Dan Martell - 5 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Your Entrepreneurial Life

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00:00:12.120 Five ways to improve the quality of your life

00:00:14.800 as an entrepreneur.

00:00:15.760 In this video, I wanna share with you guys

00:00:17.640 some really quick strategies and some ideas

00:00:19.920 that I think are worth considering

00:00:21.880 to really get the most out of this journey

00:00:23.960 that we're all on.

00:00:24.800 If you're building a business,

00:00:25.640 you know that it can be frustrating.

00:00:27.160 You can wake up in days and it just feels

00:00:29.200 like nothing's going your way and I really think

00:00:31.780 that at the end of the day we need to own it.

00:00:33.540 We need to really say, what have I done in my life

00:00:36.440 to create this circumstance or what's the set of beliefs

00:00:38.920 or questions or all these different aspects

00:00:41.240 that kind of affect our mood, you know?

00:00:43.540 Recently I was talking with an entrepreneur

00:00:45.320 and they wanted to bring in a business partner

00:00:47.660 because they were having challenges in their business

00:00:49.680 and the language, the sentence that they said

00:00:52.580 that just stopped me and I was like,

00:00:53.800 hmm, let me just challenge you on that,

00:00:55.500 was I can't wait for this person to come in

00:00:58.640 and fix all these problems.

00:01:00.680 And I agree that that's great.

00:01:02.180 When you hire great people and they come in

00:01:03.980 and they can solve those challenges for you,

00:01:05.920 awesome sauce, cool, do that, no problem.

00:01:09.720 What I challenged them on was the thinking around,

00:01:12.520 hey, what about instead of saying that,

00:01:14.460 you ask yourself, who do I need to become

00:01:17.260 to deal with these challenges?

00:01:18.660 Because that to me is the bigger question in itself.

00:01:21.860 You know, at the end of the day,

00:01:22.900 when you have goals for yourself, for your business,

00:01:25.340 it's not I wanna achieve that outcome,

00:01:27.740 It's who do I need to become to achieve that outcome?

00:01:30.840 And sometimes we should, I think,

00:01:33.320 really want challenges in our lives

00:01:35.220 because those are the moments that really push us

00:01:37.220 and make us grow.

00:01:38.820 So what I wanna share with you guys is five different areas

00:01:41.360 to think about to help you improve the quality

00:01:44.200 of your life as an entrepreneur.

00:01:45.720 Number one is your ability to deal with uncertainty.

00:01:48.200 At the end of the day, I get it, some of you guys are OCD.

00:01:50.900 You like order, you like structure, you like predictability.

00:01:53.760 The truth is if you wanna build a business,

00:01:55.400 you just gotta be okay with the fact

00:01:57.440 that every day, there's no predictability.

00:02:01.600 There's only uncertainty.

00:02:03.780 It's almost like the more uncertainty you're able

00:02:06.220 to deal with, the bigger your business is gonna be.

00:02:09.180 And it might sound counterintuitive,

00:02:10.660 but trust me, over the years, that's what I've learned,

00:02:13.200 that the higher level you go,

00:02:14.900 the more you push on the world to change,

00:02:16.700 the more you value you create in the world,

00:02:18.760 the more uncertainty that will be present.

00:02:20.540 So dealing with the amount of uncertainty is the key.

00:02:24.080 Number two is the quality of your relationships.

00:02:26.640 Think about the conversations you have,

00:02:28.640 the people you spend the most time with.

00:02:30.780 What is the quality of those relationships?

00:02:32.840 Are they pulling you back?

00:02:34.420 Are they pushing you forward?

00:02:35.820 Are they challenging and questioning everything you're doing?

00:02:39.080 Or believing in you more than you believe in yourself?

00:02:42.400 Number two to me is all about the quality of the relationships

00:02:45.020 to really get the best quality of your entrepreneurial life.

00:02:48.760 Number three is the questions.

00:02:50.440 As I said in the beginning, you know,

00:02:52.240 it really for me is the questions that you ask.

00:02:54.700 It's the way you frame it.

00:02:55.940 If you think about it, ask me a question like,

00:02:58.140 how can I create more value for my customers

00:03:00.120 than anybody else on the planet?

00:03:01.920 That's a great question.

00:03:03.020 Or what three actions or strategies or projects

00:03:06.480 could I take on now that would make everything else

00:03:08.580 I had planned obsolete?

00:03:10.420 Meaning that those would surpass

00:03:11.880 and I would get more leverage doing those

00:03:14.160 than the ones that I've currently got on my to-do list.

00:03:16.720 Or better yet, how could I change my work environment

00:03:20.600 to have three times, 10 times more fun?

00:03:23.400 Would that mean stand up desk or bouncy balls

00:03:26.540 or working out at lunch?

00:03:27.580 Whatever it is, I feel like sometimes

00:03:29.200 the quality of our questions will really guide us

00:03:31.880 in our life and you don't have to know the answer,

00:03:33.740 you just have to have better questions.

00:03:35.820 Number four is the quality of your thoughts.

00:03:37.680 The cool part is if you ask better questions,

00:03:39.380 you'll get better thoughts but really to me

00:03:41.260 this is the opportunity to reflect and sit down

00:03:43.620 and if you don't have a journaling practice,

00:03:45.280 it's something that I've been doing for years,

00:03:47.420 it really gives you the opportunity

00:03:48.800 to get what's in your mind out on paper

00:03:50.960 and just reflect on it and see it

00:03:53.000 and challenge some of the ways that you think about business,

00:03:56.400 the way you prioritize, the way you assign meaning

00:04:00.040 to the outcomes that happen in your life

00:04:01.840 to improve the quality of your thoughts.

00:04:04.240 And five, the ability to communicate.

00:04:07.240 I think really deciding that my ability to communicate,

00:04:11.280 maybe my strength is through voice

00:04:13.320 and it could be just not even video, just voice.

00:04:15.420 Or maybe, and you can use tools like Voxer,

00:04:17.560 check out Voxer, it's incredible for interacting

00:04:19.500 and communicating with your team at scale.

00:04:22.120 or it could be written through writing emails

00:04:25.520 or blogging or kinda getting your thoughts out there,

00:04:28.000 or it could be through video like this format.

00:04:30.000 Whatever it is for you, choosing a channel

00:04:34.100 or a communication style and really going all in and deep

00:04:37.560 and making sure that you are able to communicate your vision,

00:04:40.600 able to really set priorities and clarity

00:04:43.400 around the projects you wanna get done with your team,

00:04:45.920 I think is a huge opportunity for you to improve

00:04:49.040 the quality of your entrepreneurial life.

00:04:50.820 So real quick recap, your ability to deal with uncertainty,

00:04:54.800 the quality of your relationships,

00:04:57.140 the quality of your questions,

00:05:00.140 the quality of your thoughts,

00:05:02.780 and then finally, your ability to communicate with the world.

00:05:07.060 Those are five different ways

00:05:08.580 that you can improve the quality of your life

00:05:10.360 as an entrepreneur.

00:05:11.240 I would love to hear from you below in the comments.

00:05:13.600 Do you have any other suggestions for the community

00:05:16.100 to know or to improve the way they show up in the world,

00:05:19.720 the way they become a great entrepreneur.

00:05:21.600 I'd love to hear from you below, and as per usual,

00:05:23.720 I wanna challenge you to live a bigger life

00:05:25.200 and a bigger business, and I'll see you next Monday.

00:05:27.360 Yo, yo, yo, what's up?

00:05:28.820 If you like this video, be sure to subscribe to my channel

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00:05:41.180 And if you want more, Dan,

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00:05:44.900 Hope this video finds you well.

00:05:46.420 Have an incredible day, and I'll see you next week.

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Dan Martell - December 12, 2016

5 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Your Entrepreneurial Life

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