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When I was selling MLM products years ago, I made sales. Real ones. Money changed hands. My uncles bought. My aunties bought. Friends bought. And every sale felt like proof. Years later I understood what had actually happened, and it’s one of the more uncomfortable things I’ve had to sit with: they didn’t buy because … Read more
There was a stretch of years where I thought I was an entrepreneur during the earlier stage of my life. I had business cards. I had a “team.” I had products to move and a compensation plan I could recite from memory. I went to the meetings. I made the calls. I sold to my … Read more
In 2007 I was 25 — broke, about $5,000 deep in credit card debt, and walking down a hospital corridor I’d walked a thousand times before. Somewhere along that corridor, something landed on me. Not a voice. More like a picture: if I kept doing exactly what I was doing, nothing was going to change. … Read more
Outwork the competition. Outlast them. Out-grind everyone in the room. …was trying harder. You’ve heard it. I didn’t just hear it — I built my early years on it. When I was younger, I was certain that breakthroughs were a function of force. Work harder. Pray more. Push, and push, and push again. Out-hustle every … Read more
(Previously called “When Love Dies Before The Body Does” I wanted to blame something external. A child abuse and in the end, the kid (Megan) passed away…and the details that came up in the papers…the kind that lodges in you and won’t leave. I’m not going to retell it. The details aren’t the point, and … Read more
Your parents were first-time humans too — that’s the grace. What you do with the hand they dealt you is on you now — that’s the responsibility. When we were kids, our parents seem like gods to us. They know everything, they have every answer, they never fail. Then you grow up, and somewhere along … Read more
The first reason is spiritual — I’m a Christian before I’m anything else. The rest is the bill coming due in this world. Let me start where this actually starts for me — not where it’s easiest to defend in a meeting. I’m a Christian before I’m anything else, so the bedrock reason I don’t … Read more
(Previously named The Battle To Finish) There are two ways to never finish — and they look like opposites. Everyone celebrates the start. You announce the business and people cheer. You launch the thing, open the tab, pitch the idea, plant the flag. Starting feels like progress, and it photographs well. Almost nobody throws a … Read more
(Previously titled: If You Don’t Kill This Voice, It WILL Kill Your Calling and Fire) The most dangerous voice in your head isn’t wrong about your work. It’s wrong about you — and you keep believing it. There’s a voice in your head. You know which one. It doesn’t shout. It waits until you’re tired, … Read more
(Previously called “The Lie of Perfection (and the Quiet Power of Imperfect Progress)”) Perfect is the most respectable way to quit. Why I ship before it’s ready — on purpose. I know the feeling of waiting for perfect, because I lived it. For years I sat on my crypto waiting for the right time to … Read more