Stoic Lesson

Had to let a partner go this week. Smart bloke. Brand strategist. Big potential. I can literally see how he could 3x his income in a year maybe more without any real changes to his model. But he wants “pay on results”… while treating me like an employee. Mate, if an extra $2.5 million isn’t enough reason to take your hand off the handbrake, you're not ready for me. Here’s the thing: He’s not failing because he’s bad. He’s failing because he’s scared. And scared people grip tighter. He’s trying to protect his business by controlling everything. Meanwhile, the business is quietly suffocating. Everyone’s having a weird 2025. Sales are down, attention’s fickle, nothing feels as easy as it did. But holding on tighter won’t save you. Speed and trust will. If you partner with someone on results, let them get you the results. If you don’t want results then pay folks a salary and micromanage away. Just don’t do both. You can’t steer with one hand on the wheel and the other welded to the handbrake. Let go, test, move. The market rewards motion, not perfection. If you’ve been gripping too tight this year, maybe it’s time to see what happens when you let someone else drive for a while.

@ChrisLDyson 🔥

Most people spend 30 years chasing $3M for retirement…
…and still end up knackered. That’s the plan we’ve all been sold:
 Work. Save. Delay life. 
Finally get your “freedom” at 65, when you’re too tired to enjoy it. My mate Travis didn’t buy that script.
 He didn’t want to wait decades and shuffle into retirement with a walking stick. 
So he built something different. It’s stupidly simple: • Build a small community (500+ people). • Run ONE auction a month inside it. • Pocket $5k–$50k. That’s it. 
No funnels. No ads. No death-by-Zoom. 
Just… Community → Auction → Cashflow. He calls it Community FIRE FIRE being “Financial Independent Retire Early.” 
Except his version isn’t about retiring early. 
It’s about retiring NOW. Here’s where the favour comes in. 
I told Travis I’d send a few sharp people his way. 
Not everyone. Just the kind of people who’d get the idea and want it. So I’m asking you:
 Do me a favour. 
If this speaks to you, drop a 🔥 below.
 I’ll DM you the link while it’s free to join (he’s capping it at 1,000). And if it’s not for you? No hard feelings. 
I’d rather you say “no” than pretend.
 I don’t share most of the stuff I get sent.
 But this one made the cut.

“High Ticket is Dead!”
 No it ain’t. You just forgot what business you’re actually in. Let’s rewind the clock 5 years… Everyone and their second cousin was home, flush with stimi money and binge-watching Naval quotes while getting “certified” to coach other people on how to make money online. It was the gold rush of high ticket. 
You could slap together a course, toss “$10K client” in your bio, write a few “vulnerable” posts, and BAM—you’re in business. And it worked.
Like gangbusters. But the game’s changed, hasn’t it? Nowadays: • People are back at work • Time is tighter than a drum • The cost of eggs is giving folks vertigo • And every headline screams… Crisis! Crisis! Crisis! And yet—people are still buying high ticket. Let me say it louder for the folks in the back scrolling Skool forums thinking the sky is falling: HIGH TICKET AIN’T DEAD. It just stopped working for folks who got drunk on easy money, stopped adapting, and thought their 2020 funnel was gonna carry them into the sunset. Here’s what’s really going on: Buyers got smarter They’ve been burned by the “client attraction blueprint.” 
They bought the “six-figure DM script.”
They got hyped up and let down. Now they’ve got scars. They don’t want another Zoom bootcamp where they learn to build a bootcamp to teach people how to build a bootcamp. They want real leverage.
Real outcomes.
Real partners. No one has time for your 17-step funnel In 2020? Sure. We were locked inside. We had time to “watch this 90-minute training that could change your life.” Now? People barely have time to microwave leftovers. Big promise + big price + big homework = big NOPE. Tactics are commodities now Repurposing content?
Doing follow-up emails?
Using AI for SOPs? Cool. So can a 22-year-old VA in Cebu. What people want NOW is a big picture operator who sees the full chessboard. They’re craving someone who can look at their dusty assets, old programs, dead leads and make it rain. People want leverage, not work They don’t want more coaching.
They want fewer headaches.
 They want to plug in systems that quietly make money, while they keep doing what they’re already doing. They want a machine that spits out cash—not another full-time job dressed up as “transformation.” Communities are the new front end Skool groups. Low-ticket continuity.
 They’re poppin’ off because they’re low-risk, low-friction entry points. People want a place to hang out, not get hunted. 
It’s the new warm-up game—and most “high ticket sellers” haven’t figured that out. But here's the thing... None of this means you stop selling high ticket. It just means you gotta stop selling like it’s 2022. You have to know: • What market you’re really in (hint: it’s not “coaching”) • What tools are right for the job, not the pitch • How to build asymmetry into every deal • How to do less, win more, and stack assets That’s what we do over here. I’m not ‘selling’ more. 
I’m just positioned better.
I don’t pitch. 
And I don’t rent myself out—I rent out the machine that prints money for the right partner.

WANTED: Experts who want to add 10-20 clients per month to their mastermind or group program. We will run the whole show. • Copywriting • Lead gen • Closing You? Don’t need to lift a finger. And… You pay us only AFTER the cash hits your account. I’m opening a slot. Just ONE. You need: • A validated offer. • A decent list. They gotta dig you. Want this? Let’s run a small test. DM or comment below 👇🏻 P.S. Know someone who this would benefit? Happy to make it worth your time

6 Stoic Principles For Today: 1. Memento Mori: Remember things will end 2. Amor Fati: Embrace fate 3. Locus of Control: care about what you can control 4. Premeditatio Malorum: Prepare for the worst outcome 5. The obstacle is the way 6. Live in accordance with nature

5 Stoic lessons from Epictetus: 1. You become what you give your attention to 2. Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it 3. To improve, you have to be OK with looking foolish 4. You can’t learn what you think you already know 5. Stop waiting to demand the best for yourself

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"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." — Marcus Aurelius

@mrmoneylesson Worrying about the future

The 7 biggest distractions you MUST avoid: 1. Fake friends 2. Social media 3. Fear of missing out 4. Needing to be liked 5. Comparison to others 6. Empty displays of wealth 7. Chasing someone else's dream What else?

@missevren 2000+ years of just 10 more minutes We haven’t changed much as a species We seek comfort often…

@StoicLesson Amazing that Marcus Aurelius felt the same need to keep snuggling under the blankets in the morning same as modern man my motto tomorrow will be “get up, you are not alone, marcus Aurelius felt the same as you thousand years ago”

“On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the very things for which I was put into this world? …

It can be hard to get up this morning You may want to hit that snooze button one more time… But you are here today to be of service to yourself and to others… Welcome to the day!

Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?” 
—Marcus Aurelius

@ChrisLDyson “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” — Seneca

Stop relying on motivation. Motivation is fleeting, discipline is consistent. Build a life around discipline and watch your goals turn into realities.

“Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life's books each day... The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” —Seneca

"You become what you give your attention to." — Epictetus

"Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." - Seneca

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Seneca