I am very good at starting businesses, but if I’m completely honest, I initially started most of them very badly. When I launched my first proper graphic design and printing business in the early 90s, I managed to get a loan and immediately blew £1,500 of it on a hot foil printing machine. I wasted months of my life and had many frustrating late nights trying to calibrate the thing, get the print straight, and generally making an absolute mess of the handful of jobs I had actually managed to win. I didn't know what I was doing, and I got it completely wrong. Then one day, I saw an advert for a competitor who could produce a hundred perfect plastic business cards for about £8. That was half the price I was charging, and even cheaper than I could buy the blank card stock for myself. I could have thrown the towel in. Instead, I decided to never turn my machine on again. I used that competitor to make the cards for me, doubled their prices, and suddenly had all my time freed up to actually go out and sell my wares. It was the biggest lesson in leverage I ever learned, and I only learned it because I failed so miserably first. Right now I'm changing my newsletter and blogging platform, because last year I made the wrong choice. But I couldn't possibly have known that at the time, with all the research and overthinking in the world. I only know now, from hindsight, that their are better options. The most important thing is to make a decision and do it. 𝗔 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 if it gets the ball roilling. If you are sitting on a business idea right now because you are trying to make the plan perfect or you are terrified of getting it wrong, let me save you the suspense: you are almost definitely going to get it wrong. And that is exactly how it is supposed to work. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁. You have to get through the messy early days to find your footing. Action is always better than sitting on the fence.

I have a little joke in our house... Whenever I ask what day it is to my wife she says " it's Monday!" and we have a giggle. 😂 It just always seems to be Monday! So we have another glorious week ahead of ourselves to do either do whatever we like or do a little thing towards having a week where we can do whatever we like! But whatever you do, remember this is our one life so whatever you're doing, whoever your with and wherever you are, make the most of it and have fun! What are you going to do this week?

Let's talk about engagement. WOW - You amazing members have achieved the highest engagement I have EVER seen in a skool community. At 95%. I was amazed and waiting for it to go down At 96%. I was grilling from ear to ear and so proud of you At 97% okay, I may be started to check it a little bit more At 98%. I wondered if the thing was completely broken and really tried hard not to become obsessed.. There's a pattern here... Guess what it's on today? 👀 𝟵𝟵 % 😁 Is it just me that feels like such a tease to be 1% away...? Do you think it's even possible..?

...🥁.... For the FABULOUS prize of a 1:1 session with @Adam McCollough is... ...🥁.... The AMAZING and LOVELY 🎉 @Cristal Vancarson 👋😍 So, Congratulations Cristal, I will send you a DM with a booking link. So happy to having more of your energy in my life and it's my turn to give you some value . 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲.... I really appreciate your efforts too @Laura Williams, MBA, Ed.S , so as a runner up I'd like to give you you a PINNED POST about your 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆, 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 Community! for the whole weekend to say thank you. Please go and write a post telling us all about what you do, who you help and why you do it, in our community and I shall pin it to the top of the feed as soon as I see it. 🥰 Remember to include a link so that people can come and join if they want to. Thank you for helping make our community be a fun place to be. Have a super lovely weekend. 😍

Drumroll pleeeease… 🥁🥁🥁 ... 𝗧𝗜𝗠 𝗔𝗗𝗔𝗠!!! 🎉🎉🎉 @Tim Adam, I genuinely don't know how you did it, I knew you were competitive, but you absolutely, completely, and utterly 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁. 88 new people. EIGHTY EIGHT. In one week. That's not just winning a competition, that's basically carrying the whole community on your back and sprinting across the finish line while the rest of us were still tying our shoelaces. 😅 Tim, check your DMs. You've won your choice of a beautiful Wooden Family Tree OR Wooden Record Wall Art handcrafted by Cornish Whispers 🌳🎵 Instructions on how to claim it are heading your way right now. 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗶𝗺, You are an absolute legend and this community is lucky to have you. 🙌 🏅 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 Here's how everyone finished, and honestly, every single person on this list deserves a round of applause: 🥇 @Tim Adam - 88 🥈 @Sydney Nguyen - 66 🥉 @Heather Boers - 21 4th @Rebecca Bautista - 11 5th @Magalie Delisle - 10 6th @Clare Goodall - 9 7th @Jill Hart - 8 8th @Alice Grant - 6 9th @Paulo Costa, The Roaster - 6 10th @Marci Matejcek - 5 👏 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Massive love to everyone else who got involved and brought some lovely new members in 🥰: @Des Dreckett , @Lisa Drennon , @Cody Stace , @Elizabeth Hadzic , @Melissa Boster , @Karin Crawford , @Lion Fludd , @Brian Diep , @Cátia Oliveira , @Jennifer Rassbach , @Manda Jackson, @Michelle Spark , @Pamela Vicik-Smith, and @Tina Alexander - every single referral matters and every single one of you helped contribute and make my dream come alive. Thank you. 🧡