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Why are you reading this newsletter? No seriously.

There’s a cliche that says, Only take advice from people you want to be like.

I’ve always found that quote annoying. We have so many areas of our lives we want to improve from business, life, relationships, to sex and sleep.

We could have hundreds of mentors. So when do we say enough?

This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about quality thoughts and the people we choose to listen to. After this week of, ‘what the fuck am I doing?’ part: 15 and a few conversations with friends, I came to two conclusions:

• We have way too many people in our ears.

• We spend too much time listening than doing.

Do me a favor. Write down what your current goal is.

Not the big lofty ones but the one you are actively working on. Or the one you think will make the biggest impact on your business right now.

It’s okay if you are uncertain what it is exactly. Ballpark it.

Got it? Okay.

• If you are struggling, who has the solution you need?

• If you aren’t struggling and just putting in the reps, why are you reading this when you can be working?

  If you are struggling find that one person and execute.

  If you aren’t close close this email and get to work.

Because I know a few of you will still read, I want you a second and evaluate the people who have access to you. The people whose ideas and thoughts you decide are worth your attention.

See the thing is we have two types of thoughts: conscious and subconscious.

Without the psychological jargon:

Conscious thoughts are the ones we are aware of and can actively deny like:

• The sky is orange.

• There is only one way to build a business.

But subconscious thoughts are the tricky ones and why I have this newsletter and why I want you to be REAL picky about who you keep around you.

These thoughts are right out of reach of your awareness — like your beliefs.

Real talk: Every insecurity, doubt, or limitation we put on ourselves isn’t from us. It is a thought or opinion we accepted as truth from an outside source.

Let me ask you something. Have you ever spoken to someone you trusted, loved, hated, or respected and you trusted what they said? No checking their sources or testing their methods. You just believed it as fact.

For starters, it’s normal but can also be dangerous.

Because what you accept as truth, lives in your head for future reference. It impacts your decisions and your behaviors on a subconscious level.

9 days ago I started running. It’s not business but I needed something small to feel like I wasn’t a total fuck up. It started with a friend mentioning he runs 10 miles a day, followed by friends who run whispering in my ear about their life with running. How my unfit and lazy butt is running 9 days in a row. A complete byproduct of the people I keep around and in my head when I want to quit to keep going.

That is one of the reasons I’m pushing you to be picky about the people you allow in your head.

See this newsletter is written by a woman who wants to build a business and I swear I fall into every landmine you can think of. Here I document my fails and learnings for the SOLE purpose to tweak how you think.

But you have to ask yourself, do my opinions and thoughts align with the version of yourself you want to be? Or how you want to think?

Then ask yourself that same question for everyone you decide to give your attention to. What do they give that supports who and what you want to be?

Todays advice, okay caution, is simple: Listen to people who have ideas, solutions, and thoughts that support who you want to be — that includes people in your specific industry and niche.

Everyone else, doesn’t deserve your time or energy.

See you next week,

Nichole Morris