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This Christmas celebration reminds me how much my wife loves flowers. Not the kind you give for birthdays or to say sorry. She likes the random ones. The ones that just show up out of nowhere, and suddenly the whole room feels different. I saw it worked every single time. So, of course, my brain started looking for a system.

I automated it.

Every couple of weeks, a local florist would drop off these huge bouquets. Same-day delivery, card on file, no effort from me. The roses were massive. For her, it was a big deal. For me, it was easy. From a systems point of view, it was perfect.

And for a while, it actually worked. Then something shifted.

It wasn’t that the flowers got worse. It was just the same thing, same timing, same style, and she could tell I wasn’t really involved anymore.

Once she figured out I wasn’t picking them, wasn’t calling the florist, wasn’t even thinking about it, the whole thing fell apart.

She didn’t just stop appreciating it. She got upset.

That’s when it hit me. Effort matters more than how fancy something looks, but only if people can see the effort.

Everyone knows using someone’s first name in an email is fake intimacy. Everyone knows a ‘just checking in’ follow-up is usually a script. People don’t hate automation; they hate feeling automated.

Amazon can get away with it because its suggestions actually make sense. You buy something, and they show you something similar. It feels like they’re paying attention.

But if you pretend you put in effort when you didn’t, that’s where it all falls apart. Same thing in emails, sales funnels, and even in relationships.

Real personalization isn’t polish. It’s proof you were paying attention.

After that, I stopped automating flowers for good.

Most people waste years chasing the latest trend.

New platform launches and everyone rushes in. ..

Then the algorithm changes, and income disappears overnight.

Protocol 108 is different.

It's been working the same way for decades without the need to please algorithms or rely on platforms that can shut you down.

It’s just a simple system that generates income on demand.

Stay-at-home parents are using it to finally breathe financially. Burned-out employees are walking away from jobs they hate. People with zero experience are building real freedom.

I stumbled onto Protocol 108 after years of failure, and it's the only thing that actually worked. Dead-end jobs became a distant memory thanks to it.

I wrote a special report that reveals what Protocol 108 actually is, why it's so much more reliable than anything you've tried, and how ordinary people are using it right now to build income that doesn't vanish when trends change.

Nobody tells you the hardest part of starting online isn’t time, tech, or traffic. It’s waking up every morning and not quitting.

After trying to make money online for 8 months, I was already exhausted. Not from work—from doubt. I was doing all the “right” things. Blogging every day, learning WordPress, and working a full-time job on top of it. On paper, I looked committed.

Inside? Total mess.

I was broke, on minimum wage, living with my parents, overweight, and had a long history of things not working out. And every single morning started the same way.

One voice said, “Be realistic. This isn’t you.” The other said, “There has to be a way.”

That tug of war is brutal because it feels logical. Your past becomes evidence against your future.

If you’ve failed before, your brain treats failure like a forecast. And then asks you to believe in success with zero proof. That’s not inspiration. That’s psychological whiplash.

Most people quit here, not because they’re lazy, but because doubt sounds reasonable when the scoreboard says you’re losing.

This is where people get stuck for years. They confuse stubbornness with relentlessness.

Stubbornness is doing the same thing over and over and calling it loyalty. Relentlessness is changing approach until something finally works.

Time doesn’t fix this. You can waste ten years repeating the same mistake, or fix it in ten months once someone points it out.

That was the turning point for me—an external viewpoint and a simple correction from someone not stuck in my mind.

So here’s the real question. Are you still fighting yourself every morning… or are you fixing what’s actually broken?

Because belief doesn’t come first, momentum does. And that’s the difference most people never make.

Attraction marketing gets sold like magic. Stand there, say the right things, and people line up to hand you money.

That’s not what this episode is.

My guest, Tyson Zahner, failed in network marketing for 18 years before anything worked. And the breakthrough wasn’t charisma or hype. It was positioning.

We get into why most people repel prospects without realizing it, how confidence can exist before results, and why being genuinely interested beats trying to be impressive every time.

There’s also a dead-simple framework he used when nobody knew who he was, didn’t have credibility, and had zero proof. No theory. Just what actually got leads to come to him.

If you’ve ever felt awkward promoting yourself or secretly hated chasing people, this episode will mess with you in a good way.

I used to think people resisted because they were stubborn. This book proved me wrong. Not because it teaches persuasion tricks, but because it explains why change stalls even when the logic is obvious.

What hit me is how often resistance isn’t defiance but friction, fear, and bad timing—the wrong obstacle in the wrong place. Push harder, and people dig in. Remove the friction, and they start moving on their own.

This matters if you sell, teach, or lead anyone—including yourself. Because once you see what actually gets people unstuck, you stop arguing with reality and start working with it.

It’ll change how you pitch, coach, and decide.

I make small lists powerful
And big lists dangerous.
Numbers don’t impress me,
Intent does.

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