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Hello everyone. Thank you guys for watching the Boss Bae Blog Podcast. I'm your host

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Katan and the CEO of BossBaeBlog.com. So today we are talking about another

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entrepreneurship habit for you to pick up on your road to success. So the habit

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that you want to pick up is either learning to be a good listener or hiring

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someone to listen for you. If you do not have the funds to hire them then you

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want to listen to this first part of this message and you want to listen

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well. A lot of entrepreneurships hire professionals. I've been hired by a lot

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of professionals, amazing professionals, but their listening skills are not

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great. They're not great and there's nothing wrong with that. It's an

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opportunity that we need to work on. Everybody's listening skills are not

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great. A lot of people in fact on this earth don't have great listening skills

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and they don't understand what active listening is and just like anything else

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in your life when you actively do it you're actively engaged in it your

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performance is a lot better. So you have to actively listen. I need to take notes.

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I need to ask questions. I need to repeat what this person is saying to me.

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Reiterate to make sure that I'm understanding because in entrepreneurship

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when you learn what can help you with making money or you learn insight or

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tips from professionals and you don't utilize the information, you don't listen,

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there's no point in spending money on getting the information. There's no point

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on hiring a professional to do something for you or to consult for you if you're

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not going to listen. There's no purpose. So you're wasting your money and you're

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wasting your time and I can't stress that enough because we're here to make

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money. You have to be a active listener. Now one thing to keep in mind who you

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listen to now you got to really think on that. It needs to be somebody credible.

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It needs to be somebody who knows what they're talking about. It needs to be somebody

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who has experience on what they're talking about. It needs to be somebody

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who's worked with other people who have had experience on what they're talking

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about. You need to find those credible sources that have earned that right for

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you to listen to them right? But once you find them and you trust them and you

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spend your money to hire them you have to listen. You got to listen. I've met so

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many amazing entrepreneurs that have so much going for them and will continue to

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have so much going for them if they keep working but by not listening they slow

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their business down a lot and it only gets slower the more you don't listen.

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People have to keep repeating things to you. People have to keep telling you

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things and if you're someone who forgets stuff get you a sticky note and stick it

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on your forehead or I don't know stick it all around your house. I don't know

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what you got to do but work on that. Get you some ginkgo biloba. Start focusing

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on your memory. Ginkgo biloba is a supplement or vitamin you can take.

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It's gonna help you put your memory, talk to your doctor first but get you some

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ginkgo biloba. Set some alarm clocks. Practice listening to music. Practice

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dance because dance and learning dance routines there were some studies that

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people were talking about on social media about how dancing can help improve

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your memory over your years of aging. So whatever it is you got to do figure it

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out what works for you and make it happy okay because people telling you the same

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thing over and over again that ain't gonna happen it's just not and on top of

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that there's no point in paying someone if you're not going to listen. So I'll

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give you guys an example. I'm hired for a lot of different projects and I've had

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times when people have said I need you to do this I need you to elevate this

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this is what I want you to do. Focus on the presentation focus on that okay got

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it I need you to teach me how to elevate I need you to show me what I need to

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change okay got it. I'm working on it I'm showing them I'm telling them what they

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need to do and they don't do it. Sometimes because they forgot and you

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know they're just going in a circle going in that crazy cycle instead of

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let me pause and just look at the notes and sometimes because I guess they think

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I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing but what you've been doing is not

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working so you got to actually actively listen take that information I've had

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times when people have told me insight that sometimes I didn't ask for most

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times I didn't ask for but I still listened I still listen to what they're

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saying and I'm like okay that's interesting let me go back and see how

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that works but you got to be an active listener I've hired people to do certain

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things when you hire someone to do something they are the professional in

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that go ahead and listen to what they're telling you because clearly they're an

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expert in what they're doing pick up that skill of listening not only is it

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gonna help you on the business aspect of it but it's gonna help you with the

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customer aspect because if you listen to your customers better you'll be able to

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understand what makes them tick I can tell you now what makes each and every

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one of my customers tick what they like what they love what they don't like what

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they're interested in their favorite hobbies all of that because I listen so

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I know what colors their favorite colors what TV shows they like to watch what

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they like to do on their off days what they like to do when they're stressed

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out what things they're working on what they're trying to grow in these are

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things that I learned about my clients I know them from head to toe okay and

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that's because I listen so when I create these these services these projects these

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products these opportunities I'm creating them with my clients in mind and

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that's why they keep coming back because it's not just about oh I'm gonna create

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a product or service I listened I paid attention I listened to what my clients

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say I listened to what my partners say I observed and a lot of times people don't

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do that in entrepreneurship you got to listen there's some opportunities that

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will be placed in front of you I've given people opportunities before in

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person and they're not listening so after I give them the opportunity they

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then go proceed to do something that shows they weren't listening when I gave

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it to them the first time not listening will really hurt your business so make

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sure that you are a good listener an active listener or hire someone except

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that you're not a good listener if you're not willing to work on it hire

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someone who is a good listener because they're gonna help you with moving your

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business forward and you're gonna take your business backwards if you're not

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able to listen as an entrepreneur that's just the truth do you know what an

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entrepreneurs goal is to be or what they're about what they do you have an

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entrepreneur and you have a business owner okay some people are both some

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people are one that's okay but an entrepreneur they're here to create

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solutions they're here to invent they're here to create okay explore what their

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audience needs you can't be an entrepreneur without listening without

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understanding what makes other people tick so if you're not a good listener

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you've got to pick up on this habit of listening better thank you guys so much

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for listening to the boss baby blog podcast I'll see you at our next episode

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where we're gonna talk about another habit that you can pick up on on your

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road to elevation as an entrepreneur bye bye