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We are hard-wired to seek certainty. Sadly, there is no hard-fast certainty in the entrepreneurship game. There are no total guarantees that you will hire the right team, continue to pace your competitors, or that your partnership will work out and for how long. Similarly, there is also no certainty that you will achieve everything you started out to achieve.
This drives us to the next question—how do you embrace and overcome uncertainty and thrive as an entrepreneur? In his new book, Dan Nicholson dives deeper into achieving certainty as an entrepreneur in an uncertain world.
Nicholson has been vocal about certainty for entrepreneurs, finance, and how leaders can bring certainty to business. He believes certainty governs most people’s activities, knowingly or unknowingly, and holds a significant play in the outcome.
What you do, the actions that you take and the decisions that you make depend entirely on what you want. That’s it. You, specifically, might want to grow your business by 50 percent in the coming years. Someone else of the same age, with the same number of kids, running the same type of business, might want to keep revenue the same as last year. And guess what? Both of you would be correct. You might want to spend more time with your family while someone else might want to build a rocket to Mars. Again, both would be correct. – Quote from Rigging The Game
Every system is perfectly designed for the results, says Nicholson. If you need a different outcome, you should get extremely clear about what it is you want, analyze critical elements that need adjustment, and then build a plan accordingly. This is the principle he has borrowed for his new book, Rigging the Game: How to Achieve Financial Certainty, Navigate Risks and Make Money on Your Terms.
In the book, Dan Nicholson explores uncertainty in business and how to face it with a strong sense of pragmatism and resilience. Rigging the Game helps you create and pursue a path to what you truly value and eliminate the risk and financial uncertainty to achieve consistent success. It teaches you how unconventional thinking can improve your finances and overall quality of life, especially when the competition is stuck in the old ways of doing things.
Dan Nicholson delves into tips and strategies that inch you closer to your goals, including identifying biases and evolving beyond them, and turning big goals into actionable steps and checklists. Rigging the Game also covers financial anxiety— how to replace financial anxiety with realistic financial projections and certainty and, most importantly, helping you soar above any chance of failure. The book is available on Amazon.
About Dan Nicholson
Dan Nicholson is a celebrated author, serial entrepreneur, and four times 40 under 40 Accountant. Nicholson graduated summa cum laude from Seattle University with a degree in accounting and another in information systems and has worked at various fortune 500 companies and government offices.
Nicholson had his fellowship at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board before he went on to join Deloitte. He also founded multiple companies across finance, accounting and software.
He is also the founder and CEO of NTH Degree CPAs, CertaintyU, and CertaintyApp, which help people optimize for their solvable problem with less effort, risk, and more options. Which translates simply to assist people in getting closer to what it is they actually want in the most efficient way possible. Through CertaintyU and CeratintyApp, entrepreneurs can calculate how to close the gap and get closer to what they want by applying the tools and principles. Nicholson also doubles as a podcast host. He is the brains behind one of the top finance podcasts in the country- Rigging the Game Podcast, where they discuss entrepreneurship.
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