How you let your mindset influence you will influence, impact and control how you show up every day in your own life and the lives of the people around you. Want to know more about mindset? Join us in the lab here, where we will be discussing this theme throughout the week. You can also listen in to our most recent podcast with special guest, Suzanne Taylor of Taylord Consulting. Suzanne is a practitioner of Positive Psychology and helps her clients combat the self-sabotage of negative self talk and harmful mindsets! Listen to the Podcast