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Honestly i’m hurting! but I’’m driven to succeed!!! Integrity, self-worth, self-preservation and realisation were driving factors, but the highest motivator was saving my Marriage and family unity. I love my wife and my two girls. Hi I’m known as Anton and 48 years young. I’m reinventing myself following a failed business relationship of 15 years September 2024. I own the battle scars of my life, and possess the humility to be coached to success. My greatest weakness is decision making and staying on track. A result of continuous thought bubbles. Systems and step by step playbooks are a great strategy to get back and stay on course. I joined this group to master the DAD principle. Detonate. Automate. Delegate. And I thought Kasim was the type of guy I’d like to get to know. Cheers Anton from Margaret River. PS I look forward to meeting y’all.

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For a long time, I told myself I just needed to be more disciplined. More structure, more focus, more “stick-with-it-ness.” But looking back, that wasn’t the real problem. I was busy, contributing, helping build great things ~ but not always the things that were fully "me." And when the work in front of you isn’t pulling from your real strengths, focus can slip. A lot of entrepreneurs know this feeling. You blame yourself for chasing new ideas or struggling to stay consistent. It feels like a discipline issue, or shiny-object syndrome. But often, the struggle isn’t discipline ~ it’s alignment. And alignment isn’t just about you and what you want personally. It’s also about what the business needs from you right now… and the kind of experience you’re creating for the people you serve. Sometimes the work in front of you isn’t what you love most, but it’s what’s required in the moment. That doesn’t mean you have to do it forever ~ but it does mean you need to decide whether to own it, systemize it, or get it off your plate. (More on this here!) Here are a few questions I ask myself when I feel scattered: - Of all the problems I could solve, which one do I actually care about most? - What does the business actually need from me right now (and do I need to own it, or create a process to get it off my plate)? - Which strengths do I actually want to lean into more? - Does this choice move me closer to the kind of life and business I want ~ and does it create a better experience for the people I serve? When those answers line up, discipline isn’t something you force. Focus becomes a byproduct of alignment. I know for me, the times I’ve felt most scattered weren’t really about discipline at all. It was more about clarity… or even alignment. How about you ~ what do you think is usually at the root when staying focused feels tough? Would love to hear how others here handle it ~ I think we could all benefit from the different perspectives!

Yes, I have 30+ years of experience in the Montessori realm. But that's just the tip of the iceberg and not why I'm here. When my boys were young, I discovered Montessori, through them. I couldn't believe how much they learned through just doing--no teaching, just exploring and finding out what was possible. I HAD to become a teacher--no big family, so I needed more kids in my life. And that only happened because I had amazing family to help me. (If you have family around you, be sure to love on them every minute you can!) Such a gift! I loved teaching--anything--but three and four year olds? That's my passion!! But when we moved to Phoenix, there wasn't a school where I felt good about working. So my husband said, "Then open your own school and do it better." I'd had great mentors, he had a decent job, so what the heck, right? But 5 months after we opened with a mortgage, one employee and 4 students, he lost his job. Major reset. I kept going, got a second job. And learned how to run a company on air and prayer. Technically, I was supposed to be teaching and selling, and my unemployed husband was supposed to run the company--his Harvard MBA was supposed to come in handy! Three years in, he decided that running a school was boring and he "opted out" and told me to run it. I cried. I didn't want to have two jobs (teaching and running the business), but I didn't have a choice. So I dug in and just did it. I learned through the school of hard knocks what worked and what didn't. I followed my instincts to always be transparent and trust that people would want that more than a sugar-coated lie. And it worked. We were successful. That's the first thing I tell new school owners. Share more than you think is wise in the most sincere way possible. Tell them your dreams for the school and let them buy in. Trust is your number one friend in keeping clients. 24 years go by. My now ex-husband wants out. And frankly, I want more free time. Running a school is 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. I have 6 grandkids--and want time with them. I've tried promoting someone from within. I've tried giving the school to another teacher. For 8 years I tried and no one was willing to take it on--I made it look like too much work. In the end, I sold it for the price of the real estate (not shabby, but not what you would hope, right?). And the school closed. The legacy I had created was gone. Wow!