Needs youA fourth keynote that week breaks your three a week cap.
EO Bogotá wants to add a fourth stop to the November run.
RecTake it. It chains onto the Quito flight home, costs one extra night, and the run was built for exactly this.
Sunday, August 24
3 decisions need
3 decisions need
you today.
Each one arrives with a recommendation already made. Everything else ran on your rules, or is waiting on someone who is not you.
Needs youA time change on a signed booking.
The October 14 host asked to move your keynote from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
RecSay yes. Nothing else is on the 14th, and the later slot kills the 5:40 am flight.
Needs you$340 over Madi’s spend line.
The blackout shade install came back at $1,840.
RecApprove it. The other bid was $2,410, and this one includes the boys’ rooms.
Waiting on someone else. None of it is waiting on you.
BeckyEO Guayaquil and EO Quito agreements, out five daysnudge goes Tuesday
Flothe DSU keynote tapepromised this week
EO Panamacountersignature on the agreementdue back Wednesday
Speaking Operations Desk
Two agreements need signatures.
Two agreements need signatures.
One invoice is overdue.
The desk qualifies who is serious, quotes from your fee rules, checks both calendars, and runs every booking to paid. You say yes or no.
The November run
$102,500
four cities, four nights, home Friday
Delivered, unpaid
$27,500
EO Kelowna, third reminder out
Agreements out
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Guayaquil and Quito, five days
Inbound this week
YPO Vancouver
SeriousCame in with a date, a budget, and a board contact. March 12, leadership summit, 400 owners.
Fee to quote: $30,000 · your EO and YPO rule. Your calendar is clear, the family calendar is clear, one travel day.
Terms sent. The date is held.
Manufacturers assn., Dallas
Needs a callJune, date open. The agenda is vague, they asked for “AI and scaling.” Twenty minutes is on your calendar for Tuesday at 10:00.
Growth summit, Phoenix
Fee shoppingAsked the fee. No date, no budget, no decision maker. The fee schedule went out with the standard note.
Closed unless they come back with dates. You never saw it.
The November run
Mon Nov 16 through Thu Nov 19, Bogotá pending your call| City | Fee | Contract | Invoice | Paid | Travel | AV | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EO Puerto RicoMon, Nov 16 · San Juan | $27,500 | Signed | Sent | Paid | Booked | Confirmed | Plan set |
| EO PanamaTue, Nov 17 · Panama City | $25,000 | Signed | Sent | Due Nov 1 | Booked | Pending | Plan set |
| EO GuayaquilWed, Nov 18 | $25,000 | Out 5 days | On signing | Held | Plan set | ||
| EO QuitoThu, Nov 19 | $25,000 | Out 5 days | On signing | Held |
Open loops the desk is chasing
$27,500
EO Kelowna, delivered May 22, still unpaid. Third reminder went Friday.Next: Peyton calls Monday morning. If it goes quiet again, it comes to you.
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Agreements out past five days: EO Guayaquil and EO Quito.Next: Becky nudges both Tuesday. Travel stays on hold until they sign.
Thought Leadership Studio
Start with the topic.
Start with the topic.
Your library does the digging.
Everything you have said, written, taught, or captured, searchable by meaning. Every item shows exactly where it came from.
Tomorrow I’m teaching Scaling.com members how founders have to change as their company scales.
28 items found. Quotes, concepts, stories, clips, photos, and your own art, each with its source.
You have said this before
From the frameworks
Stories, clips, photos
Your concept art
Studio renders, made to order
From your quote book
If you just let things ride, you would wake up in six months and there would be so many things added that should not exist. It has to be a daily, hourly thought to fight against it.
Working session, Maui · this morning, transcript 128:29
I do not want to be the one that has to make the basket every single time. I would rather be the coach and draw up the play.
Working session, Maui · this morning, transcript 131:53
Frame
The 10x goal defines how you see every decision, every priority, and every person.
The Science of Scaling
Floor
Not peak performance. Raising the floor, the standard that holds when you are not in the room.
The Science of Scaling
Focus
The highest leverage moves that create disproportionate results. Fewer things, done better.
The Science of Scaling
0:48
The flea jump story
You went looking for this one in August. It lives here now.
EO Kelowna keynote · May 2026
1:42
The Brian Harris story
Clip and full transcript, tagged to the handoff theme.
EO West Michigan keynote · April 2026
You and Stephen M. R. Covey
For the trust and standards point, if you want a face on it.
Book event · March 2026
You with the EO San Diego board
Pulled by the Capture Loop the night of the keynote.
EO San Diego · Aug 8
You made these. Texted in today, filed and tagged by the Capture Loop, retrievable by meaning from now on.
Wearing too many hats
The founder doing every job, made for the phases talk.
Your concept art · filed by the Capture Loop today
The singular path
One route, walked all the way up. Pairs with Focus.
Your concept art · filed by the Capture Loop today
Looking good vs being good
The tension slide. It has not been used on a stage yet.
Your concept art · filed by the Capture Loop today
Hire only A players
One elite hire beats three average. The team rebuild point.
Power Law Strategy · your slide, filed today
You name the point, the Studio renders the image in your style. These five came back for tomorrow’s talk.
The floor is gravity
Holding the standard is an hourly fight. Made from your gravity line.
Studio render · from this morning, 128:29
The one that matters
99% is noise. The signal glows.
Studio render · made for this talk
Everything routes back to you
Every clarification, decision, and approval, before the filter.
Studio render · made for this talk
One elite beats three average
The Power Law hiring principle, in one frame.
Studio render · made for this talk
2x or 10x
The Frame. 10x is a different path, not a faster 2x.
Studio render · made for this talk
Striking at the root
Thoreau. Your card, ready for the do less better point.
Your quote book · card you made
The unimportance of practically everything
Maxwell. The 99% is noise line, in his words.
Your quote book · card you made
The Rule Set
Every decision shows its rule.
Every decision shows its rule.
Every rule is yours to change.
Plain language, real thresholds, editable any time. When you override one, the rule sharpens. Nothing here is a black box.
Speaking fees
EO and YPO chapters: quote $30,000, floor $25,000.
Below the floor, send the pass note without asking. Sharpened Aug 23: unless it is within a two hour drive. Those come to you.
Never more than three keynotes in one week. A fourth needs you.
Travel
No red eyes, ever.
Home by Friday night unless you and Bre planned it.
Six travel days a month is the ceiling.
Spend
Madi decides up to $1,500.
$1,500 to $5,000 lands in the daily brief.
Over $5,000 interrupts you the same day.
Calendar
Meetings that need you land on Tuesday.
Nothing before 9:00 am.
The family calendar always wins.
Bre’s input first
Any trip past three nights.
Anything on a Sunday.
Anything touching the family calendar.
Events
If it is about the agenda, it comes to you.
Everything else, the team figures out. Your rule, your words.
Decided today, and the rule that fired
Passed on the franchise expo inquiry, $9,000
Fee floor: $25,000Booked the plumber for Thursday, 8:00 am
Home: under $500Held San Juan flights, daytime, aisle
Travel: no red eyesSent EO San Diego the standard agreement
Contracts: Becky’s templateYou overrode the fee floor. Utah trade association, $10,000, ninety minutes from home. You took it. The rule sharpened itself: below floor inquiries within a two hour drive now come to you instead of auto passing.
Rule updated