 Let's talk about longevity in business and true dedication to your mission. Now, why this is coming up is I was recently looking back at some of the peers that I started with in business back in 2009. A few of them kind of started around the same time a few of them had been in business already for for just a few years. But I just recently looked at some of their Facebook pages and was surprised and saddened that most of them are no longer posting content to their Facebook pages, even though most of them have more followers than me on Facebook. And it just brought to mind that, you know, back then when we all started when I knew them when I was working with them. You know, we all talked a big game, a noble game about our mission driven business, you know, being in doing what we're doing the work we're doing was going to change the world or at least better our industry. And yet, if that mission were true, are we done with that mission is the world finished with having problems to solve is our industry completely perfect by of no means is true. In other words, the mission still continues to this day. And if you're dedication to the mission. I don't know. I'm not going to say maybe they're trying to fulfill the mission in other ways but certainly not in not not publicly like they were just a few years ago. So that was that was only what 1213 years ago that we that that I started with them and I worked with them for a few years. And it's like they couldn't even last 13 years like this, this noble, you know, world changing mission couldn't even last 13 years. And yet I'm here today. I feel more energized and passionate as ever to contribute to my business mission of bringing authentic ways of marketing and working to solopreneurs to mission driven solar printers everywhere. And I just think that there is. I think the reason I'm still around. What I'm talking about that talking to you about this is, I want you to be around. So I'm going to ask you the question, assuming that you are healthy. 10 years from now, 15 years from now. Do you still want to be contributing to your business mission. Do you believe that much in the mission of your business. I'm not doing this for the money. I know most of you would say no I'm not doing this for the money, definitely doing this because I believe in the service itself. I believe in how I can help make the world a better place. Well, then, will you still be around 1015 years from now doing this. Are you thinking of I better make a lot of money and then retire so I can live an easy life and this business stuff will just be a hobby. And that's okay too. It's just that it saddens me when people aren't still fully giving of giving to their mission. Now, there may be other reasons why you stop your business 1015 years from now, like chief of which is health. I hope you continue to thrive in your, you know, be sustainable and thrive in your health. You might be caretaking for family or, you know, or, or some, you know, someone else in your life. But still, your business mission continues. And I hope you will be giving that energy so I'm going to just show you a couple of examples of people that I kind of started with now. I'm not not criticizing them. I'm just showing you what's already public. And I literally I'm going to show you my screen right now and you could see, see who some of these people are that I started with. Okay, so here is Ryan Eliason, social entrepreneur empowerment network page created October 3 2010, you know, so again, I started business in 2009. He had already been a coach, I think, and then he started this page, you know, a year later. He did a pretty good job of gathering a bunch of us peers and creating the summit back in around that time. And look how many he has 52,000 followers of this page. Now, I just want to say compare this to to my page, where I have only quote unquote only 8000 followers, right, this guy has 5050 some thousand followers and, and we worked closely together back in those early years. And yet, the last time he posted was in, I see this is a pinned post November 21 2019, and, and November 20 2019 right so last time he posted was about two and a half, almost three years ago. And, you know, this is the official meeting place right for those interested above all the official meeting places no longer meeting I don't know. So, so this is what I mean like these missions are so grand and so noble and worthwhile. I just it saddens that people don't keep it going. Another person another peer of mine that I respect and started with back then and she actually used to be Lisa journey here used to be known as the conscious marketing coach in 2009 2010. She could have really owned the space because now of course conscious marketing is much bigger than it used to be. She, somehow a few years later she changed it. She changed away from conscious marketing. I wish she hadn't but anyway, what did you see marketing and still she has, she has 8000 6000 7000 followers that's not small. Last time she updated the page was a year ago. Right and then before that was was a year, almost a year well a few months before that. And then this guy. Rich German. JV insider circle. I also worked with him back in those days. And he's got 60,000 followers. And this is the world's leading community for joint mentor minded coaches the world's leading community. And when was the last time the world's leading community updated their page. It was more than a year ago. Right. And this is about a launch of something. And this is about a launch of something Ryan license. So, so I want you to just notice something interesting and I want you to. I want to criticize these old buddies of mine, but I do want to criticize this dynamic, which I had this dynamic as well and lots of other people you follow might have this dynamic which is you only hear from someone when they're launching something. Right when they're launching a product program service event. You see a big splash. Oh, you get emails from them you see social media posts. But when they're not launching something, they go for weeks months or in case some cases years, without posting any content that is just meant to bless and educate uplift inspire. I mean you see me doing this regularly. Right. I'm always. I do launch things, by the way, of course you see me launch things about nowadays about once every two months or so I'm launching something. But in between my launches I'm passionately, you know, several times a week I'm posting content that is not trying to sell you anything but just trying to educate uplift. And also, the reason why I, and I'll, and I'll, this is the main point here, the transformation that I had that's keeping me around more energized activated passionate dedicated than ever ever before is my commitment to consistent authentic content. The secret to my longevity in business is my dedication to the process of consistently creating and posting authentic content. And why do I do that I do that in service to you, my audience because I care about you I care about your growth I care about you, getting the most out of what I can contribute. The most benefit out of what I can give you. I care about you, and I care about me. That's why I'm dedicated to authentic consistent content. What do I mean by care about me, I care about my own personal development and my own continued, continued exploration of my thoughts my experiences I'm having with clients. I'm continually exploring these things because I know there's always more depth to uncover to explain to, you know, connect the dots. There's always more knowledge. There's always more ceases. There's always more knowledge, of course, there's deeper knowledge, and there's also, there's always also the opportunity to get better at communicating that knowledge in a way that makes even more effective impact on one's audience in a service oriented way. I keep growing that both the knowledge and the communication of it. And I do that because it fulfills my heart to see you, you know, talk about how it's benefiting you. So I'm doing this again in service to you, and in service to my own higher growth as well. I take medication. I show up week after week after week after week the only exception you'll notice is that every six weeks I take one week off of content and launches well I take one week off of content for sure every six weeks because I take a week off of meetings and I take that week to work on some longer so I every six weeks I take I take one week off, but beyond the one week off every six weeks you could see me week by week by week by week always showing up year by year, I will still be here. This is my dedication to you, as long as I am, you know, of sound mind, I will still be here 15 years from now doing this, doing this because I believe in this mission when, when, when are people fully realized in their business and their authentic I don't think 15 years is nearly enough time the next 15 years. So, what is the mission of your business that you're dedicated to so much so deeply that you're willing to dedicate to your own growth in that mission, your knowledge of that field and your ability to communicate it. You're dedicated to your own growth, and you're dedicated to your audience your existing and potential audience which is going to be much greater, your future audience is going to be much, much bigger and benefiting from you than your current audience. What is your business and you're welcome to comment below I would love to see some examples what is your business mission that you're so committed to that you are willing to dedicate the next 15 plus years. I'm going to be here for 3040 50 years I mean I don't know when I how much more sound mind I could have but I'll keep going until I can keep going. And one of the secrets by the way to physical longevity is, you know, being passionate about your work. Right. So, if you dedicate yourself to your business mission, and therefore, to your growth, and to the service of your audience to service to your audience. If you dedicate yourself to that, and show up week after week after week except for your weeks off. You will still be here 1530 years from now, more effective than ever before. You'll, you'll see the ripple impact the ripple effect of your service more than ever before. The world will be a much better place in part due to your dedication to your mission. Let me show you one more example on the screen here and this one is quite ridiculous and you'll see. So I'm going to go to this guy Bill Baron, who also I worked with back in those early days we did a couple of joint ventures. And also, this guy has more than 50,000 followers on Facebook, again, many times several times what I have where 8,000 right he has 5055,000 53,000. Now, check this out. Okay, the last time bill updated his Facebook page was October 2018. And I will criticize bill for this. I think he's a, I think he's a he's a good guy. But this is all public information. Okay, I'm not seeing anything private but look, I'm going to show you what what's available publicly here. This is on his Facebook page. This was October 2018. And look at the comments. I'm trying to access my, my course now bill used to sell a course called master of enrollment. Now how ironic. He's really good at enrolling people into programs to selling basically sells days really good at sales. So he sold a program back then which I helped to sell called master of enrollment this is more than 10 years ago that I helped him to sell this. He's a young person trying to access the course and you know she's hoping to, to, you know, to, to get some response. And then someone else wrote, I guess another customer wrote nope, and no one seems to have taken over responsibility to take care of those who actually thought we would access to this forever. And, you know, other comments. Anyone have active email address to contact the bill Baron team. Now this is irony right, the official customer service email address for the bill Baron team is we care at bill Baron calm. And yet, they're not even responding to the email now this is public information this is all I'm showing this this is the most recent post on on bill Baron's page. Now, I don't think I think Bill Baron is still alive as far as far as I know I mean, I think there was a YouTube video of him about a year ago so a year ago with what have been, would have been several years after this recent post. Anyway, long story short again I'm not I'm not like, you know, judging bill I don't know what happened to Bill and his team I mean maybe something, you know, that I don't know what happened, but still. Like, I, I, I, I hope I think bill is still healthy and sound mind and could still contribute. But, and I'm not just saying about bill, there are many others like this out there. And, you know, just happened that I encountered bills example. I don't think bill's a good guy, I just wonder what happened, you know that this is publicly I mean they they not me I mean well here I guess here I am but they have been publicly criticizing and then, even the team is not even doesn't even care enough about the public presence to to delete that those comments which they could easily have done. I mean, and it's like, once you get to a certain notoriety level, like Bill Baron, and in some cases like me. It's not just about me anymore right like some of you feel like I represent the mission of authentic business and authentic marketing and Georgia productivity. In other ways, my reputation, like, if you care about my content and about my offerings, like, my reputation is a little bit like you care about that to not because you see what I mean like I because I represent something so like if one day. I stopped updating my pages I stopped providing customer service to people products people bought from me. And then people are critiquing my stuff on my public page, you would probably be embarrassed to because at some point you probably shared my stuff you see what I mean, you probably recommended me at some point. You know, if I if I was being publicly reticent I wasn't doing anything about it that that degrades the rest of the community that I've created. Right. So, as we keep growing our business and audience. We, the in the mission becomes bigger than ourselves. And so it's even more important to have a dedication to the longevity of our customer service at the very least that people bought from us customer service but secondly, of the service to our audience, even those who haven't ever purchased. So, I guess I'll just end it here by once again bringing it back to you and asking you what is your business mission that you believe in so wholeheartedly that you could see yourself contributing to for the rest of your conscious life. You know, for the rest of your life where you can still contribute to that mission. What is that business mission that you believe in. Is it some kind of healing in the world. Is it some kind of personal growth for a particular type of person or a particular industry. Is it some knowledge that you're trying to get out into the world that probably 1530 years is not enough time to get it out to everyone who needs it. Right. Is it some kind of transformation that you're dedicated to seeing others have. What is that mission and are you willing, are you committed to that mission for the rest of your life, knowing that if you commit to it means that, well, I hope you'll commit to the consistency of your authentic content because that's in service to your growth by practicing communication and and and uncovering of more depth and more more breadth and depth of the knowledge in your field. Dedicate yourself to that dedicate yourself to that so that you can still be around and the longer you're around the more successful your business going to be and the more it's going to be about the mission, much more than about you. I hope this is inspiring and I wish you well and I wish everybody well bill I wish you well, Ryan I wish you well Lisa I wish you well rich I wish you well. Everyone I showed in this video I really do wish them well I wish that they will come back to their business mission to their public presence so that I can connect with them again and collaborate again. So, I wish you well and I'll see you in the next video. Take care.