To all of you fellow men that are lucky enough to be fathers, I hope you are being thoroughly spoiled by your family or children today. I was woken up this morning with a delicious surpruse breakfast of smoked salmod, avocado and poached egg on toast with a cup of tea. It was much tastier than my attempt of the same on Mothers day where the toast literally caught fire 🍞🔥. I'm so lucky to be married to an ex-chef. It was perfection. 😋 Then, after I had finished my 18yo son walk into my room with a little plate he had made with some home made dark chocolates with strawberrys. It also had a glass of orange juice in the middle. My youngest daughters at a sleepover but I know when I pick her up later I'll get lots of cuddles too. What more does a Dad need? Hope you all have a great day!

Just a quick one... I just had to share how cool this is! 🤯 If you've ever wished you could batch and schedule your posts in Skool to get your time back... you finally can! Our Resident Expert @Marco Berlin just dropped this inside his Skool Extensions. It’s a Premium feature for $47/mo, and if you're time-poor, it's an absolute game-changer. You don't just get post scheduling (set it and forget it 📅), but it also gives you a full Sales Pipeline, CRM profiles, member tags, and workflow automations. Basically, it does the heavy lifting so you can get your life back, track who is actually ready to buy, and focus on building real relationships without the daily manual grind. Quick poll for you all... 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹?

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.

Starting a new phase of life is always a challenge. Sometimes starting a business is overwhelming enough. I would like to throw out a short impulse here ... Instead of paying direct attention to money or a certain number of customers, it is initially the e̲n̲e̲r̲g̲y̲ that decides. Only this will get us through the many challenges in the long term. And the easiest way to maintain this energy is to build real m̲o̲m̲e̲n̲t̲u̲m̲. Keep having fun and constant development without losing focus 🚀 Rate your current energy level and tell us how you build up your momentum 👇🏼

My son just showed me this on his phone a few minutes ago and so I had to share it with you, since I know a lot of us are heavy users of AI to help us in our businesses. This is a very obvious error, but it is so CONFIDENTLY wrong so often, that such errors and mistakes are not always so clear. This problem will only get worse since people are using AI to write entire blogs and articles, (without manual input or review in some cases) which will also contain incorrect data and facts, that is then used as a source by AI and so the inaccuracies can compound. Remember, it's just a tool. But a quirky tool that is often wrong. Please always review and question AI output. Especially when brainstorming critical business or life changing decisions.