Most entrepreneurs aren’t stuck because they’re lazy or incapable. They’re stuck because they’re waiting. Quietly. Waiting for more clarity, better timing, more confidence, or for things to settle down. As long as you’re waiting, your potential and your business stays parked. Progress in business doesn’t come from more preparation. It comes from decisions. Every time you explain why you’re not moving yet, you hand control to something outside yourself: the market, the economy, your schedule, your past results. None of those are coming to build the business for you. The people who actually break through don’t feel ready. They move while uncertain. They don’t wait for perfect conditions... they adapt to the conditions they’re in. They don’t wait for permission, because no one is handing it out. Most people keep their effort conditional. “I’ll go all in when things calm down.” “I’ll commit once I feel more confident.” “I’ll start after this next thing.” And months (sometimes years) pass. Not because the idea wasn’t good, but because the conditions were never removed. So here’s something actionable for the week ahead: Pick one decision you’ve been delaying because you wanted more clarity. Make it by the end of the week...imperfectly. Then take the first uncomfortable action that follows from that decision. No optimizing. No overthinking. Just movement. Clarity shows up after action, not before it. Drop in the comments: What’s the one decision you’re done waiting on this week?

While I build my business, I still have a day job for a Fortune Global 500 company, which despite being a world-leading software company, is slow/adverse to adopting COTS tools for internal business. Being a software company, they like to develop their own things in-house, which typically leads to sub-par experiences, IMHO. For example, we don't use anything like Salesforce, just an antiquated internal CRM. I have the added complication of my group working with the U.S. Government, so our email is further segregated from the rest of the company. We have our own internal AI (because of course we do), but it's on a different network from my email. 📬 I want to buy back my time at my day job, so I can focus more on building my business (since I work many late nights on just my day job as it is), but basic things like using AI to tell me what emails are worth my attention, helping build automated responses and follow-up sequences, analyzing sales data, etc., all of which would greatly improve my productivity, I cannot do. It's sad that I have more capability and advanced tools in my extremely small startup. Wondering what advice anyone has who is currently employed for a corp that is slow to adopt new tech or seasoned AI pros that have interesting solutions. Thanks in advance! ☺️🙏

Ever spend hours refining a conversation with a lot of prompts within AI until it’s perfect, only to hit the limit and lose it? Even with the paid versions, it happens. To me. All the time. Here’s my advice: before that happens, ask the AI to give you its own instructions in plain text. Save them. Copy, paste, reuse. Build a repository of great prompts. If you are like me, you’ll eventually need to start fresh, and having that prompt library makes the difference between frustration and flow. Inconsistency and consistency. Starting over and just continuing. I promise. You'll thank me later.

Hi all! My name is Crystal. I'm a single mom, artist, and entrepreneur. I recently started testing chat GPT to help me analyze data and editing photos. I love this little tool! I'm hoping to learn a great deal about AI and use it to advance my skills in multiple areas. :)