Quick Cut: S2E285 The Entrepreneur's Dilemma

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In striving to achieve the success they want, many entrepreneurs experience a tug of war between their personal and their business life. In part 1 of this episode, Brian shares the lessons he has learned during his vast experience as an entrepreneur and teaches how you can stop being owned by your business and start living the good life.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Why you must get on the same page as your partner.

· Why a vision is critical to success.

· How to set effective goals.

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“35 years I'm an entrepreneur, and I’ve learned a few things along the way.” – Brian Buffini

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It starts with the vision. Once you get the vision, then what supports the vision is our goals.” – Brian Buffini

“Goal-setting changed my life, and it changes my life every year.” – Brian Buffini

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.4	Here's a short, classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:17.5	Top of the morning to you. Welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host, Brian Bafini.
0:21.8	And I have a special episode today entitled The Entrepreneur's Dilemma.
0:26.7	Like many episodes lately, this one's inspired by an interaction I had with an entrepreneur.
0:32.5	So here's the tips I gave to him that I'll give to you and give you a little more in depth.
0:37.1	First, you need to
0:38.2	get on the same page. You need to get on the same page with yourself, with your own values, but if you
0:43.2	have a partner, spouse, you need to get on the same page. The second thing is you've got to have a plan.
0:49.9	And then the third thing is you've got to own your own business. So the very first thing about getting
0:54.1	on the same page is something I call our vision. So if you're going through life
0:58.9	with somebody and you're having this challenges between your work life and home life, it has to
1:03.0	become our vision. You know, the difference between a dreamer and a visionary is a dreamer
1:08.6	has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open. And that's not Brian
1:13.0	Bafini. He knows Martin Luther King Jr. But I believe that. And you want to have your eyes open. It starts out with
1:19.3	what do I want? What do we want? If you're a person of faith, what does God want? Those are three
1:24.8	great questions. What do I want? What do I want?
1:32.7	Because you'll find it's very easy every single day to put your head down and work like a little mole,
1:35.9	digging in the ground, digging in the ground, digging in the ground, and then you pop up out of somebody's yard and you have no idea who's yard and how you got there.
1:40.2	You have to keep asking yourself, what do I want?
1:42.4	And it even evolves into what do I want now.
1:45.3	And so the vision gets down into actual goals. And a goal is a dream with a deadline by very
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