November already..


It's Saturday 2nd November, and I'm watching paint dry..

I've just painted a canvas.. with R's help.. that I'm hoping to use on Monday as a backdrop when filming some content all about The Five Connections with J.

Not what I thought I'd be doing today.. a few months ago, and a year ago my main focus was removing from surgery and getting back some sanity and ability to walk.

Today I'm present to how much Chaos is in the world, and how much is changing more rapidly than even I predicted. It's why I wrote ChaosToClarity.com and published it before my surgery. Have you read or listened to it already?

Fast forward to the last 6 months and the biggest challenge I see across the board apart from the question of purpose and what really matters which Chaos To Clarity addresses, is the question of creating predictable cashflows, and in particular how to grow and scale a business.

As I reflected and talked it through, I realised for me the importance of people. Not from some egocentric metaphysical state, but a grounded... what matters is people and specific types of people that are helping people and have helped others.

This is what birthed my new book TheFiveConnections and I'd love you - if you're in a position to be able to - to go to the shop and pre-order at least one copy => https://shop.thesimpleidea.com/products/thefiveconnections?_pos=1&_psq=the+five&_ss=e&_v=1.0

When you do I'll include you in more of the launch events I have planned and it will be really appreciated it, as I've been challenged to raise money for our charity www.FreedomInternationalNow.com and to do something I'll talk about around my birthday in Feb next year about this book launch.

I've been creating some very clear and simple models which I'll share with you, and that the people I've shared them with are finding really useful, and I really want this to be a collaborative effort.

I've also started to build out my ambassadors / referral program for this, if you're interested please sign up here => https://thefiveconnections.com/jvs/

I really do believe that it can help a lot of people and allow us to really build lives and businesses that work.

As they say, "being the richest person in the graveyard is not your job",

I'm here to help and we have a lot of great resources and opportunities from me and the wider community or "ecosystem" we've been gardening for over two decades.

It was only the other day I realised we launched the charity www.FreedomInternationalNow.com a decade ago..

This year we opened up www.TheSimpleIdea.club .. and loving the people who are showing up and the real connections that it's making possible.

I'll be sharing some more simple and direct ideas to help you grow and scale your business and develop your relationship capital soon.

Till next time,

Simon

Ps

Thanks for reading and being part of helping me and all of make the difference.

I love to share and create and showcase great people and projects, let me know what you're doing or who we should be connecting with.

The Simple Idea™

My name is Simon Hedley and I'm the founder of The Simple Idea. We love to create and curate great simple ideas that make the difference. Author of Chaos To Clarity™. Host of Pause Stop Reset Podcast.

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