How Do Successful Entrepreneurs Answer the “Now What?” Question – In Just 7 Minutes with Yanik Silver
Marketing The Invisible - A podcast by Tom Poland
Find out if the question “Now what?” is asked after having achieved a certain level of financial success or not Appreciate the power of reflecting and how it can affect your business and your answer to the question “Now what?” Understand why connecting with our inner selves, our head, heart, and higher purpose, is important in finding out what your next step is Resources/Links: Wanting to Know How to Answer Every Entrepreneur’s Greatest Business Question, “Now What?”. Learn more on why you should be listening to your cosmic alarm clock and be the world’s greatest gem: Evolvedenterprise.com Summary Have you been feeling buzzed with not knowing the answer to your question “Now what?”? Do you feel like you haven’t been fulfilling your potential in the world through your business? Are you ready to connect with yourself and pursue your best next step? Yanik Silver has called a Cosmic Catalyst, a Maverick Mischief-maker, and a Galactic Goofball. He redefines how business is played in the 21st century at the intersection of evolutionary growth, impact, and fun. Yanik is the creator of the Cosmic Journal, author of Evolved Enterprise, and the founder of Maverick1000, a global collective of visionary entrepreneurs making a serious difference in the world without taking themselves too seriously. In this episode, Yanik talks about why it is important to connect with ourselves in order to know your next step and make a greater impact in the world. He also shares his experiences and insights on how connecting with yourself can not only help you grow as a person but help you pursue what is truly yours to do. Check out these episode highlights: 02:00 - Yanik’s ideal client: “The ideal client is someone that has had success, is successful. So typically a 7-, 8-, 9-figure, founder, CEO, entrepreneur, who is asking themselves, "Now what?" 02:34 - Problem Yanik helps solve: “There's a lot of things we can do, but what is truly ours to do? And so it's how do we connect our head, our heart, our higher purpose? So our head is our business side, the marketing side, whatever it is.” 03:50 - Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Yanik: “I call it the "cosmic alarm clock". It's this little whisper that gets louder and louder. You can either hit snooze, or you can answer it. And it's usually going to be, so for me, it was asking a very simple question, which is, "Am I happy? Would I be happy doing what I'm doing 10 years from now?” 05:23 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Yanik’s solution: “A lot of times, it's simply saying, "Well, if I get to this next spot-", whatever that is, a $5 million company, a $20 or a $100 million company or, you know, whatever reward you want to materially compensate yourself with, that usually is very short-lived.” 06:15 - Yanik’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): “One of my favorites is, "Your questions dictate your answers". So I love great questions. And so what I said before, right, what I'd be happy doing from 10 years from now? Another one is, "What would my 111-year-old self tell me?" 06:57 - Yanik’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Check out Yanik’s Website: Evolvedenterprise.com 07:31 - Q: What is another question that they could be asking themselves or another action they could be doing? A: That would be something called a "cosmic checkbox". Something that just brings you joy, and fulfillment no matter what. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: