I upset conventional business thinkers. Branding & business for creative founders in the New Economy. Lessons from my experience operating Sandpaper Studio since 2006.
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Published 6 months ago • 4 min read
Did you win the lottery when you were born?
I feel that way sometimes. Certainly not in the financial sense, but in the tribal sense.
You see: Your influences shape your reality.
Positive. Negative. It doesn't matter. The concept that you "you are the average of the five people you hang out with most" is true.
In life. In business. In everything.
I was thinking about this while driving back from Colorado with my family yesterday. We were discussing Father's Day, and I was still reflecting on the time with my dad in the mountains.
We first started traveling to Colorado every year when I was 7 years old. My parents decided to pour their savings into a timeshare condo when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Back then, surviving that diagnosis was a coin toss. My dad had already lost his sister to breast cancer when she was only in her early 20s.
So, they decided to spend money they didn't have so we could spend as much time as possible together as a family should the worst come to pass. I can still vividly remember my father talking to my siblings and me in the driveway of my childhood home as he was trying to explain how my mom was really sick and he didn't know what the future would hold.
I'm happy to report that my mom is alive and well to this day.
And the same is true for my dad.
As we enjoyed time together in the mountains this year, I was constantly reminded of the example he set for me and my siblings. In fact, many of the lessons I teach others now come directly from his example.
You see, I never knew a day when my father worked for someone else. He started his small single-family home construction business when I was just 4.
For as long as I can remember, I was an active part of his business. When I was really young, I would help clean up the job sites or help keep him supplied with materials as he worked.
As I grew older, I was able to handle more tasks: laying out walls, nailing sheathing, finishing trim. At the age of 12, I was keeping the books for his business. As a teen, I spent my summers working alongside him as we packed shingles across roofs, installed plumbing in crawlspaces, and wired up electrical boxes.
Not only did I learn the skills that later enabled me to build my own house, I also learned what it took to run a small business.
On this Father's Day, I reflect on how blessed I feel for being raised in an environment where I had front-row seats to what it takes to succeed on your own.
It's not lost on me that this is rare. This is actually what drives me to teach others. Most people weren't as fortunate as I was to have a business mentor my entire life.
However, some of the most successful entrepreneurs I know had parents who worked crappy jobs, which fueled them to never want to end up in that spot.
Regardless of your background, the beauty of today's world is that you get to choose who influences you. You can choose your tribes and leverage their input, guidance, and support to achieve anything you set out to achieve.
Every day that goes by is an opportunity to strengthen your tribe or remain where you are. Once each day is gone, it's gone forever. You never get them back.
But, you can always take your next best step right now.
I thought about this often as I hiked along the mountainsides with my father, watching him spend time with my own children now, and how so few people have built this kind of lifestyle.
At this point in my journey, my sole purpose is to help as many fellow entrepreneurs as possible learn how to build the same lifestyle quality that I enjoy. One where you don't put off life until some fantasy retirement or sell-out date. One that allows you the flexibility to live life as you wish now without sacrificing your desired income.
And I'm telling you right now: Simply operating a business doesn't guarantee you this. It requires learning how to build it specifically for the purposes of enjoying your life as you provide your value to the people who need you.
The cornerstone of this type of business is quality clients who make your life better, expand your opportunities, and pay you handsomely for your value to them.
You need learn how to trade the exhausting cycle of chasing work for establishing the Positioning in your marketplace that makes you the "only" choice for your Ideal Clients.
This is exactly what I did with my business.
It's exactly what my clients paid me millions to do for them.
It's exactly what I teach my students to do now.
The lifestyle you want is closer than you think.
You just need to join a powerful tribe and surround yourself with others who are building exactly what you want to build. People who are dedicated to trusting the process and simply putting in the right reps that lead to exactly where they want to go.
This is the tribe you'll join when you become a Founding Member of my new program: Perfect Positioning.
We have a group of Founding Member rock stars who have already signed up to transform their businesses this summer into machines that fuel their ideal lifestyles.
The Founding Members all get tons of access to me directly, my powerful step-by-step system, and access to building their businesses together with each other.
All for an investment that costs less than just one average client.
Think about it: If you learned anything at all in my program that helped you find just ONE client, it will have paid for itself.
Could the math be any simpler?
I already have several calls booked next week for the remaining spots.
If you're ready to take advantage of this no-brainer deal, click the link above right now.
This deal is never coming back. Don't wait until it's too late.
I upset conventional business thinkers. Branding & business for creative founders in the New Economy. Lessons from my experience operating Sandpaper Studio since 2006.
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