Quotes from Jeffrey Shaw

We hire coaches for our mindsets, attend conferences to improve our skill set, work with specialists for every need in our business and wonder why we feel like we're all over the place.

Most people set intentions wrong. The right way to set intentions is to be clear on what you want to go FROM and what you want to go TO.

We are doing business in the empowerment age. It is our job to empower our customers to choose us. The moment you tell them to choose you, they will back up. The moment you tell someone to trust you, they won't.

Strive to be bored is a contradictory statement for most entrepreneurs. But we have to strive to be bored to make space for more if we want to grow our business.

The self-employed need business strategies that are relationship-based, not transactional, authentic to who you are, and right-sized for small business.

It is not your job to prove your value to anyone. It is your job to find the people that already value what you do.

When you're self-employed, your success is proportionate to your personal development.

The myth of self-employment is we go into business for ourselves thinking we're going to gain control over our destiny without realizing we are entering completely uncontrollable circumstances.

When we're self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.

You need a healthy, thriving self-employed ecosystem. An ecosystem that integrates the three main elements of self-employed success--personal development, business strategies, and daily habit.

The beginning of change doesn't come from motivation and dangling carrots. It begins with being clear about what you want to get away from.

We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

We used to build businesses with all effort and hard work. Today, we create businesses by paying attention to what the market wants and co-creating with those we serve.

Build systems for the business to come, not the business you have.

The biggest risk is not in what you build. It is in not supporting what you build.

To create success in your business, you have to protect your capacity to serve others by learning to work efficiently and effectively.

Your success is limited by your personal development- what you think you're capable of, what you think you deserve, and the mindsets that hold you back.

Daily habits that create steady mindsets are vital to be sure the uncontrollable circumstances of business and life don't derail you.

The safest way to be in business today and the way to gain as much control over your business as possible, is to have a business model of multiples where you can reach a multiple of audiences in multiple ways.

Putting a stake in the ground that you're self-employed is important. It's the only term that accurately portrays your lifestyle and your business model.

We don't let go of something until the benefits of what's ahead are greater than what we've been holding on to.