Are you here to win? Or are you here to play? Just as we separate fun vs. competitive sports leagues, ensure that both get the support development and enjoyable experience they need and desire, we need the same with startup pitch competitions. Market viability is the...
If you can read this, you've been on the planet long enough to realize that we are our own worst enemies when it comes to achieving our goals. And there is a really helpful and easy process we can use to overcome the obstacles we create, and crush our goals each and...
Welcome to the Heroik Hour Podcast the show where we help established owners get mission ready for life - I’m your host, Nicholas McGill and this is episode 206. And we’re going to talk about what to do when you don’t have a map for your business. Imagine...
About one third of global crops depend on the cross-pollinating power of bees. More than $15 Billion dollars of crops per year are pollinated by bees in the United States alone. And those bees are in trouble. To provide an analogy of what this problem is like in...
In the wake of the great recession and the rise of the gig economy, an entire industry has been born, supplying distractions to wantrepreneurs. These are the people who want to have all of the fruits of business ownerhsip, but often avoid the core, value creating...
There is a holistic litmus test to see if you're product offers a good value at a good price. Here's a simple rule of thumb: the use/ utility value should exceed the sale price. Customers should get more from your product than they spend on your product. This is what...
This Emotional Atlas is a great resource designed to help you understand and explore emotions, their triggers, the actions we take with them and their generalized mood.The Atlas itself can help abundant people understand, navigate their own emotions and...
1. Make enough room in your life to accommodate your big dreams. A lucky man once said - "You can't make love on a cluttered desk." Clear a space for your next big opportunity. As anticipate all the things you wish to achieve, give them ample room to fit in your life....
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...
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...
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 in luck....
Every day is the start of a new origin story. Rising from the rubble, rut and troubles of yesterday, With weathered skills and scars from failures and successes, You are given a choice. Who will you become today? What are you working toward? Hero or villain? You...
The way we communicate has changed forever. Talk is cheap and a picture is worth a thousand words right? Yet how many in your organization are visually conversant in the new language? How many on your team are digitally literate? How many are at least visually...
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