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Escape Velocity

Ever wonder why rockets are so massive?

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And why is soooo much power required for liftoff?

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Physics aside, that’s how a rocket achieves Escape Velocity.

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Escape Velocity is the speed something must travel to escape the pull of gravity.

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Your gravity

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Your gravity is your current reality. Your comfort zone.

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This includes your “work,” relationships, habits, goals, and more.

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Let’s call this your Current Self.

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If you’re not happy with your Current Self, you’ve gotta blast through the gravitational pull that’s keeping you (comfortably) in place. That’s how you become your badass Future Self.

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And that self-transformation requires Escape Velocity.

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This requires extreme power and long-term focus.

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So, how do you generate rocket-like Escape Velocity?

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Achieving Escape Velocity

This is something you intentionally manufacture.

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It doesn’t happen through chance or wishing.

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Slow, incremental changes to your career or life won’t generate Escape Velocity.

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It takes bold commitment and radical changes. It takes saying “no” to the crowd.

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(Remember, more of the same just creates more of the same.)

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You need to:

  1. Release “constraints” (you have permission to dream)
  2. Surround yourself with radically different people/ideas
  3. Program your mind to make escape “inevitable”
  4. Specify your Future Self (set intentional aim)
  5. Commit to new, life-altering behaviors

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How I did it

You might know my story: after 10 years in management consulting, life came crashing down.

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I needed to build a rocket that would help me achieve Escape Velocity, catapulting from Current Self to Future Self.

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Here’s what that looked like:

  • Healing and setting a vision (with therapists, coaches, mentors)
  • Re-engineering how I showed up at my intense corporate job (reduced average workday from 10 hours to 5 hours)
  • Establishing new norms and rhythms for self-care and family time
  • Then, surrounding myself with entrepreneurs, creators, and authors who 100% inspired me to want a bigger and brighter future
  • Experimenting for 18 months with various side hustles before locking in on this “Uncaged” mission (essentially, serving my Past Self)
  • Creating a financial runway to boldly leap from the corporate safety net and become a full-time entrepreneur

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That’s just my path. But of course, your circumstances and aims are different from mine.

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But if you’re still reading this, I know you want Escape Velocity. You crave it.

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You’ve got this. You’re an astronaut. Let me know if I can help.

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3...2…1…liftoff 🚀

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PS - when ready, here’s how we can help you:

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