𝐁𝐔𝐓… making a decision is chef's kiss 👌What the heck took so long???? 🤦‍♀️ The world seems to be changing daily.Life as a near empty-nester means life is changing daily.And let me not even get started with what's happening with AI. 🤖 For those who know me, they most likely discovered me on Facebook way back in the day.I was that weird sassy soccer mom raising four girls on my own and making startups into 7 figure machines as a business manager and consultant. 💼 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫 but with three adult children, two grandchildren, and the youngest less than two years from adulthood. 👧👩👵 And during all that growing we had a pandemic 😷, I went through the roller-coaster-of-death known as perimenopause 🌊 and now… you can't open your phone without hearing about the world coming to an end and how 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 you are behind in 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆. 📱💀 I've been aware of it… noticing it… and trying to navigate through the things I cannot control and looking for the levers I could control. 🎮 At the same time… my spiritual pace has accelerated as well… out of necessity. 🙏 Things were happening that just blew my mind. Heartache in my mom life that I still cannot even understand or explain. 💔 Fortunately, I found 𝐒𝐎 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 as a service missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints working for FamilySearch. I volunteer for 12+ hours a week indexing records and growing the World Family Tree. 📖✍️ It's crazy because I've been working from home for 24 years, and even my mission is from home. To say I've been fairly isolated for a while is an understatement. 🏠 Anyone who's left awesome coworkers to start working from home knows that there are definitely some serious trade-offs to be made when you work from home. 😬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐬.Every decision has them.And they are impossible to fully understand. 🤯 That is where the decision fatigue really starts to take a toll.What is the COST of this decision? 💰 What often fails to get accounted for is "What is the cost of 𝐍𝐎𝐓 making a decision."

I've been talking to AI for 3.5 years, since ChatGPT came out. I used Claude as soon as it was out, Codex when it launched, Claude Code when it launched and so on. Whatever people were posting on YouTube, I had already figured out. I read changelogs and just worked with it daily. Spending so much time with each model and system revealed a lot of patterns... including the gaslighting that OpenAI and Anthropic have been doing to users from the beginning. They would announce releases of new features and new models and it was AMAZING - like clouds parting and angels singing... for the first day or two. Then they seemed to roll out some change and it was just ... BAD. BAD BAD BAD. Like you wanna pull out your hair and screen and throw the computer out the win... uh... I mean... turn it off politely and go take a nice walk... Bad. The thing about being gaslit by the narcissist and the types of brains that are designing these agents for trillions of dollars now... They are VERY good at what they do. So good that you think maybe it's YOU. Maybe YOU just got back or maybe YOU can fix it and it's just bad for everyone else. And no one on the Tube was really talking about it out loud because they thought it might just be them. And how else they gonna get you to click play if they don't say it's UHMAAAAAAZIIIINNNNNG and gonna 10x EVERYTHING OVERNIGHT! That's never true. THOUGH... 10xing in ONE night, ONE TIME, once every month or so... THAT can happen. But you're gonna have to go back and fix everything the next versions BREAK after that. Now... Nous Research may or may not be far behind. And personally, my own agents and systems were better than Hermes until this week. Their Desktop App, which I've already customized for higher memory, local models configured from HuggingFace GGUF (DeepSeekV4 Pro local on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB Ram) is already doing much better than Antigravity (thanks for killing THAT for me, Google!) Codex app and Claude app. I also tried OpenCode app (garbage) and VS code does pretty well but I'm allergic to more subscriptions and so tired of the dependencies.

I've been working with business owners for 22 years, and managed call center teams for 6 years before that as a technical lead so I had both technical skills as well as had to manage metrics and hire and manage 20-25 people. 28 years working on systems for getting the most out of the least, as corporate support is next to nothing for their people and small business owners live and die by their ability to keep as much of their profits as possible. What I've learned is that there are some fundamental elements to running any kind of business well, even if it's a self contained "business" within a larger corporation. Everything hinges, first, on Principles and Priorities. Principles inform priorities. Priorities inform what gets done. Except... QUITE OFTEN... Principles were never clearly defined (nor company culture) and so priority is rarely defined or changes according to mood energy or something else other than principles. Starting here makes EVERYTHING simpler to set up and maintain and serves as a filter for future decisions as well as makes it easier to get on and stay on the same page with business partners and team members. When we talk on Friday, I'd like to go over some of these things as well as have a conversation about how these show up for any of you and what you might like to see created here. Checklists, Templates, Systems, Spreadsheets and Calculators, Tools etc. Additionally, I'd love to hear what you've tried before and what didn't work for you. One thing I'm considering is a set of sprints towards whatever goal you have. They can be spread out throughout the year with milestones to be completed at each sprint. I would guide you on setting reasonable goals for yourself based on your current situation, skills and resources. The goal is help you get traction and increase momentum to a steady but satisfying pace. I've never been a person who can follow another's program. I don't think like anyone else I know. Niether do my clients. So I'm here to create a system that can ebb and flow and bend and grow with and around YOU, according to everything that YOU uniquely are.