{"id":160,"date":"2013-07-17T05:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2013-07-17T05:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:09:55","slug":"referability-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/referability-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Referability Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every quarter I attend my own professional development from an organization called Strategic Coach.\u00a0 I travel to Chicago and sit in a room full of entrepreneurs from around the country and Canada who blow me away each and every time we&#8217;re together.\u00a0 I feel like the guy who goes to the Doctor and is told he is burning the candle at both ends.\u00a0 The patient responds, &#8220;I know that, and I am here for more wax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The class I&#8217;m in now is currently lead by Strategic Coach Founder, Dan Sullivan.\u00a0 Very creative, passionate and successful.\u00a0 Dan has been at this since 1974 and has a tremendous number of tools to share business owners, and words of wisdom to ponder.\u00a0 Today he hit us with one that has had as much impact on me as any I have heard in the past four years.\u00a0 He titled these <strong><em>Referability Habits<\/em><\/strong>, meaning that if you do these four things, people will refer and extend more opportunities your way.\u00a0 I actually think these are life habits.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Show up on time<\/li>\n<li>Do what you say<\/li>\n<li>Finish what you start<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Please&#8221; &amp; &#8220;thank you&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How great would it be if people knew you or I were to always live by these four simple habits, and we could count on others to do the same?\u00a0 I fail miserably too often with these four simple habits, and this realization makes me kind of ill.\u00a0 I have some work to do here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back with my next post Thursday&#8230;.PROMISE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every quarter I attend my own professional development from an organization called Strategic Coach.\u00a0 I travel to Chicago and sit in a room full of entrepreneurs from around the country and Canada who blow me away each and every time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/referability-habits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xSk4-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whywedoit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}