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Teyani Whitman's avatar

Marvelous! And I chuckle a bit because mine would be a bit more like an appetizer menu of random insights, pick one take a nibble, move on. 🤭😂

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Love that Teyani. ❤️😂

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Jane Xu, PhD, MPH's avatar

Particularly like the part “from everywhere” :)

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Oura's avatar

This was trully a truly motivating read , i just joined substack recently and my first post was lessons i learned in my 30's and i thought 😅 a bit unmotivated following that ! And this reading helped.. 📚

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Moxie D'Vine's avatar

Brilliant, engaging, actionable and I'm all over this, in the most fired up of ways ;)...

Deep and hearty thanks!

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Perceptive33's avatar

Thank you for giving me clarity

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Nina Restieri's avatar

This is inspiring!

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Thank you! 🙏

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North Node Studio's avatar

Loved this snd thanks for the inspiration to keep going! There’s nothing like sitting down for 5-10mins to write down your list of skills to help you realise just how much you could be offering! ✨

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Jennifer Granville's avatar

Big food for thought - and action I hope. Thank you

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Stephie Brack's avatar

Loved this! Still not in my 50s, but will give this a go, thank you!

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Maria Garcia's avatar

This is so great Jo! It's the "just doing it" already that's most important, and yet, what we avoid the most, because we come up with a million excuses.. it's already been done, it's not good enough yet, blah blah blah. This is golden advice! I'll definitely use your prompts to help me get started on a few things that have been brewing for too long! :)

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Fantastic Maria! I love your profile, you sound like my soul mate in starting things we may or may not finish! 😂 I look forward to seeing what you create! 😁

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Maria Garcia's avatar

:D :D It's so nice to meet you Jo! Oh we'll get along great ahahah the finishing isn't always the point!! Exciting to follow along with what you create (and don't finish) too!

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Karyn's avatar

I read this and thought, “but…”

What I’m good at is helping people see things differently. I need a presenting problem before I can do that. And I can’t package that.

Then I realised, I needed to see things differently! I have a whole heap of tools which I use to analyse a problem or a project to find those ways of seeing things differently. And I can certainly package those.

Thank you

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Fantastic Karyn! I'm so glad you've identified something that I'm certain will add a massive amount of value to those that need it! (Like most of us!) 😊

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Robin Fletcher's avatar

Thank you for this . I've been stuck for awhile but am going to try your approach . The problem I can solve seems to be a huge need these days : how to master the crucial conversations necessary for achieving your highest goal .

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Absolutely Robin! That’s a great problem to help solve. I look forward to seeing your content. 😁

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Robin Fletcher's avatar

Thank u @Jo Barnes

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Ral Joseph's avatar

you would literally be my next guide to being a billionaire. I haven’t stayed this long in an article reading word for Word, but I had to read this one because I was interested and anything you interesting is something wonderful

Thank you so much really amazing and I’m looking forward to being back for more

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Jo Barnes's avatar

Absolutely my pleasure Ral! I’m so glad it hit the spot. 😁

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Claudia Faith's avatar

how do you think AI has changed this? did you adapt your strategy? curious to know more :)

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Liana Kruger's avatar

This was one totally mind-blowing post, even though I'm still a bit from my 50's I learned quite a few things here. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

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Living Softly's avatar

Love this! So many gold nuggets! X

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