A performance coach in the world’s most successful business training company, John McCarthy is committed to growing his client’s businesses. With 35 years’ experience in business planning and sales in corporates, plus Coaching/ Physical Training in the military has given John unique skills to support business owners. His approach is energetic, empowering and fun.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I was in the commercial world earning good money doing a lot of business development a lot of sales so I kind of thought, genuinely believed that I was very commercial minded. But I think starting up running your own business is very very different. You have got this thing called cash flow and this thing called nobody is going to pay me if I don’t go and work and all this kind of stuff. The commercial mindset was a bit of a shift for me whilst I was very good at some elements. I found that just tough having to be far more commercially focused on doing things that bring profit in”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds Book by David Goggins
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Book by Mark Manson
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
Favourite Quote:
“The best way to predict the future is to create it” Peter Drucker’s
Recommended Online Resources:
- Live Plan – Creating a professional, investor ready business plan has never been easier
- Engagement Multiplier – Retain top talent continuously improve your organization’s potential. This employee engagement software offers SMBs a solution to measure increase ROI
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“get a pen and a paper and think big. Write down your dream, write down your aspirations of the life of your dreams. What would it be? Where would you want to be living? Who with? How many houses? What kind of car? What kind of holidays? But also, what kind of time would you be spending with friends and family? And any charities any community things you want to be doing.”…[Listen for More]
More About John McCarthy:
https://actioncoach.co.uk/john-mccarthy
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.” Francis Gray
Other Quotes From the Chat with John McCarthy:
- “research and planning: really do your due diligence… Do you have a product or service that will make people’s lives better? If you haven’t then they are not really going to once”
- “who do you need around you to support you on your journey? It could be a good accountant, a good solicitor, mentor or someone. Or do you need admin support or marketing? Whatever it is… It is really, really tough if not impossible to run a business properly on your own. You need people to take some of the weight off you”
- “I am one of life’s natural optimists, insanely resilient, which has to be a good thing”
- “sometimes it is about being more pragmatic sometimes. So overly optimistic in that we take on too many challenges at once is kind of a big thing for me. So, I’ve learnt the balance between that now”
- “you need to stop, think, sharpen your axe before you go back in there again and many people in business don’t do that… It’s very, very powerful, it gives you time to stop and think, maybe go around the obstacle rather than go straight through it”
- “I think getting the balance between really hard focused work and spending time reflecting on your successes and your failures I think is really critical”
- “identify what your real purpose is about, it’s a powerful motivator. I think when you get it right and understand it comes to was very congruent in whatever it is that you are doing”
- “you have got to have a business that has a commercial need for it”
- “it’s getting the balance between pure tenacity to keep going because business is tough and it should be tough. But then also knowing when to stop to change direction. I think that comes a little bit back to your gut feel of knowing when to stop or when to change direction”
- “work out what really important to you and be really bothered about that”
- “idealise it, plan it, execute it”
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