7 Signs You’re a Mature Entrepreneur (and 5 Signs You Aren’t)
Run a Profitable Gym
English - November 04, 2021 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Health & Fitness fitness coaching crossfit business gym marketing ceo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Remember when you first started coaching and your whiteboard briefings were more like physiology lectures? You don't do that anymore now. Now, as a mature coach, you know your clients just need to focus on one cue at a time.
Entrepreneurship has a path to maturity, too. Some lessons you can learn from books and experts. Others simply require time — and experience making a mistake or two.
Chris Cooper's been an entrepreneur for a long time, and he's made a lot of mistakes. But he's better for it, and here, he shares some wisdom from the road to entrepreneurial maturity.
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Timeline:
0:55 – How Coop realized he was maturing as an entrepreneur.
3:42 – Taking a long-term perspective.
6:46 – You never know what worse luck your bad luck will save you from.
8:40 – Finding balance between business concepts.
10:14 – Understanding that retention trumps sales.
11:59 – Flexible with service, committed to audience.
13:04 – You can learn from your competition.
14:29 – Finish one thing before starting another.
16:05 – Signs you have a ways to go: You think too much about what others are doing.
16:24 – You try to impress the wrong people.
17:32 – You chase novelty.
18:12 – You get political.
19:17 – You’re suspicious of others’ success.