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You Don't Have to Reply to Everyone… but Please Don't Automate It 😅
Twenty new comments were sitting in my course communities this morning. I personally replied to three...
Our clients/members take time to write something… and we're only able to respond to a fraction of it. Many of us carry a low-grade guilt about this — the feeling that every unanswered comment is a small broken promise.
If you create content or run any kind of community, you can probably relate. It's one of the reasons social media can feel so exhausting for us soulpreneurs.
And now, for th…
Should You Read "The Science of Getting Rich"? Yes… but skip the first chapter.
The Science of Getting Rich tells you who it's for, right in the opening lines. It was written, Wallace Wattles says, "for the men and women whose most pressing need is for money; who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward."
Get rich first. Philosophize afterward.
You can learn a great deal about this book from that one sentence — both why it has inspired people for more than a century, and why I think its opening pages deserve your suspicion.
I still recommend reading it. I als…
Niche Mates, Not Competitors
How do you feel about the word "competition"?
For us self-employed people, that word can create anxiety and resistance… being "competitive" tends to make us less cooperative.
Instead, I recommend a different word for fellow souls doing similar work: niche mates.
A niche mate is another worthy human being who occupies the same industry niche as you. They, too, have families to feed, and dreams they hope to achieve. And, similar to us, they also have hidden suffering in their life that, if we o…
How I Invest My Money
There will always, always be financial news that causes you to question your investments. "URGENT! Divest from this, invest in that" — every year, every quarter, it's the same. It's how those people (who sell urgency) stay in business. They need eyeballs on their content, or to sell you their financial memberships...
If you've ever felt that anxiety — checking your accounts after a fear-mongering headline, wondering if you're doing it all wrong — this post is for you.
What follows is my whole …
Your AI Is Designed to Flatter You. Here's How to Change That.
You share a half-formed idea with your AI — a rough plan, a shaky draft, a decision you're only half-sure about.
And it tells you the idea is "brilliant." Insightful. Exactly what the world needs!
Feels good, doesn't it? It did for me, too… for longer than I'd like to admit. 😅
But most of the time… it isn't really helping you.
Your AI is trained to please you.
Left to its defaults, that's what it does — it agrees, and hands back a polished, credible-sounding version of whatever you already …