it is hard to admit, but this week has been a real beast. and ... which happens rarely, but it does, today. i am sick. feel terrible. and coincidentally, i am hosting family dinner - welcome, shabbat. so, i am taking an official day off. you won't hear from me, most probably. the Sprint is starting, with the Kick-off on Sunday. but i need some time to recover. i might be popping in, cause i am a workaholic. but pls don't expect too much from me today and tomorrow. ps my dear regulars - pls hold on the fort - cause Sprint is only available to lvl 3 members. so, if ppl are not lvl 3 yet, comment below and get others to support you. it only takes 20 points to get to lvl 3. i am confident you can do it.

and What Community Values Have to Do With It your Skool community is a business. yes, i keep talking about it. again and agian. and as a business owner, you take 100 decisions a day. that's hard when nobody's helping you make them. so what helps? honestly, it's not that complicated. get clear on your vision, mission, values and principles, and the decisions get so much easier. here's an example ⬇️ Skoolers keep turning off comments on their posts. it annoys people. it annoys me. it happened again this week. many times. and instead of getting frustrated (not productive), i asked myself why it bothers me so much. here's why. one of my personal values is honesty. one of my community values is transparency. i'm an open book. i share everything: the good, the bad and the ugly. so when someone shuts the conversation down, it doesn't jive with me. that's not a rule. it's a value. and once i could name it, the annoyance made sense. then i looked in the Hackathon and saw a big gap. we're closing it today! The Business Prenup Workshop: - why these four things matter - what they save you - then time to actually start writing yours you walk away with a first draft and a workbook free to attend. hope to see you there. who's coming? ⬇️

it's Wednesday. and this week i honestly can't tell if my failure is a failure. can you, really??? the Road to Clover report. i set out to get 100 Skool communities to share their real numbers. 7 days in: 15 responses + 3 partners. by my own playbook: result not what i expected - that's a failure. 15 is not 100. and while i publicly said 100, i quietly hoped for way more, way more. then i remembered The Gap and The Gain BOOK by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy. now, full disclosure, i have not read the book. but i do get the concept. and it's a good one. the gap is measuring yourself against the ideal. the finish line that keeps moving. the gain is measuring yourself against where you started. so, let's do this simple exercise for me ⬇️ where i started - 0 responses. 0 partners. a form nobody had seen. where i am today (7 days in): 15 owners who trusted me with their MRR. 3 people who put their name next to mine. and someone donated 5 ☘️s - $25. so, here's the uncomfortable bit... where did 100 come from? i made it up. it's round. it looks good on a cover. if the goal is arbitrary, the gap is arbitrary too. measuring my real 15 against an imaginary 100 and feeling bad about it - that's the gap trap. but i'm not letting myself off the hook either. neither should you. the form closes 15 December. the gap tells me where to go: 85 more. the gain tells me i can get there. so yes, it's a failure.. a good one. and yes, i'm celebrating it. your turn ⬇️ - what did you "fail" at this week? - measured against the gap or the gain? - and where did that goal come from? ps if you run a Skool community and you have not completed the Road to Clover Form yet, the form is here

Sam mentioned new categories some time in spring. and.... drumroll, they are here. here are new categories - a lot of them (see the first screenshot). which is good. i am sure they will talk about it in today's Skool News. actions for today: - check your category (go to Settings/ Discovery and then down at the bottom "How discovery works" twister - open it and find out your new category) - check you new ranking on top - mine improved from 887 to -> 111. which is great!! - check out all the categories (on the screenshot below) and if you believe it's wrong, contact support ⬇️ let us know: what's your new category ? is it correct/better/worse than before? NB! if you have GB off, this is not relevant for ya, because you are not showing in search and discovery.

Thank you so much, @Lidia Axe 🧡, for the $25 Amazon gift card from the Community Clinic drawing! I've finally turned it into homework: 📘 Superfans – Pat Flynn 📗 Build Your Community – Richard Millington One is about turning followers into real fans. The other is about keeping a community buzzing once people are in. That feels like exactly the right combo for where ling.academy is right now. Fair warning: my track record of finishing books is… let's call it "ambitious." So if you see me around here in two weeks, ask me what chapter I'm on. Public accountability, community-style. 😄 Anyone read these? Spoilers welcome.