Everything that humans create is done with tools. But the skill level people have for using tools varies drastically. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss why it’s essential to be good at using the tool of language for both thinking and communicating, and share the thinking tools that all entrepreneurs can use for both business success and business growth.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why Dan vowed years ago to never again operate his business with receivables.
• Why you’re never starting from zero.
• How entrepreneurs can learn what to do in the future by looking at their past.
• How Strategic Coach^® thinking tools improve clients’ lives.
• Dan’s process for developing and introducing new Strategic Coach thinking tools.

Show Notes:

One of the reasons to get really good at language is because it gives you the tools for thinking and communicating.

If you don’t have the language to think about things, you’re trapped by your emotions.

If your language skills aren’t good enough, people can only respond to your emotions.

A lot of small businesses stay small because they never really comprehended what entrepreneurship really was.

Some things that are impossible can become possible if you change your thinking.

Strategic Coach currently has roughly 250 thinking tools in the company’s 35th year.

Every quarter, Dan creates three or four new thinking tools.

New thinking tools address new things that are happening to entrepreneurs where there isn't a structure for thinking about it.

Questions about the future are tools for instigating a thinking process.

You always have to have a bigger and better future to bounce your present off of.

In today’s world, ideas and processes have tremendous value.

Resources:

Total Cash Confidence by Dan Sullivan

Article: This Tool Will Help You Make Sense Of The Past AND Take Charge Of Your Future

The Impact Filter^™

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

The Transformation Trilogy by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy

Article: The Four Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs

Everyone And Everything Grows by Dan Sullivan

The Positive Focus^®

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Time Management