HorsePower Journey
As the CEO of HorsePower Brands, I led a multi-brand home service franchise platform. Building it meant learning most of this the expensive way, and along the way I sat down with people who asked the real questions.
What actually worked. What it cost. What I'd do differently with the same hand. It's collected in one place, and it's the fastest way to work out whether I'm any use to you before you reach out. Read more about The HorsePower Journey on YouTube
Live Seven
Is the life you're building the one you actually want?
That question is too big to answer straight, so Live SEVEN breaks it into seven: your health, your head, your people, your time, your money, your impact, your next yes. Seven honest answers. Measured against no one. Not anyone else's.
YouVSYou.
Physical Health
One life. One body. Live in it like you mean to stay.
02Inner Health
Your brain runs on sleep, sunlight and quiet. Give it all three.
03Relationships
You only have so much of yourself to give. Decide who gets it.
04Freedom
Free time isn't freedom. Choosing how you spend all of it is.
05Money
If you never define enough, no amount will be.
06Impact
Someone is better off because you were here. Make sure of it.
07Adventure
Someday isn't on the calendar. Pick a date.
Live SEVEN is black and white. Color only appears when you step inside a dimension. Step in.
liveseven.ai →My Top 10
People ask me all the time what my favorite reads are. Here's the list.
Inner HealthWhen nothing sticks
Atomic Habits
You don't rise to your goals, you fall to your systems. The most useful book here for anyone who keeps starting over on Monday.
Business OwnershipWhen you are the business
The E-Myth Revisited
Why the best technician makes the worst owner. If you can't take a week off without everything stopping, start here.
Business OwnershipWhen the team pulls apart
Traction
An operating system for a company that has outgrown being run out of your head. Meetings, numbers, accountability. All of it made boring on purpose.
ImpactWhen you're the ceiling
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Your business can't outgrow you. This is the one Maxwell to read if you only read one.
RelationshipsWhen the pipeline is empty
Fanatical Prospecting
Unglamorous, uncomfortable, and the difference between a good year and a bad one. Nobody wants to hear it, which is why it works.
RelationshipsWhen the conversation matters
Never Split the Difference
Negotiation as listening rather than winning. Changes how you handle a price objection and how you talk to your kids.
Business OwnershipWhen everything is busy and nothing moves
The Goal
A novel about a factory that teaches you to find the one constraint holding everything else back. Every business has one.
Business OwnershipWhen good is the enemy
Good to Great
What separates companies that last from companies that were briefly hot. The discipline is the whole point.
Inner HealthWhen the days run you
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Old, unfashionable, still right. Start with the difference between urgent and important and it'll cost you a week of bad habits.
Inner HealthWhen your gut keeps being wrong
Thinking, Fast and Slow
How your own mind talks you into bad calls. Slower going than the rest, and worth it.
Start wherever you're weakest, not wherever you're most curious.
All 62 books →Outside the work
Adventures
The trips I've taken and want to share. Four fourteeners in a day, national parks with my family, and one hard thing a year.
See the record →If you're stuck
Reach out.
I'd rather have a real conversation than watch someone work alone on a problem I've already had. If you're building something, thinking about starting, or wondering whether to keep going. Say so.
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