Jim Palmer is the founder of the Dream Biz Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. He is a coach, speaker, and business-building expert. Jim recently wrote the book DECIDE:The Ultimate Success Trigger and talks to Jason on some of the key things you can learn in the book. On the episode, Jim talks on the importance of delegating your work, cleaning out your headtrash, and pushing through criticism.
Key Takeaways:
[2:20] Highly successful entrepreneurs make a decision and move forward with it.
[5:11] If you wait too long and stay in 'squishyville', you will miss the opportunity.
[7:55] How did Jim clear his headtrash?
[12:15] Everybody has headtrash.
[18:20] People will always criticize you. Brush it off and keep moving forward.
[20:55] When is it a good time to get help?
[22:45] Start small, hire a virtual assistant for ten hours a week.
Mentioned In This Episode:
http://www.decideforsuccessbook.com/ (http://www.decideforsuccessbook.com/)
Tweetables:
“If you feel the need for everybody to like you, that's going to slow you down. (http://ctt.ec/N748n)”
“The critics are always the ones who, you know, they are too busy being critics to do anything for themselves. (http://ctt.ec/_17rm)”
“Paying clients are really about the only people you need to be listening to, because everybody will criticize. (http://ctt.ec/g9rN8)”
Transcript
Jason Hartman:
It's my pleasure to welcome a returning guest to the show and that is my friend Jim Palmer who is out with a new book that's doing great. It's entitled, DECIDE: The Ultimate Success Trigger. I have not read it yet, but looking through the table of contents I love some of stuff he's talking about here in terms of how important it is to just make a decision about things that we're going to talk about during the interview and stick with him and Jim, welcome, how are you doing?
Jim Palmer:
Jason, it's awesome to see you again. We saw each other just recently in San Diego at the Traffic & Conversion Summit.
Jason:
That's right, that's right. Give our listeners a sense of geography, where are you located?
Jim:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
Jason:
Good stuff. So, DECIDE, this just seems like one of these deceptively simple, but incredibly effective ways to become successful, doesn't it?
Jim:
I'm going to have to start using – I really liked the way you said that, but you know, as I started writing this book, sometimes what I'll do, Jason, I'll have the idea, I start writing, I'll come back and then kind of write what I think people got out of it. As I was thinking about it, I mean, as I mentioned kind of before we went on live here. I didn't want to call it just a mindset book, because there's a lot of mindset books, but I really like figuring out what is the impediment for most entrepreneurs, the small business owners, and all the ones that I've studied so far, what it's come down to is that highly successful entrepreneurs, Jason, I'm sure you know this; they have an uncanny ability to assess a situation, to spot opportunity, but then, most importantly, to decide. To decide yes or no. This is going to work, this won't work, and then they move forward. Yes or no is good, I'll think about it is not good, because that puts you in a place I call squishyville where opportunities go to die. Nothing ever happens in squishyville.
Jason:
Yeah, I love that. Squishyville, that's an awesome way to put it. The reason it's so important to decide is because without the decision, it gives you definiteness of purpose, right? Even if you don't know ow you're going to get there, it's just making a commitment, making a decision and really that's what the late John F. Kennedy did in the early 60s. I mean, he decided that by the end of the decade, we're going to go to the moon. The Hollywood studios ramped up and designed sets that looked like the moon and we stayed a fake moon landing – I'm joking, of course, but some people still think that, maybe they're right,