Mid-Year Huddle: Gratitude, Growth and Preview!

Hey Reader,

Welcome back to The Strategic Compass, your companion newsletter to The Strategic Thinker podcast. Here, we break down powerful insights and practical actions to help you think long term and build the life of your dreams.

🔍 How to Use This Newsletter

✅ Scan the Highlights – Absorb the essence in moments.

✅ Apply the Strategies – Choose one idea and act on it.

✅ Reflect on the Insight of the Day – Let it guide your focus this week.

✅ Listen to the Episode – For richer context and examples.

Episode Highlights

Mid-Year Huddle: Wins, Behind-the-Scenes Surprises & the Road Ahead

1️⃣ Quiet Gains, Big Themes

Consistency beats intensity. Daily deposits outperform heroic bursts, think Edison’s lab hours, Kobe’s 4 a.m. workouts.
Frameworks + reflection = real strategy. A plan without a weekly debrief is random arrows in a forest.
Your circle shapes your ceiling. Surround yourself with people who expand, not compress, your horizon.

2️⃣ Analytics Surprise
The top-three most-played episodes at the 14-day mark:

Path to Greatness – Kobe Bryant Part 1
Growth Mindset & Thomas Edison
Building Confidence & Serena Williams

Quiet growth is still growth—until a listener binge pushes the line sky-high.

3️⃣ Behind the Mic

Good-enough > perfect. A tiny audio pop almost derailed an episode; no one noticed.
Building in public is pure dopamine. Each fortnightly promise kept = wider ripple.
Analytics lag. Keep planting seeds.

🎯 Insight of the Day

“Most people over-estimate what they can do in a week and under-estimate what they can do in a year.” - Bill Gates

Pick one domain - health, money, or career - where you have been chasing hacks and test P.A.R. out.

Plan: Draft one single goal and three starter activities.

Act: Do the very first task today—before the episode fades out.

Reflect: Block a 5-minute calendar slot next Friday to review.

🛎 Announcements & What’s Next

🎧 Listen Now Mid Year Huddle is live on Apple, Spotify and Maison TST (link below). 🎙️

Studio @ Maison TST

🎙️ Coming Soon:

Fortnightly cadence, no more season numbers.
Dreams and Netflix: we define and discuss dreams, linking goals to them, debunk some myths and talk about Netflix rise to become an entertainment juggernaut.
P·A·R Masterclass drops soon: Plan · Act · Reflect in full detail.
Path to Greatness Trilogy on the visionary who turned Florida swamp into fireworks—episodes will drop back-to-back in September.

🙌 One Year Anniversary A small, private experience is under construction called Listening Room for those serious about their own path to greatness, featuring: