Recently closed a deal with zero stress or difficulty or even concern for three times more than I used to make at a full time job. It will take very little time and will be easy and enjoyable work. I was just reflecting on how amazing it is to do something with joy and confidence that I, at one point, could NEVER have imagined myself doing. How did this change happen? I wasn't trained to do this. Everything I've learned was self taught, gleaned through someone else's wisdom along my path or simply learned (and this is really where most of it happened) through experience. Nothing has given me more confidence in doing things THAN has DOING the things. I've undersold myself REPEATEDLY. But while I did that, I also OVERDELIVERED repeatedly... and that won me some powerful fans who helped me get more clients to serve. In fact, I've never run an ad or had any kind of acquisition system for my business in all my 22 years. Word of mouth and my tiny bit of social media posting has always been enough to give me a very lucrative (once I learned how to charge properly) business. (Though that's about to change!) I can tell you that the biggest difference between those who struggle to the point of breaking and those who struggle and then overcome is this one thing: THEY SHOW UP AND DO THE THING. They can hurt just as much as the one who stays struggling. They are just as scared as the one who stays struggling. They are often just as disorganized as the one who stays struggling. They just DO IT ANYWAY. And the gift that we get from doing the hard thing is that the hard thing is immediately and perpetually less hard... with one caveat: If you don't use it, you lose it. Bottom line? If it's hard and scary, do it anyway. Being a failure, broke, stressed and hopeless is MUCH HARDER than asking for what you want. It's also MUCH harder than working 80 hours a week if that's what it takes for you to deliver what you promised. If you oversold and built yourself into a trap... get out of the trap and make a clearer, better offer next time with better boundaries.

So, Skool doesn't currently allow for audio only posts. This is just audio, will be turned into video for some visuals and also pdf. A lot of what I'll share will be concepts and thoughts for forming solid frameworks, the rest will be tools and systems. The frameworks are created mentally first. Architects imagine before they draw. The things that happen in their minds first impacts innumerable actions by tons of people to bring a building to life. The same is true of your business. Priming your "mental pump" so to speak, should be something that you do daily because that will improve your Business "Architect" skills. Please have a listen (about 7 minutes) and let me know your thoughts.