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So, you've figured out your flagship service. Great!
After following what we covered in the last episode, on pricing and packaging, you now have a strong offer that converts. Most of the clients you attract accept the offer you're making. Awesome!
Since we know we have something that works, now it's time to automate it.
(Important note: You want to automate what works. Don't automate what doesn't work! If you don't have a flagship service, or you don't have an offer, or you're not getting clients, or the majority of clients you're attracting are not accepting the offer you're making, DON'T AUTOMATE. Go back and fix the previous steps first.)
Remember, automation is powerful. If you're already heading in the right direction, automating is your best friend. But if you're heading in the wrong direction automation is your worst nightmare.
The word "automate" may make you think of robots or machines. But while tools, software, macros, and algorithms are great, there's another way you can automate that involves zero coding:
Creating processes.
Processes are a group of steps that make up a procedure for performing some kind of task. It’s how you do your work.
If you create a process for how you do your work, you can hand off that process to another person and they can do your work for you.
Automation isn't limited to things that robots do. Automation includes processes for things that humans can do as well!
We'll be covering:
• Who creates processes
• What processes to create
• Why to create processes
• Where processes live
• When to create processes
• How to create processes
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There are 3 ways you can price your service:
1. Hourly Pricing
2. Flat Rate Pricing
3. Value-Based Pricing
I've talked about Value-Based Pricing on the seanwes podcast for over 7 years now, so it might surprise you to learn we're not using Value-Based Pricing for the Daily Content Machine.
This comes down to the difference between providing custom work vs. a productized service.
A productized service is not customized for each client. This means the price is fixed—like a product.
When does it make sense to offer a productized service instead of a custom-tailored service? You'll get the answer.
Once you decide on the type of service you want to provide, and your pricing model, then you have to come up with the actual price. You also have to decide whether or not you want to have different packages—and what prices those should have.
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You want clients and you want them now.
But you don’t simply want *more* clients. You want more of the *right* clients. Because more bad clients is a nightmare.
- Clients who **don’t pay you.**
- Clients who **push you around.**
- Clients who **don’t communicate.**
- Clients who **demand extra revisions.**
You want GREAT clients:
- Great clients pay well.
- Great clients pay you on time.
- Great clients don’t demand extra work.
- Great clients let you follow your process.
That sounds incredible. How do we find these great clients?
Great clients can only be *attracted*. They cannot be chased.
In other words, you need to act like someone great clients want to work with, and draw them to you like a magnet.
We’re sharing multiple methods you can use to **get great clients even if you don’t have a big audience**. -
This is the start of a new series that goes behind the scenes on what it takes to create a highly profitable agency.
We quietly launched seanwes media this summer, with a new flagship service, and it’s already a six-figure agency before we’ve really even started promoting our one service.
The service is called Daily Content Machine. Learn more at http://DailyContentMachine.co.
The offer is simple: We turn your weekly show into daily content.
Every day, 7 days a week, you’ll have 5 videos to post on the big 5 platforms. Imagine the impact your brand will have with 150+ videos going out every month!
All you have to do is record your weekly show.
Okay, now you know the service. But the purpose of this podcast series is not to sell you on our service (though we’d love to work with you). The point is to help YOU create your own highly profitable agency.
We’ll pull back the curtain and break down how to:
- Identify your ideal client
- Make competition irrelevant
- Create processes and systems
- Know exactly what service to sell
- Create a compelling offer that converts
- Price your service package as a no-brainer option
- Switch from “Freelancer Mindset” to “Owner Mindset”
- Scale without breaking things and remain highly profitable
After thinking long and hard, I’ve decided I will share real numbers and actual profit margin on the series. I want to give you unprecedented insight because I hope it will help you avoid making the same mistakes I’ve made over the years. -
Sean is back on the seanwes podcast! Today we’re sharing a special episode of our members-only Q&A show, Fired Up Mondays, where Sean joins Dan to tell us what he’s been up to on his sabbatical year.
We also announce an exciting new series starting in the NEXT episode called “Build a Profitable Agency”. We’ll take you inside how we’re building seanwes media from the ground up. You don’t want to miss this!
Aside from these announcements, we cover some great great questions from the Community members this week! Members get to experience Fired Up Mondays every single week, but we’re excited to share this particular episode with you publicly.
Here are some of the questions we cover in this episode:
• How do you use Value-Based Pricing effectively if your value-based price is for a year of work, but you bill in monthly installments?
• How do you handle the disconnect between the value of the year-long work and the billing structure?
• How do you balance long-term investment in your business with your short-term well-being?
• How do you set goals when it’s not yet clear what you’re building towards?
• How do you balance reading, continuing education, and self-investment with doing the actual work? -
I was just about to eat lunch, but I have to record this. My wife Laci was sitting on the couch and looking kind of down and I said, "What's going on?"
She said, "The book that I'm reading just really isn't that interesting. It's really hard to get through." And she looked kind of dejected, like she was required to finish this book.
And I said, skip it.
Move on to the next book. If you spent the rest of your life reading non-stop—you didn't sleep, or eat, or drink; you just read books—you wouldn't even be able to read all of the books that were published this year, let alone all the books in the world. Most books, they're actually not that great. Very few books are excellent and worth your time, and if you spent the rest of your life reading only the excellent books, you still couldn't get through them all.
So don't feel guilty. It's the book's job to grab your attention and pull you through. And if it's not doing that, move on to the next book. -
You haven’t written that book, or started that blog or podcast you’ve wanted to start, because you fear you don’t have anything worthy to say.
I mean, you kind of think you have something worthy to say, but what if other people don’t think so? What if they don’t pay any attention to you at all?
“Worthy” is another way of saying “valuable”. But value is subjective. Information can be worthless to one person and invaluable to another.
This means you don’t get to determine what is valuable to someone else. Only they can decide what is valuable to them.
We all have wisdom to share. Even the things that seem mundane, or uninteresting, to us can be novel to others.
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Unless you’re Amazon, your business is probably bringing in a lot less revenue right now.
Payment processors for small businesses are reporting that transaction volume is down as much as 50%.
As a business owner, what do you do in a time like this?
People have changed how they’re spending money, so you have to change how you make money.
You can not afford to sell products people don’t need in a time like this. Unless your products are ESSENTIAL, you need to pivot.
Pivot means to change direction and head in a new direction. Give up how you used to make money in the past. Times have changed. The world is different. You must reinvent yourself. Denial will result in going broke.
Pivot to providing a MONEY-MAKING service for people who HAVE money.
If you sell nice-to-have products, you’re going to have a bad time. You were lucky to be able to do that in a good economy. Now it’s time to face reality.
If your market is mostly people who don’t have money, you’re going to have a bad time.
The only way you’re going to survive is if you pivot to providing a service that MAKES MONEY for people who HAVE MONEY.
While you make this pivot to bring in new revenue and keep your business afloat, you should also EXPAND and build your BRAND by significantly increasing the amount of content you produce.
Most people are contracting right now. Most people are REDUCING their content output. This is a huge mistake. You should use this opportunity to provide as much valuable and helpful content as possible.
If you wait until everything is back to “normal”, you’ll be too late. At best, you survive and you’re irrelevant. At worst (and more likely), your business will die.
We are going to come out on the other side of this situation and people are going to spend money again. This will pass.
You want to be top of mind when people start spending money again. The way you do this is by publishing content consistently while we’re in a crisis. -
We moved out of our home at the beginning of 2020 to embark on a sabbatical year of nomadic travel. With no house or car, we set out to travel the world.
Then the pandemic hit.
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There’s a lot going on right now.
That’s an understatement, right? The COVID-19 pandemic has taken everyone’s attention in the last few weeks, and rightly so.
Hopefully you’re in a situation where you’re safe, and healthy. But that doesn’t make it easy. A lot of things are changing all around us, and quickly.
How do we stay on track with our lives? How do we keep working, playing, eating, exercising, and supporting one another when every day brings more uncertainty?
Today we’ll talk about the mindsets and tactics needed to keep going, even when the world is more uncertain than ever. -
This is it! The final episode of our 5-part podcast miniseries, Finding Community.
If you’ve been following along, you know the incredible role a positive, uplifting community can play in your life. It can keep you on track, get you unstuck, make achieving your goals only a matter of time.
But that’s just it: time. Who has time? We’re all busy, juggling a hundred different demands… and now we’re supposed to participate in a community, too?
Has Sean discovered a magical 25th hour you can add to your day? Well… no. But he can tell you how to prioritize what’s important.
Why you don’t have time for community.
The reason Sean created this series is not only to teach you why finding a positive community is so important, it’s also to let you know about a great opportunity.
We’re incredibly proud of the Community Sean’s built at seanwes. The investment for annual seanwes membership increases on March 20th.
Now is the best time to join, get access to all of our courses and training, and lock in the current rate.
We always reward loyalty: when you join before the 20th, we grandfather you in for the duration of your membership.
If joining the seanwes Community is something you’ve been thinking about, now is the time! Go here to become a member: https://seanwes.com/membership
Speaking of time…
You may well be thinking “I don’t have time to participate in a community.”
Frankly? You don’t have time.
You don’t HAVE time to do anything. You MAKE time to do what’s important.
This is true for all of us. We make time, but we only make time for what matters.
If you want all the benefits that come from engaging with a community, you have to decide that engagement is important. You will get out of a community as much as you put in.
This doesn’t mean you have to be someone special, that you have to contribute time and teach people, necessarily…
In great communities like the one we’ve got at seanwes, when you invest time you receive clarity.
The two-letter word that makes time.
You want to make time for community, but you’ve got none to spare!
- Your to-do list is ready to burst.
- You’re feeling overwhelmed.
- You have too much on your plate.
- You’re caught up in the buzz of feeling “busy”.
It feels like we should be busy—after all, you’ve got great things to achieve! But what you are actually getting done? Where are you going?
Maybe instead of being busy, you want to be effective.
Make sure you’re actually headed in the right direction. That the things you’re doing now will get you results. That every step is a step closer to your goal.
You’ll never find time for community… until you make time.
And NO is the two-letter word that makes time.
What will you say no to, so that you can make time for community?
Remember that you’re going to get clarity as a result of this time investment. Decide: When will you engage in community?
Add time in community to your weekly cycle.
We all live our lives in weekly cycles. We expect certain things to happen on certain days of the week. We’re all creatures of habit that way.
It helps when your community fits into your weekly cycle with regular activities. That way, you can plan exactly when you’ll participate.
In the seanwes Community, every Monday we stream our members-only show, Fired Up Mondays. This is your weekly office hours, where members can show up and:
- Ask questions.
- Get answers.
- Get unstuck.
- Find clarity.
Every Tuesday, we live-stream recording of the seanwes podcast. You might be used to the show coming out on Wednesday—we actually record them 8 days in advance!
The podcast is interactive inside the Community. Members not only get an exclusive pre-show and after-after-show, but we open up discussion an hour before the episode streams.
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Money can be a touchy subject. When you work a job, your employer often forbids you from discussing it. When you sell products or services, you struggle to put a price on them that lets you make sales… but also lets you make money.
You might find yourself thinking, “I wish I could get paid what I’m worth!” But how do you even know what that is?
To be clear, we’re not talking about your personal worth; you can’t put a value on that.
When we talk about getting paid what you’re worth, we’re really talking about finding a balance.
There’s one thing that determines what your product or services are worth (and if you’re an employee, you’re still selling a service!):
- The value to your customer.
Aligning that with your needs is the key to getting paid what you’re worth. Today, we’re talking about how to find that alignment. -
Today we’ve posted Part 4 of our 5-part podcast miniseries, Finding Community.
Sean’s talked about replacing negative inputs in your life with positive ones, and he’s explained how to find people pursuing greatness in your field and grow alongside them.
Community is key.
The question is: should you join an existing community, or start one from scratch?
The answer is in today’s episode.
Before you start a community, seek one out.
Starting your own community is tremendously rewarding. It’s also a lot of work.
If you can, find an existing community in your field and join it instead.
But don’t just join the community… pour yourself into the community!
- Show initiative.
- Pretend like you’re getting paid to be there.
- Act like an owner.
- Help the people around you.
Do these things, and watch the community organizer take notice. When you add massive value to a community, the organizer will want to promote you… and that’s just for starters.
Sean hires his team members out of the Community—hey, that’s how I got my job! And why wouldn’t he? You can see who’s in there every day, providing value. Act like the community manager, and you might end up getting paid to be one.
When should you start a community of your own?
If you can’t find an existing community in your space… start one!
It’s worth the effort. Communities are where the magic happens. All the best things in your career will come out of community.
People don’t like the word “networking”, but all it really means is building relationships with people. And that’s what people do when they’re in a community. They:
- Form partnerships.
- Tackle projects together.
- Set up weekly calls.
- Form mastermind groups.
- Hire each other.
- Recommend or promote each other.
There are many benefits to being a part of a community.
Starting a community from scratch is always an option, but expect it to take YEARS of effort. You're much better off joining a community that already exists if you can find one.
Should a community be free or paid?
Whether you start a community or join one, paid communities are the way to go.
We’ve all been in free Facebook groups or hashtag-oriented “communities” on other social networks. We’ve seen how much noise there is for how little signal.
And the trolls! Don’t even get me started.
It takes time and resources to run a great community. If it’s going to stay vibrant, a community needs investment.
Whether it’s yours or someone else’s, if you want a community to last, invest in it!
Paid membership doesn’t just keep the lights on, it also keeps the quality level high.
- The people looking to troll aren’t going to bother joining.
- The people who aren’t serious will congregate elsewhere.
- Instead, you get the people who are committed and willing to invest in themselves.
Paid communities are much more likely to be higher in quality. But if you're thinking of creating your own, don’t start a community for the money.
A community is a good investment.
A paid community is great, but you don’t start one for the money; start a community for the people.
The point is to attract great people so you can all grow together.
Sean invested the money he made from his community over the years right back into the community! He’s focused on continually improving the member experience.
A great community is a long-term investment.
A high-quality experience that’s worth your time.
How do you find your people?
It takes a long time of consistently producing content to create a community.
Sean has spent years putting out quality content which has attracted incredible people to the Community at seanwes.
The seanwes Community is where you’ll meet like-minded creative professionals from all across the world. Get 24/7 support, whether you want to:
- Grow an audience.
- Get more clients.
- Start a podcast.
- Sell your own products.
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Today we’ve posted Part 3 of our 5-part podcast miniseries, Finding Community.
In the first two episodes, Sean gave us the crucial steps for replacing the negative inputs in your life with positive ones. With all that new positive energy, we can get to work pursuing our creative passions!
But once we’ve created our great work, then what? We want to share it with the world. We want to forge friendships, make connections, build an audience around our work!
Today Sean shares exactly how to make that happen.
Getting someone famous to promote you.
Everyone wants a shout-out from a famous person, right? It would be great if someone with huge reach promoted your thing to their audience.
The problem is, it’s too late.
If you try to befriend someone famous so they’ll promote your work, they'll see you coming. Everybody wants something from them. So how do you get someone with influence to promote you?
You have to befriend them before they’re famous.
Oh sure, you’re thinking, if you could predict who was going to be famous you wouldn’t need their promotion!
Good news: you CAN predict who’s going to be big using The Greatness Formula, which you’ll hear about in a minute.
Two types of positive people.
Positive people—the people you want to surround yourself with—fall into two categories:
- People to learn from: those many levels ahead of you in your field.
- People to connect with: those on the same level as you.
Obviously, you want to connect with people who are already famous and successful in your field, but it doesn’t work that way; learn from them instead.
Connect with people on your own level who will someday have influence.
Seek out people who are driven, taking action, making great work, have a positive mindset. These are the people to surround yourself with.
This leads us to The Greatness Formula: how you can recognize greatness before it happens:
The Greatness Formula: Mindset × Action + Time
You want to identify:
- People with a positive mindset (you know it when you see it).
- Who are consistently taking action.
- It’s only a matter of time before they achieve greatness.
Attach yourself to these people!
What level are you?
When we talk about people being at different “levels” in their field, what do we mean?
It’s a combination of experience, notoriety, and success.
These numbers are arbitrary, but let’s say you have 2,000 hours of practice as an artist: you’re a Level 2 Artist.
Now you know not to pursue someone who has 18,000 hours of practice—they’re a Level 18 Artist!
Find other Level 2 Artists who match The Greatness Formula.
Find the Level 2 Artists who are making work, sharing it with the world, practicing their art daily.
Because these people are at your level, you can connect with them. Attach yourself to them. What does that mean?
Well, how do you get a best friend? By being a best friend. Here’s the Best Friend Method:
- Comment on their work.
- Share their work.
- Make a video for them.
- Write a thoughtful email.
- Send a package.
- Repeat the above 100x.
When you find a person who’s going places, you want to become their greatest supporter. That last step is the key: Repeat 100x.
There’s one more key to connecting with someone who’s going places:
You have to embody The Greatness Formula yourself.
Embody The Greatness Formula.
In the last two parts of this series, we talked about cutting out the negative, and replacing it with the positive.
In order to pursue greatness, a positive mindset is crucial.
But a positive mindset alone is not enough!
The part you may be missing is taking action.
You can’t just have a positive mindset and do nothing—that won’t get you anywhere.
When you have a positive mindset and take action, people will notice. They’ll recognize The Greatness Formula, even subconsciously.
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On Monday we posted Part 1 of a 5-part podcast miniseries called Finding Community. Part 2 is available today!
You can’t just cut out the negative.
In Part 1, Sean talked about the necessity of cutting out the negative inputs in your life, whether that’s social media accounts or the people sitting next to you.
But you can’t just cut out negativity, that leaves a void.
You have to surround yourself with positivity.
We all know the expression “24/7”—it means “all the time”.
Sean wants you to remember a new expression: 14/7.
Why 14/7?
- You should be spending 8 hours sleeping.
- That leaves 16…
- But let’s say you have some negative people you just can’t get away from.
So you get 2 hours with which to be flexible. But the rest of the time, those 14 hours a day… you’ve got to pipe positive inputs into your ears.
You need to offset negativity with 5x as much positivity.
As much as we try to cut out negative inputs, there’s always some that will still get through.
Any negativity that you can’t cut out, you need to offset with positive inputs.
Your mindset is shaped by your inputs.
In Part 1, Sean talked about the dangers of scarcity mindset, and the need to cultivate a mindset of abundance instead—even if you’re in circumstances of real scarcity.
You can’t cultivate an abundance mindset when you’re got negativity coming in.
If you’re around negative people more than 2 hours a day… you need to change your environment.
You can’t accept an environment of negativity. Even if it’s your job. Even if they’re your friends.
You become like the people you spend time around. And negativity has gravity on its side.
It’s not always easy (or possible) to control your physical environment… but you can control your digital environment.
Create a positive digital environment.
For 14 hours of the day, focus your digital environment on postive inputs.
Yes, of course you have a job and need to get your work done.
But all that other time—when you’re on the train or the bus, in your car, walking around, working out at the gym, washing dishes… pipe positive content into your ears.
Immerse yourself in the positive.
- Listen to the seanwes podcast—it’s all about improving yourself, self-development, positivity, and motivation.
- Listen to other podcasts with positive values.
- Seek more-positive sources of news and information—they’re out there.
- Find better YouTube and Instagram accounts to follow.
Here’s a secret: you don’t have to follow your friends on social media just because you know them.
It’s true. Now that you know, try this: unfollow everyone. Every single person—all the way down to zero.
If you’re worried someone you unfollow will get mad, or unfollow you in return… that's an indication your relationship with them is that shallow. You won't miss it.
Now you can start building up from zero. Imagine opening an app and there’s NO content.
How do you feel? Is your life better or worse?
Start following accounts on social only if they add positive messages to your life.
Remember: you are not obligated to follow anyone. This is you and your mindset at stake… take it seriously.
Renew your physical environment with positivity.
Okay, you’ve overhauled your digital environment… but what about the physical?
What if you have friends and family dragging you down?
Seriously consider cutting off those relationships. But if you can’t, you can still:
- Limit your exposure to negative people as much as you can.
- Offset negativity by immersing yourself in 5x the amount of positivity.
What does offsetting negativity look like?
Let’s say you have to spend 2 hours with a negative family member. Can you work that down to just 1 hour?
Now you’re still experiencing an hour of negativity. So you need to pipe in 5 hours of positive input from other sources:
- Talk to positive people in your life.
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There’s nothing worse than launching to crickets.
That’s what we call it when you pour time and effort into designing and building a great product—a piece of art, an online course, a great app—you work on it for weeks, or months… or years.
You actually finish the product.
You put this amazing thing you made out in the world…
And no one wants it.
In response to all your hard work, you get… nothing.
Just the sound of crickets chirping. You know, figuratively (or maybe literally, depending on where you live!)
That’s just the worst: making something that you love, and then finding out nobody else is interested.
Was all that time wasted? Is there any way to salvage this product? Maybe if you used different launch strategies…
We never want you to end up asking those questions. When you make a product you want people to buy, there’s a simple rule: you have to make something people WANT to buy.
It’s not enough to make something you want. It’s not enough to make something you think other people want… you need to make something they actually want.
You need to find out if people want your product long before you make it. You need to validate your big idea before you give it your blood, sweat, and tears.
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Sean’s recorded a podcast mini-series called Finding Community, and the first part (of five) just published today.
Below are some highlights, takeaways and quick wins from the recording (in case you’re more into reading than listening right now):
Everyone needs a supportive community.
Why does community matter, and why do you want to focus on finding community?
A supportive community is rocket fuel for:
- Finding your people, your audience, your tribe.
- Starting or growing your own business.
- Being financially supported by your creative passions.
- Getting support when you’re stuck.
Every time Sean has leveled up in business, it was because of a relationship, not just information.
As helpful as information can be, you need context to apply it to your own situation.
That’s where community comes in.
Community can’t survive negativity.
A negative attitude destroys communities. We’re not talking about critique or constructive criticism: you know true negativity when you encounter it. Negativity pulls you down… and keeps you down.
When you have a negative voice in your life, you might want to pull that person up, help them let go of that negativity. And it’s great to want to help!
But negativity has gravity on its side.
It’s easier for a negative person to pull you down than for you to pull them up into positivity.
You have to cut negativity out of your life. We’ll talk about how to do that in a minute.
Negativity will kill your passion.
Negativity is a breeding ground for scarcity mindset. We talk about this a lot:
- When critical resources are scarce, you get desperate.
- You’ll do anything to acquire those resources (usually money).
- You take on jobs you shouldn’t.
- You work with bad clients.
- The negative people alongside you complain and enable this.
- Pretty soon, your passion, the reason you wanted to make a living this way… it’s gone.
This story is too common. You quit your job to pursue your creative passion, and pretty soon you’re mired in scarcity mindset.
The opposite of scarcity mindset is abundance mindset: choosing to see the world as full of opportunity and the resources you need to survive as being widely available.
The tricky thing is, you need to think in terms of abundance even when you’re in the middle of circumstantial scarcity.
Even when your bank account is almost empty… you have to believe you can make ends meet.
You have to defy what you see and make decisions based on a mindset of abundance. And you can’t do that when you’re surrounded by negativity.
You can’t afford to be surrounded by negative people.
You can’t afford to be around these types of people:
- People who don’t believe in you.
- People who aren’t achieving what you want to achieve.
We’ve all heard that you become the average of the people around whom you spend your time. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends on who you’re around!
If you’re surrounded by people who are lazy, complaining, negative, not driven… you’ll tend to be like that as well, try as you might not to be.
You need to cut the negative inputs out of your life.
But it’s not enough to just cut the negativity out of your life. There’s another step that you’ll hear about soon in Part 2 of this series.
To keep this short, here’s your homework:
- Cut negative people out of your life wherever you can.
- Cancel events where you’re hanging around negative people.
- Miss that party.
- Skip that conference.
- Ditch that happy hour where the team from work sits around complaining.
- Unfollow and unsubscribe from negativity online.
- Unsubscribe from negativity in podcasts, YouTube channels, and email newsletters.
- Unfollow negative people on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
In a couple days, you’ll hear about what to do after you’ve cut out negativity—but you have to start here.
P.S. The annual investment for seanwes membership increases permanen... -
We all have things in our lives that we can’t wait to share with everyone we know. There are other things we’d just as soon keep to ourselves, yet we want to make a connection with other people. We want to feel heard and understood.
On top of all that, we have a business to build, and a brand that we want to present to the world.
So when is it okay to share, and when is it not? How do we talk about those things that aren’t easy wins, that aren’t sunny days on the beach, that aren’t sipping champagne in front of our private jet? How do we share the real stuff, the hard stuff… or do we share it at all?
It’s hard to know how personal to get when we’re putting ourselves out there, especially on social media. How do we balance a desire to be real, to be authentic, with the responsibility we have to our audience, and to ourselves?
Those are the questions we’re going to answer today. -
Do you want to travel the world—or even travel your own country—with nothing but the pack on your back? Imagine that freedom—knowing you’ve already got everything you need.
There’s that line, “The things you own… end up owning you.” Well, what if you didn’t need to own hardly anything?
Between remote jobs and AirBnb, that unfettered life has never been more accessible…
But you could never actually do it, of course! You have a job, a car, an apartment… or maybe even a house. You’ve got leases and responsibilities and you’ve got a really nice couch.
But if there’s a part of you that just wishes you could pack it all up and hit the road…
Maybe it’s time to listen to that voice.
And if the voice is too quiet to hear… Sean is here to amplify it. In this call I had with Sean, he aims to prove that you can travel the world if you really want to. Yes, even you. Despite all the reasons and excuses… if this is what you really want, you can do it. This show will give you a lot to think about… and you might need to think twice about how much you really want that couch.
Enjoy the show. -
You should be proud of yourself: you’ve got a lot on your plate.
You might be running a business, and, as I’ve heard it said, the great thing about running your own business is you can choose whichever 16 hours a day you want to work!
Or you might have a job that takes up most of the day, and a passion that you work on in the mornings, or the evenings, or both.
On top of all that, we all have our share of adulting: you know, doing the laundry, calling the bank, making sure there’s something in the fridge when we need it.
And I haven’t even touched on all the other people you have in your life, some of whom might need you to do all of the above while carrying them around or solving their LEGO woes.
You could be excused for just wanting a breather sometimes. Or maybe just wanting to give it all up and live in a tiny cabin on a moor. Or you could join a monastery, and possess nothing but a bowl, a robe, and a spartan room.
If any of that is sounding appealing right now, you’re not alone. Feeling overwhelmed with your commitments, desires, and responsibilities is a fact of life. Taking flight for the hills with no forwarding address might be the solution… but I hope not.
We still want to see you around these parts! :)
Let’s talk about what it takes to keep playing the often-exhausting game of life. We have yet to find the rule book, but we can share what we’ve learned that works. - Mehr anzeigen