Carl Gould #70secondCEO

Don't Wait for Problems to Shrink Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Clients that we have, whenever they complain about sales, I say, Oh, you don't like the sales? You try it. It's the hardest job in any company. It's relentless. Oh, oh, oh, oh. And I know you guys have this question. You wanna know what day it gets easier? I found it on the calendar, in case you were looking. All right? Look up the day called never. It never gets easier. And you say to yourself, oh my gosh, I've been in business for 30 years. Look at my resume. Don't I deserve some better leads? Don't I deserve good lead flow? Why aren't my referral partners coming back to me at a more regular pace? Don't I deserve it? Well, you do deserve it. It's just not the nature of the beast. And it never gets easier. That problem will never shrink. That challenge will never shrink. We need to grow. We need to be bigger than the problem. Don't hope your problems get smaller. Hope you become bigger. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould, and this has been your #70secondCEO.

Action Every Day Moves You Forward Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So we come to the middle of the year. You're either out of inspiration, or motivation is struggling, or the activities have been up and down or not as consistent. I saw this great infographic recently, and it says, here's what people think consistency is. And it shows a bunch of glasses, cups, and they're filled right to the top with fluid. And they said, but here's what consistency actually is. And they show the same dozen cups. One's full, one's half, one's got a drop in it. One's three quarters, next one's full, next one's half. And basically the message is, if you're taking some action at each day, that's consistency. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to be progress. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.

Discipline Kicks In When Motivation Runs Out Pt 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need to put that same level of discipline into our daily activities so that when we do get an inspiration or we do get a motivation, that only fuels the fire. You all probably follow some sport on some level and the top players in the world who do drills before every match or every game. You know, why does a hockey player before a match have to go and shoot the puck 100 times beforehand? They're the best in the world. Why do basketball players have to do 100 free throws before a game, and they won't stop until they hit at least 50 in a row? Why are they practicing layups? Why is a baseball player, why batting practice? What do you need that for? If you're a golfer, why are you taking all those extra swings at the driving range? What do you need them for? You're already great. They're instilling that level of discipline, and along the way of coming into a tournament, coming into a game or a match, they're looking for anything that'll give them that emotional edge. Discipline instills that mechanical repetition, predictable, consistent activity, and then you add on inspiration and motivation for the mental part. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.

Discipline Kicks In When Motivation Runs Out Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I'm sure you've heard the statistic by now. 95% of New Year's resolutions are gone by the middle of January, and the rest are gone by the end of January. We have these great ideas, we're inspired. Inspiration's a spark. Inspiration is a daily dose. It's not what carries you through. My son quotes, and I'll paraphrase, my son quotes a line that he hears in the military a lot. He's in the Army, he's in his seventh year, and he'll be retiring this year. And whenever the topic of motivation or inspiration comes up, he'll say, when motivation or inspiration is of no avail, discipline will prevail. I always thought that's a really good line. He said, Dad, I don't care how motivated you are, how inspired you are, I don't know anybody that's looking forward to getting up at 5.30 in the morning so they can go on a 12-mile ruck with 100 pounds on my back in either 100-degree weather or pouring rain, and he was in Alaska, or 40 below. I don't know too many guys in the bunks that get up and are really excited about that. So when we don't have the inspiration, we don't have the motivation, you know what works day in, day out, every day, discipline. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Service provider, what, in addition to giving the money back, take 50% of the contract, whatever they paid you and agree to pay them that so they could put it towards a new supplier or a new coach or a new consultant because you wasted their time. If you were in a hotel and you have a bad night or restaurant and a bad meal, don't give them all their money back and then give them enough money to go to your competitor. That's a risk reversal. Okay. So it's not just, Oh, it's free. Well, that's convenient for you, the provider, like, Oh, just give them their money back. Let's get the hell out of here. We're never going to get that one. Right. And it shows. So we live in the world of risk reversal. So just be aware of that. Consumers are smart, right? And they can sniff this stuff out. But if you're willing to do a risk reversal, you know, again, people will say, wow. Right. I can't believe you're willing to agree to that. So yeah. To do what? Software. Is everyone hearing this question? Cause this is the perfect question. Keep going. Okay. Yeah. I'm just curious. What kind of software do you have? It's an all in one software to help businesses find digital margins. Okay. So it's a digital. Okay. Got it. Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.