The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path You Don't Have to Have All the Answers How do you know when to jump in and when to stay out of it? It's the question that runs through your head twenty times a week. Somebody's about to send something with a wrong number in it. A client request has been sitting for three days. A call is going sideways and you can hear it from the next room. Every time, you've got about four seconds to decide whether you step in or let it play out....
7 days ago • 4 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New especial episode TODAY! 👇🏻 You Already Know the Move I've got a piece of content sitting on my drive that's been finished for months. I wish I was making this up. I keep telling myself I'm "refining" it. But if I stop to think about it, it’s more than ready. It should’ve already been shipped. You've probably got your own version. Bigger than a doc, maybe. Maybe it's a hire you keep almost making. Or pricing you...
14 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path The Trap That Pays You to Stay in It Selling more and doing more of the work you’re great at sounds like exactly what you want to be doing. And they are - most of the time. That also makes them an easy way to procrastinate and avoid decisions your business needs you to make in order to continue growing. Daniel Wakefield knows this trap well. He's the founder of Top-Tier Headshots, and he’s arguably the best in the world at what he...
21 days ago • 2 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path When the Business Is Still Built Around You You spend your sharpest hours on work that shouldn't need you anymore. And by the time you get to the work that actually moves the business forward... you’re drained.Lest we forget, you’re running an expertise business. So you can see how you’re sabotaging your primary weapon, right? But it's much harder to see it when you're the one in the weeds and you're spending time on things that...
28 days ago • 2 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Shireen Hilal! 👇🏻 Your Business Is Perfectly Designed to Cap the Value of Your Time As a founder, your time has a value, and you want it to be as valuable as possible. That value isn't fixed, but it doesn’t increase by accident. Most founders never get intentional about increasing it. So they cap their own value without realizing it. It can be a little uncomfortable to consider, but your time...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path Are you sure your effort is going to the right place? Get clarity on what to fix first. The Trade You're Making Without Realizing It One of the most important things you can do as a founder is get good at knowing what to focus on and what to say no to. I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a founder who'd committed to a growth priority for the quarter. He wanted to build new strategic relationships to open up new revenue. He...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Katelyn Bourgoin!👇🏻 When the Business Doesn't Need You at 100% One of my advisory clients was running his business for six months at about half his usual capacity. Something was going on with his health that he hadn't fully figured out yet. His morning routine stopped. His energy after work disappeared. He couldn't bring himself to set quarterly goals. He kept brushing it off. "I'm just tired."...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path Your Busiest Weeks Aren't Your Best Weeks Last week a client came back from a long weekend trip and had a “first-day-back-do-I regret-taking-time-off” stressball moment. He had that ‘feeling’ of having a week's worth of catching up to do. The first thing we do when we connect is update on the priorities for the week. He named his three, clear and concise. That told me his head was much clearer than he was letting on, or that he...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Joe Gannon! 👇🏻 These Decisions Get Harder As You Grow A friend just walked away from a six-figure contract. She'd outgrown it. About a year and a half ago, she took on a contract role alongside her consultancy. Her business was in its early stages. She needed income. Ten hours a week for steady revenue while she built her own thing. At that point in her journey, it made sense. She traded some...
2 months ago • 3 min read