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What’s that you may ask?

Kicking what to the curb?

Fear of judgement, that’s what.

If you look around online or even offline in person. People are scared shitless to do anything because they’re scared of being judged by their peers.

And yes. It’s natural. No matter how confident and good you are at something you’re always going to have to work on.

I know too many awesome people who are scared to do anything because they’re scared of what mom or dad or friends and partners are going to think of them.

Fuck it I say.

We’re all gonna die one day and that’s the harsh reality of it. So why are you not pursuing what makes you happy?

Wanna stream yourself getting mad at a video game and make a living off of it? Do it.

How’s about reviewing terrible B rated horror movies with a twist. Do it.

Wanna talk about how passionate you are about growing mushrooms? Come on. There’s a market for all of this and more…

I know a lot of the things I write and share with you are hit and miss. But I show up every single day cause it’s something I love to do. Some of you will never get to meet me and some of you will. That’s just the way this whole internet game works.

I don’t want fame and all of that shit but getting paid to talk about and share thing the things I love, well… That to me has always been the ultimate end goal.

You might need to stir the pot and go against what everyone else is talking about in your circle or market but you can make it valuable, cause it’s your own brand of secret sauce.

People will follow you just because it’s you and your own take on whatever is going on.

You just need to get into the routine of sharing all of the crazy shit you love and the people who dig on it will show up.

You need to think long term. Have fun and look at getting better every day. Even if you do have a few moments where you doubt yourself.

That being said. I’m gonna go shove some hot cross buns into my face hole and go see if I can find anyone else whose having a melt down about Tesla today.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

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Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
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United Kingdom

Not everything you do is going to be an absolute banger straight off the bat.

I mean if it was then damn, you’d be rollin’ in the money and popularity and all the status you could ever dream of…

The only thing you’ve got control of is showing up daily.

Systems are gonna fail, algorithms are gonna change and Big Tech are gonna make it impossible (Or at least harder to get your message out there into the world)

But you just need to show up, even on the days you don’t want to.

I have the days were I wonder if what I’m doing and building will be worth it, but for me it’s just something I love to do.

I get to share my wild ideas and dreams with you. I get to take you on a little journey and when I get to that destination… I might celebrate with a beer or two.

All I’m saying is that you need to keep going.

You can’t have everyone liking you and believe it or not, people are also busy with their lives so they’re not going be stalking you all the time.

They will be watching but not all the time. So it’s your time to shine and not care what others think and do the best work you can.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

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Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

Quantity is the goddamn engine that drives quality.

Michelangelo wasn’t born with the gift of perfect carving…

No. He learned to do that. He cut, he hacked, he made sloppy, half baked messes until…

…until he started making something worth looking at.

I love answering questions about the craft of writing and pretty much everything in the creative world and yet the best thing you can do to improve is to keep cranking out work.

I write a massive quantity of these types of emails. Sometimes they’re straight to the point or veer off on tangents or have a direct response cut to the bone style or even just random musings and ideas that come out of nowhere.

But the aim is also to be light hearted, not too serious, entertaining and at the minimum, give you something to ponder about.

And I get it.

Sometimes we end up sitting there, staring at a blank page, or canvas, or whatever, and we wait for the perfect idea. The perfect sentence. The perfect anything. Well, guess what?

Perfect is a myth. Perfect is a lie. Perfect is the reason you haven’t written, painted, coded, or created anything in weeks.

And the self help guru folk and coaches don’t want to tell you things like:

You don’t get good by thinking. You get good by doing.

You don’t improve by planning. You improve by shipping. Get that thing shipped out to the world and then repeat.

You don’t learn by theorising. You learn by failing fast and over and over and over again…

The more you create, the better you’ll get.

It’s math. It’s numbers. It’s volume.

Think about it like this from a gym analogy:

Every word you write is a punch you throw.

Every brushstroke is a rep in the gym.

Every line of code is a step on the treadmill.

You don’t get stronger by sitting on the couch thinking about lifting weights. You get stronger by lifting. And yeah, sure, some of what you make will be garbage. Most of it, even. But here’s the thing…

Garbage is fertile ground.

You can’t grow a garden without getting your hands dirty. You can’t make a masterpiece without first making a mess.

So stop waiting for the perfect idea. Stop chasing the perfect sentence. Stop worrying about what people will think.

Just… create.

So go.

Make something.

Make a lot of things.

Make so many things that you start to forget what’s good and what’s bad.

And then…

Then you’ll find your voice.

Then you’ll find your style.

Then you’ll start making things that matter.

But only if you start.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

P.S. If you’re still not convinced, here’s a bonus “secret”

A story by Dr. Wayne Dyer

In a mother’s womb were two babies.

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One asked the other:

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“Do you believe in life after delivery?”

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The other replied:

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“Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

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“Nonsense” said the first.

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“There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

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The second said:

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“I don’t know, but there will be more light than here.

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Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”

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The first replied:

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“That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”

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The second insisted:

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“Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here.
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Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”

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The first replied:

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“Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”

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“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”

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The first replied:

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“Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”

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The second said:

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“She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”

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Said the first:

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“Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”

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To which the second replied:

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“Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”

Happy Monday 🙂

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P.S. Something new…​
The only difference between you and the people you admire is volume.

They’ve just made more stuff than you have.

So go.

Catch up.

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Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

Quantity is the goddamn engine that drives quality.

Michelangelo wasn’t born with the gift of perfect carving…

No. He learned to do that. He cut, he hacked, he made sloppy, half baked messes until…

…until he started making something worth looking at.

I love answering questions about the craft of writing and pretty much everything in the creative world and yet the best thing you can do to improve is to keep cranking out work.

I write a massive quantity of these types of emails. Sometimes they’re straight to the point or veer off on tangents or have a direct response cut to the bone style or even just random musings and ideas that come out of nowhere.

But the aim is also to be light hearted, not too serious, entertaining and at the minimum, give you something to ponder about.

And I get it.

Sometimes we end up sitting there, staring at a blank page, or canvas, or whatever, and we wait for the perfect idea. The perfect sentence. The perfect anything. Well, guess what?

Perfect is a myth. Perfect is a lie. Perfect is the reason you haven’t written, painted, coded, or created anything in weeks.

And the self help guru folk and coaches don’t want to tell you things like:

You don’t get good by thinking. You get good by doing.

You don’t improve by planning. You improve by shipping. Get that thing shipped out to the world and then repeat.

You don’t learn by theorising. You learn by failing fast and over and over and over again…

The more you create, the better you’ll get.

It’s math. It’s numbers. It’s volume.

Think about it like this from a gym analogy:

Every word you write is a punch you throw.

Every brushstroke is a rep in the gym.

Every line of code is a step on the treadmill.

You don’t get stronger by sitting on the couch thinking about lifting weights. You get stronger by lifting. And yeah, sure, some of what you make will be garbage. Most of it, even. But here’s the thing…

Garbage is fertile ground.

You can’t grow a garden without getting your hands dirty. You can’t make a masterpiece without first making a mess.

So stop waiting for the perfect idea. Stop chasing the perfect sentence. Stop worrying about what people will think.

Just… create.

So go.

Make something.

Make a lot of things.

Make so many things that you start to forget what’s good and what’s bad.

And then…

Then you’ll find your voice.

Then you’ll find your style.

Then you’ll start making things that matter.

But only if you start.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

P.S. If you’re still not convinced, here’s a bonus “secret”

The only difference between you and the people you admire is volume.

They’ve just made more stuff than you have.

So go.

Catch up.

If you’re not diggin’ these tasty little emails anymore you can hit the unsubscribe button right here >>> unsubscribe

Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

but I’m considered a genius cause I always look at the smarter folks and apply what they share in my life.

It doesn’t always work out. Sometimes it backfires like shit and well, you gotta roll with what happens.

Well. I was asked today by a long time subscriber of my shenanigans:

“How do you keep going when things just feel stuck?”

Now I’m no guru or life coach or whatever but the dudes miles smarter than me have always said something along the lines of; “No matter what happens to you in life. It’s your fault. Good, bad or whatever. The only person you should blame is yourself.”

It’s not the type of message that does well. Especially with the way the internet has been shaped over the last few years.

If you start talking about putting all the blame on yourself and accepting everything as your own responsibility, especially if you’ve got a penis between your legs. You’ll get the whole “That’s such toxic masculinity!!!” crowd pouncing on you and trying to drag you under whatever metaphorical bus will make them happy.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow but it works and to a varying degree, especially if you’re reading this right now…

You have the privilege to do so. Does it sound arrogant? Of course it does, but it’s true.

You and I have the ability to open our phones and have access to almost everything we need to live a life of comfort and our own success. (Putting the work in is a whole different kettle of fish)

So if you’re feeling stuck or even if things are kicking ass. It’s all your fault.

You can either mope around and be mad or you can be grateful that you have the opportunity to be awesome.

Adopting this frame of mind is also one way to overcome some of the harder things in life that the world will inevitably throw your way.

We just need to keep on going.

We’re the only ones who are able to put our own oxygen masks on after all…

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

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Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

“Originality is not something you invent so much as it is an utterance through you by your origins.” – Toko-pa Turner

I’m reading a beautiful book right now called The Dreaming Way, by Toko-pa Turner.

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And I’m reading it old school:

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Not by asking ChatGPT to summarize it, extract the bones and feed them to me in a single, raw gulp.

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But slowly. Deliberately. One word at a time.

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Retracing sentences, paragraphs, pages, and sometimes entire chapters.

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Stopping, thinking, considering what I’m reading.

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Feeling through the words to the deeper energy they carry, and allowing that energy to saturate my mind until the message becomes an experienced reality.

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​Books like this don’t come along often.

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Once or twice a year, maybe. Sometimes less.

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And when they do come along, they leave bookmarks in the timeline of our lives:

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Noting the shifting of a paradigm, when we leave an old version of our worldview behind and step into a greater one.

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​These books don’t simply offer knowledge, they offer an experience that transcends knowledge.

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An experience that, if we let it, can transform us permanently.

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To speed-read a book like this would be like blending a Michelin Star meal into a smoothie to swallow it faster. Sacrilege.

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But this is a possibility AI has opened, for us:

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Rapid ingestion of information unlike anything humanity has ever known, where limitless knowledge can be mainlined into our mind with the click of a few buttons…

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​…Inspiring us to move faster and consume more while thinking little and experiencing less.

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It’s not bad and it’s not good, it’s a tool that unlocks potential, and potential swings both ways.

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What you use it for and how you use it makes all the difference.

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But if you want my advice:

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​Be careful what you use it for.

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While AI can accelerate our learning, innovation and advancement, it often does so by stripping the soul from our experience.

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So, when you come across something truly beautiful:

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A book, a piece of art, a video, a talk that inspires you…

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Slow down.

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And then, slow down further.

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Take it in — all the way in.

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Give it time to work its way through your mind, into your heart and spirit where it can come alive.

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When it’s finished, you won’t be the same.

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I love Twitter. Every time I open the app or the site. I see someone crying about Elon Musk and Tesla and they are telling people to stick it to “them” by destroying those weird ass looking cars.

And if you’re reading this and you’re one of those “If I could key a Tesla I would!” weirdos. This message is for you…

You’re not a revolutionary. You’re a vandal with a saviour complex. But guess what? There’s a better way to fight the good fight.

A way that doesn’t involve committing misdemeanors or making Chad from accounting cry over his scratched Model 3.

It’s called sending daily emails…

Why Daily Emails Are the Activism You’ve Been Missing

They’re Legal (duh)

Unlike keying a Tesla, sending emails won’t get you arrested. Unless you’re spamming people with dick pics. Don’t do that.

They’re Fun and Effective

Want to fight fascism? Start a newsletter. Want to combat climate change? Write an email series. Want to stick it to Elon Musk? Build an audience and tell them why he sucks.

They’re Actually Helpful

Keying a Tesla just pisses people off. Sending emails? That can inspire, educate, and mobilise. It’s activism without the collateral damage.

They’re Not Dumb

Let’s face it. Keying a Tesla is the intellectual equivalent of eating glue. Sending emails? That’s strategic. That’s smart. That’s how you actually make a difference.

How to Get Started with Daily Emails (and Stop Being a Dumbass)

Pick a Cause

What do you care about? Climate change? Social justice? Exposing Elon Musk’s questionable life choices? Choose your battle.

Build Your List

Start with your friends, your family, and that one guy from high school who still owes you $20. Grow it from there.

Write Like You Give a Damn

No fluff. No filler. Just raw, unfiltered truth. Tell stories. Make people laugh. Make them think. Make them act.

Hit Send (That’s the hard part)

Every. Single. Day. Consistency is key. You want to change the world? Show up.

What You’re Doing Now:

Keying Teslas.

Being a petty vandal.

Accomplishing exactly nothing.

What You Could Be Doing:

Building an audience.

Spreading your message.

Actually making a difference.

If you’re serious about fighting the good fight, it’s time to put the keys down and pick up your keyboard.

You’re an artist after all.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

P.S. If you’re still thinking about keying a Tesla, just… don’t. Send an email instead. Your future self will thank you.

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Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom

The Backsliding Series: Part 1
​(remixed from November, 2023)

“Leaps forward are often preceded by desperate, regressive steps backward.” – Don Beck & Christopher Cohen, Spiral Dynamics

The big trick in the game of inner development is mastering the part of you that doesn’t want to develop.
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This is critical, so stick with me:
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Have you ever noticed that whenever you make a big leap forwards…

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When you break through to a new level of performance
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When you sink into a consistent rhythm of discipline
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When more of your natural personality begins to open up
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When the work you've been doing actually starts to show real-world results
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…Basically, when what you’ve wanted for so long finally begins to happen…
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​…There’s almost always a strange, insidious little urge to backslide?​
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To take your foot off the gas and either slow down, stop, or fall into reverse?
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(really, hit reply and let me know if you’ve noticed this)
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Maybe you take a day or two off…
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Eat some not-so-healthy food…
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Tumble down the social media / video game / television rabbit hole…
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Slack on your habits…
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​…And generally just muck up the good work you’ve been doing.​
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Because hey, you’ve been doing good work.
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You’ve earned a bit of a muck-around.
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But then your day or two off turns into a week or two, and that big leap forwards shrinks to nothing more than a small step.
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It feels a bit like spending a cash windfall at the casino:
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It’s sort of fun (but also kind of hollow), and you leave wondering why on earth you let yourself lose all that capital.
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And so it goes:
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Grind, grind, grind, big leap forwards, backslide, regret, start grinding again…
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​Never quite making the continuous forward progress you know is needed to bring your vision to life.​
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Yeah, it sucks.
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But there’s also a very good reason for it.
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This weird little urge to backslide serves a critical purpose.
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And understanding that purpose is the key to finally making your temporary transformations become permanent.
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More on that tomorrow…
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  ​P.S. In related news, here’s:
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  ​Why You’re Working Hard But Getting Nowhere​

The Backsliding Series was first published in November, 2023.
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It was a huge hit, but many of our subscribers never got a chance to read it. So this week, we’re remixing and revisiting it with fresh eyes. Enjoy 🙂

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I’m on a live call with someone I respect in the coaching world.

Now I’m no coach at all, but having a coach in my corner changed my life.

The one thing I love about this live is the fact that the is exposing the whole coaching industry for what it is.

Complexity and the never ending circle of getting course after course without even starting is slowly getting dismantled. The thing is. You don’t need course after course or unlimited credentials to change your life or circumstances.

So when you sit down and look around. Every industry is slowly collapsing and going back to a simplistic model.

I’ve said it for years and now it’s all coming true.

The fancy shit is dying and simplicity is becoming the next cool thing.

And I’ve preached it for years…

Find a thing you love to do or an industry that has a problem.

Find the solution.

Create a 1 page website that offers some help or an entry level price for that solution.

Collect their email and then email them cool shit around that too with an offer here and there.

That is it and I can see every single market and industry shifting from the bloated complexity to simple and easy.

So whether you’re a coach, consultant or an artist of any sort. You need to dig deep and figure out how to offer your thing as simply as possible. Deliver it and give them a great experience.

That is all. Definitely not super sexy. It’s fairly boring on paper.

Now get to it.

Stephen Walker

https://stphnwlkr.com/theleague

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Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom