Tomorrow’s RTMG call is about something simple but not easy: honesty. We’re seven weeks from the end of the year. Most of us aren’t lacking commitment to our impossible goal — we’re lacking the honesty to admit where we’ve quietly drifted from it. Tomorrow we fix that. Dwayne shared something with me this week that’s shaping the whole session: the Five Whys. Start with “why am I chasing this impossible goal?” and keep digging. By the end, everyone walks away with one sentence: the one that gets you moving on a good morning, and gets you back up after a bad one. Come ready to be honest with yourself. Slides are attached if you want to prepare. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

Rapid Trans Friends, If you wouldn't mind helping me validate a new lead generation tool for my target audience, I would appreciate your feedback. Go here: Ready for Life Assessment Answer the questions (16 short Qs) For email address use your own, or alternately: [your name]@mystepdad.testinator.com There is an email sequence that comes from this, so you won't see those if you use the mystepdad domain test emails. Note any problems you encounter or improvement suggestions. Thanks in advance. Note: If you use your own email expect about six emails in roughly 10 minutes. Judge the content, not the pace. (I've accelerated their delivery for testing purposes. They will normally fire in 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 days (depending on the results of the assessment).

A Tim Ferriss idea hit differently this week, because it turned out to be about me. Last week I got 30 minutes on a franchise network's morning call. 40 owners on the line. Three of my clients spoke about their agents, and one of them books about 40 appointments a month through hers. Owners who asked for a meeting afterward: one. My best guess at why: owners are buried in the day. The next customer wins, new tech reads as risk, and handing a stressed caller to software feels like giving up control. The bigger lesson was for me. Tim Ferriss recently revisited his D.E.A.L. framework for AI, and his point is that Definition and Elimination come before Automation. I had built a solid agent and skipped that work on my own follow-up. The call ran out of time before my ask, and I had no way to reach the other 39 afterward. Next time the ask goes in before my clients speak, not at the end. Longer version on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7523444698288668672/ Question for the group: when you have pitched a room of busy owners, what got them to take the next step?

Just discovered– through a friend–Elon Musk's simplification/Algorithmic model in real time (and space): his Raptor rocket engine/booster. 🚀 🤯

For more than two decades, I've prepared tax returns and managed investments for many of the same families. The people who had done everything right kept describing the same feeling: "I know I should feel okay. I don't." The gap was almost always structural. Their investments and their taxes were being treated as two separate problems instead of one. That observation became my book, The Tax-Smart Retirement Paycheck. It lays out a three-stage income framework that separates near-term income from market swings and accounts for taxes from the first dollar. For two days only, the Kindle edition is 99¢. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHF33FL