Personal Development
What Is a ProQ CoPilot? A Business Coach Built for Scalable Growth
What could be possible for you if you had time, money, and freedom? Business ownership wasn’t meant to be a prison sentence. It’s meant to be a vehicle that allows you to do and achieve more than you ever dreamt possible. At ProQ, we want our clients living on the edge of their dreams—to look…
Read MoreMarching Band to Nowhere: How We Help Business Owners Find Their Path
The other day, I was on a call with a potential client, and he used the most vivid similes to describe his experience as a business owner. He said that running his business felt like being in a marching band going nowhere, or like a puppy running on a wooden floor. The imagery was so…
Read MorePaint by Number: Why ProQ Delivers Consistent Results
Have you ever watched an incredible closer sealing a deal? It looks like magic. It feels so smooth. It seems incredibly easy. But the actual fact of the matter is that it takes a lot of skill to guide a person from a vague desire to a closed transaction. I’ve taught in-home selling for the…
Read MoreSeeing Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses
When I was a kid, I often heard people talk about the “evils” of seeing life through rose-colored glasses. Many lamented the need to remove them, as if they were some kind of burden. I never really understood why conventional wisdom was so critical of something that seemed so small. Moreover, I didn’t see many…
Read MoreWhen To Quit
Over the past several weeks, there has been a distinctive theme in many of my conversations: quitting. Not the type of quitting where you chuck caution to the wind, suddenly exit and blow up the bridge behind you, the type of quitting, where you say no to the excellent, to the exciting, to the work…
Read MoreHope is an Ineffective Strategy
Busy and Productive are NOT synonyms. All too often we get so busy working in the day-to-day of our businesses, executing the tactical imperatives, that we forget what we are TRULY about. As a business owner with a multi-million dollar business, it isn’t enough to check off the hot burning must-dos every day, to referee…
Read MoreSoaring
Over the past few months, it has felt as though my life went from relentless effort: working and working, planning and building, trusting and adjusting – from tilling the soil and removing all of the rocks, from selecting the seeds and carefully planting them, from diligently finding the weeds and ripping them up from the…
Read MoreBeyond the Obvious: Unveiling the Secrets to Sustainable Business Growth
Recently, I got a very thought-provoking email from one of my mentors. The headline read: “The job of a great coach isn’t to answer their client’s questions. It’s to give them more powerful questions to unearth deep insights within them.” He further suggested that we all pretend not to know what is holding…
Read MoreMastering Difficult Conversations: A 5-Step Guide for Business Success
Are you familiar with that sinking feeling before a tough conversation? For many, it’s hard to conduct a tough conversation both personally and professionally, and thus try to avoid it at all costs. However, as with most things you try to dodge, you pay for it in other ways, such as frustration, stress, loss…
Read MoreEntrepreneurial Agility: A Mountain Biker’s Guide to Business Resilience
What you might not know about me is that I love biking and now that I live in Arizona, I have the luxury of mountain biking in the most beautiful surroundings. One of my favorite areas is the McDowell Mountain Regional Park because it offers a varied landscape and a great mixture of trails.…
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