Dr. Wayne Pernell says entrepreneurs focus on building their business while ignoring personal growth. He calls it "building the business of me." Better decisions, trust, and accountability come from developing yourself first.
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So for the people that are listening that have businesses, you know, one of the things that people get wrong is they're building the business and they're not thinking about who they've got to be as they build the business. So you could build this amazing business and think, well, have I grown with my business or am I still the same person? So I realized early on I've got to build the business of me if I'm going to build the business right of my life, that's huge. I've got to develop me so that I'm able to make those decisions, so that I'm able to trust. And as you said earlier, and I think the quote from who is it? I think it might be Zig Ziglar said, you don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. And I think that was ultimately it. And I think my journey really solidified in me taking responsibility for how I was showing up and everything else.