THE LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEUR

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Leadership & Parenting

I’ve Posted on LinkedIn every day for a year now.

I started out of frustration with my business development efforts for my not really focused business coaching practice, and after 30 days knew I’d be doing this for the long-term.

I now consider content creation as my side hustle.

Meaning, I’m building my main business, implementing EOS® for entrepreneurs’ leadership teams, and building my personal brand on the side.

For anyone thinking to themselves, I feel like I should build my personal brand but don’t know how:

1. I highly recommend it, the benefits have been tremendous

2. Try thinking of it as your side gig - it’s also helped me tremendously

Writing content isn’t the topic of today’s post though, my content topics is.

I reviewed my top 20 posts after posting for 7 months, and wrote about them in The Lifestyle Entrepreneur 7.

In that post I wrote about my leadership philosophy, as leadership was my highest topic.

After writing another 5 months I analyzed my results again, and they’re pretty similar to the first time:

Unsurprisingly, writing about writing on LinkedIn is my most popular topic. People LOVE reading about how to write content, which is kind of funny.

I didn’t do a volume analysis, but i’ll say that I rarely write about writing on LinkedIn, but all of those posts crush it!

Note - if you want to build a following on LinkedIn, writing about how to write on LinkedIn will probably get you there the fastest, lol.

Second is consistently leadership - which makes me happy.

Mainly because I love the topic and consider myself a student of the topic, and also an expert practitioner.

I re-wrote my most popular leadership post last week, which you can find here.

My writing on leadership varies from strategic to tactical, and I find myself gravitating mostly towards tactical, daily things people can do to become better leaders.

One of my core themes is that leadership is a learned skill. This is contrary to what is generally accepted about leadership - that the charismatic natural is the best. Data, experience, and history show us that’s flat out not true. The best leaders are people who practice daily discipline towards becoming better leaders.

Another recent theme about leadership I’ve been studying in depth is the similarities between leadership and parenting.

Being both a leader who coaches business leaders, and a parent of 4, it’s deliciously convenient to realize a little later than I should, that leadership = parenting.

With that in mind, studying principles in either field apply to eachother.

What does this mean for me and you? Apply the principles to either and you’ll get better at both.

Here are a few areas I’ve been studying in both categories:

1. Patrick Lencione - The king of leadership and organizational health, is required reading for companies implementing EOS®. I’ve recently re-read two of his books, and am also digging into his podcast. Here are a few resources if you want to learn from the best there is:

   1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - His most famous book, this fable about a struggling team should be read by 100% of leaders.

   2. The Four Obsessions of an Exceptional Executive - Another fable comparing two executives in the same industry - amazing read.

   3. At the Table with Patrick Lencioni - his weekly podcast with all kinds of great content

2. Dr Becky Kennedy - A clinical psychologist who teaches parenting skills through her content and coaching program, Good Inside. I recently got introduced to Dr Kennedy by watching her Instagram content, and then listened to her episode on Andrew Huberman’s podcast. I love pretty much everything about her approach:

   1. Dr Becky Kennedy on Andrew Huberman’s Podcast

   2. Good Inside - Dr Kennedy’s coaching program for parents

3. Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield’s epic novel about the battle of Thermopylae is the best leadership book I’ve ever read, and one of the few books I read annually.

I didn’t study parenting during my first 10 years as one. I suppose I didn’t actively study leadership during my first 10 years either. I learned by doing, in the trenches so to speak.

Realizing the principles apply to both situations pleases me immensely, because I’ll be doing both the rest of my life.

And my guess is if you’re reading this, you probably will too.

So if you’re slow on the uptake like am on many things, and didn’t realize it until right now - developing leadership and parenting are the same thing. So endeavor every day to learn something, put a tactic into place, get better at it, and it will benefit you for the rest of your life.

I hope you have a great weekend - I’ve got kids strewn about town at events and am going to take little meatball (1 year old Gabriel) out for a walk.I’ve Posted on LinkedIn every day for a year now

Talk to you next week,

Mike

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• Vision - getting teams 100% on the same page with where the company is going and how to get there

• Traction - Applying discipline and accountability to achieve that vision

• Healthy - Creating healthy, functional, cohesive leadership teams

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