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Wherever you are. Whatever you’re doing. Have a notebook and pen next to you. Keep the pen in your hand if you can.
This is one of the best things you can do to find out what your genius is.
When we hear the word genius, we think we have to be brilliant at something. But it’s not about already being brilliant at all! Ugh! If I could go back to school-age Amy I would tell her that you don’t have to be the smartest person in the room.
To be a genius, you just have to be genuinely interested.
Interests are personally driven. They are the intersection of how we find significance. Yes, you’ll have to learn the way something actually is. But you can refine how you understand it by finding the parallels to what interests you personally.
Simply put. If you know what interests you, you can expand your mind to process and learn anything you want.
This requires a pen in your hand. A scrap of paper at minimum.
When I read a book, I have a pen in hand. Sometimes I’m writing in the margins. Circling. Underlining. As long as I pair it with what my personal take is, I can better understand what’s on the page.
Why? Because I don’t force myself to understand. I encourage myself to notice.
What we notice is extraordinary to who we are. Our experience. Our bias. Our upbringing. What we want to hear. We notice what we already have interest in, in some way, shape, or form.
So by starting with a simple agreement — write down anything you notice — you’ll already love what you’re writing, and you’ll already understand it. Because it’s exactly where you are right now, your current understanding intersecting with new information.
What’s written is remembered. What’s remembered is acted upon.
Agree to take notes all the time, but only write down what you notice. Before you know it, you’ll see a common thread, and it’s pulling together the fabric of your genius.
Welcome to The ROLE Model
My framework for building a personal brand that creates opportunities, income, and influence. It guides you to Reveal Your Focus, Optimize Your Energy, Lead the Movement, and Elevate Your Impact.
R — Reveal Your Focus
Someone told you the same thing last week that someone else told you six months ago. You brushed it off both times.
“You always make me feel like I can do it.”
“I’ve never met anyone who explains it like that.”
“I reread what you wrote three times. So good.”
That’s your positioning. It’s already writing itself in other people’s mouths.
You keep dismissing it because it sounds too obvious to you. It only sounds obvious to you. The people saying it can’t do what you do.
O — Optimize Your Energy
There’s a place your day goes that you resent every single time. The Monday check-in that could be an email. The invoicing you keep pushing to Friday. The DM inbox you check while your dinner gets cold.
Pay someone to take it, or delete it entirely.
You’ve done that job long enough. It’s someone else’s this month.
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L — Lead The Movement
Your audience wants more of you. What they don’t have yet is a reason to trust that you’re not just talking.
Give them one.
The client who did the thing they’ve been afraid to try. The reader who wrote back with the breakthrough. The friend who took your advice and it worked.
Post about them. With their name. With their permission. With a photo if you have one.
You look inevitable when other people are the ones telling your story.
E — Elevate Your Impact
Question of the Week: Whose energy have you been absorbing that isn’t yours?
Notice who leaves you smaller. Notice who you start to sound like without deciding to.
Go after the life you want!
Amy
In episode 6 of Vlog Mom Summer, I’m talking about things you don’t usually hear. Giving it all away to the people who come to hang.
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