I was sitting in the shop getting my daughter’s hair done. Laptop open. Finishing touches on our sabbatical plan. Thirty days. Again. Nigeria. Ghana. The Philippines. Bali. Dubai. Bangkok. Thailand. Family fun. Rest. God. Dreaming. This is our third one. And I’m excited. But here’s what I told my husband recently. The weeks leading up to a sabbatical? I work like a mad woman. Not because the business needs it. Not because clients demand it. But because somewhere deep down… I don’t always feel like I deserve this much time off. Corporate taught me that rest has to be earned. That joy must be justified. That abundance should be balanced with exhaustion. So even as an entrepreneur with freedom, I found myself recreating the same trap. Overworking. Overproving. Overexplaining. Just in case God changed His mind about blessing me. And that’s when it hit me. Rest isn’t a reward. It’s a responsibility. If I say I believe in freedom, but only feel safe resting after punishment-level productivity… then I’m still operating from corporate conditioning. My daughter doesn’t need a mom who “earned” joy. She needs a mom who models it. My husband doesn’t need a wife who burns herself out first. He needs a partner who trusts what we’ve built. And my clients don’t need another exhausted expert. They need proof that alignment actually works. So this sabbatical isn’t just about travel. It’s about unlearning the lie that rest requires permission. Clarity doesn’t come from grind. It comes from trust. Justin-Welsh-style punchline: You don’t earn rest. You practice it. P.S. If you want help landing rich clients using your authentic voice, go to landbigclients.com. It’s just $97 until further notice.

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#longpost Most entrepreneurs get this one thing wrong… And I want to break it down so no one else quits too soon. (Experts shouldd save and share this post) I was speaking with a brilliant entrepreneur. She’s talented. Knows her stuff. Great at what she does. But she wasn’t getting the sales she wanted. She said, “If I’m so good at what I do, I’d have more sales.” I stopped her right there and said: Sales is a different skill set. Being good at what you do and being good at selling what you do are two completely different things. Let me make this plain: 👉🏽If you’re good at marketing, you’ll get attention. People will know about your business, they’ll engage with it. 👉🏽If you’re good at sales, you’ll convert that attention into actual revenue. 👉🏽If you’re good at delivering on your offer (that’s operations), you’ll get repeat customers and glowing reviews. 👉🏽If you’re good at community, you’ll turn your audience into brand ambassadors. They’ll talk about your work even when you’re not in the room. These are all different skills. But the beautiful part? They’re all learnable. You can develop each one with the right strategy and the right plan. What breaks my heart is seeing entrepreneurs beat themselves up and quit too soon. They think: “I must not be good enough because I’m not making sales.” Wrong. Your sales may be lacking, but your skill isn’t. You just haven’t built the right strategy around it. Here’s how this works: For each area—sales, marketing, operations, and community—you need a strategy. That’s your high-level game plan. Then you need an implementation plan—what you’ll actually do every day, week, and month to grow. That’s what we call activity goals. Not to be confused with revenue goals. 👉🏽Revenue goal: I want to make $10 million this year. 👉🏽Activity goal: I will pitch 10 people per day. Revenue goals are exciting, but activity goals are what actually get you there. They’re granular. They’re within your control. And they make or break your progress.

I was reading through the Ten Commandments—just spending time with the Lord—and one line stopped me in my tracks: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Exodus 20:17 It hit different today. Because as I read that, God showed me something so many entrepreneurs (myself included) struggle with… We would be happier, more fulfilled, and further along if we just kept our eyes on our own paper. Back Then: The Israelites Were Free—But Still Looking Sideways God had just delivered them from Egypt with miracle after miracle. They saw plagues fall, seas split, and manna fall from heaven. And still… they wanted what others had: - A king, like other nations (1 Samuel 8:5) - Idols, like Egypt’s gods (Exodus 32) - Control, even if it meant returning to slavery (Numbers 14:4) Their desires weren’t pure. They were shaped by what they saw around them—not what God spoke to them. That Made Me Think About Us—Entrepreneurs. How many of us are chasing things not because we want them—but because we see them? - That launch style… - That income goal… - That offer or funnel… One of the first successful businesses that I started was my law firm, Mobile General Counsel. Initially, we sold trademarks for $2,000 because that’s what I saw every other lawyer doing and it looked like they were successful. I had no clue whether they were making money or not. I had no clue whether they were happy or not. And I had no clue what their profit margins were. But it looked good on Instagram, so I did it—and my profits suffered. It wasn’t until I started realizing that what made me unique was all of the experiences that God allowed me to have. This realization allowed me to show up in my authenticity. What makes you different isn’t what you sell. It’s the experiences that you bring to what you sell. It’s your ability to know who you are, and more importantly, whose you are.

I’m trying to hone in my specific message so I know who I’m pitching to and hit their pain points effectively. Because I’m leaning more towards financial literacy, credit and funding for building generational wealth in the Christian household (but teaching and targeting wives and stay at home mothers), I don’t know which platform to pitch to… I’m guessing speaking engagements and conferences. But my question is, what are your thoughts on how to effectively utilize an ebook? Should it be a low cost lead magnet? Free resource (but I am of the mindset when it’s free, people stay sleep, when they pay, they pay attention so I’m not a fan of free)? Should I just be teaching the ebook content through my social channels and in my frameworks? Just trying to make sense of what I already have and how best to use it.