Robert Mallon and Bill Watkins together have over 80 years of professional experience as leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, and coaches. For years, they kept hearing from men struggling to grow their companies and careers without screwing up their lives. When men master their process they get what they want most in the most important areas of their lives. When they do, they live present and fulfilled while still making the Big Impact they were put on this earth for.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Steven Jobs
Benjamin Franklin
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Self doubt, you know can I do this, this was really back in 2002 when I started my first business, had been working corporately before that and I just didn’t know, I’d never done anything like that before that so stepping out of my comfort zone was the biggest thing I had to overcome”…[Listen for More] “For me I was what ifing myself all the time so the entrepreneurial seed got planted in 1992 when my son was born and I felt strongly when I was in the birthing room that to be a dad I needed t o unplug myself from the velocity of corporate America that was sucking away my time and I felt strongly that the only way to do that was to create my own agenda”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm Book by Verne Harnish
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Book by Greg McKeown
Favourite Quote:
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain”
“It’s your decisions not your conditions that shape your life” Tony Robbins
Recommended Online Resources:
Trello
Slack
Michael Hyatt Platform University
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I would say what we would encourage your audience to do, your entrepreneurs is to find the intersection of three concentric circles, one is, what are you deeply passionate about, in other words what would you do for free, what fills your soul up with energy. Number 2, what are you really really good at, and then what will people pay you for”…[Listen for More] “Mine would be spend a lot of money on your education, as much as you possibly can”…[Listen for More]
More About Robert Mallon and Bill Watkins:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That’s how you stand out in the crowd.” Gary Cohn
Other Quotes From the Chat with Robert Mallon and Bill Watkins:
- “I made a lot of mistakes on someone else’s dime”
- “I think fear keeps us from doing the things that might mean the most to us or from doing them very well”
- “I believe that when you craft a productive mindset, you never set yourself up for continuing success, you set yourself up for ever increasing success”
- “Success and significance are not sequential, you don’t do one first and then you get the other, you do them concurrently”
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