259: 7 Things to Avoid When Building a Great Business
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- Working with the wrong people
- Taking small, safe opportunities
- Saying goodbye to ego
- Jumping off sinking ships
- Toxic environments
- Avoiding mediocrity
- Shiny objects
Resources:
- Free training videos: fortheloveofmoney.com/free
- Money Principles
Show Notes:
Today I'm going to be talking about 7 things we should probably avoid, but sometimes don't, when we're building a business. These are things that we fall trap to, sometimes without even realizing it.
You being able to avoid these things, even if you know you should be able to, is going to make or break your business.
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| 0:00.0 | I am so tired of watching people take the small safe opportunity just because it's already |
| 0:06.6 | there already done for them instead of creating the huge opportunity for themselves. Welcome everybody, this is for the love of money, where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success by |
| 0:25.0 | sharing the tools, tips and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:30.0 | My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests in order to prove that when good people make good money, they do great things. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another incredible mini episode of For the Love of Money episodes that I'd like to call my two cents and |
| 0:50.2 | today I'm gonna be weighing in my two cents on seven things that we should probably avoid, but sometimes don't if for being honest with ourselves, when building a business. |
| 1:01.0 | Now, these are not like seven generic things these are seven things |
| 1:05.1 | that we quite honestly fall trapped to. Sometimes we don't even realize that we are |
| 1:11.3 | falling trapped to these things. |
| 1:14.2 | And so I'm going to point them out, |
| 1:15.4 | and I'm going to add a little bit of color around them, |
| 1:17.6 | because you being able to avoid these things, |
| 1:20.8 | even if you know you should avoid them, |
| 1:22.2 | but for some reason you make the decision not to, is what will |
| 1:25.1 | make or break your business. |
| 1:29.0 | So out of the seven things, the first one is this. |
| 1:31.4 | Jerks. like aholes down right this is the number one thing that you |
| 1:37.8 | should avoid but you sometimes don't when building a business I mean how many times if we how many times, if we're really being raw, if we're really being honest with ourselves, |
| 1:46.0 | have we done with someone that done business with someone that we didn't like because we wanted the money? |
| 1:50.0 | How many times have you worked with a client that drove you nuts because you wanted the money? |
| 1:54.8 | How many times have you said yes to a business partnership or some kind of partnership? |
| 1:58.2 | Just because you really didn't have the courage or know how to say no, but you knew for a fact from the beginning that that was not someone you aligned with? |
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