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Entrepreneur Will Moore On The Core Things You Must Do To Succeed

October 13, 2020

From suicidal to super successful

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Entrepreneur Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • We’re not robots but science is science

  • Hack the system

  • There are core things you must do in business and in life to succeed

  • Exited for $321 million and asked…”now what?”

  • You still have problems even with money

  • Took two months off and got back to work

  • Is Work-Life Balance a real thing?

  • Are there seasons that you’ll be out-of-balance?

  • Should there be seasons that you’re out-of-balance?

  • You can be out-of-balance, but not completely

The equation of life = …”

  • If you go too long too much out of balance you’re going to hit the wall

  • He started when he was single and enjoyed the first few years

  • When the 12-15-hour days arrived he lost the joy

  • Grow up…but stay a kid at heart

  • Kids change everything

  • Founded Doorstep Delivery in 2008

  • The iPhone had just come out

  • Drivers wouldn’t need a $200-$300 Garmin GPS, which they couldn’t afford

  • Saw inefficiencies

  • Was not scalable

  • Was selling real estate during the big run-up so he was super-busy and wanted to order food easily

  • Quit his real estate business at the top

  • Didn’t raise any money. It was him and his best friend from the real estate business.

  • Found two other guys with a similar business

  • But they had no real structure, which lead to the eventual “lack-of-fun”

  • Was suicidal in college and had “a typical victim” mentality

  • “How to Win Friends and Influence People” was recommended in passing by a college professor

  • He started working on himself while still in college, which laid the foundation for his post-exit life

  • We run off of habits

  • The equation of life = your belief system + your repeated actions + time

  • Connect to your human spirit and that child-like wonder

  • He was working on his new business 3+ years ago while he was still at his last company

  • The entrepreneurial competencies must be present and executed on if you are to succeed

  • Working on a book for business coaching

  • You can’t just ignore making money

  • How to grow your money/investments is key

  • Don’t get caught up keeping up with the Joneses

  • A billionaire on the Tim Ferriss show caught him self being jealous and depressed because he didn’t have the latest jet like his friend just got

  • Do you just want more because you want more?

  • Why the co-founder of a $320 million leases a Toyota Rav4

  • How he made his rock-bottom bounce

  • He was looking when he was at rock bottom

  • His favorite professor mentioned the Dale Carnegie book and that clicked with him

  • The Yale “Happiness Course”

  • Habits don’t care if they’re good or bad

  • Set better habits early in life

  • You can undo them. It takes work.

  • Create a system and stick with it

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