Morning Routines – Here’s What We Learned
A few weeks ago, I asked some of my favorite entrepreneurs to share their morning routines with me. Here are some interesting highlights:
Liz Dyrsmid – Content Marketing Director of Flowster.app. Flowster is a Business Process Management Tool that streamlines internal processes to reduce errors, delegate work, and scale your business faster.
Liz’s Morning Routine:
- 10 Minute Yoga using Insight Timer
- Drink Green Tea
- HIIT Workout (MWF) or reading/journaling (TR)
- Prep for the day
- Start with a couple of minutes of focus & visualization
- 6-2-7 breath (6 count in, 2 count hold, 7 count out)
- State my personal mission
- Visualize my life in 5-10 years (vision fully realized)
- Visualize my day today (how can I step closer towards realizing my mission?)
- State my personal mission
- 6-2-7 breath
Ashtan Moore – Co-Founder of Model B and Ironclad Accounting & Finance. Both of his businesses support business professionals to achieve high levels of growth through marketing, serial entrepreneurs, and unparalleled strategic guidance.
Ashtan’s Submission:
- Morning:
- Weekday wake up: 5:40 am
- 6:00 gym (HIIT/Olympic lifting classes)
- 7:20 protein smoothie (Huel, protein powder)
- 7:30-8:00 read books + newsletters (The Hustle & Daily Stoic)
- 8:00-8:30 shower, dress
- 8:30-8:50 walk to work & listen to new releases on Spotify playlist to save the best songs
- 8:50-9:00 make coffee & it’s work time!
- Daily Habits/Routine:
- 1 hour a day of self-improvement for the body, 5 days a week (gym)
- 1 hour a day of self-improvement for the brain (books usually)
- 1 hour a day of helping others (coaching, providing guidance/experience, intros or otherwise)
- 1 hour a day of dedicated non-productive personal downtime (video games or reading nonsense on Reddit)
Paul Fury – CEO of The Fury Group, a Salesforce Cloud Alliance Consulting Partner that supports companies to meet their goals by uniting sales and marketing through the Salesforce platform.
Paul’s Submission:
- Tuesday is my work late day if needed: Client dinners, Forum, office work catch up. No grief from family – they know. Wednesday is my leave work at noon day: Family time, honey-dos, relax. Once family and team adjusted, it was wonderful. Now instead of getting asked to do something at a “bad time” my wife and kids will say “hey, Wednesday can you…..?”
Read every morning (helps me wake up) and always make the bed! Weird little habit but Admiral McRaven was right!
Here’s the whole shebang of responses: Morning Routine Submissions
If you didn’t get to read about my morning routine, you can read it here, in our last edition of THE FIX.
What Ohio Businesses Need to Know About Insurance Coverage
The State of Ohio provides business owners with great opportunities for growth and expansion. But before you start a new company in Ohio or move your current operations to the Buckeye State, you should have a basic understanding of the state’s requirements for commercial insurance and related best practices.
All insurance offered in Ohio goes through the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI). This agency is responsible for making sure the market is stable yet competitive for insurers and fair to insureds. ODI also oversees and regulates insurance carriers, the insurance products they offer for sale in Ohio, and the licensed insurance agents and brokers who sell or procure those products.
Importantly, ODI requires all Ohio businesses with one or more full or part-time employees to maintain workers’ compensation insurance coverage. Further, all businesses whose employees are required to use vehicles to perform their job duties must also have commercial auto insurance policies.
For more information on why your business shouldn’t wait to get coverage, click here.
New Opportunities at GL!
Our law firm works with entrepreneurs local to our headquarters in Ohio, nationally, and across the world. We are always looking to add professionals to our firm that have a strong business mindset and a desire to help our clients. Listed below are a few of the top-talent positions we are looking for:
Chief Operating Officer (EOS): Ideal candidates will have 10+ years of senior leadership experience in a service-driven business, ideally legal or another professional service industry, and experience working within Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). In this role, the candidate will use a unified strategy to lead, manage, and hold the leadership team accountable to achieve agreed-upon commitments.
M&A Advisor: We are looking for a multi-tasking master with experience in transaction advisory or related mergers and acquisitions experience! Ideal candidates have an analytical mindset and are able to effectively communicate with buyers or sellers who may be unfamiliar with the transaction process. Series 7 license is required. Experience in the lower middle market is preferred.
Senior Transactional Attorney: Calling all corporate attorneys! If you have a strong network of portable business and are ready to hit the ground running, we want you! Ideal candidates will have a thirst for knowledge and problem-solving and be able to develop and execute processes to increase efficiency and scalability for our legal department.
Are you ready to unlock your potential with us? If so, we invite you to apply today! Send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] and reference the position in the subject line.
Q1 Survey Results: State of the Marketplace
Check out this quarter’s edition of Market Pulse, which features the recent “IBBA and M&A Source Market Pulse Survey”.
The survey provides a valuable source for business owners and their advisors on market conditions for businesses sold in Main Street (values $0-$2MM) and the lower middle market (values $2MM -$50MM). The Q1 survey was conducted between April 1-15, 2022, and features responses from 360 business brokers and M&A advisors.
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Aha!
Ever wonder what the “Aha!” moments were for Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or the founders of IKEA or Spanx? Here they are, all in one infographic.
