184. The Profitability Mindset of Wealthy Contractors - Brian Kaskavalciyan
Oct 30, 2024
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Brian Kaskavalciyan, known as The Wealthy Contractor, helps contractors unlock their financial potential. He dives into the crucial difference between traditional profitability skills and a wealth-oriented mindset. Brian emphasizes the importance of clarifying personal goals and self-worth in achieving financial success. He introduces the 'four numbers exercise' to shape wealth attraction and discusses how embracing challenges can foster growth. With insights on overcoming limiting beliefs and the value of community, he inspires contractors to elevate their financial journey.
Developing a profitability mindset is crucial for contractors, focusing on self-worth and attitudes toward money rather than just financial skills.
Many contractors operate with flawed profit models, emphasizing top-line sales instead of necessary profitability strategies and education.
Achieving financial success requires adopting a growth mindset that sees monetary goals as opportunities for personal transformation and fulfillment.
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Balancing Profitability Skills and Mindset
Running a profitable contracting business requires both skill sets and the right mindset. Essential skills include budgeting, job costing, and pricing strategies, which are often discussed in industry circles. However, equally important is developing a profitability mindset, which focuses on attitudes towards money and self-worth. Embracing concepts like wealth attraction enables contractors to break away from limiting beliefs about their financial abilities.
Understanding the Broken Profit Model
Many contractors operate with flawed profit models, often resulting in minimal net profits. A significant portion of the contractor community fails to grasp the fundamentals of profitability, leading them to rely on top-line sales alone to drive financial success. To combat this, education and workshops focusing on profitability strategies and wealth attraction are essential. These initiatives aim to help contractors reframe their understanding of how to effectively manage their finances and improve their profit margins.
The Importance of Self-Worth and Deservingness
A deep-rooted struggle for many contractors lies in their perception of self-worth and what they believe they deserve. Often, individuals fail to articulate their true desires due to ingrained humility or fear of judgment, leading them to settle for less than their aspirations. Practical exercises, such as affirmations and emotional visualization, help reinforce a sense of worthiness and can shift limiting mindsets. By actively challenging these internal narratives, contractors can start to align their goals with their true potential.
The Role of Mindset in Achieving Financial Goals
Achieving financial success is closely tied to the mindset one adopts towards growth and change. Individuals must view financial milestones not just as numeric goals but as opportunities for personal transformation and fulfillment. The journey to success requires recognizing opportunities for continuous improvement, be it through proper implementation of strategies or cultivating supportive networks. Ultimately, embodying a mindset of growth fosters more than just financial accomplishments; it empowers individuals to create meaningful impacts in their lives and communities.
Running a highly profitable contracting business has two sides of the coin.
You need the profitability skill sets: budgeting, job costing, pricing strategies, accounting best practices, and so on.
We’ve discussed these plenty on the show.
The other thing you need is the “profitability mindset.”
This has very little to do with spreadsheets and bookkeeping and everything to do with your attitude towards money, your belief and self-worth, and your ability to practice what our guest on the show today calls wealth attraction.
Brian Kaskavalciyan, aka The Wealthy Contractor, is back on the show for the second time to talk about how to clarify your why, get control of your mind and develop the sense of deserving that so many contractors are missing.