Should the popup on Finance your Freedom really say the 'Business Idea Acid Test'?? Haha. Outsourcing gone wrong or new BILT title??

Scott

If there's anything that software and info complexity has taught us about life, it's life happens, things change, and agility is king.

I live in Charleston, SC. You can find my email on my blog if you would like to ask me any questions about the area.

Cheers…

he passed away early this morning. (bipolar related)

before he passed, he feels he was inspired with something very significant for coaches, on how to meet new clients. He called it ‘a breakthrough moment’. It’s when you meet someone the first time, you immediately do a quick coaching exercise to give them an epiphany. Maybe something to demonstrate ‘it’s only when you believe that you can achieve’. Then you hand them a business card which is printed on the back offering a free consultation. Anyway, he explains it in his last video. It seems very much like a Mike Litman style thing. I’m calling the technique “Darwin’s Breakthrough”.

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-Brent

Enjoy hearing what's going on with you and looking forward to the future.

Anyway, cheers to finding a locale that suits your needs and feels like home.

On a related note note – you said you were looking for someone with elevator pitch skillz in a recent tweet… I think you don't want to pay someone else to develop your elevator pitch. To me, it should be a natural extension (or contraction as is probably a more appropriate term) of your exec summary or even your business plan as a whole. I can't imagine you would ever want someone else doing that for you.

Good luck

I have to admit, though, when I read the bit about your move to “a place that [you] can't envision leaving,” I was (unreasonably) excited for you. I love that kinda stuff. Hooray for finding what feels right!

1. Kudos and thank you on the system creation thing. One thing I have had to (reluctantly) admit to myself about my business life is that I lack systems for performing the work I do, even though I do the same kinds of tasks over and over again (like most of us). The thing that's significant here is that I am NOT in your position of hiring people and having to create systems so they'll know how to do their jobs. We ALL need systems in place to be able to do our jobs efficiently, and this post reminded me that I need to keep paying attention to building those systems for myself – even if I never have an employee for as long as I live.

2. Minneapolis. In the nineties, I played in a really good but low-level touring band (like, 4 guys in a smelly van, not a crew of dudes and a bunch of hot groupies on a sweet tour bus). One of my fondest memories was a gig we played in Minneapolis on a Sunday night in a 1,000-seat venue for which precisely 3 people showed up. They paid us our $100 (no, no missing zero), and we were cut loose at 9 PM. As luck would have it, the house band at the club next door included Prince's drummer at the time, Michael Bland, and 5 other mind bogglingly good musicians. I got to see my hero drummer play 5 feet away from me. So that's Minneapolis – good job.

3. Project Mojave: Waiting Patiently for a few more days…

4. Friendfeed. I replied to your tweet about finding someone with elevator skills. I'm your man. And that's for real. But I'm not so much in the Twitter world, and frankly I have no idea whether or how you can respond to me there. So just send me an email and we'll talk.

Cheers, bro!

P.S. THANKS A MILLION for mentioning the thing about not feeling “committed to whatever I’d started and somehow knew it wouldn’t last forever,” and moving past that phase of your life. I almost finished an M.A. but was never really engaged in what I was doing, even though “I was good at it.” I let that one go like so many other endeavors over the years, and those endeavors included more than just business endeavors (witness the trail of women who ultimately realized I was not in it to win it – and the one who now realizes I AM). “Saying yes to your life,” cheesy as that phrase sounds, puts it pretty aptly for me. It's an ongoing process, and one you're maybe never done with, but it sure as hell feels good to be saying (mostly) yes to the things in my life these days. And a lot of what I used to be stressed out about simply doesn't register as stress any more, even though all that stuff is still there. Wild.

Warm regards,
Clay