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10/28/2026

Success without joy isn't really success at all.

Most entrepreneurs treat fun like a luxury they'll earn once the work is done. The problem is that the work is never done, so the day they've been waiting for never comes. In the meantime the energy drains, the ideas dry up, and it gets harder to remember why they built the business in the first place.

Do you deserve to have fun? Yes, absolutely, and you don't have to earn fun first. And if you need a business reason, you'll come back with more energy and better ideas. Fun belongs on the calendar like any other priority.

Send this to the entrepreneur you know who hasn't had real fun in a while.

What's one thing you can do this weekend just for fun?

Most people don't realize this, but regardless of your age, the next 10 years are the healthiest years you have left in ...
10/27/2026

Most people don't realize this, but regardless of your age, the next 10 years are the healthiest years you have left in your life. So how many of the things you want to do with them, like traveling, being there for your family, and staying active, are actually on your calendar?

Your meetings, calls, and deadlines for the business are all scheduled. Your health, your family, and the time off you keep promising yourself get a "someday," and someday never gets a date. Here are five things to put on the calendar now, before work fills up the next few months:

1️⃣ Book the preventative health check you've been putting off. It could be a physical, a colonoscopy, a mammogram, a skin check, or an eye exam. Finding a problem early gives you far more options than finding it late. Call today and get the appointment booked.

2️⃣ Put your workouts on the calendar like client meetings. Pick three times this week, block each one with a start and end time, and protect them the way you would a meeting with your biggest client.

3️⃣ Set a date with your spouse or partner to talk about the next 10 years. Where do you want to live, how much do you want to be working, and what do you want to be doing together? Make it a dinner or a long walk with no phones, because that conversation won't happen unless you plan it.

4️⃣ Meet with your financial advisor or attorney. Make sure your insurance, your will, and a plan for who runs the business if you can't are all in place. Nobody enjoys this meeting, which is exactly why it keeps getting pushed back.

5️⃣ Schedule time with someone you keep saying you'll see. It could be an old friend, one of your kids, or a parent. Pick the date and place today and send the invite before the day is over.

Pick one and get it on the calendar today. If you want help making sure the important things in your life get done and not pushed back again, that's exactly what we do inside the Next-Level Success Institute at NextLevelSuccessInstitute.com.

Which of these five has been sitting on your "someday" list the longest?

Want to double your revenue? Almost every entrepreneur says yes to that without thinking twice.Now add one condition to ...
10/26/2026

Want to double your revenue? Almost every entrepreneur says yes to that without thinking twice.

Now add one condition to that offer. What if doubling your revenue also meant doubling your time, with twice the hours and twice the pressure? Would you still take it?

Your answer shows you what is really driving you. What matters most is whether that answer matches the reason you started your business in the first place. Most entrepreneurs didn't start a business to work more hours. They started it for freedom, whether that meant more time with family, more control over their days, or a life they could enjoy while building something of their own.

If you said no, or you hesitated, that freedom is still what matters to you, even if the business has pushed it to the back seat. If you said yes right away, it may be worth asking whether the business has pulled you away from what you built it for, because chasing the next number can slowly replace the reason you started.

Either way, the goal is to build the business around what you actually want from it. The book "The Entrepreneur Success Formula" is built around this exact goal. It shares how you can stay aligned with why you started, grow your business revenue, and achieve the freedom you started it for.

If you want to double your revenue and still have the life you started your business for, grab your copy on Amazon at amazon.com/dp/B0GVQ2BLDQ.

Which was your first answer to the doubled-time question: yes right away, or a hesitation?

10/25/2026

Everyone you complain to is wondering what you say about them.

You've felt it from the other side. Someone complains to you about another person, and you quietly wonder what they say about you when you leave. When a business owner complains about an employee, a client, or a competitor, everyone listening starts to wonder if they're next. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know and the skills they have, so criticism says more about the person giving it than the person getting it.

Strong people lift others up. The next time you feel like complaining about someone, help that person out or walk away, and remember who's listening.

Send this to someone who always lifts others up.

Who's the person in your life who always lifts others up?

10/24/2026

How do you travel more?

Book the trip first, and build the year around it.

Most entrepreneurs say they'd travel more if it weren't for their business, because who would run it while they're gone? That's just an excuse. We've been to all seven continents and all fifty states, taking eight to ten weeks away every year, while running multiple businesses, and the number one question we get is how. The answer is so simple that most people don't believe it: we plan the trips before anything else, and everything else gets scheduled around those dates. Right now that's a month-long cruise next year across the Atlantic to Spain and the Mediterranean. Most people do it the other way around. They fill the calendar with work and hope a trip fits in, and it never does, because the calendar fills with whatever gets there first.

If you want to travel more, you don't need the right time. You need dates on the calendar and a booking that makes it real.

Send this to the entrepreneur you know who keeps saying they'll take the trip when things slow down.

What trip are you putting on the calendar first?

What if a coin decided how your next date night goes?Kim and I protect one block of time every week for just the two of ...
10/23/2026

What if a coin decided how your next date night goes?

Kim and I protect one block of time every week for just the two of us, and we call it Fantasy Friday. Yours doesn't have to be a Friday, and it doesn't have to look like ours, but what matters is that it's protected, because entrepreneurs plan their businesses down to the week, and the relationship usually gets whatever time is left over.

So tonight's challenge is to make that time a little more fun. If you're the one in charge this week, come up with at least five either-or decisions for the night ahead of time. Here are some possible examples: Italian or Mexican for dinner, bowling or a movie, ice cream or chocolate for dessert, a walk through the park or downtown, and for the end of the night, if you want to keep it a little romantic, who gives the massage. Be creative and use your imagination.

To make it even more fun and intriguing for your partner, keep the list hidden until it comes time for each decision. Then pull those options out, share them with your spouse, and flip the coin together to see what happens next. Heads gets the first choice, tails gets the second. Nobody can argue with a coin, so just laugh, go with it, and allow the coin to determine your agenda for the evening.

Years from now, you won't remember whose idea won. You'll remember the groan when the coin sent you to bowling instead of the movie, the laughing, and the night the two of you were the only thing on the calendar. Those are the moments that become memories, and those memories are what a lasting, loving relationship is built on.

What's the first either-or decision you'd put on your list?

10/22/2026

Self-discipline needs you to always have a full battery. A system executes even when you're on empty.

Yesterday's reel was about why self-discipline is a myth. The replacement is a system, and systems don't care how you feel, they just execute, even on your worst day. All it takes is about an hour to build it, and from then on the system takes over and you get things done. Decide ahead of time, so there's no decision left to make when you're drained. Bring in another person, because it's easier to keep a commitment to someone else than to yourself. And change what's around you, so the weak moment has nothing to grab. It works for the workouts, the follow-up calls, and the project you keep putting off.

Send this to the entrepreneur you know who keeps trying to out-discipline a bad week.

Which part of your system are you building today?

10/21/2026

You don't need more self-discipline.

Most people blame themselves when they can't stick with the workouts, the diet, or the habit they promised they'd keep. Self-discipline works great for a short while, but it runs on a battery. When it's full, no problem. When a key employee quits, a client cancels, or you argue with your spouse, it's the first thing to go, and then you blame yourself for not having more. Nothing is wrong with you.

Tomorrow's reel breaks down exactly how to set things up so they still happen on a dead battery.
Send this to the entrepreneur you know who keeps beating themselves up for not sticking with something.

What's the one thing you keep blaming yourself for not sticking with?

Have you ever tried a new marketing push, hired someone new, or launched a new offer, and still ended the year right whe...
10/20/2026

Have you ever tried a new marketing push, hired someone new, or launched a new offer, and still ended the year right where you started?

When your business stops growing, the natural reaction is to look at the business. You change the marketing, rework the offer, or add to the team, because that's where the numbers you check every week come from. But revenue, profit, and leads only tell you what happened. They don't tell you why it happened. Often, the reason your business stopped growing has less to do with the business and more to do with how you're running it day to day.

Here are three questions to ask yourself, and be honest with your answers.

When something unexpected comes up, like a client emergency or a key person calling out, can you handle it without dropping everything else you had planned? If you can't, you don't have the capacity to take on growth, because new customers and new projects only add to what's already on your plate.

Are the important things you know you should be doing, like planning your week or following up with prospects, getting done every week, or only during the weeks when things are calm? If they only happen when things are calm, your results will go up and down with how calm the week is, and growth takes steady effort every week.

Could your team handle a real problem this week without coming to you? If every problem still ends up on your desk, you're the bottleneck, and your business can only grow as fast as you can handle things yourself.

Those three questions only cover a small part of what can hold a business back. The Entrepreneur Success Diagnostic looks at five areas: Ownership, Congruence, Capacity, Consistency, and Collaboration. It takes about 7 minutes, and when you finish you'll see where you're strong, where you're losing momentum, and what to focus on next, so you're not guessing at what to fix.

If you're ready to stop ending the year right where you started, and you want your business to break through and grow the way you want it to, take the Diagnostic for free at MySuccessDiagnostic.com
Which of those three questions was the hardest for you to answer honestly?

When was the last time you took a week off and didn't check your phone once?For most business owners, getting the time o...
10/19/2026

When was the last time you took a week off and didn't check your phone once?

For most business owners, getting the time off isn't the hard part. The hard part is that the business still reaches them wherever they go, so they answer emails by the pool and take calls on the trip. That isn't a vacation. It's the same work in a different place. If you want to actually unplug, set up these three things before you leave:

1️⃣ Decide who handles each problem that normally lands on you. Write a short list of the things your team usually brings to you, like a customer complaint, a billing question, or a team member who is stuck. Next to each one, write the name of the person who handles it while you're gone, and tell the team before you leave so nobody has to call you to ask.

2️⃣ Spell out what is worth contacting you about. Pick two or three things that count as a real emergency, like losing a major client or a payroll problem, and tell your team that everything else waits until you're back. Choose one way for them to reach you in an emergency and turn off everything else.

3️⃣ Keep your first day back clear. A big reason owners check in on vacation is the pile of work waiting for them when they return. Block your first day back with no meetings, and ask your team to save their non-urgent questions for that day. When you know the pile will be handled, it's much easier to leave it alone.

When you get back, write down anything that went wrong while you were gone and fix those first. That list shows you exactly where the business still depends on you.

What's the longest you've gone on a trip without checking in on the business?

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