I didn’t expect this… but I just hit Level 5. What surprised me most wasn’t the level, it was how quickly things started to make sense once I stopped overthinking and just engaged consistently. No hacks. No spamming. Just showing up, learning, and interacting with intent. Still exploring what unfolds next 👀 but this alone changed how I approach the community. What’s one thing that clicked for you since joining this community? Big or small?

Adding a little companion strategy to Paul’s Quantum system (from someone who had to build evergreen the hard way 🤍) A few years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with an oxygen machine beside me, laptop balanced on my knees, lungs still healing after a coma. I remember opening my computer for the first time in months, honestly expecting everything to be dead in the water. My businesses. My income. My momentum. And then I looked at my dashboards. To my absolute shock… a handful of my YouTube videos had quietly kept everything alive. Not huge money — a couple hundred dollars a month — but it was coming in from: – YouTube ad revenue – affiliate sales – sales of my own products and courses – even royalties from my books on Amazon All from focused traffic those videos were pulling in on autopilot. I just sat there thinking: Wait… what?! Especially because my channel was never “strategic” back then. I started posting on YouTube over 15 years ago simply to communicate with members across different businesses. My channel was a literal patchwork quilt: Cake decorating. Teaching kids about money. My kids uploading Barbie videos and D&D clips. Completely all over the place. Most of my videos did nothing. But there were a handful that consistently brought me leads. And I hadn’t even realized that what I’d accidentally done right on YouTube also allowed those same videos to rank on Google. Those videos didn’t just attract people — they warmed them up. It was wild. That tiny monthly income gave me hope at a time when doctors had told me I’d be lucky to regain 60% lung function… and that I might never work again. That’s when I leaned hard into evergreen. I’d already learned from mentors like Jeff Walker, Mike Filsaime, and Frank Kern that staying in touch with your audience matters — but I physically couldn’t email every week. My body just wouldn’t allow it. So I created something simple: 👉 My Throwback Thursday (TBT) Email Series Every Thursday, I send one value-based email that sends people back to one of my older YouTube videos.

You know that odd feeling you get when you have to see how someone else has a different way of using their browser... There were multiple tabs on each one, with almost twice as many that were not in a private browser. Focus to succeed quicker.

You often get to choose who you spend time with, sometimes family, sometimes not and it may be re-energising or not. It's important to remember WHY you're doing the online things you do. As Paul's "I serve first" approach demonstrates, putting things out there will get the wheels moving that bring things your way. Keep focussed and remember to enjoy the journey, whichever adventure life brings you.

What’s the biggest bottleneck you face with ranking? (This will quietly show what stage you’re in.)