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Aug 13, 2025

Day 45: The Constant Wrestle — Learning to Sit with Paradox

Learning to Sit with Paradox in Business Leadership Exploring how to handle business paradoxes like detail vs speed, tough love, and confident humility. Learn to work with tension rather than resolve it.

You'll Get Sick of Saying It Before They Get Sick of Hearing It

Message Repetition: Why You'll Get Sick of Saying It First Learn why business owners need to repeat their message 8+ times before audiences listen, and how to overcome your own message fatigue.

Marketing

Business Communication

Day 39: Why Leading AI Is Exactly Like Leading People

Leading AI Like Leading People: Same Skills, New Context Discover how effective leadership principles for managing staff translate directly to working with AI. Learn the delegation framework that works for both.

When 10 Weeks Becomes 3.5 Hours: The $16,000 Reality Check

From $16K Website to 3.5 Hour Build: Business Automation Reality How automation tools transformed a 10-week, $16,000 website project into 3.5 hours of high-quality work. Real results from business process optimization.

Day 37: Every business hits hard times — the question is whether you'll love the fight enough to show up

Finding the Right Business Vehicle: Why Loving the Fight Matters Every business faces hard times. The key is choosing work you love enough to show up for when things get tough. Lessons from switching business models.

The Dashboard That Actually Drives Behavior

The Dashboard That Actually Drives Behavior - Business Metrics Learn why most business dashboards fail and how to create metrics that actually drive behavior and results, inspired by Charles Schwab's simple approach.

Business Metrics

Dashboards

Lead Indicators

Performance Management

Data-Driven Decisions

Starting Zero to $1M

Aug 3, 2025

Day 35: Leverage - Give me a lever long enough...

Why I'm Not Hiring Staff: AI Tools vs Traditional Leverage Discover how AI automation creates business leverage without staff overhead. A real case study of building tools that compound growth.

Day 31: You've Done the Planning — Now Learn to Eat the Shit

Stop Planning, Start Doing: How to Move from Tasks to Action Break free from planning procrastination with a simple priority matrix and learn why starting imperfectly beats endless preparation.

Day 30: The 6-Hour Planning Session That Changed Everything

90-Day Business Planning: From Scattered Effort to $20K Goal How a 6-hour planning session transformed scattered business efforts into a focused 90-day strategy targeting $20,000 in AI automation projects.

Day 12: I thought success was luck and talent until I saw what Kenyan runners actually do

Why Business Success Isn't Luck: Lessons from Kenyan Runners Discover why business success comes from understanding the real effort required, not luck or talent. Learn to find the right mentors and heroes.

How I Built (Then Left) a multi-million dollar Business: 17 Years in 7 Minutes

How I Built Then Left a $1M+ Salad Business: 17-Year Journey Real lessons from building Dicky Bill from negative equity to 10% of Australia's salad market, then walking away. Mistakes, wins, and why I left.