In this episode, we discuss the importance of following a perfect process towards you hitting your goals. If you do this, then the score will take care of itself.
Full Transcript
Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about the score will take care of itself. Today’s podcast comes from the Bill Walsh Biography, The Score Will Take Care Of Itself and I thought it was a pretty good message to share. I really enjoyed the book because it just reinforced the idea that I need to follow the right process and everything will fall in place. If you don’t know who Bill Walsh is, he was the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers for 9 years and won three championships. This is pretty impressive and he changed the NFL with the west coast offense.
In the book, they just about Bill Walsh’s philosophy and process and how that will lead to the results you want in life. The same thing is said by Bill Bellichek of the New England Patriots and Nick Saban of Alabama. Just do your job and do it as close as to perfection as possible, and the score will take care of itself.
This requires a lot of discipline and ownership of the process. You can’t delegate this to someone else, you have to review it and make sure that the people involved are not slacking off. Reading this book reminded me of my time in the Marines. If you want to be a Marine, you have to stick to a higher level of discipline and hard work if you want to claim the title. It’s hard to maintain this in an organization though unless everyone is on board with the process. The Marines weren’t perfect but compared to the other branches, we still pushed ourselves to a different level. Plus I think the Marines are so much different than a football team or private company. In the Marines, you prepare for a deployment or you do training. When you’re doing training, that’s when people start to become complacent and don’t try as hard because there is no concrete finish.
But since I’m starting my own business and want to hire folks in the future, I need to make sure I have the processes in place now as a solo-entrepreneur so that my hired folk in the future don’t have to spend that much time wondering what to do. I also have to make sure that I’m sticking to a process right now to become a success in the future. I have to make sure my clients are taking care of and I need to make sure I’m bringing enough business in to keep me afloat. So looking at the book, I need to make my process as perfect as it can get where I maximize efficiencies and people have a clear path of what needs to get done in order to finish tasks.
I also know that I have to get a great boss. One thing that I noticed in other firms that I worked for is that it was always management that caused me not to like the job that I was in or when I start hiring people underneath me, I want to make sure that I’m not repeating the same mistakes. One thing I don’t want in my work environment is an ego. We work together to support the team and the mission of the team. My goal with Grow With Joe is to help 10,000 Latinos middle-class families so in order to do this, then I need to hire 100 financial planners underneath me. If I want to ensure that I have the right quality in place so that all 10,000 families receive the right coaching, then I need to make sure that people are following a process and living within the values of the firm. This is just financial planners, so then I need to hire back-office staff to support those 100 financial planners as well, so that’s even more people to hire.
If I want to build this grow with joe business to the size that I envision, then I need to make sure that I’m preparing myself for that future and reading books on leadership by Bill Walsh will help me prepare for that moment. Then the score will just take care of itself when everything is in place. I think we all can be good leaders in whatever position we are at work, we just need to have the courage to be leaders and to have the support of higher management. The reason the 49ers of the 80s and the Patriots of the 2000s have been so unstoppable is that they have good management from the player all the way up to the owner. I felt that at the previous companies that I worked for, it was always a me vs them mentality.
One office versus another office, or the staff vs management. So when I create my company, I’m going to need to create the right culture and remove toxicity from the workplace. I want to grow slowly so that I’m not forced to make the wrong hires or take on the wrong clients because I’m chasing revenue. In the book about Bill Walsh, they asked when he took over the 49ers, which was one of the worst football teams in the NFL for a while, how long would it take to win a championship, Bill Walsh said that was never on his mind, and would be crazy to think that way since the 49ers were so bad. He just wants to focus on the process and if you focus on the process long enough and stay discipline about and don’t take any shortcuts, then you will get what you want in life.
This is a grind though and takes time. Right now, I’m putting in a lot of hours in at Grow With Joe and I’m just following the process. There are times when I slack off and I want to tighten my process up so I can’t wait until I can hire some folks to help me out in the future once my revenue reaches a certain point. I feel like I have a pretty good process and identity for Grow With Joe. Focus on self-development and disciplined financial planning where we focus on growing people’s inner circle success so they can have the outer circle success. I have a lot of work ahead of me and I’m going to need to learn more valuable lessons from people like Bill Walsh if I want to be successful.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it if you follow a perfect process with your life, all your goals will come true. What you want out of life is going to be dependent on what you want out of life, so I would say figure out what do you want to see for your future. Then from creating a process that will help you get there. If you follow the perfect process just like Bill Walsh, the score will take care of itself.
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