26 Sep 950 Miles an hour in an F-18 is …FAST
Chris Prefontaine chats with
Ed Rush
Episode 62:
950 miles an hour. That’s fast. But it’s not nearly as fast as Ed Rush flew in his combat career as a decorated F-18 pilot which included over 50 combat missions and 2 tours to Iraq. While in the Marines, Ed served as the one of the country’s leading instructors on aerial dog fighting and recently worked as a key player in the development of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
After 2 combat tours to Iraq, Ed left full-time active duty to speak, write, and share a message that will change the world. He’s a 5-Time #1 Best Selling Author and Amazon’s #1 Business Author. Ed’s clients range from small startups to multi-million dollar – multi-national organizations and include CEOs, founders, political leaders, sports teams, national universities, Hollywood stars, and one of the contestants on Season #1 of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice.
Ed’s books and expertise have been featured on CBS, FOX, ABC, and NBC.
What you'll learn about in this episode:
- The biggest lie in personal growth
- What successful, fast moving entrepreneurs build their lives around
- Why speed is key to being a successful entrepreneur
- Getting inspired to get things done quickly
- Building a strategic sprint and how it can help improve many areas of your life
- The first step to creating a strategic plan
- Where Ed learned to be hyper focused
- How to create more restful breaks for yourself
- A nature analogy that helps explain the sprint/rest cycle
- Six things in your business that you need to have automatic
- How automating your business can help you make money while you’re on vacation
- The difference between automated and automatic
- One thing that holds most people back from making more money
- How your past could affect your ability to be successful
- A technique to get out of your head and allow yourself to be successful
- Training your mind to be focused and purposeful
- Getting started down the road to success
- How Ed makes it possible to have relaxing mornings
- Ideas for ways to make your environment distraction free
- The maximum number of things Ed tries to accomplish in a day
- Benefits of waiting to check your phone
- When to start working toward your dream
- An example of how Ed has improved his life with his strategies
- Ed’s favorite mentors in different categories
- What Ed reads to help him understand today’s culture
- The person Ed would go back in time and meet if he could
- How Ed emotionally deals with the ups and downs of business
- The connection between body and mind
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