Paul Green's 5 min Monday Motivation

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Aug 2026

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Make listening to this part of your weekly routine. Five minutes filled with news and growth tips for members of Paul Green's MSP Marketing Edge.

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August 17, 20264 min

Your team doesn't need you to be perfect. They need you to be consistent.

As the owner and leader of the business, we are the Mom or Dad to our staff. Yes I really believe this! And I don't mean in that we have to tell them what to do all the time. That's not what good parenting is. Good parenting is nurturing and leading and I see a lot of parallels between someone growing a team and someone being a parent (especially if you have teenagers). And the even better news is: you don't have to be perfect but you DO have to be consistent. That counts as both the leader and the parent. Let's explore this in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 17th August 2026

August 10, 20265 min

The past version of you, would be proud of you today

Tell me... how often do you stop and look back at what you've achieved and give yourself a congratulatory slap on the back? Probably not very often. And yet I think as busy business owners we should do this on a regular basis. Because it's far too easy to live in the problems of today, rather than look at our business through the eyes of the person we used to be when we started it. That person would be really proud of what you've achieved... don't you think? Let's explore this in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 10th August 2026

August 3, 20265 min

Every wrong path gets you closer to the right path

Building a business is a slog, right? There's always something that needs to be fixed or changed or improved. And when you're taking the business in new directions, what makes it harder is there's no roadmap to follow. The first time you do something is always the hardest. And that means you make mistakes. You go down wrong paths. I don't actually see this as a bad thing. In fact I believe you have to go down the wrong paths to discover which the right path is. Let's explore this in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 3rd August 2026

July 27, 20265 min

You're really not as "behind "as you think

Sometimes I speak to members and they are highly emotional about where they're at with their business. And that's understandable. I've been a business owner for 20 years myself, and I do understand that it's everything to us in a way. But sometimes when we look at what other people are doing and compare it to our own progress, we're just making our life unintentionally harder. We're comparing apples with oranges. It's the same as comparing your life to what you're seeing your friends post on Facebook and Instagram. The reality is you're not seeing an accurate snapshot of what's REALLY happening in their lives. Let's explore this in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 27th July 2026

July 20, 20265 min

The best leaders don't have all the answers

Are you the one person in your business that everyone turns to when they have a problem? And I don't mean just escalating tech issues. I mean everything, from the fridge being out of milk to how to handle a client asking something slightly unusual. It's a common curse of the business owner where our team assume that we have all the answers. Of course you and I know that we don't. But we do have all the questions. And to me that's more important. Let me explain what I mean in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 20th July 2026

July 13, 20263 min

Complaints are the most important feedback you'll ever get

Almost every single business owner hates complaints. And that's because the business is a reflection of us. It's our baby. It's our personal identity. When someone complains and we agree with that complaint, that's like someone stabbing us in the heart. And yet there's a different way of thinking about complaints. What if actually you should be encouraging them because they're insanely useful feedback that can help you make the business better? Let's explore that in today's Monday Motivation. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 13th July 2026

July 6, 20265 min

You don't need more time. You need fewer options

If you got to the back end of last week and yet again, for what felt like the 457th week in a row, you hadn't achieved everything you wanted to achieved... then you probably finished the week frustrated. Again. The thing is you're not alone in this. Most business owners, and especially MSPs, feel that frustration, because there never seems to be quite enough time to do all the things you want to do. I believe that's looking at it the wrong way. And actually you should be reducing down the number of things that you could do. Let's explore that in today's Monday Motivation Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 6th July 2026

June 29, 20265 min

Imposter syndrome is good

You know imposter syndrome. It's where you think you're going to get "caught out" any moment. I've been doing marketing for MSPs for ten years and I still feel this way some days. Crazy, isn't it? And yet the more I think about it the more I'm starting to believe that imposter syndrome is good. Because it means that you're pushing yourself to achieve stretch tasks. And that's good, right? Let's explore this in today's Monday Motivation. Plus I'll tell you the subject for our Tactical Tuesday tomorrow Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 29th June 2026

June 22, 20264 min

You must get your marketing foundations in place

If I stop being humble about myself for a second, one of my super powers is the ability to look at the mysterious dark art of marketing and break it down into a series of practical tasks. In fact this is what I've built the whole of the MSP Marketing Edge around. It means that when I'm talking to members about their marketing, often I can see where they've taken shortcuts or missed out important tasks. The most frequently missed out is getting the marketing foundation right. These are the basics you need in place to help you a) understand who you want to work with, b) why they would choose you, and then c) make sure that is reflected across all of your marketing. Give me five minutes. And let's explore this right now. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 22nd June 2026

June 15, 2026Episode 1135 min

Confidence (and results) come from repetition

Do you remember the first time you sat behind the steering wheel of a car? Even if you were a confident learner, it was kind of nerve-wracking, wasn't it? There's a lot more going on when you're the driver than when you're the passenger. Perhaps it was the same the first few months you were running your MSP. And maybe it was the same when you started taking your marketing seriously. When you are embarking on something that is new and important to you, of course your confidence is going to be low to start with. But just like going to the gym, the only way to get results and improve your confidence is through repetition. Let's explore how you can accelerate the results you're getting from the MSP Marketing Edge system in today's podcast. Paul's 5 min Monday Motivation for 15th June 2026