Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

Business author and coach Dan Sullivan says this: “10X is easier than 2X.”[5] Here’s what he means: The key that unlocks success is zooming out of our everyday problems and looking at them more holistically. It’s the first lesson you learn in defensive baseball. When a pop fly is coming your way, take a step back. Always. When you remove yourself f

You may remember the tip about making a vision board in chapter 1. That may help you get a jump start!

The CLEAR steps can help defuse the awkwardness of offering clearing conversations. This is best done, at first, in a one-one-one environment where the leader invites feedback: Create a warm environment. Lead them to offering critical feedback. Empathize. Ask if there’s more. Reject or accept the feedback.

In the simplest way possible, Brad was passing on one of the entrepreneur’s greatest strengths—their problem-solving abilities.

Hobbies: use decompression. Hobbies, remember those? Running, hockey, perusing the used bookstore for first editions . . . those fun things you used to have time for? When you return from your run, take your skates off, or put down your new favorite book, you feel refreshed. Your face shows it, and so does your attitude. Your hobbies aren’t just fo

Hack 3: Definition of Done There’s one thing many entrepreneurs think: No one ever does it right. There’s an easy hack to solve that problem: a Definition of Done (or, as I like to call it, a DoD).[*] I use this for every person at every level in my company. For instance, when I ask my administrative assistant to purchase a whiteboard, I give them

Does this task (email) stress me out more than other tasks? When

Why are you interested in this position? What do you know about our company? What is your ideal work environment? What are your strengths? Where do you see yourself in five years? The video upload is important—this ensures that candidates can use basic technology. It’s a hidden test embedded in the project itself. Second, I don’t care how they answ

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