Start Acting Like a CEO and Grow Your Income Exponentially

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February 4th, 2009
Filed in: 7 Fig+ Strategies, CEO Mindset, Leadership, Lifestyle

Seven years ago when I started my business I felt like I was constantly running a rat race. I had entirely too much on my plate and I spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to learn everything necessary to be successful in business. As I grew into a steady six figure income, as a result of diligently implementing leverage in every area of my business, I realized that this level of success brought with it a new challenge. It wasn’t that I was working ungodly hours and struggling to accomplish my goals anymore. It was what I was doing with my time that overwhelmed me. I wasn’t spending the majority of my time on the tasks I loved – I had become a manager in my own business! You might as well have put me back in a J.O.B.

Through working my own process and the ever-present guidance of my Virtual Team Building partner Shawn Driscoll, I began to see that I had become a bottleneck to my own growth. And I wasn’t alone. As I quickly implemented the strategies necessary to resolve this stagnation, I found that my clients, friends and colleagues were plagued by the very same symptoms – feeling like their business had become too much work due to their lack of awareness that THEY were the problem!

So what is the cure? What I realized and have now coached hundreds of entrepreneurs on is this: you have to get out of your own way and start thinking like a CEO of a big business to grow your income and results.

Here’s the truth.

Once you hit six figures things change. There are bigger and better opportunities that come with new and different challenges. All of a sudden, it seems that everything that worked to get you to your first six figures is no longer effective.

The rude awakening is this:

The strategies that got you to six figure success will not be the same strategies that get you to seven and eight figure success.

The number one thing that is standing between you and your ability to have more lifestyle and leave behind a real legacy in this world is YOU! If you are trying to take your business to the next level with the same thinking, habits, choices and vision that got you to this level, then you are the bottleneck!

You have to expose yourself to an entirely new way of thinking and being to solve this challenge. Remember what Einstein said, You can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it!