Issue 031: How to 10x Your Business & Career by Doing Less
Plus: How to ask for things and get enthusiastic yes and a unique method to validate startup idea
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👑 How to achieve 10x growth in business & career by doing less
🙋 How to ask for things and get enthusiastic yes
🧈 How to validate your startup idea with the “hot knife through butter test”
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📖 How to Achieve 10x Growth by Doing Less
Most people don’t aim for 10x growth. They settle for incremental growth. They go for a small promotion or a modest profit increase.
With a 2x goal, you’re faced with countless possible strategies. The sheer number of options creates decision paralysis. It’s difficult to know where to focus your energy. 😩
This is exhausting and soul-crushing.
80% of your results come from just 20% of your efforts. To achieve 10x growth, you need to ruthlessly zero in on that high-impact 20%.
Eliminate everything else that’s holding you back. By cutting out the noise, you can concentrate on what truly matters and deliver the biggest returns. ❌
“But I’m comfortable with 2x growth,” you might think.
But here’s the truth: Aiming for 10x is often the most reliable path to 2x. An extraordinary goal will force you to prioritise. You’ll have to drop low-impact tasks and focus on what moves the needle. It also gives you more room for error.
To help you achieve 10x growth, we’ve created an action plan based on management consultant Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy’s best-selling book 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less.
📥 If you’re ready to transform your business & career, download this 10x growth action plan!
As Norman Vincent Peale famously said, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” 🌙✨
So go download the action plan from here and achieve success beyond your wildest dream.
How to Ask for Things and Get Enthusiastic Yes 🙋
- Close a sale
- Get a bigger raise
- Secure funding
- Inspire people to follow you
…or even something simple, like rescheduling a meeting – you need an enthusiastic yes.
So, why do people say no?
Because they don’t see what’s in it for them.
♻️ You need to flip the script. The best strategy I have seen for this comes from Wes Kao:
- Write out your ask
- Highlight everything that benefits you (🔴)
- Highlight everything that benefits them (🟢)
- Now, rewrite it so that 90% of your ask focuses on how it benefits them
Try this the next time you’re asking for something, and let me know how it works.
Validate Your Startup Idea with the “Hot Knife Through Butter Test” 🧈
When it comes to choosing a startup idea, founders often turn to methods like customer interviews or building an MVP.
However, the founders of Material Security – Ryan Noon, Abhishek Agrawal, and Chris Park – took a different approach. They started selling before building anything. 💡
🌅 Morning – pitch a people analytics product to an HR leader.
🏙 Midday – present a security analytics product to a security professional.
🌇 Afternoon – pitch a slightly different security product to another prospect.
This is how they found the product that had the most potential.
For more details, check out their full interview in First Round.
Thanks for reading. I hope you have found at least some of these tips helpful.
Until next week!
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