Every review pulls three specific ideas out of a community. Not compliments, but named mechanics with enough detail that you could build one yourself. Each idea comes with four things. A rating. Best of the best, Exceptional, or Really good. We rate each idea on its own merit rather than against the others, so a community might have three top-rated ideas or none at all. A time to implement. One afternoon, one weekend, or ongoing. Knowing an idea is excellent tells you nothing about whether you can do it before Friday. A watch out. The condition it depends on, because most good mechanics only work above a certain size or with a certain kind of member. Steps. Numbered, in order, ending with one number to check after thirty days. Then three questions aimed back at your own community, and one instruction: pick the question that made you least comfortable and fix that one thing. You do not have to read all of it. Give it five minutes, check the "best for" line under each idea, and you will know which one is worth your time and which two to skip. (5 minutes to decide your direction) That decision is the point. Read every word and it only takes about twelve. We still score communities across substance, kinship, onboarding, outcomes, leadership, money, and engagement. We just do not end reviews with the number anymore. A score you run on your own room tells you where to work. A score we publish about someone else's is only a verdict, and a verdict is the one thing you cannot act on. Access First Reworked Review Here P.S. There's a pre-built AI prompt you can use at the end of each review. Let us know if you have any additional suggestions on making these more useful. We'll be dropping this at an average of every other day. @Lisa Vanderveen

Potatoes become ice cream. Pumpkin seeds become tofu. And tomorrow... @Jenny Rader-Bakos is letting us into the kitchen AND behind her community build. 😂🌱 Jenny is the creator of Rooted & Wild, where she’s turning 15+ years of kitchen experience, her own remarkable personal journey, and her love of whole-food, plant-based cooking into a growing community. And we want to know what’s happening behind the scenes. How is she turning what she knows into experiences people value? What are her members teaching her? What’s working? What’s changing? How is she thinking about monetization? And what is she still figuring out? Remember, this isn't an interview. It’s builders talking building. And knowing Jenny, I suspect we’ll have some fun along the way. 😂 📅 TOMORROW, Friday, August 21 ⏰ 1:00 Central 🔗 Zoom link is in the Skoolology calendar Come listen. Ask questions. Join the conversation. Or just pull up a chair and learn alongside us. 👋 Know another builder who would enjoy this? Invite them along! They don't have to be a Skoolology member. Can’t make it live? We’ll record it and share the replay. Tomorrow we’re not just learning about Jenny’s build. We’re learning FROM it. ❤️🎙️🌱

I had a suspicion when I asked about that no on Tuesday, and I want to tell you what came back, because it surprised me. Here is what you described. Somebody who was interested, and kept putting off the next step, because starting would have meant admitting the problem was real. Somebody who has heard journaling is good for her, and has started one before, and watched it sit on the nightstand after three days. Somebody who said it is not my style, which is a person telling you kindly that they are not your person. Almost every one of you described somebody who did not believe in themselves. Not one of you said your person doubted you. Think about that for a second, because it runs against nearly everything you will be told. The advice out there is to build authority. Get testimonials. Show credentials. Prove you are the real thing. (Some of this is important.) Yet, it turns out that when you look at an actual person who actually said no, that is not usually what was happening. There are three trusts underneath a yes. Somebody has to trust you, trust themselves, and believe the change is actually possible. Avinash worked this out on his own a couple of weeks ago in the comments, from a completely different direction, which is how I know it is not just a nice-sounding framework. You have told me which one is thinnest. It is the middle one. Your people mostly believe you. They do not believe themselves. Which means the thing to fix is not your credibility. It is the size of the first step. That is what trust in yourself is actually made of. Not encouragement. Evidence. And you cannot hand somebody evidence about themselves. They have to generate it, which means they have to do something and have it go well. Elsebeth said something in the comments this week that belongs right here. It is in our power to make it simple and useful. That is the whole job, and it is harder than making something thorough. So, today's build. Ten minutes. Take the first thing your person has to do.

You made it through your first week here. That deserves a post. Drop one win from your first 7 days. It doesn't need to be big. Finished the welcome module? Win. Asked your first question? Win. Finally understood something that's been fuzzy for years? Definitely worth celebrating. Keep it simple: 1. Your win: One thing you accomplished, learned, or figured out this week 2. One surprise: Something about your first week that went differently than you expected, good or bad.Two or three sentences is plenty. Been here longer than 7 days? You're not off the hook. Post what your day-7 win would have been. We want your story in here too. One more thing: don't sit on a win waiting for the next milestone. Check out our "Celebrations" section. This community runs on momentum, yours included. When you're done commenting, drop a like on someone else's celebration. Cheering each other on is half the point of this thread. Next stop: day 30. 👊

One month. That's long enough for something real to shift, even if it doesn't feel like it yet. This one goes a little deeper than your day-7 post: 1. Your biggest win of the month: The moment that made you think "okay, this is working" 2. Then vs. now: What can you do today that you couldn't do 30 days ago? 3. What's next: One thing you're going after in your next 30 days A short paragraph is perfect. Write the goal down like you mean it, because you'll be checking back on it at day 90. Not sure what's changed? Scroll through your own posts and comments from this month. You'll be surprised what past-you was still figuring out. Founding members: you're right at the 30-day mark with us, so this thread is yours to break in. Post your month-one story and set the bar for everyone who follows. And remember, wins between milestones go straight into the Celebrations category. Day 40 breakthrough? Post it on day 40. Drop a like on someone else's celebration before you go. A month of effort deserves an audience. See you at 90. 👊