I have been thinking about this for a while. I looked at my calendar for the week and realized I couldn't tell it apart from the week before. Same calls. Same fires. If you'd swapped the two calendars, I wouldn't have noticed. That's not a business problem. That's a life on autopilot. Autopilot is sneaky Nobody wakes up and decides to sleepwalk through a decade. It happens one reasonable choice at a time. You take the client you don't want because the money is fine. You keep the offer that pays because changing it sounds exhausting. You skip the thing you actually care about because it isn't urgent. Ten years of reasonable choices later, you're running a business you never actually chose. The 5-minute check Set a timer. Answer honestly. Nobody is grading you. - If nothing changed for three more years, would you be okay with that? If your stomach dropped, you have your answer. - What's on your calendar this week that you'd cancel if there were zero consequences? That list is the real problem. - When did you last do something for the first time? Growth and novelty travel together. - Who are you building this for? If you can't name them, your "why" is missing, and motivation keeps leaking out the bottom. - What would 22-year-old you say about your Tuesday? Brutal question. Best one on the list. The fix is smaller than you think You don't need to blow up your agency or move to Costa Rica or buy a boat or sports car. Pick one thing off that cancel list and kill it this week. One client, one standing meeting, one commitment you only keep out of guilt. Just one. Then put something you actually want in that empty slot. Not a task. A thing. That's how you take the wheel back. One slot at a time. For me, the word that keeps me honest is defiance. I didn't start this to build a job with worse hours and no boss to blame. I started it to prove I could build something on my own terms. When a week starts looking like everybody else's week, that word snaps me back.

I'm am very pro freedom, In the past I have run for office and been very vocal about my position on things. But for the past few years I sort of stepped back from it. I decided my blogging will resume and to that end. I've created a word press site the beginnings of it are here: https://dreadpiratedorn.com/ Let me know what you think...

I have a heavy, heavy heart tonight. Today I learned my friend Norm Thomas passed away. He was a great guy, loved cooking, loved marketing, loved his dog and was always willing to help people. He will be sorely missed. Via Con Dios, Brother.

I have made happy hour on Friday's a weekly occurence.

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