Welcome entrepreneurs. I’m so glad you’re here.

Today I’m excited to gift you something new, and something special: The semi-annual reflection template. The same one that I use twice per year, and use with clients.

It’s a journey of structured, conscious reflection, that within 2-4 hours helps you mine actionable wisdom from the first half of 2023, and establish the structure to create exactly what you want for the rest of the year.

Our team has put 50+ hours into making this template deep, useful, and efficient. And I’m excited to offer it to you, my readers, for free.

Simply click below to download it from Gumroad.

Experience vs Wisdom

I want to draw a distinction between Experience, and Wisdom. Two words commonly confused, which are actually entirely different things.

In essence, the distinction is this:

• Experience is what you get when you do a thing.

• Wisdom is what you get when you do a thing, and then consciously reflect on that thing to pull out the lessons most valuable to you.

If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. — Maya Angelou

You start a company, you raise money, you get married, etc. Simply by doing those things, you gain experience. You are fundamentally not the same person on the other side. Experience changes you.

But only by intentionally and consciously reflecting on that experience can you transform that experience into wisdom.

I bet you know many people who repeat the same unproductive patterns in their life over and over again, complaining all the while. They have plenty of experience with bad relationships, or making money mistakes, or lazy employees, but they continue to find themselves in the same situation over and over.

They have experience, but without conscious reflection, they haven’t yet translated that experience into the wisdom necessary to actually change their default life. That’s the importance of making time, regularly, to reflect.

Conscious reflection transforms experiences into wisdom. And wisdom is how you actually make change in your life.

That’s why I’m excited to offer this reflection template to you.

Inside You’ll Find

The template consists of seven distinct exercises meticulously crafted to complement each other. Here's a glimpse of what you'll experience:

1. Reflect & Assess: Take a comprehensive look back at your journey in the first half of 2023, celebrating your accomplishments and learning from your challenges.

2. Self-Discovery: Explore your passions, values, and strengths to gain a deeper understanding of who you are becoming, and what drives you.

3. Discover Hidden Potential: Discover hidden opportunities and identify areas where you can maximize your impact and fulfillment.

4. Craft Your Vision: Craft a compelling vision for the future, envisioning where you want to be and how you will get there.

5. Set Goals that Work: Leverage our unique, structured goal-setting process to take advantage of the power of momentum.

6. Sustain Your Success: Implement proven strategies to stay motivated, overcome obstacles, and maintain momentum throughout the second half of 2023.

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.” — Terry Pratchett

Ok. I’m done.

I’m excited about this, but I’m done.

Reflection is a core part of my practices, and a core part of the journey we take with founders at Inside-Out. I hope you’ll download the template and invest a few hours in a full deep dive. But even if you don’t, I hope you’ll find another way, and make time to reflect in the coming weeks on the first half of 2023, and set an intention for the second half.

It’s how you translate your hard earned experience into actionable wisdom. It’s how you consciously make change to your business and your life.

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Executive Coaching for Entrepreneurs

There’s a reason every elite athlete in the world works with a coach. You need more than one perspective to see your best work.

I’m an executive coach and the founder of Inside-Out Leadership, a boutique leadership development agency that supports entrepreneurs to step fully into their lives, and transform their companies into their masterpieces.

Leveraging 15-years as a founder/CEO, along with deep training in mindfulness, psychology, Neurolinguistic Programming, psychedelic integration and more, I have helped leaders from some of the fastest growing companies and VC funds in the world design a more conscious life and make key changes to improve their performance and satisfaction.

I coach leaders how I want to be coached:

• Focused on the person, not the role.

• Focused on results, without the fluff.

To learn more about working with me, click here.