On this episode of Business Insanity Talk Radio, we first talk about how you can boost your productivity. Then, what is it really like to be an entrepreneur? Believe it or not, we’ll show you why it’s like skiing. Next, as an entrepreneur, what happens in your mind when you are dealt setbacks? We’ll talk about the mindsets of entrepreneurs that make them successful. Finally, we’ll show you how to break out of the defeatist mindset, negative behavior, and bad habits that are holding you back from success.
Listen and enjoy:
Segment 1: Chris Bailey is the author of “The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy”. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.
2:30 – What did Chris learn from all of this?
3:45 – How to slow down to work more deliberately.
5:00 – How to eliminate the unimportant tasks in your day.
7:15 – The 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions.
9:00 – Schedule less time for important tasks.
Segment 2: Kathryn Kemp Guylay is an author, speaker, certified nutritional counselor and coach with a master’s degree in business. She left management consulting with Fortune 500 companies to found Nurture, a national nonprofit that provides wellness education to tens of thousands of children and parents. She is involved in the thriving small business community in Ketchum, Idaho as a Mentor for the Ketchum Innovation Center.
15:30 – Kathryn says skiing is a metaphor for being an entrepreneur. How?
17:45 – Three techniques to overcome fear.
19:30 – Entrepreneurship is a mental game.
20:45 – Why you should “throw yourself down the mountain”.
22:30 – How do create a vision?
23:50 – Actionable steps to break “analysis paralysis”.
Segment 3: Beverly Jones, is a master of reinvention. She led university programs for women before trailblazing her career as a Washington lawyer and Fortune 500 energy executive. Based in Washington DC, Jones works with accomplished leaders in Congress, at major federal agencies, NGOs, universities, and large corporations.
31:20 – How does someone “think like an entrepreneur”?
33:15 – How do you stay steady in the midst of constant change?
34:45 – How do you recover from stress and setbacks?
Segment 4: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.
40:30 – Do any of these sound familiar?
42:15 – How to take your business to the next level.
43:30 – What’s in the Unstuck course?
46:30 – Special offer code.
Segment 5: Lisa Nichols is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motivating the Masses, Inc. Twenty years ago, Lisa was a single mother dependent on public assistance and jumping from one dead-end job to the next. Determined to break out of the defeatist mindset, negative behavior, and bad habits that were holding her back from success, she resolved to change her life. Lisa is the New York Times bestselling author of No Matter What! (April 2009), and the recurring motivational speaking coach on The Steve Harvey Show and the Today show. She co-authored Jack Canfield’s Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul (2004), as well as Chicken Soup for the African-American Woman’s Soul (2012). Her new book is “ABUNDANCE NOW: Amplify Your Life & Achieve Prosperity Today.”
49:50 – What does it take to go from the shame and desperation of the welfare line to the riches and self-worth of building something bigger?
50:45 – What was Lisa’s tipping point for changing her lifestyle?
51:55 – The key to helping you find your breathtaking and inspiring life assignment.
