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My Kids Saw the Back of My Laptop…(Entrepreneur Success Story #4)

I hope this story helps you, or someone you know…

My Kids Saw the Back of My Laptop Instead of My Face

I already had companies earning $15m in revenue.

I was immersed in a new startup I believe in. And…I was in trouble.

My relationship was suffering. My kids saw the the back of my laptop instead of my face. I was working up to 80 hours a week, and heading for a crash.

On a weekend trip to Athens, laying awake in bed, I decided to get help. And that’s when a mentor recommended David…

I must say, it’s been an insightful first month!!
In my first session, David asked me to leave my phone behind during dinner. I was surprised how happy this made my young son. We agreed I’d stop talking about business outside business hours, and I was surprised how happy this made my partner.

I’m a great ideas man, which can be overwhelming. David helped me map out all the options, and choose a strategy to focus on for the next few months. Whew – what a relief!! I’ve also realized I’m a recovering perfectionist. So David has encouraged me to release ideas to market faster and fail faster, so I can implement my learnings into the next cycle.

There’s a long way to go, but in just a month I’ve made giant strides. I’m better organized, more confident, more relaxed, and I plan powerfully for each day. And while before I felt constantly torn between work and family, now I feel like I’m winning at being businessman, a boyfriend, and a Dad. What the hell is going to happen in month 2!!?

I know I’ll hit or surpass my business goals this year. And with David’s help, I’ll get there as a relaxed father and partner who is deeply present with his family, and takes the weekend off!

(Approved by client, to be published anonymously)

WHO DO YOU KNOW?

Who do you know who is a successful entrepreneur who might be feeling overwhelmed, and like support getting laser focused to double productivity and profits? If they have life/personal growth goals, even better!

Kindly introduce us via email or Facebook right now while they are on your mind.

They can read about my coaching and set up a call with me here: www.solutionbox.com/mylife.html.

I promise to be a contribution to them, regardless of whether or not I invite them to be a client.

And thank you. I appreciate you.

David

Author, Get Paid For Who You Are

SolutionBox.com/mylife.html

Your NOT-To-Do-List (Entrepreneur Success Story #3)

I hope this story helps you, or someone you know.
(This one’s direct from the client himself).

Help Me NOT Do Things!

“David Wood is remarkably a different type of Performance Coach …

Instead of having me focus on what I did want, he ruthlessly and compassionately challenged me to ‘prune’ what I DIDN’T want … including those annoying, distracting and time-wasting tasks that sucked the marrow out of my day!

He kept my ‘feet-to-the-fire’ to simplify my weekly routines and rituals. My solution was to hire a Personal Assistant who helped me eliminate half of my busy work and decisions that depleted my daily Willpower.

Now I have more quality time with my two teenage kids, which includes helping them with homework, attending school events and hanging out without my mobile phone glued to my ear!

David’s ideal if you’re an overwhelmed, overworked and overcommitted entrepreneur who feels like ‘burnout’ is creeping up fast.

Alex Mandossian
Chief Instructor
AllSellingAside.com

WHO DO YOU KNOW?

Kindly introduce us via email or Facebook right now while they are on your mind.

They can read about my coaching and set up a call with me here: www.solutionbox.com/mylife.html.

I promise to be a contribution to them, regardless of whether or not I invite them to be a client.

And thank you. I appreciate you.

David

Author, Get Paid For Who You Are

SolutionBox.com/mylife.html

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“I was plummeting towards the earth, with 150 feet left….”

Authors note: The following (edited) true story of my “close call” in Bali was just published in Australias national civil aviation magazine.

(Bali – while things were still peaceful)

I’d test-flown this paraglider at 10,000 feet over the Himalayas. As far as I could tell, it flew fine. The pilot selling it was experienced and hadn’t had any problems with it. Plus my instructor knew the wing and said it was a good buy. The price was right so I snapped it up, and headed back to Bali excited for the July-August flying season.

I mean, they said it’s good, so it’s good, right?

Wrong.

Very wrong.

The wind was perfect and the sun shining on my first day flying my “new” second-hand wing in Bali.

I flew back and forth along the Timbis ridge in the lift produced by the stable on-shore wind, and everything went perfectly.

That is, until Big Ears.

Big Ears is a basic technique involving collapsing just the edges of the wing to reduce wing size and lose height. I tried it several times but was losing too much height. This is known as a parachutal stall; not good, but not dramatic. so I under my instructor’s watchful eye and in radio contact, I took off for one final Big Ears attempt to make sure I was doing everything correctly. He had me gain more height and go further out over the ocean as a precaution, and watched while I did my last Big Ears of the day. I collapsed the edges of the wing, and it again went “parachutal”. But at least we now knew the error wan’t pilot input. So now about 300 feet above the ocean, and still quite close to land, I released Big Ears…and that’s when everything went to hell!

The wing surged violently and terrifyingly forward over my head, then fell back behind me, and surged violently again. I was so freaked out and hyper-focused on controlling my wing, I had no idea I was in full free-fall towards the earth. I also wasn’t aware that this was what a Full Stall feels like – something I’d only heard about in class. I just knew I had to control the wing, and that today might be the day I die.

The instructor was still giving me instructions on radio, but it happened so fast that to this day I don’t know if I recovered the wing on instinct, or because I followed what he was saying. But recover I did, finding myself about 120 feet over the water and heading straight towards the cliff. I managed to correct course, and scratch back up the hill to hop just over the bushes and land….falling to my knees.

The instructor said I’d followed every instruction, recovered perfectly, and that it was an equipment failure. Thorough subsequent testing showed the leading edge had less than one second porosity!! This means the air passes through the fabric in under a second, making it useless and not airworthy. The deadly trap was: the wing would fly perfectly well in most conditions; it wasn’t until something went wrong that it might not respond without vigorous pilot input. So the pilot who sold it to me had no idea the wing was an accident waiting to happen.

My life lesson from this?

When you do something scary – be it building a business, getting married, or switching jobs…..

prepare yourself!

In my situation, I could have read the manual for my new wing, and learned a tip that may have avoided the stall.

I also could have studied more theory and learned about parachutal stalls, and I could have had my equipment tested. (I’ve now done all three of these things).

For you, it might be creating a thorough 12 month business plan.
Clearing all the non-critical projects off your plate.
Taking counseling sessions with your future partner.
Reading every book you can get your hands on.
Or working with a coach.

It’s good to face the scary things in life.

And better to face them thoroughly prepared.

What’s a situation you’re scared of? No matter how big or small?
How could you thoroughly prepare yourself to handle it?

Post in the comments below.

David

From Drowning to Flying (Entrepreneur Success Story #2)

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Back to Paradise AND Record Sales Month (Entrepreneur Success Story #1)

I hope this story helps you, or someone you know.

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Back to Paradise

My wife was petrified. She was a passenger on a plane that was flying without instruments and about to crash.

You see, she’d given up her career to be a mother, so we depended on my business for income. And we’d already lost everything once – our home, our life in paradise, and almost each other.

The problem was, I was scattered and overwhelmed. But when she suggested a business coach, I got defensive. Wasn’t this an attack on my manhood?

She helped me realize the truth: I COULD handle my business and my life myself. But a coach could help us get the life and business we wanted much faster. Plus, I was ragged – working massive hours and getting no real traction. So I hired David.

He quickly helped me prioritize my 3 and 6 month goals. Just as important, he’s helped me FOCUS on these goals, and to say “no” to all the shiny things that want to pull me off course.

I was getting bogged-down in the day-to-day running of the business, so David helped me take myself out of some of the decision loops and DELEGATE. And…

We just took a 3 week family vacation with no wifi access, and had our record month of sales!

I’m actually enjoying going to gym and picking kids up from school, instead of feeling guilty. It seems hard to believe, but the less hours I work, the easier everything is getting.

We’re having another baby (OK David doesn’t get credit for that), and next month we’re moving to Costa Rica to get back to paradise!

Bradley Long
http://Shoptimized.net

WHO DO YOU KNOW?

Kindly introduce us via email or Facebook right now while they are on your mind.

They can read about my coaching and set up a call witih me here: www.solutionbox.com/mylife.html.

I promise to be a contribution to them, regardless of whether or not I invite them to be a client.

And thank you. I appreciate you.

David

Author, Get Paid For Who You Are

SolutionBox.com/mylife.html

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