Great behind the scenes intel, my main takeaways are 6:54 if you stop doing something for a bit it doesn't mean you can never start them again, but it gives you the clean slate to pick better. 12:33 You can do the same thing in 3 weeks as in 6 months if you just cut the non-sense out 28:43 the only bottle neck is you when you're on your own which is better than trying to learn things on a job
The value you provide in these pods are unbelievable - the best thing is that it's all very tangible. My three takeaways... (20:40) - How to decide what to spend your time on, it has to have uncapped upside + transferable nature (32:35) - I LOVE the idea of exposure therapy - once you shift your mentality to certain accomplishments being normal it becomes so much easier to overcome imposter syndrome (36:33) - This framework of only investing money into cash, skills, convenience & long term experiences is contrarian but I think is so so necessary to build that financial confidence
This episode resonates sooooo much! My 3 takeaways are: • Our best potential is really good only when we are doing 1 thing at a time, period. 4:51 • The 'future-dots' we plot in life make sense eventually. Our mind has amazing ability to cross-pollinate them into a cohesive ecosystem, given time to incubate. 21:54 • Fear of the unknown cripples our ability to function. Until we decide to face it head-on or take a small action first, the resolution will follow. 26:00
Incredible episode! I learned a lot on both of my listens. Key Takeaways: 9:08 - "There is a certain point where you have to stop consuming all content." Both consumption and creation uses mental energy. If you use your mental energy consuming you won't have any left to create. This is something I need to change in my own life. 25:40- "Pick something, immerse yourself in it, learn all the skills that come with it." Any time spent deciding or weighing options could be used to make progress instead. Standing at a fork in the road, you won't make any progress until you choose a direction and start walking. That resonated deeply with me. 28:30 - "Once someone makes it to the other side, their whole life is different." Your beliefs are your bottleneck. You can only accomplish anything if you believe you can do it. "Your business will grow to the bottleneck of what you think is possible..." Changing my limiting beliefs will transform my freelance writing work.
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Thanks for sharing so much value, again! Key takeaways: - Goals demand things of you and require effort to achieve. - To accelerate a goal, it often takes more effort than expected. - Removing distractions and focusing on one goal can help to achieve success.
Thank you so much for the chance to hop on the next Ship30 cohort - I can't wait for July! As it still might be helpful for others, here are my three biggest takeaways (with the third being my favorite):
[20:38] When you are evaluating something to potentially spend your time on, it should have two things: 1. uncapped upside (= a chance of a lottery outcome) and 2. zero downside (as you are building a skill that you could then apply elsewhere - e.g. writing on Twitter). [26:00] For many people the real bottleneck is not the hard skill (like writing, e mail marketing, etc) - it is more the limiting belief that they don’t deserve it / that something like that is possible for them [35:13] There is not financial vehicle (not even Bitcoin or Apple stocks) that gives you as high of a return as increasing your own skills - so go and invest your money here in the first place („Apple stock is not where the return is for you - YOU are where the return is for you").
My take away: 1. Re-skining a skill: Developing transferable skills by learning fundamentals that are useful in any arena that you choose to work in. 19:19 2. Only person in your way is you, as a solopreneur. Make the move and then do iterations. In other words, start and then pivot. 28:43 3. Acceleration vs going at the same speed. It's not about doing what you did before and more to accelerate. It's about doing less of what is serving the main goal. It's about subtracting not adding. 6:01
You made such an amazing point! Being able to connect with a few like minded individuals who so up with the same intensity and commitment is insanely effective. Any suggestions on how to find that? Or build that?
Key takeaway 1. Focusing on one thing (reflection after attending mastermind event) 3:18 2. Importance of ability to reskin the skills and sell them 19:18 3. Mistake of investing in stocks instead of your own skills. 34:37
Thanks and very useful and liked the idea of monk mode. I’ll sure follow this. Do you have any suggestion (trainings or podcast or course) on how to craft a high ticket offer. Your videos rock
Thanks @Ship 30 for 30 for ❤️ 😊 on the comment. Do you have any suggestion on training about ‘how to create offer’ (or who do you follow for same) or what to cover in webinar before we take sales calls for high ticket offer. I picked Cole Gordon’s Sales Academy from one of your suggestions so keep them coming (where you are learning Sales & Marketing from)
So many people say that things like this can't be done because if it was "so easy" anyone would do it, but I think the point you guys made about how 90-95% of people quit because they don't believe anyone would pay them $5K for something is the real reason why "everyone" doesn't do it. I definitely feel like that 90-95%. I am shocked at how many "coaches" there are out there with what seems like no experience, killing it financially. It's hard to believe (how do they avoid imposter syndrome?!), and I therefore I can't believe they'd hire me either (and I was a technical writer for 25 years, was published by a major publisher, with great sales, and had a widely-read blog - none of which made me rich...). It's a tough mindset to get past so that you just toss yourself out there & accept that you have something to offer that could pay like that. A lesson from another video is that we don't think like rich people & don't realize how much $ they'll spend to make more $ or learn something and save time doing it. THAT is the valuable resource we're providing.
The advice in the "stock market" section is a gamechanger. It's a forcing function to push yourself to look for ways to invest in yourself rather than sitting on cash and perpetuating the status quo even if things are "working well".
9:05 "There is a certain point where you have to stop consuming all content, and there are probably some people listening to this right now who are in that mode where if you just did the things that you know you should do right now. This podcast, unfortunately, even though we'd love for it to be, is probably not on that list..." 💣
19:19 The bottleneck to hiring an effective salesperson is the reskinning of their skillset to your product, and entrepreneurship is the reskinning of all kinds of life skills to building a business: nothing is wasted.
Key takeaways: 1. Takes more effort than you think to accelerate. It takes less effort than you think to maintain. 4:00 2. The only thing standing between you and your goal, is 1000 boars! Stretch it out over 1 year, or kill them in all in 3-week monk mode. 12:43 3. Stop watching this podcast and get creating the things you know you should do 9:15
9:47 "When you have that level of clarity on the creation side consumption actually becomes frustrating" Part of why I feel this expresso hour is the best, is the timing for me specifically.. I do know what I need to do, I have written the notes and even laid out the series of videos I want to create. At this point the time that I spend on Instagram and UA-cam and all the other sites I am gathering information from is less and less return on investment. I'm not using that information. I have the information. My cup is full. I need to block out the distraction and create.
12:40 "You can either stretch that out over the course of a year... Or you can just go full monk mode... And just do all of it in three weeks." As someone who is working on understanding my ADHD, I'm seeing how focus plays a huge role in my ability to amp up my energy and power through my creation and produce results. I know what it FEELS like. And it feels good. I feel like I've already wasted years of my life chipping slowly and making no progress. It's not about addition,it's about subtraction. A lot of what you guys talk about the essence of Monk Mode is being able to do just that - subtract.
24:53 "You have to pick something to build all the skills.." This reminds me of how I start doing project learning am realized that was a much better way to learn. You are understanding the concepts and using them in action and applying them. Then presenting the work you have done to cement your understanding and knowledge and bonus now you have something in your portfolio. As an artist, I'm never going to get better start by trying to watch videos and read books on how to get better - I do it by practicing the skills... By working on projects that challenge me and learn from the mistakes I make.
Great behind the scenes intel, my main takeaways are
6:54 if you stop doing something for a bit it doesn't mean you can never start them again, but it gives you the clean slate to pick better.
12:33 You can do the same thing in 3 weeks as in 6 months if you just cut the non-sense out
28:43 the only bottle neck is you when you're on your own which is better than trying to learn things on a job
The biggest difference is between 0 and 1 in business is your desire and self-belief for success. Appriciate you saying that Cole!
Thanks for the shoutout! ❤
You guys are inspiring as hell. Love to see the momentum. Awesome work across the board!
The value you provide in these pods are unbelievable - the best thing is that it's all very tangible.
My three takeaways...
(20:40) - How to decide what to spend your time on, it has to have uncapped upside + transferable nature
(32:35) - I LOVE the idea of exposure therapy - once you shift your mentality to certain accomplishments being normal it becomes so much easier to overcome imposter syndrome
(36:33) - This framework of only investing money into cash, skills, convenience & long term experiences is contrarian but I think is so so necessary to build that financial confidence
Stopped listening at 9:22 to clear my head and schedule. I appreciate you guys!
You guys regularly tackle the types of issues that I'm immediately dealing with
This episode resonates sooooo much! My 3 takeaways are:
• Our best potential is really good only when we are doing 1 thing at a time, period. 4:51
• The 'future-dots' we plot in life make sense eventually. Our mind has amazing ability to cross-pollinate them into a cohesive ecosystem, given time to incubate. 21:54
• Fear of the unknown cripples our ability to function. Until we decide to face it head-on or take a small action first, the resolution will follow. 26:00
The speech at 35:00 was one of the best things I’ve ever heard on UA-cam.
This is the best episode of Espresso Hour yet!
Incredible episode! I learned a lot on both of my listens.
Key Takeaways:
9:08 - "There is a certain point where you have to stop consuming all content." Both consumption and creation uses mental energy. If you use your mental energy consuming you won't have any left to create. This is something I need to change in my own life.
25:40- "Pick something, immerse yourself in it, learn all the skills that come with it." Any time spent deciding or weighing options could be used to make progress instead. Standing at a fork in the road, you won't make any progress until you choose a direction and start walking. That resonated deeply with me.
28:30 - "Once someone makes it to the other side, their whole life is different." Your beliefs are your bottleneck. You can only accomplish anything if you believe you can do it. "Your business will grow to the bottleneck of what you think is possible..." Changing my limiting beliefs will transform my freelance writing work.
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@@Ship30for30 Thank you so much! I’m grateful for your generosity and can’t wait to get started!
12:50 !! I’ve been talking about slaying boars for years! I love hearing that you guys say that too! Way to flip it around too.
This ep slaps… keep this depth up
Thanks for sharing so much value, again!
Key takeaways:
- Goals demand things of you and require effort to achieve.
- To accelerate a goal, it often takes more effort than expected.
- Removing distractions and focusing on one goal can help to achieve success.
I absolutely loved this! I need to implement this into my life
Thank you so much for the chance to hop on the next Ship30 cohort - I can't wait for July!
As it still might be helpful for others, here are my three biggest takeaways (with the third being my favorite):
[20:38] When you are evaluating something to potentially spend your time on, it should have two things: 1. uncapped upside (= a chance of a lottery outcome) and 2. zero downside (as you are building a skill that you could then apply elsewhere - e.g. writing on Twitter).
[26:00] For many people the real bottleneck is not the hard skill (like writing, e mail marketing, etc) - it is more the limiting belief that they don’t deserve it / that something like that is possible for them
[35:13] There is not financial vehicle (not even Bitcoin or Apple stocks) that gives you as high of a return as increasing your own skills - so go and invest your money here in the first place („Apple stock is not where the return is for you - YOU are where the return is for you").
My take away:
1. Re-skining a skill: Developing transferable skills by learning fundamentals that are useful in any arena that you choose to work in. 19:19
2. Only person in your way is you, as a solopreneur. Make the move and then do iterations. In other words, start and then pivot. 28:43
3. Acceleration vs going at the same speed. It's not about doing what you did before and more to accelerate. It's about doing less of what is serving the main goal. It's about subtracting not adding. 6:01
You made such an amazing point! Being able to connect with a few like minded individuals who so up with the same intensity and commitment is insanely effective. Any suggestions on how to find that? Or build that?
Key takeaway
1. Focusing on one thing (reflection after attending mastermind event) 3:18
2. Importance of ability to reskin the skills and sell them 19:18
3. Mistake of investing in stocks instead of your own skills. 34:37
Thanks and very useful and liked the idea of monk mode. I’ll sure follow this.
Do you have any suggestion (trainings or podcast or course) on how to craft a high ticket offer.
Your videos rock
Thanks @Ship 30 for 30 for ❤️ 😊 on the comment. Do you have any suggestion on training about ‘how to create offer’ (or who do you follow for same) or what to cover in webinar before we take sales calls for high ticket offer.
I picked Cole Gordon’s Sales Academy from one of your suggestions so keep them coming (where you are learning Sales & Marketing from)
So many people say that things like this can't be done because if it was "so easy" anyone would do it, but I think the point you guys made about how 90-95% of people quit because they don't believe anyone would pay them $5K for something is the real reason why "everyone" doesn't do it. I definitely feel like that 90-95%. I am shocked at how many "coaches" there are out there with what seems like no experience, killing it financially. It's hard to believe (how do they avoid imposter syndrome?!), and I therefore I can't believe they'd hire me either (and I was a technical writer for 25 years, was published by a major publisher, with great sales, and had a widely-read blog - none of which made me rich...). It's a tough mindset to get past so that you just toss yourself out there & accept that you have something to offer that could pay like that. A lesson from another video is that we don't think like rich people & don't realize how much $ they'll spend to make more $ or learn something and save time doing it. THAT is the valuable resource we're providing.
"Stress doesn't come from hard work. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over." - Jeff Bezos
Truth does not come from adding but from subtraction
"Believe that the righteous desires of your heart are possible...for YOU...and be open to the path to them that presents itself."
The advice in the "stock market" section is a gamechanger. It's a forcing function to push yourself to look for ways to invest in yourself rather than sitting on cash and perpetuating the status quo even if things are "working well".
9:05 "There is a certain point where you have to stop consuming all content, and there are probably some people listening to this right now who are in that mode where if you just did the things that you know you should do right now. This podcast, unfortunately, even though we'd love for it to be, is probably not on that list..." 💣
19:19 The bottleneck to hiring an effective salesperson is the reskinning of their skillset to your product, and entrepreneurship is the reskinning of all kinds of life skills to building a business: nothing is wasted.
26:30 But the *real* bottleneck for solopreneurs is that we don't believe we deserve what's possible for us. 🔥
Okay, how do I join ghost?
So... Here's the plan of action.
Mini Monk Mode:
3 weeks of HYPER focus on 1 thing.
Key takeaways:
1. Takes more effort than you think to accelerate. It takes less effort than you think to maintain. 4:00
2. The only thing standing between you and your goal, is 1000 boars! Stretch it out over 1 year, or kill them in all in 3-week monk mode. 12:43
3. Stop watching this podcast and get creating the things you know you should do 9:15
My Key 🗝️ Takeaways
9:47
"When you have that level of clarity on the creation side consumption actually becomes frustrating"
Part of why I feel this expresso hour is the best, is the timing for me specifically..
I do know what I need to do, I have written the notes and even laid out the series of videos I want to create. At this point the time that I spend on Instagram and UA-cam and all the other sites I am gathering information from is less and less return on investment.
I'm not using that information. I have the information. My cup is full. I need to block out the distraction and create.
12:40
"You can either stretch that out over the course of a year... Or you can just go full monk mode... And just do all of it in three weeks."
As someone who is working on understanding my ADHD, I'm seeing how focus plays a huge role in my ability to amp up my energy and power through my creation and produce results.
I know what it FEELS like. And it feels good.
I feel like I've already wasted years of my life chipping slowly and making no progress.
It's not about addition,it's about subtraction.
A lot of what you guys talk about the essence of Monk Mode is being able to do just that - subtract.
24:53
"You have to pick something to build all the skills.."
This reminds me of how I start doing project learning am realized that was a much better way to learn. You are understanding the concepts and using them in action and applying them. Then presenting the work you have done to cement your understanding and knowledge and bonus now you have something in your portfolio.
As an artist, I'm never going to get better start by trying to watch videos and read books on how to get better - I do it by practicing the skills... By working on projects that challenge me and learn from the mistakes I make.