Business School with Sharran Srivatsaa

Episode 171

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5th Sep 2023

Personal Operating System

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How do you feel about your life today? Are you living your best life? We all have good and bad days, but what's important is to make the best out of each day. How do you do that? Sharran is here to share his personal NO BS playbook of how he lives his life each day.

In today's episode, you will learn how he prioritizes ideas, makes decisions, filters what's important and what's not, how to get out of tough jams, and how to stay focused. It's not a perfect system, but it works. You could build something like this for yourself so you can be the best version of yourself. Tune in and enjoy listening!

“If I can't be useful, what the heck am I doing living this life?”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

Timestamps:

01:40 Book recommendation: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

03:48 Do you have an operating system for achieving your goals?

05:35 Discover the three big topics inside this episode

07:01 How do all the successful people out there have the same number of hours and do different things?

08:31 Stack Ranking Priorities: What are your top five priorities?

18:18 Sharran's top five priorities in life

19:17 What are your Rituals and Routines?

21:35 Book recommendation: The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande

22:39 Do you have a Love It or Hate It list?

24:23 What is one thing you can do tomorrow to make it better than today?

25:34 How can you make this operating system work for you?

33:20 What is important to you?

35:09 Recap of Sharran's Personal Operating System

Resources:

- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

- The Checklist Manifesto by Dr. Atul Gawande

- The Job of a CEO

- The Real Brokerage

- Join Sharran's VIP Community

- Join the 10K Wisdom Private Partner Podcast, now available to you for free

- ARC Multifamily Real Estate Investing

- Top Agent Power Pack

- Sharran's Partnership Program

- Grab Sharran’s 4-Week MBA for Free

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About the Podcast

Business School with Sharran Srivatsaa

Business School is hosted by Sharran Srivatsaa, President of Real (TSX: REAX) (NASDAQ: REAX), the fastest-growing, publicly-traded, real estate brokerage in the world. Sharran grew Teles Properties by 10x in 5 years to $3.4 Billion in sales and eventually sold the business to Douglas Elliman. Sharran is also an accomplished “deal guy” and private equity investor. He is the Chairman of private equity firm Highland Prime which focuses on investing in service-businesses and also the Chairman of ARC Multifamily Group which focuses on value-add multifamily investment projects.

Sharran is a former Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse banker and a sought after keynote speaker and is the creator of the wildly-popular 5am Club call for Entrepreneurs.

On this podcast, Sharran shares his best secrets on how to grow your business strategically, how to build your brand elegantly, most importantly integrate the profits in your business with an overall joyful life.

For more free resources visit Sharran.com

About your host

Sharran Srivatsaa

Sharran is a serial entrepreneur, sought after keynote speaker, and a respected thought-leadership resource for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, SUCCESS magazine, Huffington Post and Forbes.

While Sharran has had 5 exits in the last 19 years, and also a several humbling failed investments and business initiatives. He talks all about them on his top rated Spotify podcast, Business School.

Most recently, Sharran led Teles Properties’ unprecedented 10x growth over 5 years and a 4-year consecutive streak on the Inc. 500 fastest growing companies list resulting in its acquisition by national real estate powerhouse Douglas Elliman.

Prior to Teles, Sharran worked at both Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where he collaborated with management teams of fast-growing businesses around the country on investment advisory and corporate strategy. Sharran also spent several years building recreational programs in the Caribbean, Middle East, and Hawaii for some of the finest international resorts such as the Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton, also has deep experience working with technology companies such as Lightera (acquired by CIENA) and Obopay, a fast-growth mobile payments company.

Sharran is a Principal at Srilo Ventures, a multi-factor private investment fund that focuses investing in and advising technology companies and operating businesses in the consumer space. Having successfully completed many acquisitions, joint-ventures, management buyouts, mergers, and capital raises, Sharran serves as a director and advisor on numerous company boards.

He is also a member of the Genius Network, the highest-level marketing mastermind in the world led by whizkid Joe Polish, and also a member of Young President’s Organization (YPO).

After competing on the professional tennis tour, Sharran received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Luther College and his MBA with Honors from Vanderbilt University.