SLOW DOWN TO SPEED UP: It can take YEARS to get your business to a place where you have employees, passive income, and actual days off. Ask yourself: “Am I in this for the long game?” Don’t get burnt out during the warm up. THE SANDS OF TIME: Time management is crucial to your success as an entrepreneur. Filling up your day with lots of “sand” makes it so that your “big rocks” aka Income Producing Activities) are unable to fit into your day. Big rocks first, sand second! SMARTER IS BETTER: Set SMART goals and avoid non specific goals by breaking them up into bite-sized chunks and asking “What are 5 actions that will move me closer to that goal?” “Is saying ‘yes’ to this going to get me closer to that goal?” Bonus: Set a Survive vs Thrive budget to reverse engineer monetary goals. DON’T LOSE YOUR KEYS: Evaluate what worked by analyzing your Key Performance Indicators (aka KPIs) on a monthly basis. A lot of times people achieve something and then they never really look back at what actually moved the needle the most, so evaluation is key. Look at what is driving the biggest results for you, shift and pivot your plan to continue to work towards that goal or to scale it.