Design Your Life with Frank Benedetto - a podcast by Jessica Sun
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Frank bootstrapped his business and reached over 1 million in revenue within one year. He now helps people build mission-driven businesses like his own. He also founded Counter Strike, which provides performance coaching for combat athletes.
Quotes to remember:
“The only way I succeeded in business was reinventing my life.”
“There are probably five things that if you do every day, you’re going to move the needle significantly.”
Takeaways:
- You can do well at your job but feel dead inside
- There is a difference between having goals and designing your life; designing ahead of time is key to achieving the results you want
- There in things in life that you want to do that will never happen on accident
- Build a doable morning routine
- Ask, “Is this in line with my long-term dreams?” to assess a behavior or habit
- Whoever fails the most wins
- For entrepreneurs: start half-baked
What you’ll learn:
- How Frank became CEO of a million dollar company within one year
- The turning point for him at 30 years old
- About the Personal Operating System that helped him turn his life around
- What Frank’s top five habits are, and what habits he recommends
- Lessons from combat sports that apply to life and business
- How to have big goals and separate your identity from success or failure
- What it means to be a mission-driven business; don’t choose between doing good and profit
Mentioned on the podcast:
- Frank Benedetto’s Life Design Worksheet
- Counter Strike
- Les Brown
- Eric Thomas
- Discipline Equals Freedom - Jocko Willink
- Ryan Holiday
- Memento mori
- Marcus Aurelius
- The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber
Links:
Further episodes of Guru Please
Further podcasts by Jessica Sun
Website of Jessica Sun