My Doctor Wanted Me on a Statin – Here’s What I Did Instead!

A few months ago, I walked out of my annual physical with a problem I didn’t particularly like. My doctor wanted me to go on a statin.  My first reaction? “No way.”  Instead of arguing with my doctor or ignoring the problem, I asked for 90 days. I would make some changes, create a plan, execute it, and then come back and measure the results.

What happened next was surprising.  And this isn’t really a story about cholesterol. It’s a story about ownership. It’s about what happens when you stop focusing on everything you can’t control and start focusing on what you can control.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the exact same principle applies to business.  Your market may be difficult. Your competitors may be aggressive. Your sales team may not be performing. Your business may have plateaued. You may be working too many hours.  You can’t control all of those circumstances.  But you can control what you do next.

In this episode of the Business Coach Unplugged Podcast, I walk through the 90-day experiment I ran, what I changed, what I learned, and why I believe the lessons apply to virtually any problem you’re trying to solve—whether it’s in your business, your career, or your personal life.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How to take ownership instead of making excuses
• How to turn a vague problem into a specific 90-day experiment
• How to identify the behaviors that actually create results
• Why measuring your results is more powerful than relying on feelings
• How to stop waiting for certainty and start learning through action
• Why 90 days can be enough time to create meaningful change

You don’t need to know exactly how everything is going to turn out.  You don’t need the perfect plan.  You don’t need to have all the answers.  Sometimes you just need to decide what you can control, make a plan, execute it consistently, and see what happens.

So here’s the question I want you to think about:

What could you change in the next 90 days?  Not forever.  Not someday.  90 days.

Listen to the full episode of the Business Coach Unplugged Podcast and find out what happened when I decided to give myself 90 days to see what I could change.

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