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What's Your PQO?

And how much time are you spending on it?

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Jo Barnes
Aug 18, 2023
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I recently recorded a new video course I called 'The Solopreneur Success Formula'.

One of the modules is all about working out your PQO. This is a term from Brendon Burchard's High Performance Habits book. It means prolific quality output.

In other words what are the most important outputs you need to be focusing on for your business?

As an example;

  • Henry Fords most important outputs were more cars

  • Apple - more iphones

  • Seth Godin - blogs & books

  • Amy Porterfield - podcasts

  • Udemy - courses

  • Gary Vee - social media content

  • Mr Beast - YouTube videos

  • Beeple - daily digital art

  • Any niche site publisher - more blog posts

  • and so on.

If you notice, the one thing all the above have in common is that whatever their most important output is, that's their main thing.

Sure, Apple have a host of other products, Seth Godin also speaks and sells courses, Amy Porterfield posts on IG & Facebook too, Gary Vee has multiple businesses. But their main thing, the thing that helps them to grow…

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