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The reason your business feels slow usually isn't effort. It's that you're doing five things badly instead of one thing properly. Maria Wendt calls it the rule of the five ones, and it's what took her to her first million in nine months once she finally applied it. One problem. One target market. One offer. One platform. One year. That's the whole thing. No second product because you're bored. No third platform because someone said you should be there. No hedging across everything because committing to one feels too risky. She says the people who narrow like this move dramatically faster than the ones spreading themselves thin. And she'd know, she spent years doing it the hard way first. When something isn't working, the instinct is to add. The answer is almost always to subtract. Watch the full talk here - https://lnkd.in/ec8GheWN

Think about how good you actually are at what you do. The results you create. The quiet wins nobody sees. The people who tell you that you changed their life and mean it. Now ask yourself why it still feels like the world hasn’t caught up to you yet. Here’s what I see everywhere I go. The most brilliant people I meet, the ones with real gifts, the healers and teachers and experts whose work actually changes lives, are so busy perfecting the craft that they never build anything bigger than themselves. And here’s what I’ve learned after 22 years of doing this: going big has almost nothing to do with your tactics. It’s an invisible ceiling. One you can’t see, can’t name, and almost certainly don’t know is there. And it was never your pricing, your funnel, or your follower count. 👈 Swipe left to see what the ceiling really is, and the one identity shift that reorganizes everything underneath it. That’s exactly what I’m going to walk you through at Mindvalley’s Expert to Authority Summit. Three days, live on Zoom, September 18 to 20, and it’s free. It’s the same method we’ve used for 22 years to turn quiet experts into the names their fields are built around. If you feel the pull to break your ceiling, this is where you start. Comment “AUTHORITY” below, and I’ll send you the link.

If there’s a small voice in your head whispering “I can’t do another 20 years of this,” Jimmy Naraine’s story might be your way out. Jimmy had the job everyone’s told to want. Goldman Sachs. Then he quit because he realized he could take what he knew, turn it into an online course, and build a completely different life. He became one of Udemy’s top instructors, taught over half a million people, and bought himself something more valuable than money: freedom. But here’s the part that got me. Once Jimmy cracked the system, he taught it to his dad, Dr. Roy Naraine, already in his 60s. Roy did it too, and now reaches hundreds of thousands of learners himself. Which tells you Jimmy isn’t some rare exception. There’s a real system for this. That’s exactly what Jimmy is teaching with me at Mindvalley’s Expert to Authority Summit, September 18 to 20, live on Zoom. And it’s completely free to join. https://cme.sh/HkoaAb

Apparently I don’t have a daughter. I have a tiny business partner who is now negotiating her fee based on video views. 😂 In my defense, she started a henna business. I merely introduced scarcity pricing. And Berkshire Hathaway was a perfectly reasonable 12th birthday present. The worrying part? She’s getting very good at this. If this video goes viral, I’m apparently going to owe her money. I’ve created a monster. ❤️ P.S. If you’re an expert who wants to turn what you know into a real authority business, come join me at the Expert to Authority Summit. Do it for Eve. She’d like her childhood back. https://cme.sh/HkoaAb - happening Sep 18 to 20.

Expertise makes you good at what you do. Authority makes you the one people choose. The truth is, the world is full of brilliant experts the right people never find. Being great at your craft is everything, and it still isn’t enough on its own. Authority is what carries your work to the people who need it. That’s why we’re bringing you Vishen Lakhiani , Regan Hillyer , Marisa Peer , Jimmy Naraine , and Ajit Nawalkha , five people who’ve mastered both. Deep expertise, and the ability to turn it into real influence. Over three days, they’ll show you exactly how they did it, step by step, so you can too. Join us for three free days at the Expert to Authority Summit, live on Zoom, September 18 to 20. Your work deserves a bigger room than it’s reaching. This is where you learn to fill it. https://cme.sh/HkoaAb

The market doesn't reward the best expert. It rewards the best-known one. I know that's uncomfortable. Sit with it anyway. There are people in your field who are genuinely brilliant. Years of training. Real results. Clients who would follow them anywhere. And almost nobody has heard of them. Meanwhile, someone half as good is getting the stage, the podcast, the book deal, the inbound leads. Not because they're better. Because they're known. That's the gap. On one side, how good you actually are. On the other, how known you are. For most experts, those two things are miles apart, and the market only ever sees the second one. Here is what most people get wrong about that gap. They read it as a character flaw. I'm not confident enough. I'm not charismatic enough. I'm just not the kind of person who puts themselves out there. None of that is true. Being unknown is not a personality problem. It is a missing system. Charisma didn't build the best-known names in any industry. A method did. A repeatable way to get seen, build an audience, and turn expertise into demand. The people who look like naturals almost always just installed that system earlier than you did. So the real question was never whether you're good enough. You already are. The question is whether you're known. And this is the shift I want you to understand. An expert is someone who is good at what they do. An authority is the person the market turns to first. Same knowledge, completely different life. For 22 years, we've refined that system at Mindvalley and used it to build 110 of the best-known names in personal growth. This September, for the first time, I'm opening the whole thing live. It's the Mindvalley Expert & Authority Summit. Three days, free, on Zoom, September 18-20, 2026. If you're tired of being the best-kept secret in your field, come. https://cme.sh/HkoaAb

For decades, being brilliant wasn’t enough to be heard. Building an audience took years, a team, and a budget most experts never had. So the world simply never met them. But here’s what I’ve learned in 20 years at Mindvalley. Authority isn’t luck, and it isn’t even talent. It’s engineered. We’ve done it more than 100 times, quietly turning teachers into names people trust. And underneath all of it is a formula. The same one that takes someone to a million followers, or to a course that finally sells. For the first time, I’m teaching that entire formula in the open. Free, live on Zoom, September 18 to 20. So if you’ve got real depth the world hasn’t caught up to yet, or an audience you’re ready to turn into courses that actually land, this is your window. https://cme.sh/HkoaAb

Being good at what you do and being known for it are two completely different skills. Most brilliant people nail the first and never crack the second. That's the thing I've watched happen, over and over, for 20 years. The most talented person in the room stays invisible, while someone half as good gets the audience, the stage, the income. Not because they're better. Because the market doesn't reward the best expert, it rewards the best-known one. And best-known is a skill. One nobody ever taught you. I've spent two decades reverse-engineering that something. Turning quiet experts into names people know, more than 100 of them, the teachers and brands you'd recognize if I listed them. Along the way, it stopped being luck and became a system. A repeatable way to turn expertise into authority. For the first time in 20 years, I'm teaching the whole thing in public. Free, live on Zoom, September 18 to 20. - https://cme.sh/HkoaAb

You cannot motivate people into greatness. I stopped trying years ago. Motivation fades by lunchtime. Identity doesn't. Give someone an identity, and they'll do the hard thing on their own, no push from you required. I watched this run through my whole company once. It started with one person, Jimmy Naraine, who simply decided he was a Spartan. Not a goal. An identity. And identity is contagious. It jumped from him to my team, and people started doing things no manager could ever have talked them into. Finishing a race through a typhoon. Skipping lunch to knock out 500 pushups mid-workday. Nobody made them. They'd just become the kind of people who don't back down. This is the piece almost everyone misses when they try to lead, or teach, or build a course that actually lands. You don't transform people by handing them information. You transform them by handing them an identity to step into. That principle is the whole reason Jimmy's courses change people, and it's exactly what he and I teach in our free masterclass for anyone building one of their own. https://lnkd.in/eMGtptrE

Imagine starting each morning with your mind a little sharper, calmer, and more focused than the day before. Not through some overhaul, just one small shift at a time. That’s the whole idea behind Jim Kwik’s new book, Limitless Daily. Jim has spent decades on one question: how does the mind actually learn, and grow, and get out of its own way? Limitless Daily is his answer, distilled into 366 small upgrades. One page, one day, one year. Better focus, clearer thinking, steadier habits, built gently into your morning until they simply become who you are. It’s a reminder of something this community holds close: your mind isn’t fixed. It’s yours to train, and it’s never too late to begin. You can find Limitless Daily at limitlessdaily.com