I’ve got some data to share, and it’s a bit of a reality check. We’ve had 62 people leave the community recently. 10 this week alone. And quite a few of those were people I really thought we were getting along with... I'm trying not to take it personally (despite those childhood abandonment issues!), but it’s clear there’s a mismatch between what some expected and what they received. I don’t want you slipping out the back door without saying goodbye. I want to fix this. My goal is either to give you more of what you actually want or to adjust our "offer" so expectations match reality. I’m reaching out to those who left for feedback, but 𝗜'𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. - What are we missing? - What would make this the most valuable community you're in? - Too many personal posts & sillyness? - Not enough classrooms / training? - Are you getting harrased by people pretending to be me or other people in the DM'S - Have we upset anyone? - Is there too much talk and not enough action? Or is this all just a normal for a community at this stage? I really don't know - but I'd love to actually provide what people want! 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 & 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿! PS - Don't be afraid to be honest, I LOVE feedback, good or "bad" (You learn a lot more from this). You won't upset me, I'm a big boy! 😁

I'm on Substack! It's a bit lonely out there all by myself... I'm looking for some people to follow. Drop your Substack link below if you have one so we can follow each other. If you're not on there yet then come along and get some free excerpts from my new book How to Start a Business with No Money, and hear more from me outside of Skool. 😁 👉 Follow me here

Do we arrived back just after midnight last night, and our 18yr old had decided to lock us out of all four doors and was not answering his phone or the doorbell ringing... Ot me shouting up into his open bedroom window. Eventually when we do get in we are welcomed with the delightful aroma of cat deposits and a few wet patches on the carpets along with teenager dishes and empty cat food tins piled high in the sink which I clear this morning before the cleaner arrives (but then they didn't). But it's law to clean the house before the cleaner arrives apparently. This afternoon that I was just walking through the hallway whilst looking up at my son who was walking down the stairs and I didn't see where I was going and I accidentally stepped on a bundle of kittens, then mum angriiy attached herself to my leg and starting hissing and clawing me frantically... 🙀 Luckily for me, I had jeans on but one claw was stuck in the back of my leg. I felt so bad, but Yuki and her kittens are all checked over, happy and fine and manma has now forgiven me...😻 I also have an intention to prosecute for speeding on my desk to sort out amongst a load of other really not fun paperwork. And now my laptop has decided to do this, it's frozen and I have calls to make on it... 😞 I'm gonna go to work and make a wooden sign, and come back with a more positive mindset... Urgh. 😖 Mondays ..! (I usually love them!) Welcome back Adam! 😂 Hopefully your start of the week is a lot more productive than mine today, but however, your Monday is going, if yours is not going so well then maybe seeing this will make you feel a little better knowing that in other people's gardens it's not always a bed of perfect roses!

Here's another example of how easy it is to make money without even making anything. Last year just while I was learning the ropes of skool, I invited a few of my friends to come inside my first digital marketing friend's brand new community I was active in, Revenue Revolution. I was never even trying to make money from anyone, I literally just said come along for the fun, this is where the party's at right now. 😍 A few months later she started adding mini courses, on how to make money without showing your face online. Just three of those people decided to buy some courses and things, so when I just clicked the link to invite someone else Skool now shows how many people have bought things and how much you've made. I was pleasantly surprised. 😁 The best bit, I didn't have to create, make, send it do anything, apart from just nmbe my usual social butterfly. I wouldn't rely on it as a business model, but for some side hustle money it's very welcome. It could be a perfect strategy for funding your startup if you are time rich and cash poor. If you have the attention of a large audience, however, then just recommending one thing you believe in can make you thousands, but that's a post for another day. Join Revenue Revolution

Because I’ve got ADHD, my default setting is scattered chaos. I’ve got thousands of new ideas New projects? I want to start all of them, and right NOW! New opportunities? I was already halfway in before I’d finished the last thing. And that’s exactly why I HAD TO MAKE A RULE: I’m only allowed to focus on ONE NEW THINg at a time… and I have to COMMIT to it for a full 90 days. No quitting early. No “this isn’t working.” No jumping ship because something shinier came along. I can tweak. I can improve. I can pivot slightly. But I cannot give up. Why 90 days? Because most things don’t fail… they just don’t get enough time and commitment. This is especially true with anything driven by algorithms, such as social media, Etsy, Amazon, digital sales, content, whatever. These platforms reward consistency, not bursts of enthusiasm. It's like going to the gym. You get far better results scheduling your gym days, and turning up and doing your thing consistently. 💪 In a year you'll see much better results than if you'd gone all in for two weeks then gave up. You don’t get results because you tried once. You get results because you didn’t stop. I’ve seen this play out more times than I can count, in areas that I know would have succeeded. When we first started selling toys online, we got traction pretty quickly. Nothing crazy, but enough to know it worked. My brother-in-law Jamie saw what we were doing… and copied it almost exactly. Same idea. Same products. Same e-commerce platform. Same time. Same opportunity... Fast forward 20 years: We went on to open toy shops. He’s still a bus driver. The ONLY difference ...? He gave up too early. 😖 Same story again… I’ve got a colleague, Barry who makes very similar wooden products to us. I told him years ago to get onto Amazon Handmade. We were doing it. It worked. I sat down and spent an entire day showing him exactly how we do it. Getting his store set up, how the images should be, how to optimise the listings, how to research the right keywords, everything he needed to know to succeed.