#787 10 Questions to Gain Clarity and Refocus
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dan and lan break down 10 essential questions to help you reflect on the year, align your priorities, and set your business up for success-no new books or business coaches required (yet).
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| 0:00.0 | Didn't people tell you you were ridiculous when you said you wanted to quit your job and start a company? |
| 0:04.4 | 100%. |
| 0:05.1 | 100% they told you that. |
| 0:07.1 | They told you that. |
| 0:08.4 | Where are those people now? |
| 0:10.1 | That's what I want to know. |
| 0:27.3 | Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Yo, what do you drink it over there? Wow. The official beverage of Tropical MBA and billionaires everywhere, Diet Coke. You can live that billionaire lifestyle by jumping |
| 0:39.0 | into a little bit of Diet Coke first thing in the morning. I read this week that it chops, |
| 0:44.2 | this is front page news on Reddit slash bullshit, chops 12 minutes off your life every can that you drink. |
| 0:50.4 | Gotcha. So I'll die mid podcast then. Basically. That's what's going to happen. Okay. So I know what you're all |
| 0:56.1 | thinking out there. When are Danny Ann going to address the drone issue? Don't you worry. We'll get to |
| 1:00.9 | that at the end of the episode. But first, it is the holiday season. It is the end of year season. It is |
| 1:06.4 | time for reflection and refactoring for the next year. We want to get a handle on our businesses. |
| 1:12.8 | Ian, we've been doing it ourselves. |
| 1:14.5 | We just went to Vern Harnish, the CEO boot camp. |
| 1:17.0 | We got a lot going on. |
| 1:17.7 | We're talking with tons of clients. |
| 1:20.0 | Listeners of this podcast on a daily basis, |
| 1:22.2 | we're working with them setting 2025 plans. |
| 1:25.7 | Now, here's the challenge. |
| 1:29.6 | A lot of our businesses just have shit everywhere. |
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