Stick to the script and see it through. It's too early to see the results you wanted. Stay the course. You've got to commit to plan long enough to convince people to commit to you. Why would someone commit to you if you can't commit to yourself? See it through. (Now if you don't have a plan, thats another story and another post) But if you got one, stick to it!!! 💪

I was chatting with my Dad last night and he made the most interesting (and correct) observation. "When I was in business, it was like getting into a competitive landscape." "It was everyman for himself, fighting for clients. Working against your competition." "Now business is all about helping as many people as you can." "The one who wins is the person who helped the most people." It's true. He's retired now, but he can see it too. Can you? You never need to worry about your competition. In fact you should help them win too. You never need to worry about them. You never need to look at them at all. You don't need to study their products, their messaging. It's wasted time that you could be impacting the world. You just need to help the people you can, without holding back. You only need to study your audience and what they want. Give, give, give, give. Focus on who you can help, potential clients, everyone, even the competition. That makes you the leader in the space. If you look at the competition, you're behind them, you'll hold back, you'll withhold, you'll fall behind! Instead, let them copy you, let them follow you! Innovate faster by opening up and being free with your knowledge. Move at light speed! It's OK if they copy you, word for word, what better confirmation that you're on the right track? Sometimes people DM me, "Stephen, I saw [INSERT PERSON HERE] copy your video almost word for word". I appreciate them looking out for me, I do. (thank you for letting me know) But I don't care. "Good" I think, I put it out there to help people anyway. Not just my potential clients, everyone! So I know it's working, and I've copied people too. I'm not sure humans were meant to copyright everything they touch or create. It holds us all back. Deep inside, I know I'm leading the pack. Just help as many people as you can as fast you can. Everything else will fall into place. It takes a deep faith in your own ability and insight. But it's the way modern business is done.

When I was a kid, a good friend and I would yell "live life my friend" as loud as we could. Sometimes when we road our bikes, later when we could drive. We'd roll down our windows and yell it for the world to hear! It was always easier when someone was with you. When strangers looked at you like you're crazy. It was easier with a friend no doubt. If you're lucky enough to have someone like that now, do it together. It's harder alone. In business you often feel alone. You might truly be on your own, or feel like no one else understands. But you need to live your life, to the fullest. That doesn't mean not making mistakes, but it means yelling into the world around you, what you're going to do. And making it happen, to the best of your ability. Without holding.... BACK. I almost wrote... without FEAR, but NO. Yell it despite of fear, or despite your embarrassment. Overcome those feelings to live your best life. To be the best you can for everyone else in your life. You partner, your kids, your clients, your friends. Yell into the world, "Live life my friend!" You've only got one. No more lost chances. I couldn't feel any more cheesy than I do right now, writing this now. But I believe it, so I'm writing it anyway—so that one person in the community will live up to their maximum potential. Live life my friend! Cheers to you, your life, and your potential.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those lost in Hurricane Helene and their families as Florida begings rebuilding and repairing the damages and as it moves through Georgia. And northward. For all those injured, without electricity or water and effected by this storm our prayers as well. We were fortunate enough just to have some minimal damage and short power outages.

I have been working through everything I've set up just to start learning and building automations. Mainly to start earning revenue as fast as possible. Software I try to stay away from: Any that are based in Discord That platform tends to bug me from past experiences. Another one is Telegram So I avoid these I don't want to give bandwidth to those platforms above. Even X or twitter are not on my radar to use much. Now with automation I will be setting up various X accounts since it can be a good way to promote content. So here is the Stack I am using: Domains and hosting: Blue Host and Wordpress some Ionos for $1 domains and $10 ones after with free ssl and private registrations. Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Medium, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quora, Pinterest, and Youtube are the Socials I understand I need to set automations up for content creation. For ai or LLMs there are the main 3. Open Ai Claude Perplexity Images I tend to use Flux Pro Will integrate Eleven labs and leonardo Now add gmail, google drive, google docs, google sheets, google slides, google cloud, google workspace, etc 6+- Domains purchasing redirecting for running cold email campaigns email aging and warming up instantly: for cold email set up and running Make.com, airtable, Vid editors: Capcut Movavi Did I miss something? How about Panda docs for contracts Docusign Stripe Gumroad Loom What do you use?