Your job as the business owner, CEO, manager, or HR director is to create leaders. Leaders are people that have confidence, courage, and capabilities to lead in their job, their department and in the company. But my question to you is, are you actually creating an environment where you’re creating leaders or are you creating an environment where you’re creating followers? Are you creating followers that have been given no responsibility, no opportunities, no courage or confidence to learn how to lead? 

The goal for you as a business owner is to create leaders, because as your people become leaders, your business becomes all that you hoped and dreamed it would be. In order to do this though, you have to focus on creating leaders out of your team and your employees. You have to start taking the steps to teach them, give them opportunities and show them what it means to lead in their job, in their work, with their co-workers, in their department and within the company. 

My challenge and question to you today is:  Are you creating leaders or followers? 

Make it a great day.


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I had a conversation with a client the other day that I’d been working with for a while. At the beginning he told me what he wanted to do in his business and what he wanted to see happen. He shared what he was working towards and what the big thing was that really motivated him.

However, I noticed as he was talking about this and as we’ve met the last couple of months, he seems to lack the real internal motivation, excitement, enthusiasm or passion to really make the commitment he needs in order to have the courage and capability to do what he needs to do to make that happen in his company. 

So I stopped him and said — what do you want? 

He said, you know what I want. It’s what we’ve been talking about. We’re going to do this and that, expand here and grow this, etc. 

And I said no. What do you really want? 

There was a long silence. He didn’t say anything and then he finally said, well, what I really want is for my leadership team to take more control and leading of our company employees and own that process.

And I said to him. Okay, what do you really, really want? 

Then he said to me he wants to have time and money from the business, to start to invest in his marriage and his kids, and in some other areas of his life for the first time in 15 years. And that’s what he really, really, really wants. 

So my question to you today is, what have you been telling yourself and other people that you really want? And then, have you actually stopped and been honest and truthful with yourself about what you want out of your business? How about what you want out of your business, your life, out of anything and everything? 

That’s my big question to you today. Not the first answer, not the second answer, and not necessarily even the third — but the third answer is probably closer to the truth of what you really, really want out of your life!

Let me know your answer. Let’s talk about it. Schedule a free call today.


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Today I’d like to give you three questions that I have been asking myself since the first of the year. I’ve used these questions to help me get moving forward, get unstuck, and also give me internal motivation to tackle the day, and in light of all the difficulties and challenges in the world today and everything that’s going on out there. I hope they will do the same for you. 

I have found this exercise to be really helpful. My coach Dan Sullivan actually sent this out to me. So, I thought I’d do the favor and pass them on to you as well. It is my hope that it will also help you to move forward, make progress and become unstuck. 

Challenge Questions

The three questions to ask yourself every morning are:

  1. What am I afraid of today?
  2. What opportunities do I have today to take advantage of?
  3. What God-given ability can I build on today?

If you ask yourself these questions every day, you’re not going to have the same answers because every day has different things you’re afraid of!!

Every day has different opportunities, and every day has things that can help you build your ability, your confidence, and your courage to move forward. 

I think what you will find is that it brings you into the activity part of the day with clarity, confidence, and courage. Thus, helping to propel you forward. 

This is a 30 day challenge I’m throwing out to everybody. 

If you’re willing to do this, drop us an email and let us know how it’s impacting and/or helping you, what you’re getting out of it and some of the reflection you’ve had. 

I just love this and I encourage you to make this part of your morning routine too. Make it the first thing you do in the morning to ask yourself these three questions.


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