https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcyitDGRVla/?stkn=MWdrNXBmZXExeHp0aQ%3D%3D&wa_status_inline=true Having been through more life challenges than I care to mention, I shared this with Mike and he suggested I post this, possibly for inspiration! What life and business challenges have you overcome? Mine were centred around overcoming adversity and beginning to rise again from nothing, and please believe me when I say it was the toughest period of my life. Please 🙏 do share and more importantly what you did to overcome your situation?

From Birth to death You've got about 4,000 weeks.... How many have you got left and How are you going to use them? I worked out how many I'd already spent. I wish I hadn't. That's the premise of this week's book review: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It is an anti-productivity book, and it will annoy anyone who has built their life on output. Which is most of us. Three things in it that stopped me: There is no bottom to the inbox. Clear things faster and more arrives. Build capacity and demand fills it. The reward for keeping up is more to keep up with. That "one big push and I'll finally be on top of it" weekend you keep planning? It does not exist in nature. Everyone settles. The only question is whether you settled on purpose or by drift. Decide what you are deliberately going to fail at, and write it down. A priority you have not protected isn't one. Stay on the bus. Every bus out of Helsinki shares the same first few stops. Get off because your work looks derivative, start again on a different route, and you'll spend your life at the station. Mastery lives past the boring stops. Almost nothing compounds inside eighteen months. I retired at 46. Within what felt like a fortnight every one of those freed-up weeks had quietly refilled. In the review I'm honest about why, and about which years of my life were actually the worst ones. They were not the years I was sofa-surfing and delivering pizzas. Full review is in the classroom, all 14 lessons plus my take 👇 Then do the maths on your own weeks, and look at next week's diary and ask whether it deserves them. https://www.skool.com/theboard/classroom/84055912?md=2b53984e82c74472a92fd3a6592cd8f6

Most business owners don’t need another strategy day. They already know much of what needs to change. The problem is that Monday morning arrives. A customer complains. Someone resigns. Cash gets tight. Something urgent lands on the desk... and the important work gets pushed back another week. That’s how a good plan slowly becomes expensive wallpaper. Real progress comes from having people around you who will ask the questions others avoid: Did you do what you said you would do? If not, what genuinely stopped you? Are you fixing the real problem... or the easiest one? Are you keeping the wrong person because the conversation is uncomfortable? Are you still doing work you should have handed over a year ago? A plan gives you direction. Accountability makes sure you actually move. Because businesses rarely stay stuck through a lack of ideas. They stay stuck because the same problems, distractions and habits keep winning. What if you had somewhere to work through those decisions every week, with people who understand exactly what’s at stake?

By the time most read this, it will be Sunday and four WEEKS away from the Peterborough Half Marathon for Little Miracles charity. A number of the community are joining running / walking their own race, joining me in my endeavours as I will be pushing in my wheelchair ♿️ I am aiming to raise £2,000 and the team can join me, I refer to the previous post (named Sunday 11th Oct) where you can sign up and then donate under a team page https://www.justgiving.com/team/scottlittlemiracles So far @Dr Mike Greene DL @Betsy Wong @Godfrey Muneri @Debbie Dorans and now @Sam Davis @Daron Harvey are saying confirmed (but need sign up and confirmation) 👍 and some have already have donated - thank you 🙏 but I not only want to reach target 🎯 I want to surpass it. Therefore, I am reaching out, and asking for your help in whatever shape that is. Today a mate of mine donated and had a garage sale and £137 donated. Every £ counts to this disabled children’s charity that supports life limiting conditions, so please 🙏 do all you can! The time is now for those that said they were doing it to sign up and please more importantly start pushing the word out on your socials with the link above ⬆️ to raise as much as we can…. A few weeks have gone past in the blink of an eye, and I now humbly ask those who said they were getting behind this to step forward please 🙏 As we are only four weeks away! For those not joining us on the day, a donation to this charity would be amazing! (Otherwise I will send Mike Greene round! Hahahaha) The time is now guys and I would love ❤️ your support, and please confirm below I’m in! so I know team members for the day! Thank you 🙏 this means the world to me.

Would you grow it faster? Spend more time with your best customers? Develop the people around you? Take two weeks off and actually switch off? Or would you simply enjoy running it again? My life changed when I finally built a business that didn’t need me every minute. It allowed me to spend six weeks at sea and a month climbing mountains without any contact. But the real benefit wasn’t the adventure. It was the respite. I could breathe, regain some perspective and remember that I had a life outside the business. A business that works without you doesn’t mean you disappear. It means you stop spending your days doing work that someone else should own. ...it also exponentially increases the exit value of your business because it proves succession and that you business is dependent on you. Your team knows what is expected. The numbers don’t come as a surprise. People make decisions without checking everything with you, and you have time to think about where the business is going instead of dealing with whatever has gone wrong that morning. That gives you something most business owners don’t have enough of: choice. The choice to grow, create, step back, take time off ...or eventually sell a business that doesn’t need you to come with it. The first step isn’t doing more. It’s identifying where the business depends most heavily on you and fixing that properly. If your business gave you back one day every week, or one week every month, what would you do with it?