But what about the gym?

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Hola amigos!

Writing this on my phone from a beautiful beach in Playa del Carmen on our last day of vacation.

Every year Lex and I go on vacation with this amazing couple that I met during my Paragon Training Methods days. (Shoutout to LCT for the friendship alley-oop.) What started as trips to Vegas turned into trips to Mexico when we realized that 1 - Vegas is cold as shit in December, 2 - Mexico is way warmer, better, and less expensive, and 3 - We have free will and can go wherever we want.

Before I go any further, yes, I realize that these emails I send may at times border on LinkedIn-level lessoning, where any and every life experience gets turned into a life or business lesson, but it be like that sometimes. My brain works like this and I’m not trying to change it.

Anyway, for this trip we stayed at Secrets Moxché (12/10 recommend, Lex and Natalie did an amazing job finding this one) and it’s definitely been my favorite place we’ve stayed at. No competition.

Buuuuuut, Lex and Natalie are both Facebook group frequenters, and they reported that there were a good number of folks in the group who didn’t share my same enthusiasm and had their share of complaints and negative reviews.

Of course.

You already know the type.

Something that NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON had anything to say about, good or bad, was the gym.

Why do I bring this up? Because I absolutely would have valued Facebook group feedback way more from someone who had stepped foot into the gym.

Y’all already know this isn’t about believing I’m better than someone else because I worked out on vacation or any nonsense like that. It’s simply a starting point for shared values and common ground for complaints and concerns.

Like I said earlier, I met Dan and Natalie during my Paragon Training Methods days, and as such, fitness is absolutely an interest and value that we share.

The four of us went to the gym together 2 out of the 5 days we were in PDC, and the most people I ever counted in there at a single moment was 10…including all 4 of us.

For perspective, some quick back of the napkin math (read: a ChatGPT query) estimates that the hotel, at capacity, holds 1000-1200 people.

So what’s my point?

Shared values changes the quality of feedback.

In a noisy world, values beat volume.

This is a sentiment I’ve held for quite some time now, but my recent-ish foray into AI and coding (shoutout to all of y’all who came to last week’s webinar!) has really highlighted this.

Listen to the folks who care about and want the same things as you.

Like my good friend Meg Koppele Duffy likes to remind us, “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”

Listen to the folks who like the same toilet paper as you.

Happy Tuesday, Reader.

Maestro out.

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