by twobrainmain | Feb 16, 2019 | Blog, clinicians, Entrepreneurship, Mentoring, Running a Business, tinker
All the best coaches have coaches. This is the largest point of discrimination between very successful coaches, and great coaches who never really “make it”. I almost didn’t make it either: even after 12 years of coaching fitness, I...
by twobrainmain | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog, clinicians, Entrepreneurship, farmer, founder, Mentoring, RSS, Running a Business, tinker
Perhaps you haven’t heard the phrases “abundance mindset” or “scarcity mindset”, but sociologists are fascinated by them. In the pursuit of eradicating poverty, researchers want to know, “What keeps people poor?” And mindset...
by twobrainmain | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog, clinicians, Co-working, Entrepreneurship, farmer, founder, RSS, Running a Business, staff
Occam’s razor is a philosophical principle that means, “If there are two explanations for something, the simpler one is probably correct.” My first staff handbook was 18 pages. I was proud of it. It solved most of the problems in my business;...
by twobrainmain | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog, Entrepreneurship, farmer, founder, Leadership, Mentoring, RSS, Running a Business, staff, thief, tinker
A successful entrepreneur passes through four phases: the Founder Phase, Farmer Phase, Tinker Phase and Thief Phase. Within each of those phases, he must grow as a leader. Every business is built on relationships. But, as the psychologist Alfred Adler wrote,...
by twobrainmain | Jan 5, 2019 | Blog, clinicians, Entrepreneurship, RSS, Running a Business
You became a clinician to help people. You opened a clinic to make money. But the faster you heal someone, the less money you make. It’s the Hippocratic Catch-22. So the only way to make more money is to see more clients…but wait! What if you could help...
by twobrainmain | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog, farmer, RSS, Running a Business, tinker
In the Tinker Phase, entrepreneurs make their first business a cash flow asset, set themselves up for functional retirement, hire a management layer for their businesses, and focus on their key strengths. A Tinker has built a business that runs itself. Now she’s...
