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- 📬 Fredo's Letter: August 2023
📬 Fredo's Letter: August 2023
Announcing Fredo’s Templates & A Reflection from Fredo
Announcing Fredo’s Templates: Coming Soon
Fredo's Templates are coming. This tool, developed using Notion, will help you stay organized in your business and daily tasks with simple views to centralize your day. Stay tuned for more details in the upcoming weeks!
Sneak Peak of Fredo’s Templates
💡 Fredo’s Quote 💡
“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time”
🤔 Fredo’s Reflection 🤔
Time Flies When You’re Finding Balance
Photo Evidence of Me Seeking Balance
These past eight months have flown, and as I reflect on this year's journey, I'm proud to share the strides I've made towards a more balanced life. At the outset of 2023, I set an intention to better harmonize work and life, and with over half the year behind us, I can say with confidence that I've made significant progress.
In realizing the way people often connect with me is through seeking my professional services, I've come to a pivotal understanding. While these interactions have been integral to my journey, they don't fully define how I want to engage with others. I'm evolving beyond being solely a provider of solutions – it's time to lead, inspire, and share.
Taking a cue from this realization, I've adopted habits that bolstered my self-discovery. Chief among them is a deliberate reduction in social media consumption. This practice has offered clarity on my priorities, highlighting what truly matters to me. It's also revealed the authentic connections that persist even when the virtual noise subsides.
This journey of self-discovery underscores the importance of the term "self”. I've embraced a positive form of selfishness – nurturing my own needs, wants, and desires. As an operations architect, I've dedicated myself to creating systems for others, yet I was so focused on providing value to those I work with, that I lost sight of my own value. Now, investing in myself has illuminated my capabilities as a leader in scaling and enhancing business environments.
My focus has shifted. I'm no longer content with merely completing tasks for others on their terms; I'm now driven to build tools and processes rooted in the value I uniquely hold in this professional landscape. This newfound understanding of self forms the foundation for my mission.
What I've cultivated within myself, I aspire to cultivate within others. With expertise in crafting workflows, refining internal processes, and fostering business growth, I seek to empower founders and entrepreneurs. By relieving them of operational burdens, I'm enabling them to amplify their strengths, recognize their industry worth, and embrace their full potential. I allow them to do what they do best, and I take care of the rest.
This journey commences with Fredo's Templates – a service through which I'll share customizable workflows built out of my experience and insights that will empower whoever uses them to work more efficiently and scale whatever it is they do on a daily basis.
Keep an eye on your mailbox for what’s to come. Thank you for reading.
To the journey ahead,
Fredo