S2E33 The Entrepreneur's Dilemma Part 1
The Brian Buffini Show
Brian Buffini
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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 Podcast where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think, feel, and do better. |
| 0:09.2 | Here's your host, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:13.8 | Top of the morning to you, welcome to It's a Good Life. I'm your host, Brian Baphini. |
| 0:17.8 | And I have a special episode today entitled The Entrepreneurs, Dilemma. |
| 0:22.8 | Like many episodes lately, this one's inspired by an interaction I had with an entrepreneur. |
| 0:28.5 | I got to give you a little context. I recently had the people on my podcast team and three of the people who work for The It's a Good Life Show actually live in Ireland. |
| 0:37.5 | So they flew into town. We got the rest of the team together. We had meetings here for days, really laying out the plan and putting together our game plan for the next year. |
| 0:47.1 | And what we're trying to get accomplished. |
| 0:48.9 | And so we've had a lot of meetings, late hours, and then of course we had the lads in from out of town. |
| 0:54.4 | So we're taking them to dinner most nights, you know, they're in sunny San Diego getting out of the cold Irish winter. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm a member of the golf club around a corner here called La Costa and it has a real nice little restaurant. |
| 1:04.6 | So we have a meal there. We finish up about 10, 30 at night. |
| 1:08.8 | And it's been a long day. So as is my want in life, they have a little coffee shop there and I'm in Infra cupatee. |
| 1:15.2 | So there's nobody around. It's a 24 hour little market. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm talking to one of the folks I know behind the counter getting a cupatee. |
| 1:23.6 | And from behind, I hear the words, I just sometimes don't want to hear. Are you Brian Paphini? |
| 1:29.7 | My head kind of drops and I go, I know what's coming. So I turn around and again, don't get me wrong. |
| 1:37.7 | I love helping people. I have tremendous energy for it. But sometimes after a long day, I just want to go home to bed and not be |
| 1:44.4 | Charlie helper all the time. But anyway, this fella introduces himself to me. He's holding a cocktail. |
| 1:51.1 | He tells me he's been to a couple of our events. I'm big fan. Yaddy yaddy yaddy. |
| 1:55.3 | And then he says to me, hey, can I talk to you for a second? |
| 1:59.0 | So get me cupatee. We step outside. He says, look, you know, I really want to take my business to the next level. |
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