Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...
Capacity Counts: 25 Points of Peril & The High Cost of Getting It Wrong
Being unaware of your true effective capacity as an individual and as a company is deadly. If the leader of the company overestimates his capacity, he’ll flood his company with unrealistic expectations, fantasy projects, and vague goals that will cripple the...
What is a Growth Engine? 3 Key Features of Complex Business Systems That Actually Work
Just what the heck is a growth engine anyway? Where do you find them? How are they different from marketing solutions you can buy off the shelf? What exactly does the term Growth Engine mean? In this post we’ll cover the gist, key components, to help you filter out...
How The 80/20 Addiction Leads to Business Failures
When people talk about the 80/20 Rule, they are most often referring to the idea that 20% of an effort produces 80% of the desired results. And that by focusing on enhancing that 20% you can optimize your business. However, there are a few problems with this concept...
5 Digital WorkSpaces That Outperform Your Inbox
You deserve a smart workspace that foster focused work. So does your team. Your email inbox is the opposite of that. If you’ve read my post on why the habit of zeroing out your inbox is killing you’re productivity, then you know that things need to change. If you...
Addicted to Zeroing Out Your Inbox? Here’s Why You Need To Stop
When you sit at your computer, if the first screen you pop open is your email inbox, it’s probably your goto workspace throughout your day. The inbox is a great place to be responsive to business needs and customers, but it’s overrun with distractions, that help you...
Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, And Richard Branson All Use This Productivity Trick
TLDR - It's called showing up and doing the work. Let me save you some wasted hours on the Internet. Whatever you're trying to achieve, let me answer the question you're unconsciously asking yourself. The answer is YES. Yes, there are hundreds of ways to do it better...
The Heroik Hour Podcast 22: 4 Steps to Make Your Vision a Reality
Welcome to The Heroik Hour - the Podcast dedicated to getting you mission ready for life by giving you nuggets of wisdom around health, wealth, and work in the real world. If you’ve never heard this podcast before, we’re all about taking the deep dives into the...
Becoming Indispensible: 9 Ways to Cultivate an Adaptive Mindset at Work
Given the complexity and speed of which things change in our lives these days, an adaptive mindset is essential to building a resilient, sustainable and thriving business. An adaptive mindset is a mental attitude of assessing the facts and circumstances of the...
Time, Energy and Attention, Where are You Pouring Your TEA?
Track This: Where and how you spend your focused attention; time, energy and attention. The most important metric or currency of these days seems to be our focused, attention time, composed of time, energy and attention (TEA). The modern audience of potential...
Creating Inbox Awesome: The Amazingly Successful Heroik Outreach Email Formula
Meeting someone once or twice is pretty easy. Creating a robust professional relationship requires work and TLC. You can run into the same person at a mixer or 3. Connecting in meaningful ways, or even reconnecting, proves to be an elusive skill for most. If you're...
7 Apps That Will Instantly Make You a Speed Reading Genius
It’s amazing to me, how many ambitious upstarts have the passion for new endeavor, yet hate to read and learn to reach their goals. If reading is a barrier to improvement for you, perhaps because you find it slow-paced, difficult or uninteresting, then you’re...
Free Download: Perk up Your Productivity With Some Cafe Ambiance
Recent studies show that a moderate level of ambient noise can boost productivity. Absolute silence makes it difficult to be creative. Too much noise can be distracting. The right mix of calm and productive cafe culture is just what the doctor ordered. According to a...
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