What if the best way to create a better future is to focus on making today a great yesterday? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore a simple, rewarding way to approach time that can reduce stress, sharpen focus, and help you feel more satisfied with each day as it happens.

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

• Why the last seven months have been the best of Dan’s life.
• Why engaging in this process reduces stress.
• Why Dan hasn’t been feeling any pressure from his ADHD.
• How this system creates a more satisfying daily experience.

Show Notes:

What you do today, and how you think about it, shapes your experience of tomorrow.

Start each morning by deciding what would make today a great yesterday when you wake up tomorrow.

When you focus on creating a great yesterday, tomorrow becomes less about worry and more about the commitments you make today.

Creating great yesterdays can reduce the stress and regret you carry from the past.

When tomorrow takes care of itself, you can feel less pressure and anxiety about the future.

Getting emotionally attached to future possibilities can create anxiety because those possibilities don’t yet exist.

Each future possibility you become attached to competes for your attention today.

Focusing on today can improve your concentration by freeing you from stress about the past and future.

A simple point system can make daily progress more visible, playful, and satisfying.

There are no punishments in this system—only rewards for actions that move your life forward.

An activity is more valuable if you do it consciously.

Resources:

The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Not Being Bothered by Dan Sullivan

For entrepreneurs, boredom is more than an inconvenience. It can lead to poor decisions, unnecessary disruption, and lost momentum. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why conscious thinking is the antidote to boredom and how asking better questions can create fresh energy, clarity, and opportunity from the experiences already in front of you.

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

• Why entrepreneurs need to be aware of how they’re thinking.
• A simple, easy way to get energized by what you’re doing.
• Where boredom really comes from.
• How to respond to major changes in the world.

Show Notes:

Entrepreneurs need achievement that feels new, better, and different to stay energized and engaged.

If you are no longer growing, or are achieving in the same way for too long, boredom can quickly set in.

Boredom is not always a signal to look for more external stimulation; it can be a cue to change how you’re thinking.

You can shift your energy by consciously switching away from an unproductive thought and giving your brain a better question to answer.

Becoming aware of what you’re thinking, feeling, and experiencing in the moment is a practical antidote to boredom.

Asking yourself, “What is actually happening right now?” turns you from a passive participant into an active observer.

Taking the role of an observer creates emotional distance and helps you see a stressful situation more clearly.

Naming your experience gives your brain something specific to work on and creates an immediate shift in energy.

Anger and negative emotions can take over when you’re reacting unconsciously instead of examining what’s happening.

Curiosity keeps entrepreneurs engaged because it turns familiar experiences into sources of new insight.

Reviewing your best “yes” decisions and best “no” decisions can reveal valuable patterns, connections, and confidence for the future.

The more conscious you are of your thinking, the more easily you can create fresh energy from your past, present, and future experiences.

Resources:

The Greater Game by Dan Sullivan and John Bowen

Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan

Inviting Genius: How Good Leaders Use Conflict to Become Great by Matthew Abrams

The 3 Most Important Questions For Constant Growth As An Entrepreneur

For over five decades, Strategic Coach® co-founder Dan Sullivan has been coaching talented, successful, ambitious entrepreneurs. In this episode, Dan shares insights from his new book, Who We’re Looking For, as he and business coach Shannon Waller define the kind of entrepreneur who gains the most from joining The Strategic Coach® Program.

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

• How Dan discovered and describes the coaching instinct he was born with.
• Why The Strategic CoachProgram is designed exclusively for entrepreneurs.
• How Strategic Coach structures and processes can support an entrepreneur’s lifetime growth.
• How an entrepreneur’s ambition can create isolation—and what to do about it.
• How Strategic Coach and its members create a true collaboration, not a transactional relationship.

Show Notes:

Who you are is often easier for someone else to see, especially when they’re watching you in action and noticing what consistently works for you.

Your life is made up of hundreds and thousands of experiences, and the patterns of what works and what doesn’t reveal your real talents and direction.

The entrepreneurs who thrive in Strategic Coach are the ones who have chosen to base their income on their own effectiveness in the marketplace.

Entrepreneurs have the strongest connection to their ambition because they’ve taken full responsibility for creating their own opportunities and results.

Strategic Coach has coached over 25,000 entrepreneurs, and some members have been in the Program for more than 35 years, treating it as their entrepreneurial home.

The ideal Strategic Coach member is talented, successful, highly ambitious, and never wants to stop growing their freedom and impact.

When the right-fit entrepreneur hears about Strategic Coach, they recognize it immediately as the structure and community they’ve been looking for, which makes getting started simple and fast.

In the Strategic Coach community, entrepreneurs collaborate rather than compete, contributing their experiences and insights so everyone grows faster.

The biggest danger for entrepreneurs is loneliness, especially when they feel like no one around them really understands their ambition or experience.

Most entrepreneurs have had to prove themselves on their own without a process, structure, or environment designed specifically for people who think the way they do.

Strategic Coach gives entrepreneurs a space where they can be unabashedly ambitious and surrounded by peers who want them to think even bigger.

Fundamental entrepreneurial thinking is different from knowing your industry; it’s a way of seeing opportunities, taking ownership, and creating value regardless of the business you’re in.

There’s no point in being a successful entrepreneur unless your success continually increases your sense of personal happiness and agency.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan

What Is A Self-Managing Company®?

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Time Management

The Impact Filter®

Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan