Armando Cruz is a connoisseur of experiences, husband, father, adventurer, best selling author, ultra-marathoner, lifestyle physical therapist, and legacy coach. He’s climbed mountains, run over 100 miles in a day in swamps filled with snakes and alligators, has lived out of his car, and has rollerbladed and surfed in hurricanes but his biggest adventure has been fatherhood.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
I don’t have anyone entrepreneur that I would say is a role model but a Frankenstein version of different entrepreneurs at different times of my life
- Elon Musk
- Armando’s Father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“marketing, understanding that… Having those people in your life that push you and expect excellence, the fact that he did it helped me step up my game and I said okay great if you can do it I can definitely do it. So I went out and I form my own corporation. And I realised how can I start serving people right away… With the capabilities that I have where I am at. So, I started reaching out to people individually and I started getting individual clients”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles Book by Steven Pressfield
- Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Book by Viktor E Frankl
Favourite Quote:
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffett
Recommended Online Resources:
- Evernote is the app that keeps your notes organized. Memos are synced so they’re accessible anywhere, and searchable so you always find what you need.
- Follow Up Then – Free and Easy Email Reminders. The simplest way to schedule an email reminder
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“make sure you are in alignment with your values in the actions that you take and the way you operate your business. It’s very easy to chase the next shiny thing. It’s very easy when things seem like they are going to make you more money to skimp out and maybe let go of some of the values. But if you use your values as a compass you will never lose your way”…[Listen for More]
More About Armando Cruz:
Cruz Country Fitness & Physical Therapy
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Armando Cruz:
- “what drives me is the start”
- “personalities, understanding that people operate different, understanding that people communicate different and their needs are different. If I understood that the more I would be able to communicate more effectively and in essence speed up the learning curve both in growing the team in our business as well as serving my clients even that much more profoundly”
- “I think we use the word success very frivolously and a lot of times it becomes an ideal, a concept and not something concrete. Create a concrete version that is defined so that you know if you are aligning with it or not so that you know what it actually looks like to be a success. What are your definitions of it? What are the anti-definitions? In other words what does success not look like? Then what are the actions that you must align with in order for you to achieve it”
- “your circumstances are not always in your control but your responses to them can be. And that makes all the difference”
- “I consider myself a creator. It is part of my value system as a creator. So, making sure that I overcome resistance and procrastination is of utmost importance for me”
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