Framework mapped out through module 6 of 9 last night. Focused on keeping it powerful but simple. The great thing about the fundamentals is once you get them understood and integrated, you just iterate. It's not as mentally or energetically taxing as trying to learn new concepts. Business and growth get so much easier when you master the fundamentals, and that's what this course is all about... only it takes the tendency for ADHD and executive disfunction into account since MOST entrepreneurs struggle with that to some degree. I'm striving to balance between teaching enough to support the process but not adding any fluff that causes information overload or friction. Kind of excited to finally be getting this out :) How's everyone else doing? Would love to know what you're working on. GIF me your week so far <3

Hola, Mi Gente! I hope everyone had a rejuvenating weekend and a powerful Monday <3 As you know, I've been contemplating the "house" for group and even just the existence of a group as part of a package for how I want to expand my services. One thing that I've been paying very close attention to is how much less active most groups are, no matter how big, how old, how new and shiny, or how great they once were. I like having a group as an option because it still has a psychological benefit of feeling connected to others and... my thoughts have been that people still WANT and NEED community, they just are getting it more by engaging through the streams and threads and feeds more. A group provides a "location" and "hub" and though it may not get used a lot or by most, those that prefer it, even if they only do so "seasonally" (during slow times, low times etc) I want to have it as an option. I think I will keep a free group as a "feeder" community where I'll make my posts and offers and occassionally share some tips and tools as well as access to expert calls. ========================= *Digital Membership Access* ========================= The next level group will be $997 annually (297 quarterly) for all the course material, a monthly call with me or me + guest expert and hot seat or open hour zoom once a quarter plus I'll be around to answer questions if anyone asks. ========================= *Physical Membership Access* ========================= Most of my people enjoy being to work away from screens, especially when planning and mapping things out. I am going to create a quarterly package that will go out to paid members (this will be the above $997 annually plus an upgrade fee TBA once I get pricing info - probably around $149 a quarter or $500 annually). Still planning this all out and not set in stone but The package will contain: - the course in book form, likely bound as a spiral notebook with lines in the margins for writing notes. After the first package this will be a quarterly planning journal with mental reminders about the fundamental profit pillars. - A nice pen for notetaking - Highlighter set for notes - Sticky notes - but extra. And not the same every quarter. Something fun - Q4 - A desk calendar with a mixture of quotes, jokes, vocubulary, and journal prompts. The point of the variety is varied growth - and variation in your days. - A book of my choice that I feel has timeless wisdom or perspective - Some surprise gift to keep things fun

I've been working with business owners for 22 years, and managed call center teams for 6 years before that as a technical lead so I had both technical skills as well as had to manage metrics and hire and manage 20-25 people. 28 years working on systems for getting the most out of the least, as corporate support is next to nothing for their people and small business owners live and die by their ability to keep as much of their profits as possible. What I've learned is that there are some fundamental elements to running any kind of business well, even if it's a self contained "business" within a larger corporation. Everything hinges, first, on Principles and Priorities. Principles inform priorities. Priorities inform what gets done. Except... QUITE OFTEN... Principles were never clearly defined (nor company culture) and so priority is rarely defined or changes according to mood energy or something else other than principles. Starting here makes EVERYTHING simpler to set up and maintain and serves as a filter for future decisions as well as makes it easier to get on and stay on the same page with business partners and team members. When we talk on Friday, I'd like to go over some of these things as well as have a conversation about how these show up for any of you and what you might like to see created here. Checklists, Templates, Systems, Spreadsheets and Calculators, Tools etc. Additionally, I'd love to hear what you've tried before and what didn't work for you. One thing I'm considering is a set of sprints towards whatever goal you have. They can be spread out throughout the year with milestones to be completed at each sprint. I would guide you on setting reasonable goals for yourself based on your current situation, skills and resources. The goal is help you get traction and increase momentum to a steady but satisfying pace. I've never been a person who can follow another's program. I don't think like anyone else I know. Niether do my clients. So I'm here to create a system that can ebb and flow and bend and grow with and around YOU, according to everything that YOU uniquely are.

My Mondays are long and I LOVE it that way. I generally take the weekend off but I ALWAYS take Sundays off. There was a time when that was really difficult for me. When things get quiet, my brain is busy, and it wants to be able to explore and play, create, build, document, MOVE NEEDLES FORWARD. But Sunday is the day that I observe the Sabbath in my faith and so it's very different than any other day of the week. When my brain wants to be busy on Sundays, I put it towards studying gospel related topics, doing genealogy, pondering, journaling or writing spiritual thoughts to share with others. And I LOVE Sunday naps and snuggles. But by the time Monday morning comes around... I'm like a slingshot that's been pulled back all weekend and tension is built up and ready to be released! Some days, like today, I take a few hours in the middle of the day to spend with my girls if they've been with their dad for the weekend. Today we went shopping for seeds and supplies for this year's garden and then finished with our daily ritual of driving while listening to music and talking about life. Then I got back to work while my youngest, who's now 14 going on 32, got to work on planting seeds. I worked on a few projects with a few stretch breaks while she worked on the garden, the got to work on a sewing project. She's working on two different dresses and she quite the seamstress. Tomorrow she'll be making homemade Chicken Alfredo from scratch. We cross paths frequently, she and I, and her sister (my third for four daughters, who's almost 18 and preparing to launch out of the nest) occassionally intersects for meals or trips to the park or late night sister drives with music and something yummy. There is so much freedom in their daily lives that they have no comprehension of because it's always been like this. I've always been home (well, since my oldest was one year old) and crafts and projects and independence with family interaction has always been what home life was like.

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.