I talk about tech + entrepreneurship. Former regional tech trainer. Supported 5K real estate agents across 6 states. 135+ newsletters published
Minneapolis, MN
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Gordon Simle retweeted
I’m convinced that you can get pretty damn far in life by just doing the old fashioned things well. Stand up straight. Look people in the eye. Do what you say you'll do. Be on time. Have a confident handshake. Be kind. Few live up to this standard. It’ll never go out of style.
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Most entrepreneurs wait until they're drowning before they hire.
Big mistake.
They end up making a panic hire because they're trying to keep the ship afloat.
They don't onboard properly. They don't set clear expectations. They don't train their people on what actually works.
But when you're selling, learning, and documenting your progress, you become magnetic.
High-caliber people want to join something real, not something hypothetical.
Build first. Document everything. Make it dead simple for the right people to plug in when they show up.
Momentum is the best recruiting tool you have.
Gordon Simle retweeted
Most people treat their work like following a recipe.
They grab the latest productivity framework. Copy someone's morning routine. Deploy the trending growth hack.
Then wonder why nothing actually clicks.
Here's what building businesses and systems taught me:
The frameworks everyone swears by? They were built for someone else's life.
Real leverage never comes from running another person's playbook.
It comes from forging your own from battle-tested principles.
Your own decision-making framework. Your own operational philosophy. Your own lens for seeing problems.
This truth applies everywhere.
Systems architecture. Content strategy. Business models.
The people who break through aren't the best copiers.
They're the ones who architect their own structure. Write their own rules. Back their own judgment.
Stop hoarding other people's systems.
Start building the one that's yours.
Gordon Simle retweeted
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Gordon Simle retweeted
Minnesota is ready for you, basketball fans! 🏀 Let's go, @Timberwolves! 🐺
ALT A beautiful shot of the Stone Arch Bridge illuminated at night with the Mississippi River and Minneapolis skyline
Gordon Simle retweeted
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be a person with these 5 traits:
Gordon Simle retweeted
Start an email list from day one and grow it.
ALT 5 Steps For New Solopreneurs To Cultivate An Email List That Buys
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A reminder to slow down and do this work. 😅
ALT 5 Steps to Discovering Your Sub-Niche: The Foundation of a $1M Business
Gordon Simle retweeted
Your diet impacts everything in your life: Appearance, energy, mood, focus, cognition.
Garbage in, garbage out. Quality in, quality out.
Applies to food, but also to ideas, content, relationships, and more.
Gordon Simle retweeted
There are only 3 bottlenecks keeping you from where you want to be in life.
1. You don't know where you're going.
2. You don't know what to do to get there.
3. You aren't doing the things you know you need to do to get there.
Gordon Simle retweeted
What’s truly insane about THREADS: anyone who built an Instagram following will literally instantly get a near same amount of followers due to how Threads can auto follow.
Every creator just DOUBLED their audience numbers.
Gordon Simle retweeted
Giannis’ speech on why failure doesn’t exist is incredible. Everyone’s gotta watch this.
Gordon Simle retweeted
Hollywood finally figured out how to handle video game IP.
The Last Of Us + Mario’s success just unlocked a vault’s worth of incredible storytelling that’ll finally reach those who never pick up the controller.
Gordon Simle retweeted
I am inspired by how much #Rihanna OWNS the fact that she is ENOUGH. She does not have to dance. She does not have to have guests. She is going to show up fully as herself and KNOW that it’s more than enough. I truly wish that KNOWING for myself and every woman. I am inspired.
