End of March. For most UK businesses, that means one thing: New (tax/business) year. Not January. Now. You get a second shot. Most people set goals in January. Start strong. Good intentions. Then reality hits: → Around 80–90% have already dropped those goals by now → Most couldn’t even tell you what they wrote down So here’s the real question: What are you actually going to do differently this time? Because nothing changes unless you do. Clarity. Expectation. Plan. ...That’s what moves things forward. I work on 3-year maps. But it always starts the same way: 90 days: Focused. Intentional. No drift. So as we move into April… What are you committing to? What have you been putting off? What have you been avoiding that you know needs to start today? Procrastination is the mother of failure: - Not lack of knowledge. - Not lack of opportunity. Delay. If you’re serious about changing your trajectory, this is your moment. Not next week. Not next month. Now.

@Mike Greene brought huge energy to the room at the dinner last night with the fireside chat with Kevin Byrne, founder of Checkertrade and it was a lovely evening with Growth Syndicate members @Betsy Wong and @Kate Ashley-Norman The takeaways I gained were inspiring, snapshot were: 1. You don’t always need an investor that once scaled lose enormous equity, and can lead to “discussions’. 2. You can love your passions (oh there’s another carp!) those in the room will know. 3. You can have faith and carry it with you. 4. Helping community can affect positively and be very humbling to help others. 5. You can have the energy and passion to go again (Kevs trades) Thanks to all for a great evening, with no call this morning headed outside and in reading Mike’s book, relearnt the transition maps, it is not about the start, it is about where you end up which was really powerful 👊

Then who you spend time with matters. ...A lot. Let’s be clear. The core of working with me isn’t the rooms. It’s the work. → Fixing what’s broken → Scaling what works → Getting you back in control of your business → And more importantly… your life That’s the cake. That’s what delivers the results. But there’s something else. And it matters more than most people realise. The icing. The access. Because when you step into this environment… You don’t just get mentoring. You get proximity. To people operating at levels most only read about. In the coming weeks alone (my 1-2-1 mentees and partners get): → Private access in Newmarket with elite operators and trainers and some of teh wealthiest studs on the planet (thanks to Michael O'Hagon) → A closed-door (private only to my group) lunch at the House of Lords, hosted by the Rt Hon Lord Stewart Jackson → Small, trusted environments with serious business owners Millionaires. Decamillionaires. Centimillionaires. Not on stage. Across the table. And here’s where it gets powerful. You don’t just meet them. You build relationships. You hear, first-hand, how they’ve: → Solved the problems you’re still facing → Navigated the challenges you’re currently in → Made decisions at a level you haven’t yet experienced That’s not theory. That’s proximity. And proximity… Changes standards. Changes thinking. Changes outcomes. You can’t access that through content. You can’t access that through courses. You access it through people. And through trust. So yes… We’ll grow your business. We’ll get you back in control. But you’ll also start sitting in rooms… That change how you see everything. That part? Hard to quantify. Impossible to ignore.

Simple as that. The single biggest shift that took me from: → Homeless → Bankrupt → Delivering pizzas To: → Working with global oil companies → Building an international consultancy → Becoming a millionaire within a few years Was this: I read. A lot. Not for entertainment. For education. For perspective. For answers from people who had already done what I was trying to do. Books gave me access to: → Mentors I’d never meet → Lessons I hadn’t lived yet → Mistakes I didn’t have to make myself That’s why, every week inside The Growth Syndicate, we share a book review. Not just: → “Here’s a book” But: → Why it matters → What you should take from it → How it applies in today’s world → What it helps you fix, build, or overcome This week: Buy Back Your Time Most business owners focus on growth: More sales. More revenue. More opportunity. ...And they should. But there’s one thing they ignore. Time. You can always make more money. You can never make more time. Every minute you waste… Is gone. Forever. This book hits that hard. It shows you why most founders become the bottleneck in their own business… And how to fix it. Because the real shift isn’t: “How do I grow?” It’s: “How do I get my time back so I can grow properly?” Nothing is more important than: → How you use your time → Who you spend it with → The value you attach to it So the question is: Are you a reader? A leader? Or a spectator in your own future? If you’re not reading… You’re relying on trial and error. And that’s the slowest, most expensive way to grow. Want the full review and key takeaways? click the link and read the review/lessons and dozens of other great book reviews... ...your future self will thank you https://www.skool.com/thegrowthsyndicate/classroom/84055912?md=c7f4c903bfa74985b9ca67b85dec0f6f

In a world full of distraction, noise, and constant tech pulling at your attention, most people don’t need more input. They need less. Not another app, not another system, not another “life hack.” Just a few simple disciplines that cut through the chaos and bring you back to clarity. Here are 3 habits worth adopting: First, to quieten the noise, walk. Not exercise. Not with a podcast. Not scrolling or taking calls. Just walk. Every day, for at least 30 minutes. There’s a natural rhythm to walking that brings the brain back into balance. Left, right, left, right. It synchronises in a way that sitting and trying to “think harder” never will. There’s a reason so many of history’s greatest thinkers did their best work on their feet. Second, to sharpen your focus, write by hand. Not your to do list. Not your business plan. A separate notebook. Every morning, before you open any device, write one page. It doesn’t matter what comes out. Stream of consciousness is fine. The power is in the process. Writing by hand slows the mind down and forces it to choose words rather than spray them. The clarity you’re looking for sits in that small gap between thinking and writing. Third, to separate your signal from society’s noise, ask yourself one simple question whenever you feel overwhelmed. “Is this mine?” Most of what you’re carrying isn’t. The pressure, the comparison, the sense that you should be further ahead by now. It’s absorbed. From social media, from other people, from a world that never switches off. The moment you recognise that, it starts to loosen its grip. Try this for seven days. No complexity. No overthinking. Just walk, write, and question what you’re carrying. You might find the clarity you’ve been chasing was never that far away.