The Quick Hacks to Success
• Hire people who have already done what you want to do. Josh referred to this as his number one success habit, and he talked about how this is exactly what he did when he started BioTrust Nutrition. Most people think they can train people to do a job, but there’s no substitute for experience—especially when they have it and you don’t. Josh shared, “Don’t hire great sol- diers that you can train to be great in their positions, hire generals who know their roles better than you do and let them hire the soldiers underneath them.” • Delegate anything that’s not your unique ability. Listen to Josh explain why this is such an important hack: “For ten years, I was stuck in a company that I owned, and it was almost like a prison. I was doing all the work . . . I had a very small team, and I was making good profits, but my life was completely miserable. I was working 80 hours a week. I could have easily taken some of the profits and delegated and hired more people, but I felt like I had to do it all or it wouldn’t get done right. When that original company closed and I had time to examine what went wrong and what could go right in the future, I knew this had to change. When I started BioTrust I came out of the gate delegating everything that wasn’t my unique ability, and I watched the magic unfold in front of my eyes . . . I was also more successful because I was a happier person, and I wasn’t doing things that I didn’t like . . . accounting and HTML programming and all these things that I had tried to do in the past. “When I focused on my unique abilities, which are hiring the right people, creating the big vision for the company, and putting the right teams together, I made the biggest impact possible and watched all areas of my business and personal life go to the next level.”
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