Hi all, my publisher is asking for my audience to vote for their favorite book covers. It's an easy press of the button using the stars. The more stars, the more you like the cover. Thanks in advance for the assist. The link to vote is below. (I can't believe I'm at the book cover stage) https://99designs.com/book-cover-design/contests/cover-contest-mind-gap-guaranteed-winner-1355473/poll/5dac1bbc16/vote?utm_source=voting_app&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=voting

Expressing gratitude for this group. It’s a privilege to be in the company of people who are at successful stages and keen to grow and evolve. I’m still at the baby biz stage, so it’s pretty cool to hear you guys quote gastronomical prices for your work and worth. I know I’ll get there one day because of it. Yesterday on the call, I shared something about belief. Earlier in the week, I was paid for three days’ work, but when I received the money, I felt depressed because it didn’t seem like enough. I therefore tied it to feelings of failure, low self-worth, and a sense of inferior value. To reframe it, however, I proposed an amount I had never proposed before for a service I uniquely specialise in. And it’s the start of building my long-term, future-self offer and vision. So that’s cool. After our Friday call, I decided to go for it and win the day by sending another quote for a follow-up service to the same client. I quoted a price and package I’d never done before, so that felt good, too. However, when I left the office, I received some information about that project. I was offering writing services (website copy) for an art gallery that was launching an exhibition. The artist sent me the catalogue, and my jaw dropped at the listed prices for their work, as it meant I could have charged much more for the value I was giving the gallery. The past version of me at the start of the week would have felt a bit depressed and maybe berated myself a bit upon receiving this news. The new one, funnily enough, just laughed it out loud at myself and shook it off instantly. Because I know it’s the start of a long road and I’m building something unique to me and my skills. The irony is that my own artworks command similar and greater prices, but I’ve been so out of that loop of selling my work on the art market that I’d completely forgotten that aspect of it. Something to raise my floor on! Nonetheless, grateful to be here.

Thank you all for joining the first AI session today. I really enjoyed it, and you brought great energy. I have attached two things here in the community: the PDF of the presentation, and the one page Content Engine cheat sheet with the exact prompts. Keep the cheat sheet handy. You can run the same four steps, Capture, Voice, Create, and Multiply, on any idea, any time. As Ben Hardy says, it is Who Not How. Claude co-work is your Who. Let it do the heavy lifting while you stay the voice and the judge. Your homework before our next session on July 10: publish one piece of content. Just one. Tag me when you do and I will come cheer you on. If you would like this built around your business, with your voice trained in and running every week, my contact info is on the last slide. Always happy to do a quick mapping call. Thanks again, and have fun with it. Kuldeep Cheat sheet link -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dqHbwliL8cQg2q9x-sGqQqYWelqdtFSXDK8ABUyVr2s/edit?usp=sharing

I received this email today and I wanted to share. The author is an aromatherapist and this is a marketing email, but I thought it to be so rich in insight. "My 20-minute drive into town has become one of my teachers. I watch how people move on the road. The impatient ones pressing forward before there's room. The cars riding side by side, unaware they've created a wall behind them. Then, every so often, someone shifts lanes, just enough to make space. And suddenly, everything begins moving again. It seems a bit mundane, but it offers a simple doorway into some deeper insights. Where in our own lives are we holding position without realizing it? Where are we so focused on our own pace that we unintentionally make it harder for someone else to move forward? And where could one small adjustment create ease? Creating space can look like listening longer. Softening our grip. Letting someone grow without needing to manage what that growth looks like. Noticing when we're tightening around our own place, and choosing to make room instead. When we allow more space within ourselves, it becomes easier to offer it to others. And from that place, we can support, encourage, and genuinely want to see one another move forward."

During the call last week, I shared how before creating my To Do list for the next day, I first make a Done list for the current day. I do this at the end of each day, it is non-negotiable. If I don't, I will find myself mentally creating a list, which reminds me to go write it down before going to bed. I've attached a week's worth as an example. I started it as a way to stay focused, (Focus is my word for this year) and to track what was completed to facilitate invoicing, but have noticed other benefits. The biggest one is that it brings me back to the Gain. Writing out my Done list each day carves out time to reflect on the Gain. Reviewing the lists each Friday before planning the next week puts me in a Gain frame of mind. Even when I don't complete much of my To Do list, comparing it to the Done list give insights that have helped me improve my focus. A common mistake is writing a multi-day project as if it is a task. I have gotten better at making sure I only write tasks in my daily To Do list. When I only accomplish part of the task, I include the actual task completed in my Done list. Another insight is that I need to under schedule my days if I want to have any hope of completing the list, because stuff always comes up. That is why the Done list often includes items that were not on the prior To Do list. Priorities will change throughout the day, but the top priority is least likely to change. Do it first. Staying focused is easier with shorter lists, 3 items is best but hard to do. More than that is OK if they are small, but then I need to prioritize them so that I stay focused. Otherwise I find myself switching back and forth every time I get distracted.