Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters

How Entrepreneurs Can Access A Whole New World Of Thinking

May 14, 2024

Business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss the importance of deep thinking for entrepreneurs and how The Strategic Coach Program helps. They delve into the fear of introspective thinking, the levels of thinking, and the necessity of consciously learning to think about one's thinking. The episode highlights the transformative power of unlocking thinking potential within a supportive community, optimizing productivity through thoughtful scheduling, and enhancing decision-making with strategic thinking tools.

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Dan Sullivan

Shannon Waller

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Quick takeaways

Entrepreneurs need dedicated thinking time for strategic decision-making amidst marketplace independence.

Deep self-reflection and intentional thinking are key for entrepreneurs to unlock their full potential and drive personal growth.

Deep dives

Importance of Thinking Time for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are often challenged by not allocating enough time for thinking amidst their busy schedules. Dan Sullivan emphasizes the significance of thinking time as a critical component for entrepreneurs given their independence in the marketplace. The lack of dedicated thinking time leads to reactive decisions under crisis situations, highlighting the necessity for intentional thinking. Through tools like the 'Thinking About Your Thinking' book, entrepreneurs in Strategic Coach are encouraged to engage in deep thinking, which can be initially perceived as 'getting deep' but is essential for making strategic decisions.

Introduction

4min

Exploring the Impact of Thinking About Thinking in Conversations

5min

Unlocking Thinking Potential

20min

Optimizing Productivity Through Thoughtful Scheduling for Entrepreneurs

2min

Enhancing Productivity Through Strategic Thinking Tools

3min

Do you give yourself time to think? Many people don’t. And for entrepreneurs, the stakes are higher because they’re in the marketplace independently. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller talk about why thinking time is so important for business success and how entrepreneurs can get the highest quality thinking time through The Strategic Coach^® Program.

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

· Why deep thinking is scary.

· The question that The Strategic Coach Program was based on from the start.

· Why it’s easier to get entrepreneurs thinking about their thinking than most people.

· Why thinking about your thinking is something that has to be consciously learned.

Show Notes:

Most people only do the kind of thinking done in Strategic Coach^® in extreme emergency.

Most people engage in three levels of thinking: thinking about things, thinking about other people, and thinking about other people’s thoughts. But there is a fourth level: thinking about your thinking.

Higher education is almost entirely based on people who spent their whole lives thinking about somebody else's thoughts.

In any sale, the first thing that people buy is a relationship.

There’s only one expert on what progress is going to make a client happy, and that's the client.

Some people don’t think about their thinking because they’re afraid of their thinking.

For most people, it’s an unnatural act to think about their thinking.

The Strategic Coach Program is about the clients, not the coaches.

Instead of thinking about their thinking, most people just engage with whatever the world throws at them during the day, and then watch TV in the evening.

Thinking about your thinking means taking agency over what actually goes on in your mind.

The more you think about your thinking, the more normal it becomes.

The problem is never the problem; the problem is not knowing how to think about the problem.

Tightly scheduled entrepreneurs cannot transform themselves.

Resources:

Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan

The Dan Sullivan Question by Dan Sullivan

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

The Impact Filter^™

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