The Decisions We Cannot Make 

There's a line we came back to in our room this week that lands deeper every time we discuss it. It isn't that we should not make decisions that are best for all. It's that we cannot.

Honour Thy Beliefs

Something got named in our room this week. It arrived because I said something a Member disagreed with.

The Gate We Put in Front of Ourselves

We opened this month by writing down an answer to a single question. What do you really want? Not the next milestone or the next result, but the thing underneath all of it. We went around the room and read the answers out, and peace came up again and again. Fulfilment, contentment, freedom, and love too. One Member wrote financial freedom first, then clarity, stability, and purpose, and said that stability was probably peace looked at from a different angle.

The Happy Unlearner

Early on we sat with an idea that changes the size of the work. There's a finite number of concepts we hold about who we are, and a good many of them aren't true. Finite, rather than endless. 

Letting Go of What Is Not True

One of us built himself a meditation. He wrote the whole thing out, worked with an AI tool to shape it, then recorded it in his own voice so it played back as though someone else were guiding him. The finished recording runs forty-two minutes. He told us he loves it once he gets right into it, and that he does not do it as often as he would like. Then he repeated what he knew was true, which was that he had probably been too ambitious.

Running Through Brick Walls

One of us said something this week that I felt was valuable to share. Describing how he had always operated, he said he was used to running through brick walls and fixing up his broken nose after the fact.

The Luck We Practise

We opened this month by going around the room with a simple question, who here considers themselves lucky. Every hand went up. Then I asked who feels time-free, and who feels financially free, and the show of hands thinned out. That difference is worth sitting with, because the only thing separating the first answer from the other two is a belief.

The Story We’re Telling Ourselves

In our latest Growth HotSeat, we kept returning to a question that sounds simple until it's turned on us. Is it the actual circumstance in front of us that causes the disturbance, or just the story we've quietly decided to tell about it? A Member's HotSeat conversation became the clearest possible illustration, and it opened onto two more conversations that carried the same thread right through the session.

A Million Little Things

In our latest Growth HotSeat session, we confronted a deeply personal challenge that frequently shadows our greatest commercial successes. We frequently operate under the belief that as our companies grow and our financial security increases, the stress in our personal relationships will naturally decrease. However, our discussion highlighted that a hyper-focus on running a business can inadvertently leave our partners feeling overshadowed, undervalued, and disconnected from the very success they contributed to.

Never Refuse the Muse

In our latest mastermind session, we confronted the difficult reality of letting go of a company. We frequently operate under the belief that our major life transitions, such as selling a business or downsizing our homes, should bring us a sense of ultimate relief and freedom.