To Skool or Not To Skool, that is the question.
So @Brenda Rigney and I had a brief convo about, basically, what's keeping me from starting a Skool community of my own. I don't feel like I'm in the right space with anything of value to offer that most aren't already getting from other Skool communities; at best I don't really know where or what to begin with. Brenda posed the question, "What’s a topic or theme you know 10 people in your life love to talk about with you?" Well, that's the thing, none would say the same thing because each calls me for a different reason. Brenda dug deeper into this food for thought: "What do I want to be known for? What is it that people count on me for? Ask 10 people that you know personally—people that love you, care about you, and have your back. This could be friends, family, excuse me, but what do they count on you for? What are you known for in their world? And if, out of anybody, they're going to call you first because they know that they're going to get the street goods and what you have to offer, that's your community—the theme, the mission of your community. It's that simple. And then recognize that there's 8.1 billion people on the planet, and somebody needs what you've got. And so, when you have that value belief around what you know and do, and what people count on you for, you can now monetize that. That can be a community." I've been thinking about this and shared it with a few loved ones. Again, each had a different version of what I have to offer. One went as far as to say, "Your personality is as chaotic as you. I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that you are a lot of everything to everyone. You have always been the go to for random stuff because you just do everything without reason. It has paid off for all of us over time. I don't think Skool is good for you because you don't have a single concentration to offer." And this is what seems to stick with me. Is there a space for EVERYTHING? I belong to several Skool communities and I have noticed each one has a single structured goal or as my loved one put it, "concentration". I don't know if I have any single thing that someone would be interested in, let alone pay for.