Dan Martell - August 10, 2015


Turning Pro (i.e. Stop F-ing Around)


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5 minutes

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1,070

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In this episode, I talk about turning pro, or as I like to call it, "Stop effing around" in your business. Turning pro is when you stop deferring to the other co-founder and take full responsibility for the business you re building.

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00:00:00.400 Turning pro, or as I like to say it, stop effing around.
00:00:04.400 Today, I'm really excited to share with you guys five different tips to really get you going to a level of commitment in your business.
00:00:12.740 You know, recently I was talking to a founder, and they have a very successful business.
00:00:17.500 But because there's co-founders, I think a lot of times when we were talking about some of the challenges they were having,
00:00:22.620 it was the deferring to the other co-founder where I didn't feel like anybody really took
00:00:28.600 responsibility for being a founder or essentially owning up what it means to run a business and to
00:00:34.760 be a leader so what I want to share with you guys today is you know what some people call turning
00:00:39.140 pro but really just stop being a wantrepreneur and be a true entrepreneur so the third one is
00:00:45.720 claim your role. Claim it as a CEO, as a founder. Claim it as a leader. Own it. Don't
00:00:52.460 defer it. Don't expect other people to do this. This is your responsibility as a founder
00:00:57.280 to just get there and own it. And even if you feel, I mean, I can't tell you, you probably
00:01:02.820 sometimes have this thing called imposter syndrome where you don't feel like, you feel
00:01:06.560 like you're being asked or looked at in a certain light and someday somebody's going
00:01:10.560 to figure out that you're not capable of what they think you are. Trust me, we all
00:01:14.380 I'll go through that, but claiming your role
00:01:16.540 is the way to really set the stage to show up
00:01:19.660 and make sure that everybody knows
00:01:22.420 that that's what you're there for.
00:01:23.620 So that's one.
00:01:24.460 The second one is to write it down and share it.
00:01:27.200 Share it with everybody.
00:01:28.500 First, write it down.
00:01:29.360 Commit it to paper and pen.
00:01:31.800 Make sure that you've outlined exactly
00:01:34.760 what your responsibilities are,
00:01:36.360 and if you haven't seen my video on the responsibilities
00:01:38.880 of CEO, definitely check that out,
00:01:40.200 but really write down what you wanna get done
00:01:42.800 in this business, what you feel your responsibilities are,
00:01:45.500 and share it with other people.
00:01:47.080 Share your vision, because if you're not willing,
00:01:49.980 you know, on a daily basis, to let the exterior world,
00:01:52.640 the people that go to work every day
00:01:54.720 and they don't want things to change,
00:01:55.640 if you're not willing to share your crazy ideas with them,
00:01:58.620 then you gotta start asking yourself,
00:02:00.460 what's my level of commitment to this business, right?
00:02:03.780 If you just feel you can do it as a side project
00:02:06.260 and not tell anybody, I would challenge you
00:02:08.520 that you're not committed to that,
00:02:10.020 and you're still not pro, you haven't turned pro,
00:02:12.520 You're still acting as a entrepreneur
00:02:13.980 and I wanna challenge you guys
00:02:14.840 to really share it with others,
00:02:16.620 write it down on paper first
00:02:17.700 and really get things going.
00:02:19.620 The other thing I think that turning pro means
00:02:21.820 is just showing up every day.
00:02:24.560 Show up and be that founder.
00:02:27.020 It's another level of claiming.
00:02:28.420 Claiming is just internalizing
00:02:30.160 that this is my role in life
00:02:31.560 but then every day, not five days a week,
00:02:34.900 seven days a week, show up as that CEO,
00:02:37.600 as that founder and really let people know
00:02:40.420 this is what I'm doing.
00:02:41.740 I am leading.
00:02:42.540 I am building this company.
00:02:43.800 This is where we're going
00:02:44.680 and we're dead set on getting there.
00:02:46.380 I'm a thousand percent committed
00:02:47.780 and nothing's gonna stop me.
00:02:49.340 So you can either join this train
00:02:50.900 or please move aside because it's gonna happen.
00:02:54.000 And that to me is what showing up truly is about.
00:02:57.080 It's setting that intention.
00:02:58.680 It's communicating that with passion and certainty
00:03:01.180 and doing that on a daily basis,
00:03:03.680 even on Saturdays and Sundays
00:03:05.220 because to me, entrepreneurship is just part of living.
00:03:08.440 It's who you are.
00:03:08.980 It's your life.
00:03:09.700 And you wanna do that every day.
00:03:10.740 The other thing I want to let you guys know that
00:03:12.740 turning pro is really about progress, not perfection.
00:03:15.740 You know, a lot of people, they get stuck.
00:03:18.740 They just think like every duck needs to be in line
00:03:21.740 before I even start.
00:03:22.740 And I'm going to tell you guys right now that you really
00:03:24.740 just need to go and start making progress.
00:03:27.740 And even if you have that one day where you're off or you just
00:03:30.740 feel like staying home and you don't want to even go to work
00:03:32.740 or see anybody and, you know, you want to binge watch
00:03:35.740 House of Cards, I know you're like,
00:03:37.740 whoa, is he, how does he know that that's me?
00:03:39.740 Let me tell you guys, everybody goes through it.
00:03:42.540 But it's not about being a perfectionist
00:03:45.060 and making sure that every day is perfect.
00:03:47.080 It's about progress.
00:03:48.040 It's about saying, okay, you know what?
00:03:49.140 I didn't have a great day that day,
00:03:51.220 but I'm gonna get up the next day
00:03:52.480 and really make it happen.
00:03:54.400 And the fifth thing for me turning pro,
00:03:56.180 and this is probably the most fun one.
00:03:57.500 This is one I bring a lot of enthusiasm and joy to.
00:03:59.960 It is being a super student.
00:04:01.940 Hashtag super student.
00:04:03.860 It's being intrigued in all aspects of your business,
00:04:07.740 from the marketing to the people part
00:04:09.540 to the customers, to the solution,
00:04:11.560 like really trying to take your things to the next level.
00:04:14.280 It's becoming a student of business and of life
00:04:17.560 and going deep and trying to study as much as you can,
00:04:21.180 finding people that are in this industry,
00:04:22.940 learning from them, but never stop learning.
00:04:26.240 I see so many entrepreneurs, they start in that phase
00:04:28.700 where they're kind of in the research phase
00:04:30.240 and then they start learning things
00:04:32.480 and then they start executing
00:04:33.660 and then they actually have success.
00:04:36.000 They break a million dollars in revenue
00:04:37.360 and then they stop.
00:04:38.480 they stop being a student,
00:04:40.180 and they forget what it was like to do that.
00:04:42.440 I really believe that that just should be part
00:04:44.120 of your operating system, about your life,
00:04:46.360 and being a student of your business
00:04:48.580 is critical to turning pro.
00:04:51.080 I would invite you guys to like this video.
00:04:53.700 Leave me a comment if you have some other strategies
00:04:55.820 for turning pro, I'd love to hear from them below.
00:04:57.960 I wanna challenge you guys to live a bigger life
00:05:00.700 and a bigger business, and I'll see you guys next Monday.