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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 Tom Ferry 🌎 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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I want to challenge something a lot of business owners believe without questioning it: that working harder and never stopping is the same thing as ambition.
Often, it's actually fear — fear that if you step back for even a moment, everything collapses. That fear is what keeps founders approving every decision and holding onto every task long after their team is capable of handling it.
Here's the real test: if your business can't survive without you controlling every detail, it isn't strong — it's fragile.
This is the mindset shift at the center of Permission to Unplug, my new book for founders ready to build something bigger than their own bandwidth. Pre-orders are live now.
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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.
Take the Experience Quiz — it'll show you where you actually are, since you can't see it yourself.
christopherwbrown.com/experiencer-quiz/
📖 Permission to Unplug — September 8. Pre-order link in bio.
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