I just noticed this skool is set to public. When would this be recommended? One one hand it's useful, because this way you can just send people directly to the freebie in the classroom without them having to request access first, on the other hand though they don't have much of a reason to click join if they can just take the freebie and leave 🤷🏼‍♂️ Lmk what you think :)

I did a batch of 5 I would love your feedBack so that I can make improvements for the next batch

I've gone from being a shy introvert to being able to speak on stage (and on camera) and i know the feeling, freezing up pressing the rec button. I want this post to serve as the end all to your fear so you can share your beautiful message and work with amazing clients. Please... for the love of lord of the rings.... take what I've learned from years of watching 1000s of big YouTubers, and years of consuming self help books so you don't have to waste your time. So, there was a time I used to think: "𝗜𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗮𝗱/𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁." That's not entirely true. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝘀, 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀. Making thousands of "not-so-great" videos will sharpen your skills. Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction any day. Many people are scared even to upload one video... ...Adding the pressure to make videos "good FIRST" is too much at the start. It makes it harder to keep going because the resistance to start is too high to develop a habit of simply showing up. If you want to fail at putting out content: make it invisible, make it unattractive, make it difficult, and make it unsatisfying. Habits are easily formed when you follow these rules (from Atomic Habits by James Clear): 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴. You improve by doing something, in this case striving for quality by showing up even if the videos suck, over and over for a long time. Make it easy to start, AND have self-compassion. This is a marathon, not a sprint. There are many stories where big names have "destroyed" their brands and somehow, no one cares because they've continuously shown up with good, after-good content. There's a story from the book "Art & Fear" about a pottery class that explains this principle pretty good. A pottery teacher split the class into two groups. Group A made lots of pots, one every day. Group B spent all their time on one perfect pot. In the end, Group A had the best pots, while Group B didn't do as well.

Finally got around to reading Atomic Habits this week. Similar to "The Compound Effect", but provided some great insights and details into building new habits. Here's my favorite takeaway I got from the book: Start small. This could mean even just 1 or 2 minutes on a new habits. If you're trying to read before bed, for example, just start with doing 1 minute. If you're trying to learn a new language, just study for 1 minute a day. If you can do it for a minute, you'll get into the habit of it while it's easy, and it won't appear daunting. Eventually, you can build up to 5 minutes, then 10 minutes, then 20 minutes a day. Start small, start simple, and build from there.

“You don’t contribute enough.” That was something my parents once said to me, and in that moment, it hurt me a little. But how can I blame them? They are 100% right… at least for now. We obviously can't focus on contributing to society if we’re focused on contributing to our own growth. And this is when most people will call you egotistical and stamp you as a bad person. But I think that’s where we have messed up. Of course, ego in the sense of not contributing to society in any way, I think is a bad thing. But here’s an interesting thought: in what ways can we contribute to society? We contribute by bringing value to the table (image of The Value Equation↓) But in the Value Equation, there is only one thing we’re all born with: time. So, if we can save someone time, that becomes valuable. And what most people choose to do is to exchange their time for money and do labor for someone else (employer). However according to the Value Equation, “time delay” is not the only way of creating value. The other way is to work on yourself, to the point where you can provide more value than what your time used to do. Which then makes your time more valuable. And because money flows where value goes, you’ll also receive a much higher financial return. So with this, you can actually scale your value, unlike your time, which is limited to just 24 hours in a day. The trade-off is that you contribute drastically less at the beginning of your self-developing journey. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln Think of “sharpening the axe” as working on yourself, and “chopping the tree” as contributing to society. If you constantly “sharpen your axe” you will never get to use it. But if you constantly “chop down trees”, you’re “axe” will become dull and end up being useless, until you sharpen it again. This is how I’ve been balancing responsibilities and self-development to work towards creating immense value.