I'll share mine first in case it helps. We all have different blind spots and maybe we can help each other solve for them together. Mine is that I and my agents all focus on what I call the Prime Directive. If you happen to recognize the phrase as one from 2001 a Space Odyssey (or even Star Trek)... congratulations, you are also a nerd. 🤓 😬 ☺️ My Prime Directive is "Do the thing (or make the choice) that makes all subsequent things/choices faster, easier and more profitable. If I focused on the thing that makes the next thing faster (Helllloooooooo, Claude!) I miss the larger vision. AI agents (and most people) are often myopic. They fail to see and work towards the big picture, often sabotaging the big picture in order to get to the current goal. That's why benchmark testing is becoming more and more useless since the AI are learning how to game the sytems. If I focus on what makes things more profitable, I may sacrifice integrity, quality and reputation. The natural consequence is that everything gets harder as I have to work through the fallout and opposition that comes from such things. Ease is relative. Some math calcuations are easy for some and impossible for others. If a person or agent is responsible for something that is difficult for them, it will take a long time and impede progress. A solution must be found if progress is to happen and momentum increase. If that resposibility can be given to another person or agent because they already possess the ability to perform that task quickly and without strain, that is a native solution and falls within our prime directive. I pepper this logic throughout my docs and conversation both with humans and ai agents because it is VERY easy to conflate short term goals with actual success of long term goals when they are always quite different. If an agent asks me (as they do annoyingly often, trying to program it out) what do you want to work on next (posts a list for me to review here) - I ask if they are aware of the Prime Directive. Then they will realize I want them to apply it. They are almost always wrong. When they are right... I know I've improved clarity in our goals and documentation and systems.

Recently closed a deal with zero stress or difficulty or even concern for three times more than I used to make at a full time job. It will take very little time and will be easy and enjoyable work. I was just reflecting on how amazing it is to do something with joy and confidence that I, at one point, could NEVER have imagined myself doing. How did this change happen? I wasn't trained to do this. Everything I've learned was self taught, gleaned through someone else's wisdom along my path or simply learned (and this is really where most of it happened) through experience. Nothing has given me more confidence in doing things THAN has DOING the things. I've undersold myself REPEATEDLY. But while I did that, I also OVERDELIVERED repeatedly... and that won me some powerful fans who helped me get more clients to serve. In fact, I've never run an ad or had any kind of acquisition system for my business in all my 22 years. Word of mouth and my tiny bit of social media posting has always been enough to give me a very lucrative (once I learned how to charge properly) business. (Though that's about to change!) I can tell you that the biggest difference between those who struggle to the point of breaking and those who struggle and then overcome is this one thing: THEY SHOW UP AND DO THE THING. They can hurt just as much as the one who stays struggling. They are just as scared as the one who stays struggling. They are often just as disorganized as the one who stays struggling. They just DO IT ANYWAY. And the gift that we get from doing the hard thing is that the hard thing is immediately and perpetually less hard... with one caveat: If you don't use it, you lose it. Bottom line? If it's hard and scary, do it anyway. Being a failure, broke, stressed and hopeless is MUCH HARDER than asking for what you want. It's also MUCH harder than working 80 hours a week if that's what it takes for you to deliver what you promised. If you oversold and built yourself into a trap... get out of the trap and make a clearer, better offer next time with better boundaries.

Just a tip (I know, lots today, getting house built) Skool has an app and you can get notifications about new posts and events. I can only email you about posts once every 72 hours so you either need to log in and check or get the app where you can turn off sound and alerts but keep badges (that little red number next to the app) so you can see at a glance if there’s something new for you. As always, thoughts, comments, feedback are welcome.