For 35 years now, The Strategic Coach^® Program has been helping entrepreneurs to achieve business success and business growth while living happy lives. But Dan Sullivan didn’t set out to create a program for entrepreneurs. He set out to create a thinking program, and entrepreneurs are the ones who took to it the most. In this episode, Dan talks with fellow business coach Shannon Waller about the genesis of Strategic Coach^® and why it works so well for entrepreneurs.

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

• The learning experience created by others that’s had the most influence on Dan’s thinking today.
• The ways of thinking on which Dan based The Strategic Coach Program.
• How constantly growing in capability and confidence protects you from worrying about the future.
• What lets Dan know he’s created a timeless thinking tool.
• Where all Strategic Coach thinking tools come from.

Show Notes: 

The entrepreneurial game will continue for as long as you’re up to it.

Each person can take the actual experiences of their daily life and develop them into knowledge.

The challenges you face each day are sufficient to create a lifetime learning program.

It's easier to get things created and produced these days than it was in the old days.

Entrepreneurs have to be learning on a daily basis, while many non-entrepreneurs don’t have to do much learning after they get the job.

Some non-entrepreneurs view having to learn new things as a chore, while entrepreneurs see it as an advantage.

The bigger the problem and the faster the solution, the bigger the check for the entrepreneur.

Strategic Coach clients are never told what they should learn from using a Coach thinking tool.

It’s dangerous for an entrepreneur to get bored.

Entrepreneurs get punished most heavily for not changing their minds.

Entrepreneurs can make greater progress from thinking than people in most other lines of work.

As a group, Strategic Coach clients are uniquely confident and feel a unique sense of capability and confidence about the future.

Strategic Coach clients make more money and take more free time than a comparable group of entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs are the only people whose success depends upon being transformative.

Strategic Coach clients have a shared language thanks to the Program’s thinking tools.

The cause of most entrepreneurial problems is loneliness.

Resources: 

The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs [Article]

Unique Ability^®

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Entrepreneurial Time System^®—The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Time Management

The Experience Transformer^®—Transforming Experiences Into Multipliers [Article]

The Impact Filter^™