If you could go back and tell yourself something, what would you say? And if you can go back and

tell yourself something, how old would you be? I want you to hold that age of yourself and I want you

to start thinking about some of the things that you would go back to tell your former self.

So I am a part of an executive group coaching program. In fact, the way that they

call it is a private network for high growth founders, and it's called Hampton. I have been a part of a

cohort. There's about eight of us for three years, and it's been one of the best things I've done in my

business. On a recent call, our facilitator, his name is Casey. He asked us to do something different.

He said, in preparation of our next call, I want you to write a letter to your former self.

Tell me what you would say. Now, in all of the three years that we've been meeting together,

it's never been this, like warm and fuzzy or sentimental. Some people might call sentimental. It's all

been like strategy and what are we doing and how are we innovating. So this is a big change for me

to see my fellow cohort members in a totally new light. Now, these are all eight and nine figure

entrepreneurs who I look back and I'm just amazed. When I look at my

cohort, it makes me very happy to say, I am the dumbest person in the room, which means I'm in the

right room. They are inspiring and they're powerful. And these are the types of people that you

read in business magazines doing really incredible things. In my mind, these people are every definition of mind-blowing.

So it was a very delightful surprise to hear them read letters to their younger selves.

They were beautiful. They were sometimes heartbreaking, but they were mostly inspiring.

Now, when one of the members read a letter to himself,

another member by the name of James had said this.

I'll throw something out there.

One thing I always love talking other entrepreneurs about is, like, what gives you your chip,

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