Today’s message is more for those of you who are busy trying to build a business. I recently had an experience that yet again affirmed my belief that:

“I know nothing and it’s all about my team…”

Here’s what happened:

We just had a LIVE event for my company, PPC Classroom LIVE and it was a massive hit. We grew our attendees by over 35% from last year and the event just got MUCH better.

We had over 320 attendees, sponsors, parties – the works. However, every single thing went off without a single hitch!

Ok, so it was a great event – what’s so great about that?

Well, everyone was coming up to ME and congratulating me on a great event and asking me all sorts of questions about how I did this … did that…etc…

You know what? I had NO idea! Every time they came and thanked me, I almost felt GUILTY for accepting it. I found myself consistently asking that they go thank my team because I had absolutely nothing to do with it!

That’s the truth.

The month before the event I was busy scoping Asia for our company’s growth into Asia next year. I landed home 4 days before the event.

I did not even know when my FLIGHT was or if I had a hotel reservation.

-> I had no idea what the speaker schedule was…
-> I had no idea how many registrations we had…
-> I had no idea if food and beverage was handled?
-> Are the sponsors ready?

Now, I know I may be sounding like an idiot. I mean, 4 days before an event and I don’t know these answers?

But, really what it shows it my ridiculous trust on my amazing team. I *knew* that the person in charge of it would never let anything bad happen and I was dead on!

My team makes my life easy. My team makes it possible for me to sleep at night. My team makes it so I can receive countless compliments.

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You can’t do anything alone.

Remember, you’re not all that smart (hate to tell you that).

The smartest thing you can do in life is ACCEPT that you’re not “all that” and that you need to surround yourself with smarter people.

That’s what Henry Ford did, I’m just glad I learned at a young age!

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