BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

543: 5 Tools To Unlock Your “Ideal Life” w/ "Traction" Author Gino Wickman

Dec 12, 2021

Gino Wickman, a renowned author of best-sellers like "Traction" and creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), reveals his secrets to achieving an ideal life. He discusses five key principles for fulfillment: doing what you love with people you love, making a difference, being fairly compensated, and having time for passions. Gino emphasizes the importance of embracing risk to unlock rewards and shares practical tools for entrepreneurs to focus on high-value tasks while enhancing their work-life balance. His insights are invaluable for anyone looking to boost productivity and happiness.

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Episode guests

Gino Wickman

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Episode notes

Intro

2min

Finding Fulfillment in Real Estate Pursuits

3min

Navigating Entrepreneurship: Embracing Structure

10min

Unlocking Business Success with the Entrepreneurial Operating System

5min

Crafting Your Ideal Life

22min

Building Effective Teams and Clarity in Vision

6min

Empowering Growth and Embracing Risk

30min

Unlocking Entrepreneurial Insights

8min

Gino Wickman’s name is synonymous with business growth, entrepreneurship, and freedom. He spent the majority of his youth building up his father’s company to later sell it for a substantial sum. After teaching others how to do the same, Gino took the time to write books that would pave the way for future entrepreneurial success. Books like Traction, Rocket Fuel, Get A Grip, and his newest book, The EOS Life.

In it, Gino describes the five points of an ideal life: doing what you love, with people you love, making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately, and having time for other passions. Sounds like paradise doesn’t it? Well, if you’re an entrepreneur (or a want-to-be entrepreneur), this “ideal life” is perfectly within your grasp.

On today’s show, Gino walks through how any entrepreneur, nine-to-five worker, or business owner can hit all five of these points and live a truly fulfilling life. Gino mentions five separate tools that can help you along your journey to an ideal life, but the most important piece of this entire show is how you have to put up the risk to take away the reward.

In This Episode We Cover:

Why Gino created EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) for business owners

Whether or not you have the six essential traits of an entrepreneur

The five points of living an ideal life (and why they’re closer than you think)

Dropping your $25/hour tasks and starting to focus on $1,000+/hour tasks

Understanding that reward does not come without sufficient risk

Why time off from work can fuel better ideas and help you enjoy life more

And So Much More!

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