Thanks to @Heather Wilson and her team, there's also something to learn about from the Skool community. Check out this week's events in communities around Skool. I'm working on our Q4 calendar this week and I hope you like what I have planned. For now, check out these events and more: Coffee, Chat & Collab is back, and this time you’re invited to bring ONE thing you need help with a problem, question, idea or something you’re stuck on and see what answers, connections and support are waiting in the room. If you run events yourself, you’ll also find 10 Things to Decide Before You Create Your Next Event — definitely worth a read before you announce your next “brilliant idea” and then wonder what on earth you’ve let yourself in for. 😂 And, of course, there are so many events to discover and pop into your calendar. We’re incredibly lucky to have so many gifted and talented people sharing what they know, creating spaces to connect and helping others learn, grow and shine. Have a look through this week’s edition and see what catches your eye. ❤️ And apparently there might be a rather big surprise coming from Skool Events Daily next week… 👀 Enjoy! Just click on the PDF then Click on Skool Events Daily Logo and you will find our latest edition.

Here’s one to get your creativity flowing as we head into the weekend. The conference has been eye opening and I’m ready for home but not quite yet. See what you can create this weekend. We all know that rooms have rules.Floors go on the bottom. Doors belong in walls. Beds don’t usually hang from ceilings. What other rules do rooms have? Today, one of those rules has to go. Your goal is to ask yourself what kind of room could I build if something about it were completely impossible? Gather Your Gear: Pick Your Building World Use a building system you already enjoy. This could be blocks, LEGO, or other building bricks. Maybe it’s magnetic tiles or dollhouse pieces. Think about toys, cardboard, paper, clay, or other craft supplies. Of course you can mix completely different things together. Your room can fill a tabletop, fit on a tray or exist on a single piece of paper with a few objects added on top. There is no special supply list. Build with your world, your way. Steps 1. Break one rule. Decide what’s impossible about your room. Maybe gravity goes sideways. Furniture belongs on the ceiling. The door is underneath the bed. Everything is tiny except one enormous chair. Or invent a rule nobody else would think of. 2. Start building. Don’t worry about making a perfect miniature room. Build enough of your impossible world to start seeing the idea come alive. 3. Make the impossible obvious. Add, move, flip or rearrange things until your broken rule becomes part of the room. Change your mind whenever you want. 4. Somebody has to live here. Add a toy, figure, imaginary creature, finger character or simply pretend someone has arrived. Now play. Move through the room, use the strange furniture, climb the walls or discover what it’s like to live where your rule is normal. 5. Mess with the world. Turn the whole room around. Move the furniture. Add another character. Change something while someone else is playing. Or leave your impossible world exactly as it is and come back to it later.

When I get bored, watch out. You never know what I’ll come up with. I’m sitting in the airport, people watching and waiting for my flight and started thinking how could I combine some of the odds and ends in the airport into something fun. I’m flying solo for work but many times I had youngsters to entertain. Take a peek at today’s build and let me know if you try. Here’s the best part, you don’t need a kid for this one. Some problems need brilliant inventions. Other problems probably shouldn’t be problems at all. What could you invent to keep stuffed animals entertained? Detect nearby bananas? Translate what the cat is complaining about? Find a ridiculous problem and build an equally ridiculous solution. Gather Your Gear: Raid the Parts Department Don’t make a shopping list. Go hunting. Check the recycling bin, craft supplies, junk drawer or wherever interesting odds and ends collect. Each inventor can grab 3–5 things that make them wonder, “What could I do with this?” Keep tape, string or other ways to connect things nearby if you want them. Then bring your strange assortment back to the invention table. Steps 1. Find a problem worth not solving. Maybe socks need bedtime stories. Maybe the couch needs protection from invisible elephants. Invent a ridiculous problem of your own. 2. Imagine an impossible solution. Look at the pieces you gathered. Turn them around. Put them together. Steal an idea from one person and mix it with another. There is no need to know exactly what you’re making before you start. 3. Build your invention. Connect things, stack them, arrange them or hold them together while you try out ideas. It can be tiny, strange, unfinished-looking or completely baffling to everyone else. 4. Put it to work. Pretend to use your invention. Push imaginary buttons. Make the noises yourself. Have another person operate part of it. Discover what happens when your invention meets the ridiculous problem it was made to solve. 5. Keep playing. Your invention might solve another problem, develop a strange side effect or inspire somebody else’s invention. Follow the fun rather than worrying about finishing it.

Here’s another great idea I’ve borrowed. Using only three gifs, tell us about your weekend using zero words. The Good — the best thing that happened this week. The Bad — the thing that didn't go to plan. The Ugly — the moment you'd rather forget ever happened. Drop all three in the comments. Try and guess what someone else did. Use this with the kids in your life, instead of gifs, have them act it out. Start with just one theme and as appropriate, add others.

I’m still moving kind of slow over here and trying to just make it through these 100F days here in Nashville. I will return to regularly scheduled activities soon. While we wait, here are two favorites #Day 3: Magic Oobleck and #Ice Cream Magic