Yesterday I asked what transformation you want your members to experience, and how you'd know they're getting there. Lynne wrote something I haven't been able to put down since. Describing a member, she said they're "engaging in the community, but not with others yet, only me." I read that three times because she put her finger on something I couldn't quite name. A member can be active every single day, present, showing up, and still be on an island. Engaged with the room, but not yet woven into it. And it made me notice something uncomfortable about how most of us measure progress. We count the things members do in our communities: they log in, they comment, they show up. But the things we actually want for them, confidence, a first client, a finished launch, a real change in their life, those don't always live in the same place we're looking. We measure one thing. We're trying to deliver another. And nobody ever told us those aren't the same. I'm sitting in this myself, too. I'm running the same experiment in my other community right now, with two members, J. and M. One's trying to launch, one's working toward a certification. I'll tell you honestly what works and what flops. I'm not going to tell you what to do about any of this. Not yet. I'd rather sit in it with you for a day. So here's the only thing I'll ask today, and it's easy. As you move through your community, just watch for it. Find one member who's clearly active, and ask yourself honestly: are they actually getting closer to what they came for, or are they just present? Don't fix anything. Don't say a word. Just notice. We'll do something with what you see tomorrow. And if a story comes to mind while you're watching, a member who went through a real transformation, I'd love to hear it. Just their first name or initials, what happened, and what you think made it possible. Only if you've got one.

The King Who Touched a Person You know the story. Midas wished everything he touched would turn to gold. For an hour, paradise. Then his bread turned to metal, his wine to stone, and when his daughter ran to hug him, she froze into a golden statue mid-stride. That's where they usually end it. Greed ruins what you love. Roll credits. But there's a version they don't tell you. The god comes back and changes the curse. Now the gold doesn't stay on what Midas touches, it passes into them. And the people he touches get the touch, too. He grabs his daughter, desperate, and she gasps awake, warm and alive. Then she turns and touches the frozen gardener beside her. By the end of the year, the kingdom didn't have one king with a golden touch. It had thousands of people who couldn't stop creating. And nobody could take it from them, because it didn't live in a crown. It lived in their hands. That's the whole month. So, before you scroll, sit with these: 💙Who in your community is frozen mid-stride right now, one touch away from gasping awake? 💙What is the actual outcome that would wake them up? Not "be more active." The real one. 💙How do you currently know they are making progress? 💙If you're honest, are you still hoarding the gold, keeping the wins pointed at yourself? 💙💙And the big one: what would it take for your member to turn around and touch someone else? ✅Pick one member. ✅Reply with their initials or a number (we're public) and the one outcome you'll put in their hands this week. One name. One outcome. Reach out and touch somebody.