Adam Kiddoo

Whether it’s for business or something more personal, setting goals and working towards achieving those goals can be daunting yet necessary tasks. In this episode, Adam teams up with Alon David, the man behind the 90x Planner, to discuss what it takes to set down plans that lead to success, as well as the magic of writing things down.

As a man who loves setting goals, Alon takes us through his own planning process which involves casting a vision, writing down your goals, identifying your why, and committing to action. At the same time, he gives us a peek into how he channels those steps into his own life and career, especially in developing the 90x Planner.

For Alon and Adam, planning for success is all about living from your goals and not allowing failures to achieve goals in the past hit you in the back. While the journey to achieve our goals may not be clear cut all the time, continuously moving forward and taking small steps each day towards our goals will eventually lead us to where we want to be.

James Wedmore joins Adam in tearing down the common strongholds of fear that continue to keep entrepreneurs from turning their visions into realities.

To kick-off the episode, they first reflect on the early days of their respective entrepreneur journeys. From that, they head into a discussion on the lie about not being enough that entrepreneurs need to break away from. They also hit on how worrying about everyone’s opinion and focusing on limitations are actually the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs can make in life and in business.

Truly, the greatest obstacles to success are those in our minds. To get out of our own way, James challenges us to capitalize on the value of our unique individual life experience, to value the opinions of those most important to us, and most importantly, to get out of our heads.

Our minds are reservoirs of stories – stories about our identity and worth that utimately determine our life and our success. Neurologically, our brains are programmed to keep us safe, and overtime, it has automated thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and actions which ensure that outcome. As entrepreneurs, however, who must dive into the stress of risk and the unfamiliar. How do we reprogram our thoughts to align with our desire for success in spite of that being outside of what our brain typically considers safe?

For neuropsychologist Dr. Shannon Irvine, neuro-hacking the brain involves a combination of brain priming and breaking down neural networks that no longer serve us. In this episode, she illustrates how the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and neurochemicals affect our decisions and actions. She also lays out her 4-R Process for unpacking the stories in our subconscious, so that they can help us succeed instead of becoming our roadblocks.

When we can slow down and evaluate the stories which our mind operate on, we empower ourselves to create new stories that will shape our reality. As we choose to take our thinking off of autopilot, the way we feel things, see things, and experience the events around us will begin to change.

Time and again we’ve heard that if you’re creating content and putting it online, you need to develop a habit of consistency, but how do you make that happen when you’ve made a commitment to do it daily? Marc Mawhinney, also known as the coach’s coach, has spent around the last 4 years creating daily emails for his business without fail. For this episode, he details the factors that has helped him keep up with that commitment and keep his audience engaged.

As a coach for coaches, Marc also outlines the three basic steps for entrepreneurs interested in starting their own coaching program while painting a picture of the amount of work that goes into becoming a coach. With the broadness of the coaching business landscape, Adam and Marc also highlight the concept of “niching down,” why entrepreneurs shouldn’t be afraid of this concept, and how far you can go in defining your niche.

Goodbye avoidance, and hello growth!

In this quick episode, Adam continues to teach us how to rein in fear and confront the things that we’ve been avoiding. When we choose to avoid tough conversations or actions that we need to take in our lives and businesses, our minds waste energy. That energy helps us show up in a powerful and effective way.

Although it is possible to power through work and life while setting aside the things that we need to do, we will never be able to show up fully unless we choose to be courageous. Avoidance will chip away at our self-esteem, and fear will fool us into thinking that we are not equipped to face this situation, person, or task, but the truth is that we have all that we need. When we hold on to this truth, we set our energy free. We set ourselves free.

Author and entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has built his career around simplifying complex business concepts for other entrepreneurs, so in this episode he rounds up the best practices to help free us up so that we can focus on designing our business. Oftentimes, businesses are likened to babies that entrepreneurs give life to and nurture. However, to create a business that really thrives on its own, we need to begin viewing our business as a conjoined twin that must be slowly and surgically separated from us.

No doubt, this process of separation can be a lengthy one, so to get us started, Mike maps out a few simple steps to help us identify the Queen Bee Role in our business and how to protect that through proper task management and delegation. Taking time to evaluate our business and to create effective systems is no easy task, but when we dedicate ourselves to streamlining how our businesses are run then we can live the lives that we truly desire and open up ourselves to serving our community better.