On Monday, October 20 at 11am EST (i.e. Toronto time...because I'm terrible with time zones!) I’ll be running the first bi-weekly Office Hours call inside ReadyOpsGo (via Skool Live). These sessions are your chance to: - Bring whatever’s tripping you up in your business operations - Ask questions - Brainstorm next steps together with the group No slides. No fluff. Just real talk and problem-solving. See you then & there...bright eyed & bushy tailed!

If the results are in your data, why make life harder? I was at coffee with two business friends the other day and one of them was alluding how she’s got so many voices and opinions around her… do this, try that. I could be wrong, but I got the sense there was a lot of confusion and angst around it, all leading to decision fatigue. So I literally asked her “What’s working for you?” and her answer was attending in-person events (like markets) since that’s where a larger portion of her sales come from. My response? Do more of that. I suggested she look at the last few years of events and sales (her data set) and figure out which events were the most fruitful. With that info to power her decisions, she can fill up her calendar with more of those events. It’s not sexy looking at data; it’s rinse and repeat, but it works. I get that, especially for creatives like this friend, rinse and repeat feels boring. But you can save yourself a lot of decision fatigue and being pulled in different directions by letting your data make the decision for you. Which in turn frees up more mental bandwidth to do more creative stuff! Here’s my question for you: where in your business could you lean more on what’s already working instead of chasing all the new advice?

This weekend I heard the audiobook "Slow Productivity" by Cal Newport, and there are some great concepts in there that really stuck with me: -Pull-based workflows -Cycles -Company of One I will share more about each concept over the next few days, but I'm just curious - has anyone else read this book?

That’s the punchline from Alex Hormozi’s latest Mozi Minute (newsletter) which really got under my skin. Hormozi explains that the word “priority” literally means the thing that comes first. As in, singular. Not five things. Not three things. One. But most of us? We’ve got lists a mile long. And then we wonder why we feel pulled in ten different directions. ✋guilty as charged He goes on to say that the kicker is: real prioritization hurts. Choosing one thing means saying no to a dozen others. It feels uncomfortable. But that’s the signal you’re finally doing it right. Funny enough, I often say “if you say yes to one thing, you’re saying no to another but reading this newsletter made me realise I am not applying this all the way down into the granular parts of how I work. So, in a nutshell, Hormozi’s point is simple: - Pick the one thing that, if nailed, makes the rest irrelevant. - Go all in. - Forget the rest. And everything else? It’s just distraction dressed up as strategy. ❓So my question is: what’s your one thing right now? ❓ (My sarcastic sense of humor has its own reply, which is: my one thing is this single sheet of paper…the one that has a list of ‘priorities’ on both sides 🤪) My real answer: finishing up my current project (which I’m not loving) but I've had to tell me, myself, and I that I can’t do the other fun things I really want to do until it’s finished.

I’ve shared a few posts this week from Slow Productivity (Cal Newport) and thought I’d close the loop with my own takeaways. The three concepts that stood out for me were: Pull-based workflow - Finish what’s in front of you, then pull the next thing. Work cycles - Work in seasons of focus, then rest before the next one. (This one I’ve tried something similar by doing the 12 Week Year, which I really like, but find it can be hard to stick to it but I would really like to get back to it). Company of One - That bigger is not always better and enough can actually be enough. All three together made me really think a lot about how I could build and run my own projects with less chasing and more intentional choices. Thanks for the conversations this week. I would love to hear if you had one takeaway from these ideas? Which one would fit you best right now?