How to Start Your Journey to a Scalable Business

Blair Singer uses a Mount Kilimanjaro climb as a framework for scaling from solo work to a real business. Start by defining your mission and your deep reasons why, then clear out the personal baggage that blocks growth. Mission clarity is what lets you recruit, build a team, and push through the hard parts.
Foreign for this. Is this possible or am I just doomed to purgatory for the rest of my life? Hi, this is Blair Singer. Some of you know me as rich dad advisor, author of three best selling books. To talk to you, to show you that there is a way, there is a step by step process to get you from wherever you are as self employed or even as employee to, to ultimately a scalable business that could put money in your pocket. An asset, real asset, would put money in your pocket. Is it possible? Yes, it's actually possible. And I've spent most of my career designing the simplest possible curriculum to help you do it. Okay, so we're going to go through this. This is part of the series that started with Pounds equal Pain. If you remember that one of the key, one of the things we talk about, if you're climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, you're going to climb this mountain. That one of the things that we learned is that the more weight you carry on your back, the more increases your workload. At altitude there's a multiplier effect as the barometric pressure in the height and altitude reduces the amount of air and the amount of oxygen you're able to get into your system. The analogies are very much the same. We spent three calls talking about that. Now I'm going to talk, now we're going to talk about the actual steps. How did you understand you got to get rid of some baggage, you got to get rid of emotional baggage, personal baggage, physical baggage. Maybe some of the people that you hang around with that are doubters and all that. You got to unload some of that stuff because if you, you're able to deal with it when you're down here, when you're in the flatlands. But when you start going up into altitude, it will not work. And you will fall back. You will fall back. Okay. So don't very much the same in business. That was the first thing we covered. Second thing is that what we said is that the challenges that you're going to start to meet as you come up this mountain will require different skill set than you had here. If you were strong down here, strong in the gym, strong on your feet, strong up here. Once you get into the realm of trying to scale a business and build teams, things like that, it can be, it's unfamiliar. And what happens is you get, you end up coming back to. You end up coming back to your. Hey, David. Good to see you. Mr. Bear Wolf. David. Okay. And by the way, now that you're there, anybody that. That's watching this. If you have questions about this throughout the series, because I'm doing this series. So if you want to learn the process, tune in. Every week. I'm going to give you a new step on the journey to scalable business. From solo entrepreneur to scalable business. Okay, there's eight pieces now. There's a lot of depth into it. If you want to learn it, make sure you're here all the time. If you want to do it a little faster, go to blairsinger.com and get some grab and go material. There's some great video, great materials that cover a lot of this stuff. If you really want to get onto it even faster, you're gonna go to blairslinger.com relief. I used to have forward slash pain, as in pounds equal pain. I figured it was a little bit better to make it relief. Okay. Because there's a relief. There's a way to do this. Don't panic. Don't feel yourself cursed, whatever. If that's something that you want. Okay? All right. So again, we're gonna go through each step, and today, what we're gonna do. What I'm gonna cover here is. Is step number one. Step number one might seem obvious to some of you, but it might give it a little bit of a twist. So step number one right here, this is our little pert chart, so to speak, is about once your once. Yeah. Once. Missions, why defined? Okay? So we get what. What are your wants, what are your m. What's your mission, and what's your why behind this now? Why is that important? Well, it's important because if you don't have a mission, you're aimless. If you don't have a set of goals, you're aimless. This is pretty common, but let me tell you how it applies on Killy. If it's really clear, you should. You. You look at the picture of Kilimanjaro, and the goal is very clear. It's right up there. Okay. It's right up there. And so I got to get myself up there and back safely. Clear. Crystal. Crystal clear. That's why I love it so much, because it's one of the few places in life where your goals are really defined and very clear to you. So the mission's clear. Now with business, it should be that clear. What are you trying to do, and why are you trying to do it? So, for example, and my. Our business, our goal. One of the goals. Missions of our business is to create the best. So we have the Blessinger training Academy, and we have our APEX program, which helps entrepreneurs and we. And we develop trainers. I'll explain how they come together at some other point, but the point here is this. On the academy side, to create the best teachers, leaders, facilitators in the world that basically change the way we learn in the marketplace. It's everybody that comes into our organization knows before they even raise their hand what the mission is first. Because as I've always said, you want to have your mission first. Because when you go to one of the other steps and putting your team together, it is your best recruiting tool. If you want good team players, it's your best recruiting. And if you want good contractors to work with you, you want people that maybe are out of your price range. If your mission is compelling and you're passionate about it, you can raise money, you can recruit great people, you can get teams to do lots of great work with you. But if you don't have a mission or if it's weak or it's just our mission is to be the best in Phoenix, Arizona, or to make a lot of money, that's not compelling. It needs to be something bigger than you. Something is bigger than you that it almost scares you a little bit that forces you to do something. Listen to me closely. Bigger than you. It's got to be bigger than you. Because if it's just you, you stay self employed and that's fine. And you'll just work your butt off until you drop. Okay, so again, what's the mission? Okay, when we went to Kilimanjaro, the original mission was not even to climb. The original mission was to do something fun and meaningful with my eldest son, Ben, when he was 16 years old. So we just went to do the community service project and, and to. Because we spent two days and working in orphanages and then we climb. And we never made that climb. Interestingly enough, after the first day, he got violently ill and we had to turn back. Okay. However, we accomplished our original mission, which was to do. Which was to do the community service and help these amazing children. So now that I'm actually telling you this, it all makes sense why we didn't climb because I. Our original mission had really killed climbing. Kelly was a good idea, but really what it was to do the community service. And we did that once we were done, then, in fact, we were not prepared for the rest of the journey. Understand? So the thing is, if you just want to make a lot of money and let's say somewhere early in the game, you start making some Decent money, then you might not go any further. So be clear what the mission is needs to be bigger than you and why you want to do it. So the reason I went the why was was my son. Okay. The business why with the business is because years ago I was inspired by somebody by the name of Dr. Buckminster Fuller. Hi. Hi. Kaya, good to see you. Kim Wen. Good morning. From Australia. Who else we got here? Ben Yaras from Thailand. Good to see you again. From Sales Explosion course. Awesome, thank you. By the way, if you guys have any questions about what I'm talking about, please type them in the comment section. I'll try to get to them while I'm on this call. If not, I'll answer them on the next, next week, on the next one. Okay, this is the curriculum. This is the process from going from solo entrepreneur to scalable business. It is a curriculum. It is a step by step process. And this is our per chart climbing the mountain each week. We're going to cover it. Now if you like I said, if you want to do a little faster, go to blairsinger.com and grab do some of the, we call it grab and go materials, videos, lectures, programs that teach you more in depth some of the things I'm talking about. If you want to do it really quick, go to blairsinger.com forward/herief and make an appointment with one of our guides and we could see where you're at and give you a diagnosis as to how to plot your journey. Okay, so again we're on step one right now. Step one this week, right here. Your wants the mission, the wat and your wise. Okay, so we have the mission. So whatever your mission is and of the rich dad company is to improve the financial. Well, that's a pretty big one. Now I don't know if that'll ever happen, but it's way bigger than any one or two or even ten individuals see. And it's inspiring, gets you up in the morning, keeps you going. If it's something you can do by the end of the month, why that's not a mission, okay? That's, that's a goal and that's okay. But something bigger than you, if you want to go up here, okay, if you want to go up here, like I said, it's one of the most. If you're trying to get good people on your team, eventually that's what they're going to be inspired by because not only the mission of what you're doing is because they know if they're going to Operate that way, they're going to need to step up and become a bigger version of themselves. And, and I don't know, at least in my circle, I don't know anybody, particularly those of you that are on this, on this live right now that don't feel like you want to exercise your full potential. Do you feel like you just want to be mediocre? You feel like you want to be average? No way. Not if you're here. Right. So it needs to be something that inspires. You don't need to be the inspiration. But the mission. But the mission, whatever the mission is, be the inspiration that pulls people. Okay, so that's. And your why, what's the why behind it? Maybe it could be something from your past, maybe it could be something that you really have a desire to do or to be or whatever, whatever it is, but give it some thought. I tell people to sit down and once you create a mission is to sit down and make a list of all the reasons why. And once you fill up a page, turn the page over and fill up another page. Just keep writing. Wise, wise, wise. And even if you can't think of any more, then write some more too. Two pages of whys. And they can be self serving. That's okay. They can be for all of humanity. They could be for yourself, everything. Why? Because there are days when this journey gets very, very difficult. As the altitude increases and the oxygen decreases, as the workload becomes heavier and heavier, your little voice will start playing games with you as it does. One of the things about altitude is that documented is in mood levels become very erratic and volatile. And we've seen it happen in my 10 summits, I've seen it happen. I've seen couples all of a sudden go at a tooth and nail and yelling, you know, just lose it. Just because of what's happening to their bodies that they're not aware of. Same thing happens in business. I was in business with somebody that was one of my best friends in the entire world. Trusted him with everything. I love him, I still love the guy. But you know, we got to a point where as our business grew and it was growing very quickly and very big, we. Things started coming up and I was not prepared, I don't think he was prepared either to deal with it. And we split apart. Didn't have to, but because we were not, we did not down here do the proper preparation to get to get to that place. We fail. But now we've all we've both learned as we, as we grow. Okay, so Your mission, the whys and your wants. Yes, and your wants. So what. What is it you want and why do you want it and why don't you have it? That's the other part of the. Of step one. So if I say what I want is, I want to have a scalable business. Okay, so. Okay, great. So then I would ask you this question. I would say, so if you. If that's what you want and you don't have it right now, and you've been working toward that right now, and you don't have it right now, my what is. Is. So describe to me what that want looks like. Well, it looks like scalable business where I don't have to work so much and other people are doing it and we have assets generating passive income. Good. So. So if you had all that. If you really had all that, what problem might that create for you? Like, what problem? What are you talking about? Just humor me for a second. If you had a scalable business and you had all that happening for you, what problem could that create for you? I don't know. I never thought about it. Well, think about it right now, and I have. You think about it. And this is anything you want. If you. If you want to have. If you want to get married and you don't have a spouse yet, or you want to have a relationship or you want to have good health or whatever it is, you know, why don't you, you know, so if you did have it, imagine now that you've described to me what it looks like, if you did have it, what problem might that create for you? I go, well, I don't know, maybe I might lose some friends. Okay, good. Thank you. Good. So you might lose some friends. So if you had a scalable business, then some of the people that were your friends now might not be your friends anymore. Is that correct? Yeah, that could happen. Okay, so my next question to you is, how could you handle that? I suppose I could make new friends or invite my friends to come along if they'd like to do that and. Okay, good. So have you ever done that before? No, I don't think I've ever had to do that before. Do you know anybody else who's done that before? Yeah. What did they do? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, good. So if you did that, if you said you included them and you wanted to include them and you brought them in, what would be the consequences of that? What would be the results of you doing that? Well, you know, we could. We could work together. We could Expand our friendship. We could do all these kinds of things. Okay, good. Thank you. So do you think you might be able to do that? Yeah. Okay, good. So what am I doing? I'm taking this person through a process. Then we do our apex program. Spend the time to individually go through these things because psychologically, if you're stuck down here. Okay. And you really want to be up here, there's something psychologically little voice wise that's blocking the way. Okay. And so our coaches, myself, learn a series of processes that are designed to unblock those things that may not be conscious to you, but through a series of questions, we can get them out of the way so you can get on with your life, get on with making the money and making the difference you want to make in the world. Okay, so your wants, your mission and the big reason why. Okay, so let me see. If you have any questions on this so far, please explain code of honor. Well, code of honor is coming next week, so I'm going to explain that in more detail. Yeah. Mike Odell says mission David from Nigeria, Pinars. Okay. So KIA says with you. Okay. God bless. Oh, thank you, Mo. Okay. Good morning. Blessings. I'll have to catch the replay. Get rid of time. Okay, good. Thank you. All right, so let me just go back and review real quickly. And. And again, like if you want more of this, go to go to blairsinger.com and there's a ton of stuff that you can grab, grab and go and get some great information in depth on mission teams. All these kinds of things I'm talking about. But here's the process, very simple. Step number one on this per chart. Okay. Is this one right here? Is it is that your once mission wise are defined. So you're going to define those first. Okay, now here another couple things about mission. Mike o' Dell knows this really well because he was a United States Marine and the Marine Corps is clear on their mission and people. Why did they join the Marine Corps? I interviewed a, a three star Marine Marine Corps general once who was in charge of recruiting and he's now a United States Congressman. And what he said is, he said, really Marine Corps does not have a big problem recruiting people. And the reason they don't is because their mission is very clear. And, and, and so people want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Number one, he goes. And number two, there's an implied, there's an implication in the mission that a person's gonna have. If you're gonna become a Marine, you're gonna become a Bigger, better version of yourself or you're not gonna make it, okay? And so that inspires people that want to improve themselves. If somebody's looking to kick back and be lazy, Marine Corps Michael Dell, you might want to speak to that. That's not the place to be going, okay? And I'm not saying the Marine Corps for everybody, but that's a really, really good example. Another example, Apple Computer. You know, people, it's legendary that when Steve Jobs and Wozniak put Apple together, when they put it together in their garage, that the people that came to be a part of this new thing and this new design in computing, they were there because they were jazzed to be there. A lot of them didn't work for a lot of money. Some of them. A lot of people volunteered. People did whatever they could to be a part of it because they wanted to be part of something they sensed was going to make a very big difference in the world. Now, those people, because they started early and they got shares, you know, or a lot of them are multimillionaires, but in the beginning, they weren't. And some of them were, had lots of credentials, some of them did not. But it gravitated a group of people to your mission. Now, let me ask you. If you were to talk to two people and one person really wants to be there because they really want to be part of your mission, or they just want to hang around with you, which. Which one do you really want? I mean, think about it. Which one do you really want? Not. And don't let your ego get in the way here, okay? I don't know about you. I'm going to want somebody that's. That's looking to be part of something bigger, okay? I can't not overemphasize this. People say, you know, there's the great resignation going on in America right now. I know people are quitting their jobs. There are more jobs than there are people, okay? But people are quitting. Why? Because a lot of them are crappy jobs. That's one reason they're crappy jobs. They don't pay very much. They're not inspiring being at home. I'll figure out a way to do a side hustle at home and, you know, and at least we'll figure it out. But at least it's better than having to go sit in a cubicle someplace working for some idiot. Okay? So that's. At least in America. That's already happened. That's already happened. However, I think that one of the differences is One of the differences is, is because there's none of this, why are you here? What's the mission? Are you in? Are you inspired by it? Or is it just your job is to push a pencil, run a calculator, you know, do some spreadsheets, that's it, and then go home? Who's inspired by that? Not me. Certainly not anybody of the caliber that you're. What you and I are looking for. Okay? So don't underestimate. People say, well, millennials and, you know, Generation X and all these people, they're not motivated. Not true. Not true at all. These people are. Are all very motivated, and they are more hypersensitive to bs, if you know what I'm talking about, than even my generation is they, they have very. I call it BS detectors. They can tell when somebody's blowing smoke in their face, right? And so don't be the person blowing smoke. Be honest, be real. But they want to be part. They even maybe more than my generation, want to be part of something that makes sense. They can trust and they can believe in. They have a hand in that they could be, make a difference with. Don't under, ever underestimate that. Now more than ever, in an environment where there's this narrative and that narrative, believe this, don't believe that, and all the things that everybody's facing with. People want something that's rock solid. Kilimanjaro is rock solid. It's there. It's been there for several hundred thousand years. I'll be there for a few hundred thousand more. They can. You can count on it. You can count on what that mount is going to provide for you, your business. If you're going to build a scalable business over here, it needs to be. It needs the. At least the vision of it. You may not be. It may not be that solid in the beginning, but the vision of it needs to be something that instills belief, hope, optimism, strength in other people. Okay? So if you can do that, if you can do that and you take on step one, then. And think about that over the next week. And if you have questions again, type them in the chat box. Oh, you're watching from Germany. Very good, thank you. From Nigeria. Germany, India. Wow. What time is it in India? Jesus, like, four o' clock in the morning. So thank you for tuning in. So again, this is number. This is number one. Next week, we're going to go to number two. Ultimately, we get you up here, and you got to understand how to build a scalable business. All right? If you want to do this really quickly, go to blairsinger.com relief relief and just. And make an appointment with one of our mountain guides, one of our business mountain guides that will help figure out your path, your journey, what works best for you. Okay. And perhaps it's maybe just to go. Go to Blairson.com grab and go grab some of the videos and take a look at how to do. Set up a mission statement, how to do these things specifically. Okay. So that's step one, Step one in a long journey that doesn't have to be as long as you think it could. You know, I always say that people have a gross misunderstanding of time and distance. And I'll tell you, this is the distance between you and where you want to be, wherever it is you want to be over here. Okay. Is only the distance between your right ear and your left ear. That's right. It's only the distance between your right ear and your left ear. It's your limitation. That's why in our APEX program is a work in processing through all of that garbage to get rid of the limiting belief systems that are stopping along the way. That's what I've had to do. That's what Kiyosaki's had to do. That's just about what every entrepreneur has had to do one way or the other is to somehow find the, and remove the resistance. Okay. Because if you're still watching, you're made for this. Okay? So thanks, you guys again. Thank you, Kim Wen, thank you, India, thank you, Germany, thank you Nigeria and all the rest of you guys. If you have questions, post your your questions in in the comment section. I'll handle them next week once, once we take a look at them. Okay? So Justina, Michael, T. David, Dubai, Aika, Kim, all you guys, thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here and good luck on your journey. Remember, pounds equal pain. Best thing to do, unload, unload that backpack. Get rid of the, the, the people, the emotional baggage, the resistance that's in your way and make your ascent so much more pleasurable. Okay? All right, you guys be awesome. I'll see you next week.
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