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Overall, I’ve been very disciplined in my personal life and business. But recently, I found myself “slipping.” I found myself NOT doing the morning routine I really wanted to do! My desired wake time is 5:00 a.m. — I’ve been an early riser for some years. However, I’ve recently been waking up late, around 7:00 a.m. or 6:00 a.m.

When I would wake up this late, I would skip doing things I wanted to do. I’d skip my morning devotions, skip my morning walk, skip my gym time and skip other things.

I knew I had to be more disciplined if I was going to do what’s important to me and have the morning routine I really wanted. I had to change.

Related: 4 Ways to Create a Powerful Morning Routine

Two small changes

So, I made two small changes to my routine, and I’ve seen a huge difference in the past few weeks.

The first change was going to bed earlier.

Instead of staying up late with my wife and going to be around 2:00 a.m. or so, I’ve had to go to bed earlier. I explained to my wife that to do the things in my morning routine, which is so important to me, I had to go to bed earlier. She fully understood.

I had been sitting on the couch and then dozing off, and then my wife and I would get up and go to bed at the same time. But now, I go to bed around 11:00 pm. My wife is now going to bed earlier, too!

The second change was setting my alarm 15 minutes earlier, to 4:45 a.m.

Now that I was going to bed earlier, around 11:00 p.m., I was more rested. Getting about six hours of sleep, maybe five, is perfect for my body. In fact, my eyes open at about 4:30 a.m. automatically.

What’s important to you

What are the simple changes you need to make to live YOUR best life? To know what changes you need to make, you need to know what goals you want to reach.

My morning routine is important to me.

This includes:

• Bible reading and prayer

• Eating fruit, drinking water, having Cafe Bustelo

• 30-minute walk, 15 minutes in the gym

• My morning 7:00 a.m. live show

If I do these things, the rest of the day goes well. When I miss out on these things, I feel I’m in catch-up mode.

Related: 8 Tiny Changes to Make Your Life 10 Times More Enjoyable

The power of habits

You’ve probably heard this so many times, but forming good habits is important. You can also develop new habits pretty quickly. I’m now starting to enjoy going to bed “early,” and I’m in the habit of waking up early.

James Clear‘s book Atomic Habits says this about forming habits:

1. Make it obvious: Set clear cues for your desired habits.

2. Make it attractive: Pair habits you need to do with habits you want to do.

3. Make it easy: Reduce friction for good habits and increase it for bad ones.

4. Make it satisfying: Create immediate rewards for completing your habits.

5. Use the two-minute rule: Scale down your habits to tasks that take two minutes or less to start.

6. Use habit stacking: Link a new habit to an existing one.

7. Focus on systems over goals: Concentrate on the processes that lead to results.

8. Use habit tracking: Measure your progress to maintain motivation.

9. Never miss twice: If you slip up, get back on track immediately.

10. Shape your environment: Surround yourself with cues that promote good habits.

Communication

It’s so important to communicate with your spouse, close family members and friends about your priorities and habits.

When they know what’s important to you, a good friend or caring family will respect what you’re trying to do. Now that they know what habits are important to you and why, they won’t force you to do things that go against your lifestyle.

When you fail

You will fail on the journey to create better habits for your life. You’re only human. As you start out, you might fail often. But as the habit gets stronger and more routine, you’ll find yourself being more consistent with it.

In fact, you’ll find that you begin to LIKE the habit you’re doing and it becomes second nature to you.

Related: 9 Ways to Actually Adopt the Better Habits You Know Will Help You Succeed

So, let’s summarize

I wanted to be better at doing several things that were important to me for my daily morning routine. “Reverse engineering” why those things weren’t getting done helped me realize what the problem was.

Being able to prioritize and community with my wife was the key to now living a much more balanced life.

Let’s apply this to you

Do you find yourself always pleasing other people?

Are you putting yourself last and feeling busy and unfulfilled?

Do you find your day goes by so fast and you’re tired and a bit annoyed?

Does everyone else seem to get the most out of you and there’s nothing left for yourself?

You don’t have to be in that rut. Do what I did. Prioritize what’s important to you. Know what you really, really want. It’s okay to put yourself first so you can show up as the best version of yourself for others.

Entrepreneurs are busy. Often too busy for their own good or at least the good of their legacy. You’re likely very dialed into your balance sheet and P&L, but what about estate planning?

Procrastinating on estate planning can become a hidden cost for successful entrepreneurs, and the solution is available to you regardless of how young you or your company are today.

If you have seen the musical “Rent,” you likely hum along to the very memorable “Season of Love” song that reminds us that there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Each minute matters when you have a valuable business. Think of the cost of procrastination as a measure of the growing estate tax liability that can become an obligation that your family bears and one that impacts your ability to leave a legacy.

To put it into perspective, assume a $50 million net worth that grows at 7.2%. The additional estate tax over ten years is approximately $20 million. This translates into an increased liability averaging $166,667 per month. A net worth of $100 million becomes $333,334 per month. Tick, tick, tick…

Related: 4 Things to Know About Credit Financing Your Business Following the ‘Fed Pivot’

The hidden liability that is estate tax

The problem for business owners, in particular, is that estate tax can be a “hidden liability,” as it is an obligation the family pays directly in cash to the IRS when you are gone. We call it hidden because this liability has an unknown due date and amount.

If you are your lender’s CFO or an underwriter, the liability can be hidden because it is an estate and family planning issue versus a direct company obligation. But if most of your net worth is tied up in the business or other illiquid assets like real estate, it is no longer hidden when millions of dollars come due. Thus, the tick, tick, tick becomes “BOOM!”

For a private business owner, how this is handled can mean the difference between gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage for your business and heirs and losing it.

For example, for a business owner with a $75 million net worth today, you will need to answer: How do you pay $20 million in taxes in cash to the IRS and still compete in your industry segment? No business owner wants to sell their business to pay the estate tax liability.

Related: 7 Advanced Tax Strategies for the Self-Employed

Properly position for a zero estate tax plan

Conversely, proper planning and positioning can actually provide an opportunity to enhance your long-term competitive position. The estate tax is the only “voluntary tax” you get. You may know it as a “zero estate tax plan,” – and relative to your competitors who may not have a strong plan, it can be a strategy to position your business for enduring success.

By the way, if you are over 55, the cost of “funding away” the problem with life insurance is not feasible. The cost of insurance becomes prohibitively expensive with each passing year, or worse, it could become unavailable to you due to health issues that may impact your ability to secure adequate coverage.

Know and avoid this worst-case scenario

If you need an additional incentive to consider your estate tax plan now, even if you’re not over age 55 and are in excellent health, consider the impact your unexpected demise could have on your estate based on timing alone.

We know that most industries – and the companies that make up an industry – go through significant business and economic cycles, typically every 4-6 years. Imagine a scenario where the business owner dies at the business cycle’s peak, which establishes the amount due as an estate tax.

Because the wealth is tied up in an illiquid asset (the business), it takes several months up to a few years to sell the company to pay the estate taxes. Unfortunately, a down business cycle soon after the death pulls the value of the business south. Essentially, the untimely death of the business owner positioned the otherwise healthy business for a fire sale simply to pay the estate taxes.

Related: 3 Smart Ways Entrepreneurs Can Make Tax-Efficient Investment Decisions

Strategically plan your beneficiaries to eliminate estate tax

In my business, we like to say that there are only three beneficiaries when it comes to your estate: the IRS, family, and charity. Potentially, your employees can become a fourth beneficiary, but again, without a plan, that’s an unlikely outcome. Thus, “planning away” the problem becomes the most effective way to minimize or eliminate estate tax consequences.

It is possible to strategically position your estate and redirect the IRS estate tax to the other beneficiaries. Rather than 60% family and 40% IRS, a good plan can make it closer to 75% family and 25% to charities or other beneficiaries.

Related: Capital Gains Tax on Real Estate: Here’s What You Need To Know

Create a SMART plan to preserve family harmony

Have you ever heard someone complain, “My parents built a great business, but my brother ran it into the ground.” The reality likely was that the brother couldn’t overcome paying the IRS roughly 50% of the value of the business to the IRS while fighting to keep the business competitive. So, it’s not just the money that stings due to poor planning; the fighting and litigation risk among family members can ensue. The business succession and estate planning work must be done to create an efficient and harmonious transition. It is a SMART (Save Money And Reduce Tensions) wealth transition plan.

There’s some urgency attached to this task beyond untimely events. The impending expiration of current estate tax laws at the end of 2025 will worsen the burden. You have a good time horizon to work with if you start now and give a few hours to converting a growing estate tax liability into a multi-generational asset for the family and your community. Start by asking your peers or advisors for their perspectives and who you might invite onto your team to help you create a plan that sets you and your legacy up for success.

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Crafting an investment teaser for your business each year might seem premature if selling isn’t even on the radar yet. But this important forward-looking exercise does a lot more than prepare your business for an eventual investment or sale. It helps business owners visualize the pitch they would have to be able to give to achieve the business valuation of their dreams. The gap between what you would like to say and what you can credibly say is exactly where to focus your next frenzied period of energy and investment.

My partner and I learned this the hard way. We sold two consulting firms about ten years apart. The first was to a strategic buyer at the lower end of the cash flow multiple range, while the second was to a private equity buyer at the higher end of the revenue multiple range. Yes, the market conditions were a little better the second time around. But the real difference was that we started focusing on how to maximize our exit multiple on day one. We kept a rolling sales sheet in our heads at all times, and were constantly rethinking investments that didn’t pass the sales sheet “smell test.”

To get started with your first business teaser, put yourself in the right mindset. Remember, you are writing a forward-looking elevator sales pitch for your company aimed at getting an investment or strategic buyer to chomp at the bit. Visualize bounding into the tenth VC conference room of the day, rattling off the perfect narrative to an awed audience. This should include a deck chock-full of data and trend analysis with recent financial results that make it clear your business thesis is spot on.

Related: Selling a Business Starts on Day 1: Here’s What Founders Need to Know

Total addressable market

Every good pitch starts with the total addressable market (TAM) discussion. You want to be able to showcase the team cherry-picked the fastest growing part of the addressable market in a highly disciplined way. You should have gained plenty of insights during the launch phase to more narrowly tailor this market and make the case for what products and services deserved the highest level of investment. If you don’t have those insights at your fingertips, this is the place to start.

In our first business, investors yawned during the TAM discussion. We had only two entry points into a public company to buy our expensive consulting services. To make it worse, the number of public companies was in a slow state of decline. Not exactly a growth industry, even though we had grown revenue in excess of 30% annually for several years. In Business #2, we tweaked our service offering to support expanding our TAM from two business titles to eight, expanding our TAM nearly three-fold to $1 billion.

Growth strategy

The next section should cover the growth strategy. List and prioritize the business’s most important growth levers. Think of two or three home-run ideas that will really get the buyers nodding, not 12 weak singles. If your list is long and still feels a little like throwing darts at the wall, start narrowing. This is critical because you are going to swing for the fences with these by directing nearly all of your valuable business investments there.

In our first business, we focused on a land and expand strategy. We made significant investments in external salespeople, custom marketing tools and company-sponsored networking events. It worked. We attracted a few large clients who provided the base of a referral network that is still feeding us today. The downside? It made scaling expensive, and introductory sales meetings became our total existence.

Business #2 had far lower customer acquisition costs, which investors loved. We cracked the code on using thought leadership to open doors with potential clients and kept fine-tuning what they were most likely to read (real-world how to’s rather than deep strategic musings) to continuously improve our chances. The majority of our marketing money went to web-based marketing to get more eyeballs on our thought leadership. Margins were higher, and we built more inroads into potential clients than simply cold sales leads.

Related: The How-To: Building An Exit Strategy For Your Business (Even Before You Start)

Financial model

The last and arguably most important portion of the sell sheet is the financial model. The model needs to showcase the key metrics that translate great ideas into profits. Before you lead with whatever is the best metric in your operating deck, gather some industry intelligence on the industry metrics that matter most right now. Don’t try and do this in a vacuum. Reach out to recent industry sellers to ask their single most important financial decision. Figure out what multiple businesses are selling at and what metrics drove their company’s actual selling price. If those metrics don’t show your business story in a good light, you may have to make real changes in investment spending, operating expenses or pricing model.

Business #2 had very low overhead expenses as we spent less on office space and geographic expansion, and more on automation tools. It helped that this was during the pandemic, and our public company clients better understood the lack of a glitzy corporate headquarters. Expenses were lower, and excess cash flow was spent in a very surgical marketing campaign. We maximized our cash flow and margins, and as a result, more than doubled in two years the money that went into our pocket from a sale.

It may be years before you sell your business, but the discipline of annually writing your own investment teaser can be an important factor in effective investment decision-making. Picture standing before seasoned investors, articulating how your business strategy and concentrated investments are delivering unrivaled growth opportunities. By prioritizing clear, compelling growth strategies and aligning investments directly with them, you position your business not just as a contender, but as an irresistible opportunity.

Related: 6 Proven Ways to Sell Your Business for 10x or More

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AI may soon become a part of our everyday lives, but in a new interview with the YouTuber Kallaway, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested we may be thinking about the technology all wrong.

Zuckerberg spoke about most major companies and their desire to build one main AI, using Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s Chat GPT as examples. But for Meta, the strategy isn’t to develop one central AI — the company wants to create multiple programs.

“Our overall view is that this isn’t the type of thing that there should just be one of, people want to interact with lots of different people and businesses and there need to be a lot of different AIs that get created to reflect people’s different interests,” he explained.

Related: Meta AI Unveils First Two Versions of Llama 3

Meta is focusing on building the underlying technology (called Llama) for businesses and creators so that these entities can create their own AIs to reflect the needs of their businesses and communities, Zuck explained.

He also pointed out that the idea of working towards an almost “all-knowing” AI is offputting to him, and while he’s heard from other tech leaders who like this approach, he doesn’t agree.

“I don’t think AI technology is a thing that should be hoarded,” he said. “I find it a pretty big turnoff when people in the tech industry kind of talk about building this one true AI. It’s almost as if they think they’re creating God or something, and that’s just not what we’re doing. I don’t think that’s how this plays out.”

Related: What Is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Salary, Security Costs?

Meta is currently testing a beta version of its Creator AI, which allows creators, like Kallaway, to test the software and see what a streamlined AI built for their specific audiences would be like.

Llama 3 was released in April 2024.

Warren Buffett revised his will and gave his biggest yearly donation yet to five charities.

Buffett told The Wall Street Journal on Friday that almost all of his fortune, valued at about $130 billion, will now go into a new charitable trust upon his death. Buffett’s children, Susie, Howie, and Peter Buffett, will helm the organization together and must unanimously choose where the money goes.

“I feel very, very good about the values of my three children, and I have 100% trust in how they will carry things out,” Buffett told the Journal.

^{Warren Buffett. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images}

The new will ensures that more than 99% of Buffett’s estate will go towards philanthropic efforts, per a Berkshire Hathaway press statement. Buffett signed the Giving Pledge in 2006 to give more than 99% of his wealth to charitable causes during his lifetime or death.

Related: Warren Buffett Answers Succession Question at Annual Meeting

Buffett currently donates yearly to five organizations: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Susan A. Buffett Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation.

The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation is named after Buffett’s late first wife and chaired by his daughter; the final three are run by each of his children.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation received the bulk of the donation, with 9.93 million shares. Buffett donated 993,035 shares to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and 695,122 shares each to the remaining three.

Buffett disclosed to the Journal that his annual contributions to the five organizations will only occur across his lifetime.

“The Gates Foundation has no money coming after my death,” Buffett, who resigned from the Gates Foundation board in 2021, told the publication.

Related: Melinda French Gates Resigns From Gates Foundation

Buffett began giving to each of these foundations annually beginning in 2006. His contribution this year was his highest one yet, coming in at 13 million, or $5.3 billion, of Berkshire Hathaway class B shares.

In the past 18 years of giving to these organizations, Buffett has donated over $55 billion.

The record $5.3 billion contribution on Friday brings Buffett’s net worth down to nearly $130 billion, making him now the tenth richest person in the world instead of the eighth, per Forbes estimates.

Chipotle has been under scrutiny by customers who accuse the chain of skimping out on portion sizes.

A new trend even emerged on social media, where customers will film themselves ordering at the fast-casual chain to encourage Chipotle employees to give them fuller bowls.

Related: Chipotle’s Robots Can Make Almost 200 Burrito Bowls an Hour

Now, a group of Wells Fargo analysts decided to settle the debate — by ordering 75 of the same bowls at eight different NYC Chipotle locations.

Incredible work by the Wells Fargo analyst who ordered the same burrito bowl 75 times at eight different Chipotles in NYC to prove the portion size inconsistency ? pic.twitter.com/gUHPhgY7Pw

— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) June 27, 2024

Led by analyst Zachary Fadem, the group of finance professionals ordered 75 bowls of white rice, black beans, chicken, pico de gallo, cheese, and lettuce.

Surprising no one, the results showed that portion size and weight of the bowls varied significantly.

The median weight of the bowls was 21.5 ounces. Some locations offered the bowl at a hefty 27 ounces while another only came in at 14 ounces — all from the same menu and prepared in the same way.

“Consistency varied widely, w/ some locations serving bowls that weigh ~33% more than other locations (on equivalent orders); and the heaviest digital/in-store bowls weighing 87%/47% more vs the lightest,” Fadem reported. “While throughput is improving, order consistency remains an opportunity.”

In May, Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol denied that portion sizes had gotten smaller during an interview with Fortune.

“The portions have not gotten smaller,” Niccol said assuredly. “We always want to give people big portions that get them excited about the food.”

Related: Chipotle Rolls Out New Perks to Attract Gen Z Workers

Chipotle had a strong Q1 2024, with total revenue reaching $2.7 billion, a 14% increase from the same time last year. The chain also opened 47 new restaurants in the quarter.

Chipotle did not immediately respond to Entrepreneur’s request for comment regarding portion size variability.

After college, Jake Karls thought he wanted to be an investment banker. But he never got past the first job interview. Saddled by learning disabilities and a lack of enthusiasm for corporate work, the Canadian was forced to move back into his parents’ house.

“I could not find a job, so I literally had no choice but to become an entrepreneur,” he says. “It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Karls co-founded Mid-Day Squares with his sister Lezlie and her husband, Nick Saltarelli. The good-for-you chocolate bar is non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan, and packed with pea protein. But Karls says the one ingredient that really makes it stand out from the pack is its emotional connection with the consumer.

On this week’s episode of One Day with Jon Bier, Karls shares his personal journey from early failure to success, why he believes that authenticity and good storytelling have made the difference for Mid-Day Squares, and what he’s learned about himself and running a successful business along the way.

The secret ingredient

When devising a marketing plan for Mid-Day, Karls looked at brands like Sephora and admired how their customers wanted to be a part of it. They posted photos of themselves on social at the store and raved about how much they loved the brand.

“The food and beverage world didn’t have that connectivity that the beauty world had,” he says. He wanted customers to go to the grocery store and “not just buy a chocolate bar, but actually feel that they’re buying from a friend. Feel part of it.”

So, Karls focused on building a deep connection with consumers by being vulnerable and transparent and telling an authentic story about the brand’s origins and his own personal journey. This allowed the brand to develop a passionate fan base that felt invested in the company’s success.

Related: Don’t Be a Boring Brand – How to Create Brand Distinction That Has Everyone Turning Their Heads

Jake Karls

Playing to his strengths

Initially, Karls took on the company’s CMO role because he thought he needed to take on a leadership position and manage people as a co-founder. However, he quickly realized he was playing to his weaknesses.

“It was 6 to 8 months of complete wreckage,” he recalls.

By stepping back and focusing on what he was truly great at —community building and brand storytelling—the company began to thrive. Karls learned the importance of blocking out noise and focusing on his unique strengths and superpowers.

Related: Building a Community Around Your Brand Is Crucial for Long-Term Success. Here’s How Flex Watches Makes Emotional Connections With Customers.

Overcoming burnout

But the breakneck pace of growth took a toll, and Karls experienced a serious burnout that left him with crippling anxiety and OCD.

“I thought you could keep going at 200 km/hr 24/7, and your body could take it, but eventually, my body shut down on me.”

He decided to tackle this mental health crisis head-on, going through 37 days straight of therapy, eating healthier foods, and undergoing hypnotherapy, which he says “really changed everything.”

“My anxieties have become minimal. And my OCDs are at the level that I don’t even think about or care about,” he explains.

Lessons learned

Looking back on his early struggles, Karls realizes that he was so focused on pleasing everyone else—his parents, friends, and family—that he lost sense of his own priorities.

“There’s too much noise in this world, telling you to be this way, try this, work with this, do this, have this strategy,” he says, conceding that much of this advice comes from people who care about you and love you.

But ultimately, you need to trust your gut and be able to put horse blinders on.

“Once you play to and understand your strengths and start executing on that, you feel a sense of freedom that makes you feel unstoppable.”

In that spirit, he plans to make Mid-Day Squares a $100 million company in two and a half years.

Dive into Swae Lee’s remarkable journey, from clocking in at Mcdonald’s to hitting the heights of the music industry. In this conversation, Swae Lee spills the secrets of his winning mindset, unwavering dedication and the vital role of genuine relationships.

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Here’s a breakdown of all the things we discuss in the podcast:

The Global Impact of Entrepreneurship:

• Entrepreneurship knows no geographical boundaries. Entrepreneurs around the world are creating solutions to global challenges and contributing to a more interconnected world.

Swae Lee’s Early Aspirations:

• Swae Lee’s early aspirations were rooted in music, driven by a passion for creating and performing.
• He dreamt of making a name for himself in the music industry from a young age.
• Swae Lee’s aspirations laid the foundation for his successful music career.
• His early dreams and goals ultimately shaped his journey to stardom.
• These aspirations motivated him to work tirelessly to achieve his musical ambitions.

Hard Work and Persistence:

• Hard work and persistence have been Swae Lee’s guiding principles throughout his career.
• He firmly believes in the value of consistent effort and determination.
• Swae Lee’s success is a testament to his unwavering dedication to his craft.
• The music industry demands hard work and persistence to overcome challenges.

Overcoming Challenges for Success:

• Swae Lee has faced numerous challenges on his path to success in the music industry.
• Overcoming these challenges has made him a stronger and more resilient artist.
• Each obstacle he encountered became an opportunity for growth and improvement.
• Swae Lee’s ability to overcome challenges has contributed to his rise in the industry.
• He views challenges as stepping stones toward achieving greater success.

Networking in the Music Industry:

• Networking plays a crucial role in Swae Lee’s journey in the music industry.
• Building connections with other artists and industry professionals has been key to his success.
• Effective networking has opened doors to collaborations and opportunities.
• Swae Lee recognizes the importance of cultivating relationships to advance his career.
• In the music industry, networking is more than a skill—it’s a strategic advantage.

Navigating Relationships in the Music Industry:

• Navigating relationships in the music industry can be complex due to its competitive nature.
• Swae Lee has learned to balance personal and professional relationships to maintain success.
• Building trust and managing relationships with colleagues is essential in the industry.
• Nurturing positive connections has contributed to his career’s longevity.
• Successfully navigating relationships has allowed him to thrive in the music world.