Tonight I listened to where Russell shares the framework from origin story to addressing the internal and external false beliefs, to stacking and close to appealing to both emotional and logical personalities. Now I'm aware of how often this framework is used online and thinking how I can use this framework in attracting the right people online to engage with me offline and how I can effectively use this framework. I already picked up using trial closes. I need to make my origin story more compelling. Can we get coached on that as a member of this group?

I saw a quote Alex Hormozi shared a while back that stuck with me. It's short so I'll paste it here: "Imagine you're talking to god about the person you want to become... - You say "I want to be courageous." + God replies "Then I will give you monsters to terrify you. That way you can conquer them." - You say "I want to be patient." + God replies "Then I will make you work harder and longer. That way you can learn to wait." - You say "I want to be wise." + God replies "Then I will give you failures that will crush your spirit. That way you can learn the value of judgment." - You then say... "That sounds like a hard life. Can you give me a good life?" + God replies "Just like we measure the quality of a blacksmith by the strength of his steel, I measure you by what you are at the end, not the fire and the hammer it took to make you. A good life isn't an easy life. A good life makes you into a good person. And that, my child, is a hard life." I was listening to The Gap and The Gain by Benjamin Hardy when this came back to me. Because so many of us measure our lives in the gap. How far we are from our ideals. How much we still lack. How imperfect we feel. But that’s not how progress works. As we look back on 2025.. the better question isn’t how short we fell. It’s how far we’ve come from where we started. The fears you face now are forming the courage you asked for. The waiting you’re doing fuels patience you wanted. The failures you’re carrying are creating wisdom being forged. The fire you're feeling is a gift. And when you measure your life that way.. you might realize it’s been good all along. 🚀 - James