Recieved this text last night from my son @marcusanthony.bm who just read my new book Permission to Unplug. Words can't express what a cool feeling this was to hear this.
I'm not crying, you're crying.
I can't wait for others to read this a hopefully get ...something from it. Available September 8th everywhere books are sold.
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My new book, Permission to Unplug is not just about unplugging on vacation. Its also about unplugging and being present while learning.
I'm at the @tomferry Success Summit in Anaheim this week. Its day 2 of the event and I looked around today and noticed how many agents, who spent ...money to be here, are working on their laptops, walking out to take phone calls or just chatting with friends.
If they knew how to unplug, think how much more they could come away from this conference to actually grow their business.
Give yourself Permission to Unplug and be present wherever you are..
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You never notice the 40 pounds.
Someone else does. They see you after six months and go "holy crap, look at you." Meanwhile you've been staring at the same face in the mirror every morning, seeing nothing.
Here's what nobody tells you about stepping... away from your business: the change doesn't show up on a scale.
There's no before-and-after photo for the founder who stopped being the bottleneck. No visible proof that you finally trained your team, documented the process, took the weekend and didn't check email once.
But it's there.
I see it in the entrepreneurs I know who've done this work. Not in their bodies — in their eyes. Something lifts. They're not glossed over anymore. They're not dark. They're present in a way they weren't a year ago.
You won't see it in yourself. You're too close to it.
That's exactly why you keep telling yourself it isn't working.
Chapters 5 and 6 are about this: unplugging is a muscle, not a reward. And you build it in microexperiences long before you take the month.
Comment SCORE and I'll send you the Experience Quiz — it'll show you where you actually are, since you can't see it yourself.
📖 Permission to Unplug — September 8. Pre-order link in bio.
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27 years later, we're going stronger than ever.
We've created a life together over the past 3 decades that has been filled with ups and downs. We navigated all of them together.
I'm truly blessed and proud to call this woman my wife. She is my biggest ...champion and keeps me grounded all at the same time.
Cheers to our next phase in life as we get to share more of our story with others and help them find a new way to live.
I love you beautiful.
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Here's something most founders don't know: the part of your brain responsible for big-picture insight — the medial prefrontal cortex — barely activates when you're in execution mode. It only lights up at rest.
That means every hour you spend grinding through your ...inbox is an hour you're actively suppressing your own strategic thinking.
This isn't a "take more vacations" post. It's a "your brain literally cannot innovate on command" post. Rest isn't the opposite of productivity. It's a prerequisite for it. This is one of the science-backed chapters in my new book, Permission to Unplug — pre-order link in bio.
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The old me would've declined that call.
Too much going on. Team needs me. Can't be out of pocket for a week.
That was the excuse for six years — until I built a business that didn't need me standing over it every second to survive. Bahamas. Mexico. ...Maldives. None of it happened by accident, and none of it happened because the business ran itself magically. It happened because I stopped being the single point of failure.
If your business can't survive you being gone for a week, that's not a vacation problem. That's a leadership problem.
Comment UNPLUG and I'll send you Chapter 1 free — it's where I break down exactly how we made this shift.
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The math on this trip didn't add up until I stopped doing it alone.
Four days celebrating my son. A stretch with just Julie. Then closing it out with our best friends. Same three weeks — completely different energy each time.
Here's what nobody tells you ...about experiences: the ROI isn't the location. It's who's in the room. The more people you bring into it, the more you're all just feeding off each other — and that return multiplies in ways a solo trip never gets close to.
Chapter 11 of Permission to Unplug is about exactly this.
Comment "Unplug" below and I'll send you the first chapter of the book and a link to the book.
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