Gaining Momentum In Your Business

Momentum is the one thing you cannot live without in your life or business. It is the force that’s greater than all your leadership, strategy, and resources combined.

Newton's law of momentum states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. 

If you have organizational momentum, you should keep it unless you do something to kill it. 

In today's podcast, we're going to look at four factors that stop momentum and four factors that fuel momentum.  We learned these keys from leadership coach and pastor Craig Groeschel. They were so good we wanted to pass them on to you!

Enjoy!

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Transcript

Welcome back to the Expert Ownership Podcast. This is Jason. I got David here. Yes, we've done a few on our own and I was fine with it. David was not. Um, come on. He just, I'm his security blanket. Anyway, uh, what we wanna talk about today is how to fuel momentum in your business and not just your business, but your life.

Your relationships, everything like that. And, and you know, hats off to Craig Gelle, his leadership podcast is a great one. I listened to it and he talked about the four factors that fuel momentum. And so a lot of what he talked about kind of got me thinking about, uh, momentum and got David thinking. And so we put together some things for you and, uh, we wanna talk about what it is that is going to help you gain.

Keep momentum in your business. So Craig gave us a great structure. We're gonna give you the four keys from Craig, Rochelle on momentum and the, the things that actually steal momentum as well. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna actually throw some biblical teeth onto this. So he, he did it really fast when he didn't dive into all of this stuff.

Um, but uh, we're gonna jump into some scripture and say like, okay, exactly how do we become expert owners with this great momentum grid that. Dr. Craig has given us. Okay, so, uh, first let's talk about momentum. Think about momentum. It's when the energy, and I don't have a exact definition for you, but it's when the energy that you expended at the beginning, you don't have to expend e even close to that amount in the present.

Jim Collins calls that the doom loop. Uh, imagine yourself like in this monstrous. Steel cylinder. Almost like a a, a gerbil on a wheel. Hamster on a wheel, yeah. And you can't move that thing. Your whole body's in it. That's not the doom loop, that's the flywheel or the flywheel. But still, it creates a doom loop.

Creates a doom loop. Um, but you're, you're trying to, you're dead level best to get this thing to move. And then finally it moves just a little bit. And then you just keep running up through the edge of the, you know, you're inside the wheel and you just keep running as best you possibly can to get up the wheel so that it moves some more.

And finally it starts to move a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more. And then over time it starts spinning so fast, you jump out and it's just spinning. Yeah, that flywheel's rolling. That's called momentum. And that's what you want in your business. Most of the rocket fuel is spent, um, in takeoff, and, but you gotta get up and you gotta get to where it, it now starts to run itself.

And so that, if that's the goal where we wanna be in our business, in our relationships, and in our life, well then we've gotta recognize that there are some factors that are gonna stop momentum. What is that? Because once you realize what stops momentum, then we can move on to what fuels momentum. Okay.

Here's what stops momentum doing what's known. Safe, easy, and comfortable. Yeah. I really like how Craig came up with that because it's true. I felt that in my own life, known, safe, easy, comfortable, even in the in in, when I'm trying my dead level best to hit certain health goals. I can pivot back to known, safe, easy, comfortable.

And that's exactly what Tony Dungy used to say with his players. And he said the only way that he could get his guys to do. To, to continue to move forward with the the proper game plan. He said we had to drill, drill, drill, drill, drill to a point where when they got into a game situation where the adrenaline was high, they didn't default back to what was known or what was safe or easier or comfortable.

They defaulted back to their training. It's like they're, they were so trained and, and I like the way that Eric Beck has said before, how do you know when you're trained? It's when you don't need discipline to do the thing anymore. Mm. Right. You don't need discipline to do it. It just, it's, it's trained is what I try to teach my boys, they love watching football, but I'm like, when if they're gonna pan to, you know, the cheerleaders or whatever, and they're doing all this stuff, you just train yourself to turn your head from the tv.

Right? And then you get to a point where now we're watching football, and all of a sudden they show the cheerleaders and me and the boys, we just kind of meet eyes. It's like, You didn't need discipline for that. It just happened. That's what momentum looks like. So in your business, when you have, you've got vision, you've got mission, you've got systems in place and all of these things, then all of a sudden you start losing money or you have a, a bad event, or you have, um, where, uh, an employee quits and it leaves you in a tough situation.

Don't just default back to what's known. Safe, easy, and comfortable. Continue to move forward no matter how difficult it is, because God is working behind the scenes. This is the key. The Lord knows you, loves you, called you for a purpose, whether you own your business or whether, uh, you're working for somebody.

There is a purpose in your job. And so sometimes when things happen, especially bad things happen, God is able, Romans 8 28 to work it for good. Because you love him and you're called according to his purpose, so you can trust him. You don't have to just pivot back. You gotta ask yourself, okay, this is creating pressure, but remember, pressure in God's kingdom is a privilege.

What good is gonna come from this? Now, sometimes going back to what is known is, is, is actually a good move, but that cannot be your first pivot. You gotta pause, look, and say, okay, Lord, what are you doing? And are you using this to make us better? Are you using this to put someone else in this place? Are you using this for us to create?

A little bit more efficiencies out of our existing employees instead of filling that role and the responsibility with someone else. You just never know. You just gotta ask the Lord first. So those four things are gonna stop your momentum known, safe, easy, comfortable. Now there are four factors that lead to momentum.

These are exactly from Craig, and I just loved them so much. I didn't wanna change 'em, I didn't want to add to 'em, but David and I are going to build on this foundation of these four pillars. Lemme go ahead and give 'em to you. If you want momentum in your business. It's gotta be ignited by vision.

Activated by faith, supported by systems sustained by grit, ignited by vision, activated by faith, supported by systems, and sustained by grit. Let's think. Vision first. Habakkuk two. Mm-hmm. What does that verse, what's it say? Yeah. Write. Write it down. Write the vision down. Write it down. Make it clear. Write it on tablets.

Make it clear so that he who reads it can run, run. Run. It's keeping that vision. The clearer the vision, the fewer the options, the easier the decision says. Andy Stanley in his book 20 year, 25 years ago, visioneering, it's such a great thing. The clearer the vision that the fewer the options, which is gonna make your decision easier.

So your vision has to be locked and loaded. What is it that you are trying to accomplish? David and I, in our book, expert Ownership, we talk about a personal vision and a corporate vision or a professional vision. The personal is, um, where, and both of them have the same sentence. I want to sow that. I want to blank so that blank.

What is that? David and I, before we started our business, we wanted to be financially free so that we could speak and write. So that we can do what we're doing right now. That was our personal vision. Our professional vision was that we were gonna be the largest, uh, we, we specialized in foreclosures, foreclosure brokerage in the country so that we could breathe life into cities across the country.

And that was specific to our pro-life stand. It was, that was our vision. So when we operated, uh, our real estate company back in the early two thousands, and we grew to a hundred locations in 35 different states, guess what we were doing in those locations? Not everyone. But in a lot of those locations, we were doing everything we could to have a pro-life presence in those same places where we had a professional presence.

And so the, at least that was the goal. That was the vision. Of course, you know, the vision was big. We didn't accomplish it all exactly as we wanted to, but still, that was the vision and that kept us moving forward. So that's vision, but it's not just ignited by vision, it's also activated by faith. When your faith intersects with God's faithfulness, guess what?

You get testimony and there's nothing stronger than testimony. We have this dichotomy in the church, and it's been around for a while, but now we're. There's lots of, uh, leaders that are bringing voice to this. There is no sacred secular divide. In other words, it's not just my work. I'm just grinding at the nine to five.

You know, work was not a result of the fall, and that's what a lot of people believe is the work is just the grind. No work is not a result of the fall. Work is part of the image of God. He created us to work. Mm-hmm. He created Adam and put him in the garden to cultivate, which means to acquire and develop the resources that God put into the ground.

Now when sin entered the world, work became difficult. So the, the goal is not to go back to what's known, safe, easy, comfortable, and just be, you know, live a, a super easy life, or just do a job that's easy for you. The goal is to create, allow that pressure to develop. You take your, take your, your personality and your talents, and create skills that become valuable.

When you create skill sets that become valuable, prophet follows that, that's your work. That's what sustains you. But the thing is, is that it's not a secular calling to work. It is a sacred calling to work. Yeah. Your work is worship. We have three paradigms. If you know Christ, you're a mission. You're, you're a minister, you're on mission, and your work is worship.

That's why when it says to be activated by faith, We're not talking about just some rando faith. We're not talking about blind faith or faith in the vision of your company. No, we are talking at expert ownership. We're talking about faith in Jesus, who is the Christ. He loves you. His spirit is in you. His word is true.

It's real. And having quiet time with the Lord. Bringing all of your professional concerns to the Lord and building your company or creating your job or doing your work as unto the Lord is biblical. It's Colossians three, Ephesians chapter six, and when you do that, you have supernatural power. And not only do you have power, but you really have peace.

Yeah, that's the key. When you incorporate, you don't really incorporate your faith. 'cause I mean, that's grammatically incorrect. But Yeah. You know, just so that everybody understand, we do incorporate our faith. We don't di di divorce it away from our work. Yeah. Your faith is why you are successful. When David and I talk about launching faith filled entrepreneurs and greater freedom and success, it's all about being faith filled.

It's like your business partner is God. He's the majority owner, but he's made you managing partner. Now, how are you gonna treat him? That's where listening prayer comes in. So four factors that fuel momentum. First, it's ignited by vision. Second, it's activated by faith. Third, it's supported by systems.

This is so important that you've gotta have systems in your life. You gotta have systems in your business. You can actually have systems in your relationship. For Tori and I when my business was going hot and heavy every single Friday, I came home at four o'clock. We had a babysitter that showed up at four 30.

We were at date, night by five, stayed out till nine, right? Like that was a system. It was, it just happened. A series of steps, a series of steps to achieve a result. So what is the result? You're gonna get that from your vision. What's the result now? Create the series of steps. My boys, uh, uh, taught 'em, you know, they want, uh, D one scholarships.

My oldest son got it. Uh, my youngest son is shooting for it. My youngest daughter's shooting for a D one volleyball scholarship. And I tell 'em, what do you wanna achieve? I wanna, you know, I want a D one scholarship. Okay? Picture yourself sitting at the table signing the letter of intent Camera people are around.

Picture yourself there. Okay, there, you're signing it. Alright, now what are the steps you're gonna take to achieve that? Let's work backwards. Let's work backwards. That's your system. It's the process. It's the series of steps. So a goal written down, no, no, no, wait. A dream written down becomes a goal. Goal. A goal broken down becomes a plan.

That's what becomes your system. It's your process. It's the steps you're gonna take. Now in your business, it's important for you to recognize, don't think too systematic in terms of you have to create this complex system to run your business or whatever. Keep it simple. You are going to run your business by systems, by design or default.

I. Your design should be simple, very simple. Dr. John Gaal, who wrote the book, systematics, he said, all complex systems derive from simple systems. So all, all complex systems that work derived from simple systems that work. So start with simple systems and create it. What is the goal you want to achieve now?

What are the steps that we're gonna move forward to achieve those? And if you need help on systems, get our book expert ownership or join us@expertownership.com, our owner suite, where you get our course that takes you through our four steps of creating systems, where you break things down into silos, segments, stacks and steps, and you'll get the cheat sheets and all the stuff that we got for you there.

You'll love that with systems. So what is it to fuel momentum? It's gotta be ignited by vision, activated by faith, supported by systems, and finally sustained by grit. And I love this because, uh, uh, uh, there's this, um, uh, karate, no, no, no. Juujitsu trainer was talking to Rochelle and, and he's a black belt jiujitsu guy, and Rochelle's trying to get his black belt and.

He, he, uh, gelle asked, how do you get your black belt? Like, what's it take? And he said, A black belt is a white belt that never quit. Hmm. And I love that. It's so true. Well, how are you never gonna quit, David? And I call it the trifecta of wealth. We can call it the trifecta of success. We can call it whatever we want.

But there are three keys to grit, discipline, diligence, determination. Discipline. Doing what you don't want to do in order to accomplish what you want to accomplish. That's discipline, diligence, the consistent application of discipline, even when you can't see the result, catch that discipline's doing what you don't wanna do to accomplish what you wanna accomplish.

Diligence is the consistent application of discipline to your life, to your business, even when you can't see the results. Well, how are you gonna do that through the third determination. How bad do you want it? What is it that's inspiring you to continue to move forward? And guess what? That will be your vision.

That's right. See how these are all tied in? This is how you're gonna get momentum in your life. This is how you're gonna get momentum in your business. It's gonna be ignited by vision. It's gonna be activated by faith. So you will have a testimony. It'll be supported by systems, and ultimately it's gonna be sustained by grit.

And that grit incorporates discipline, diligence, and determination. And when you do that, listen, you are going to see momentum in your business and in your life, and in your relationships. This is strong stuff. That's good, Jason. All right. Well that wasn't me. I came in and I was like, all right, let's hit this podcast.

He goes, dude, we gotta do this one with Craig Gross. I know, man. I had listened to it a couple of weeks ago, but you know what, David and I, we, we do, I listen to podcasts and so all the time, one of the things that I do on my beauty and battle marriage podcast is Tory, and I'll read stuff from really smart people on relationships and we're like, let's talk about this on the podcast.

Yeah, of course. And so David and I, I wanna do that more. Hey, there's nothing new under the sun. Mm-hmm. Solomon said that, man, you, you think you got all wisdom? Heck no. But let me, let me pivot for a second. Um. David, I want you to tell the folks about an idea that David and I just had, and we're going to start allowing, and we're gonna open up to something we've actually never done before, but we think it's gonna be really cool.

But it's not an idea. It's just something that actually came to us because of a need that That's an idea of a need. No, no, no. Listen, it's actually a need that we already have seen. Yeah. And it really helps momentum. So for, for, for men business leaders, or, I mean, even if you're not an entrepreneur in Europe, Maybe a C-suite or an executive or something.

Jason and I have over the last couple of years, we are traveling the country speaking in a lot of different locations and when Jason and I do it, we're flying and there are a couple of guys that have reached out to us and said, Hey man, I wanna go with you. So we, they fly to Charlotte. Jason and I meet up with 'em at Charlotte.

We jump on the flight, we head to either New York, la, Dallas, Boston, wherever the event may be, and you just come and spend. A day and a half with us, and, uh, we'll be on the flight together. Ask us anything. We'll workshop your business. We'll talk about marriage, family, relationships, professional development, health, whatever it may be.

And we'll get to eat good food. We'll hang out and you get a hotel room, you get all your food, all that stuff. It's just gonna be a lot of fun. Your flight taking care of. So come back into the green room with us, meet whoever we're speaking with, and then we just spend, spend the evening together and, uh, you'll be our guest of honor.

You'll be our v I p. With Jason and me and then it's basically an a m a ask me anything, ask us anything You get, you get two brothers. And, uh, and you get our undivided attention. And, and then the next day we get up smack some breakfast, but first we work out together. Yeah, we do. Then we'll hit some breakfast, then we'll hit the plane, fly back to Charlotte, and then you head home.

We head back to our place and, uh, it's been incredibly effective. So if that's something you're interested in, you get, reach out to us. Um, expert ownership.com or Jason? No, don't go, just go to John. Yeah, go straight to John. You know our director, John, at expert ownership.com, so j o h n@expertownership.com.

Reach out directly to him. See David now, we don't have some website for this or anything like that. We're all like, Hey, come hang out. You wanna hang out? Come have an experience with us. It's, but it's only for dudes. Yeah. And the thing is, we've probably only got about five or six that we'll do. So if you want in.

Reach out to John at expert ownership. He can give you some details. So in the meantime, some momentum recap momentum real quick, just so we can have it. Yes. The four factors that are gonna stop it is doing what's known, safe, easy, uncomfortable, and the four factors that are gonna fuel it. Thank you Craig Gelle for coming up with this.

Ignited by vision, activated by fate, supported by systems, and sustained by grit. And grit. It's being disciplined, diligent, and determined. Awesome, and that is it. Now listen, please. Share this podcast out, not not just this episode, but our podcast. And if you haven't already rated or reviewed it or subscribe to it, please do that.

That helps us. And um, okay Jason, we gotta do own it or loan it and then we'll leave Hokas. Oh, actually those are probably own it. I would've said loan it maybe 10 years ago, but own it now that my feet hurt. It's, it's important to own us. Okay, so you own it. Yeah, I own it too. I bought a pair. I never thought I would, but I did.

Trey Sheneman, our fearless buddy that handles our media, uh, I saw him wearing hocus. He's like, dude, these are the best things ever happened to me. So we'll be 48 in October, by the way, folks. And, uh, I'm like, uh, I think I, I walk every day with my wife, so I'm like, babe, my feet, I don't know that I'm gonna make it much longer.

So she's like, you gotta buy those hokas. I said, no, I can't. Yeah, and then I tried him on and I was like, okay, yeah, Trey, he was right, so I own it too. There you go. Good. We're getting old. All right, we'll see you guys next time. God bless you.