Leverage is the entrepreneur’s friend. It can help you do more with less. And you can use it, even if you never plan to own a business. Today, we’ll share how to use it to advance in your career more quickly.
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We met Liz Strauss through Chris Brogan many years ago, who recommended we reach out to her. Liz had a successful blog with tens of thousands of comments. She would start conversations there, and in the comment section, a community grew. Not too long after meeting Liz, she became our first business coach.
In addition to being a relationship builder, Liz was well-regarded as a business strategist, a coach, a keynote speaker, author, and the CEO and founder of one of the most intimate conferences ever! SOBCon, a conference for successful and outstanding bloggers was a popular event held in Chicago, described as where the virtual meets the concrete.
We hear it said all the time – network, network, network.
Most new jobs are found through a referral from the job changer’s network.
Your BIGG idea – for your life, your career, or your startup – will likely come from your network.
The capital you need for your business will likely come from someone you know or someone they know.
If you’re married, you met your spouse thanks to networking.
Networks make things happen. Who you know counts at least as much as what you know.
Your network is a huge resource. It’s one of your single, most significant assets.
It’s there, working for you. It makes your life easier.
It helps you get to places you could never get on your own. It can’t guarantee BIGG success, but it can accelerate your progress to it.
All of that is well and good. But why should you network all the time?
Because you never know.
You never know when the person you meet today will help you.
You never know when you will be able to help them.
You never know when the goodwill you build will come back to you.
You just never know.
You just never know when an opportunity will present itself.
You just never know when your life will change forever.
You just never know when you will change someone else’s life forever.
As Chuck Brodsky said:
“We are each other’s angels; we meet when it is time.”
Since we don’t know when it’s time, networking all the time leads to BIGG success!
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One of the reasons we don't feel more abundance is because we've bought into the mindset that everything is a zero-sum game. Somebody has to lose in order for anybody to win.
Hollywood says so.
Our media tells us that it's the case.
Politicians don’t get it.
Successful entrepreneurs get it.
Bigg success is life on your own terms. Implicit in that definition is that you are the entrepreneur of your life.
You own it. You are in charge. There’s something successful entrepreneurs understand that many people – including the elite in our society – just don’t get.
Entrepreneurs know that they win second.
In order for them to win, at least some portion of society must win first. They create fortunes because they understand that there are very few zero-sum games in the world.
Think about it. In most cases, we do business with people because it's mutually beneficial. If it weren't, we would stop doing business together.
So if we take the "zero-sum" attitude, we won't create value. If one party has to lose so the other party can win, nothing is added to society.
Bill Gates got it. He became the richest person in the world because a large number of people felt that Microsoft’s products made their lives and / or their businesses better.
Some argue about his contribution. That will be true of your contribution as well. You will face critics if you do anything of any significance.
But you won’t care.
You will let the market vote. You will know that you have helped people win because they will vote with their dollars. They choose to work with you because you make their lives better in some way.
Warren Buffett got it. Like Bill Gates, he has ascended to the top of the list of the richest people in the world. He did it by delivering returns to his investors that they couldn’t achieve on their own.
To live abundantly, we must first discard the zero-sum game mentality.
The best way to do that is one relationship at a time. We must adopt a win / win attitude in every relationship we have. When we do that we create value.
The value of any relationship is the emotional goodwill you have created in that relationship. The sum of the value of all of your relationships is the value of your network.
Now and in the foreseeable future, the greatest wealth will be created by people with the best networks. Create value – and therefore abundance – for other people and you'll find abundance in your own life.
Now, please understand that it doesn't happen instantly. In the economy of a previous generation, you had to plant in the spring if you wanted to harvest in the fall. It may take days, weeks, months, or even years for you to see the result.
However, if all you see when you look at people is dollar signs, you won't harvest the opportunities presented in the years ahead. You won't create wealth. You won't feel abundance.
Put other people first. Look for a win for them with all the fervor you look for a win for you. That’s a mindset that leads to bigg success.
We’re thrilled that you checked in with us today. Thanks so much.
Please join us next time as we wrap up this series on abundance. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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This is the final installment of our five-part series on freedom. In the first three parts, we discussed the 3 levels of freedom – freedom of, freedom from, and freedom to. Last time we talked about financial freedom.
Now we want to talk about the freedom to spend your time however you want. If you can do that, we think you’re a free agent. We’ll identify four types of free agents today:
Aggressive Passives let their money work for them so they don’t have to work. They make enough money from their investments to pay for their desired standard of living. So they are free to spend their time however they want.
The amount of money you need to be an Aggressive Passive is a lot less if you’re perfectly content not living lavishly than if you want to live large. But it’s life on your own terms, go for what you want.
In our last post, we discussed paths to financial freedom. If you want to be an Aggressive Passive – and you want it sooner rather than later – you’re going to focus on the wealth building path. Maximize income, minimize costs and build Assets – most likely your own business or real estate.
The Passion Player
Passion Players love what they do so much that they don’t feel like they’re working. In many cases, their hobby is their craft and their craft is their hobby.
We have a friend who had built up an incredible business and sold it off. Now he’s back in the same type of business only this time he’s doing it with no employees. He chooses his clients very carefully. He takes plenty of time off, yet he’s still doing very well money-wise. He’s thrilled!
You may choose to work inside a corporation and be a Passion Player. Just keep in mind that, in addition to your work, you must love working for and with the people around you. Since you only have one client – your employer – that may be difficult at times.
Inside or outside of a company, your focus as a Passion Player is building up your personal brand. It may make sense to do this while you have the security of a full-time job. But there’s also some real security – as well as freedom – in moving from an employer (which is like having only one client) to multiple clients.
The Automatic Pilot
Automatic Pilots don’t just sell a product or a service. They don’t just create a brand. These free agents build a business.
In that business, they develop systems and controls. The systems insure a consistent standard of the product or service they offer. The controls allow these free agents to step away from their business without fear of it falling apart.
While they develop their systems and controls, they also train a protégé who can run the business in their absence. Once the protégé is fully trained, the entrepreneur is a free agent!
The Synergizer Bunny
These free agents sit at the hub of a network. They tap that network to bring the best people to the table.
Synergizer bunnies don’t just do projects with others. Bigg success comes to them by creating entire businesses through strategic alliances. Everyone involved is well compensated and the customers receive a great value. It’s a win all the way around.
That’s the key to becoming a free agent of any type: Help others find ways to improve their lives and you’ll be a bigg success.
Thanks so much for checking in on us today. Please join us next time when we’ll discuss one of the best assets to have today. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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Bad news is the news. We hear a lot about the scarcity. We don’t hear so much about the abundance. 
This is the final installment of our five-part series on freedom. In the first three parts, we discussed the 3 levels of freedom –