It’s been ten months since I closed the Little Middle School, and I’m still not sure exactly what I’m going to do next.

That’s okay, right? Yeah, I think it’s okay.

I’m paying my bills. I’m enjoying my day-to-day work. I’m making new friends.

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Despite hard work and good intentions, years can go by without meaningful progress toward our most deeply-held goals.

It turns out that this is the problem I’m most interested in helping people solve these days. And I am very interested in exploring why so many of us do everything but the work we feel most called to do.

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I’d like to tell you about a specific episode of podcast that offered a perfect example of the way a lot of modern experts share information without actually teaching anything.

In fact, I’ve collected many examples of this kind of thing that I want to share and publicly deconstruct.

However, I am still figuring out how to do that without being a sanctimonious jerk.

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The way that I’m supposed to do this blogging thing is to figure out who my ideal customer is, and then write a series of articles speaking to their pain points.

What problems are they trying to fix in their life? I can talk about those things (ideally, using search-engine friendly language) and then offer my paid solution.

It makes perfect sense. It’s totally logical. The problem is that it is so boring.

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Listening to Dave Ramsey’s radio show, I got to the point that I could recite by heart all of his “baby steps” for getting out of debt and building wealth.

I could answer listener questions right along with him, and I rolled my eyes impatiently when someone talked about how they wanted to continue to use credit cards due to the points.

I wholeheartedly believed Dave’s message. I understood that if I followed his instructions exactly, I could get the promised results.

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