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pixeleaf · 6 years

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When trouble at home rises you don’t take more than a minute to plan your escape to venture the great world you’ve barely seen. You hitch rides with strangers to travel as far away as possible, only to find yourself in the middle of nowhere. You set up camp for the night and wait for the sun to rise to start the next chapter of your big adventure...

The sun rises and you are woken up by an unfamiliar face. You have been sleeping on someones property! You choose not to run away and hear them out. They offer you the chance to build up a town and become mayor in the empty area instead of contacting authorities. You’d do anything to not have your parents involved and agree to the deal without realizing what you are getting yourself into...

Welcome to the It Takes A Village Challenge!, a blend of a few challenges I’d like to try but without all the different saves. The main aspect of this challenge follows the settler challenge, thats right folks you get to put your building and sim-making to the test to create a world of fun and random characters! Your townies can even have an ongoing theme! Speaking of themes, the second part to this challenge follows the Sim Crossing Challenge! When you thought the settler challenge was enough you now get to fill up a museum with collectibles and befriend those neighbours you just created! And last but certainly not least we have the differences in the family challenge making an appearance to give all your generations a chance to explore what the game has to offer with the various personalities and lifestyle choices!

Lets recap, this challenge is a mix of the Settler Challenge, Sim Crossing Challenge and Differences in the Family Challenge, and why not throw in my own twist of the beloved My Sims game.

Goals • Build and populate your world, and lift all restrictions. • Fill up an empty Museum with every collectible there is to find, make friends with your neighbours and upgrade your home over time. • Learn and explore the sims 4 with different generation goals, personalities and careers. • Overall have fun with it!

Setting up • Life span is your choice! • Aging on or you can set up goals to age sims. • Create a single sim (and you can create their future partner!). This is your founder. They can have any aspiration or traits but you might prefer relating both of them to your generation goal. • Bulldoze all lots or add this save to your game and build your townhall/museum wherever you would like it to be or download this one! • Turn off fill empty homes in game options. • You must use all or almost all your money building and furnishing the house. You can also use this money to buy books and seeds. The point is that you must not have any money when you start the game. You can also use a money cheats to reduce it.

Rules • You can’t keep any of the money a sim brings with them when moving in. • Sims can have as many children as you want (I like to use an online dice roller) • Choose the heir based on whatever method you prefer as long as they are the child of your founder/previous heir. • Your founders/heirs children must move out when they turn into young adults. • Start collecting! you can sell any collectibles you want to help with money but remember you need to fill up your museum over the generations. • The next generation starts once your current founder/heir has completed their generations goals.

Populating Your World The only residential and communities lots you should have in the beginning are: • The Museum • 2 residential lots with a family size of 1-2 sims • Your chosen lot to start the challenge on

Rules for adding families: • When you are allowed to add a family, you can create them or download them. Roll the dice to determine the number of sims within the household (1 to 6).

Different ways to populate your world: • Have babies! • You can use your Charisma skill to persuade people to join your colony: You can add one family for every sim in your family who has reached level 5 in Charisma. • You can also attract people by hosting great parties. You may add one family for every type of party for which you’ve got a gold medal. You can only invite people who live in your colony to your parties, you can’t invite homeless people! • Improving the services and the infrastructure in your colony will also make people move into your community. You may add one family for every community lot you add.

Restrictions and how to lift them School There is no school in your colony. Requirements for lifting this restriction: • There must be at least twelve people living in your colony (your family included). Medicine Hospital births are not allowed and woohooing may always lead to a pregnancy (roll the dice! 1 means you need to pick the interaction Try for baby instead, and if you roll 2-6 you can just pick Woohoo). You can always choose to Try for baby if you want to. Requirements for lifting this restriction: • There must be at least three different community lots in your colony Electricity There is no electricity yet. You may not use the computer, the TV, the radio etc. (You may use the fridge, however). Requirements for lifting this restriction: • There must be at least four different community lots in your colony AND one of the sims in your current family must have 6 skill points in Handiness Careers You may not have a normal job as there aren’t any companies or infrastructure. Careers are therefore not allowed, but you may use other means to earn money (painting, collecting, gardening, fishing etc.) Requirements for lifting this restriction: • There must be at least five different community lots in your colony • There must also be at least thirty people living in your colony (including your family) ADDING COMMUNITY LOTS When a community lot has a certain cost, you can either pay for that lot or try to fill the other requirements, in which case you won't have to pay anything. If you decide to pay, just use a money cheat to reduce your money by the required amount. A church / a wedding venue / some other nice place for your colony to gather and meet each other This should preferably be the first public building or venue that you create. There are many nice choices in the Gallery (under General), but you can also build it yourself. Just remember not to make it too modern! Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Handiness A café, a restaurant or a bakery Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Gourmet cooking A pub or a bar Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Mixology A library Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Writing A concert hall or a lounge Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Guitar, Violin or Piano A park Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 6 skill points in Gardening A nightclub Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have 8 friends outside the current family A gym Unlocking requirements: -Cost: 5000 simoleons OR your heir must have fully completed their aspiration (it doesn’t matter which aspiration he / she has)

Collections Needed for your Museum • Frogs: 25 • Fish: 22 • Crystals: 20 • Metals: 20 • Elements: 15 • Postcards: 14 • Fossils: 16 • Microscope Prints: 12 • Space Prints: 15 • Aliens: 10 • Space Rocks: 5 • MySim Trophies: 20 • Masterpieces: at least 10

+ More • Get to Work Geodes: 6 • Outdoor Retreat Insects: 21 • Dine Out Experimental Food Prints: 20 • Kids Room Voidcritter Cards: 20 • City Living Snow globes: 15 • City Living City Posters: 15 • Cats and Dogs Feathers: 12 • Jungle Adventure Ancient Omiscan Artifacts: 16 • Jungle Adventure Omiscan Treasures: 13 • Gardening

Its best to collect these in relation to your sims generations goals. Ex: Generation Two would be the best time to get all the collectibles in space as you won’t get a chance to go out again with another heir.

Generation One: Gardener Helping the mayor to start up a community doesn’t give you a lot of job options, you decide to let mother nature run her course as you live off the land to gain an income to support your future family and community. Aspiration: Angling Ace, Freelance Botanist or Outdoor Enthusiast Objectives • Complete aspiration • Your garden is your job, have a garden with all plants. • Master gardening skill • No babies before marriage

Generation Two: Rocket Scientist Growing up under the same roof of a family of botanists and mother nature enthusiasts, you decide to take a different route with science and follow the stars and explore what is beyond the earth you have grown up on. Aspiration: Nerd Brain Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of Space Ranger or Interstellar Smuggler career • Master rocket science skill • Fall in love with an alien and have alien babies (optional)

Generation Three: Musician You wanted something different from your parents and grandparents science-influenced lifestyle, so you follow your creative heart and made art! You choose to move to the big city where all your dreams can come true. Aspiration: Musical Genius or Party Animal Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of the Musician branch of the Entertainer career • Master a Musical Instrument skill • Get married to a sim who has the Music lover trait and have at least one child

Generation Four: Love Doctor With your parents focused on their music and careers, you didn’t get a lot of attention growing up. Because of this dysfunction, you looked for love in all the wrong places and inherited the career-focus your parents had, but this time the twist is you heal other people’s heart to replace the emptiness in your own. Aspiration: Serial Romantic Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of the Medical Career • Master charisma skill • Divorce twice, have children with 3 different sims.

Generation Five: White Picket Fence “I always dreamed of a white picket fence” With the unsteady lifestyle you grew up in, you chose to break the cycle and promised yourself that you will one day have a big happy family with a white picket fence. Family means everything to you and you won’t allow your children to go through the same experiences as you. Aspiration: Big Happy Family, Super Parent or Successful Lineage Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Open your own business • Master any skill • Marry one sim and have 3 or more children

+ Optional: A Man’s Best Friend A family isn’t complete without a fuzzy four footed friend! Aspiration: Friends of the Animals Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Master Pet training and/or Vetrinarian

Generation Six: Bad Seed There was something about you. You were different from the others. Could it have been you were smothered by your parents, since they did have such high expectations of you, or were you just born that way. Either way, things are going to change around here, for an evil better.... Aspiration: Chief of Mischief or Public Enemy Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of the Criminal career • Master mischief skill • Marry an evil sim and have only one child

Generation Seven: Good Cop ”I won’t end up like you! I won’t! You were their perfect child, and you dislike it, even more so when you realized that your parents were criminals. Now you’ve sworn to take your parents down, no matter what. Aspiration: Aspiration is your choice! Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of the Detective career • Master logic skill • Get married and have more than one child

Generation Eight: Computer Genius You took an admiration in your parents career... or more so some of the things their perpetrator’s could do with a computer and the internet. You started to teach yourself the ways of cyber-space and all the possibilities and outcomes you could achieve. Aspiration: Computer Whiz Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of Tech Guru career • Master programming skill • Fall in love with another tech-y sim and have babies

Generation Nine: Fitness is Key You watched your parent(s) sit around all day in front of a computer, you wanted something different. Something that would fulfill your interest in body-involved activities, not just ones that challenged the mind. You chose to try out school sports through your childhood and be as active as you can be as grew into a young adult, testing yourself to break your limits. Aspiration: Body Builder Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of the Athletic career • Master fitness and/or wellness skill • Find a partner similar or opposite to you and have a child or children

+ Optional: Adventure is Waiting! You wanted to expand your mind and body into one and experience the biggest challenge of your lifetime to travel and explore the world, completing adventures and quests! Aspiration: Jungle Explorer or Archaeology Scholar Objectives: • Master Selvadoradian Culture and/or Explorer Skill

Generation 10: Creative Mind Aspiration: Best-selling author or Painter Extraordinaire Objectives: • Complete aspiration • Get to level 10 of Painter or Writer career • Master writing, painting and/or photography skill • your choice for lifestyle!

That’s pretty much it! It will probably be an intense challenge so relax, have fun and don’t stress over it. You can lessen your goals if you want or change some areas of the challenge to make it easier. Thanks for reading and feel free to tag me if you decide to try out this challenge!

Goodluck and Happy Simming!

xoxo Pixeleaf

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circaverne · 8 years

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✨OUR GENERATION; DEVYN FOWLES✨

If you love cats, Starwars and most importantly; music, then you’ll certainly fall in love with the up and coming violinist of our generation, Devyn Fowles. We interviewed this 17-year-old to discover her dreams, obsessions, and everything in between.

What would your dream job/ future involve?

My dream job would have to be a musician/performer. I would love to make a living out of sharing music and happiness, and touching lives the way that music has done for me. I think my future would hopefully involve travelling the world, meeting new people, learning more about the world around me and contributing to positive growth and change in our society and environment.

What was the last thing that blew your mind?

The last thing that blew my mind would definitely have to be seeing Star Wars: Rogue One at the movies. It outdid my expectations by so much and I loved every minute of it! You know it's a good movie if you have to sit in the cinema five minutes after the film ends, just to cry because it was so good and you don't know what to do with yourself.

What’s the best way to put yourself into a good mood?

The best way to put myself in a good mood is probably by listening to film soundtracks or cuddling with my cats. Another thing that puts me in a good mood is when my friends are happy so I try my best to make them smile while I'm around!

Besides music, what are your other obsessions?

Besides music, my other obsessions are definitely movies. My favourite films are probably Star Wars (pretty much all of them), Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Frank, Perks of Being A Wallflower and Ex Machina. As much as I love watching movies, I'd love to make one one day. I'm also a huge fan of video games. I've been playing them since I was a little girl. My favourites are probably Assassin's Creed, Portal, Skyrim, Ratchet and Clank, The Last Guardian and Until Dawn. I am also obsessed with Kylo Ren from Star Wars.

What do you love about your country?

What I love about New Zealand is how green it is. I love being able to go on long drives and spend hours surrounded by fields and trees. It really is something special that we have here. We're also very lucky to live in a place that is so free of war and famine. We shouldn't take that for granted.

Imperium, by Devyn Fowles.

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Describe your style.

I would describe my style as contemporary. It sounds odd coming from a violinist but I wouldn't say that I was very classically trained. I started learning violin with the Suzuki books but after the second one, I started bringing in my own music which has heavily influenced my sound and the music I love to play. I have classical training but I use that to play music that I love in a way that makes my sound more authentic and original.

When did you discover music?

I've been surrounded by music since before I was born. My father was a musician who plays many contemporary instruments and my mother is just simply a lover of music. My childhood was filled with listening to alternative rock bands from the 80's mostly. Funnily enough, I didn't grow up to enjoy or play that kind of music at all. I discovered my passion for music when I started high school. At age 14, I picked up music as a subject with no knowledge of how to read or play music. I just knew that I loved it. I ended up taking violin lessons by chance and falling in love with the subject, regardless of how terrible I was at it. Four years later, I am playing violin at Grade 8 level and about to start NCEA level 3 music which is so amazing. I am so grateful for and owe a lot to my teachers and others who have helped and encouraged me to becoming the musician I am today.

What music do you love?

I love all kinds of music! You can find me listening to the Star Wars soundtrack, a Chopin piano etude, a sick EDM track or even french rap. I do have to say that EDM violinist Lindsey Stirling holds a super special place in my heart as being the biggest inspiration and role model for me since I was about 11. Twenty One Pilots have also made music that I hold dear to me.

What goes through your head when you are writing your own music?

I'll be honest, writing music for me is really hard. Practice makes perfect and I've slowly been able to come out with music that I am okay with but sadly I'm not a composition prodigy like some people I know. When I write, I like to have a specific emotion or memory that I'm writing about, maybe even a person. That allows me to put together a set of chords and a melody that I can use as a channel to kind of deliver that feeling or memory to the listener. When I write, I like to have the bare structure of the music to improvise on and I will pick and choose bits that I've played to put together like a puzzle. It's a complex writing process now that I think about it.

Do you do anything in particular to get ready when writing or playing music?

I have a lot of odd pre-performance rituals. I get really nervous before I perform so I like to do a lot of anxiety reducing breathing exercises. Sometimes I like to sprint around (hopefully where no one can see me) just to get out the nerves in an active way. I also eat bananas because apparently they help too.

Best music genre/song you've ever written?

I don't think I've written it yet. I'd like to think that all of my best songs are still hidden away in my mind, waiting to be written. However, my current favourite composition is a character theme that I've written for a short film.

Who or what is your inspiration and why?

Lindsey Stirling definitely. She inspires me because her music is so different and she isn't afraid to share that. Lindsey is such a positive person who has so much wisdom and happiness to share. Most of all I aspire to be like that. I am also inspired by my own experiences. I draw emotion from those memories when I perform in order for it to really touch the audience in the way that I want it to.

Do you have a song that you wish you could change slightly?

This is a hard one! I think all songs are perfect as long as they fulfill the purpose the composer intended for it. But honestly, I would change every piece of music that doesn't have a pleasant resolving chord at the end. There is nothing worse than hearing a really good piece of music, only to have it end on a chord that doesn't sound right. It's just not satisfying.

Is there a particular song you're attached to?

Yes, a lot of them actually. Shatter Me by Lindsey Stirling is probably the one I am attached to the most. Its lyrics mean something that I relate to a lot and it's just really special to me.

The New Zealand school system allows you to study music. Do you personally think that the system allows students to study music in the “correct” way? Or should something be changed? If so, what should be changed?

I think the current system allows young musicians to learn, create and perform with a lot of freedom to grow as musicians and develop their own sound. Strict music education is pointless because music is an artistic and creative platform. By teaching students to only perform or write in a specific way, you risk dulling their creative sparks which just isn't right. The current system is really good, I think.

Many thanks to Devyn Fowles for participating in this interview.

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Alva Noë is a lifelong Mets fan who grew up in New York City in the 1970s. He is also a Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley who has published influential books on the nature of human action and experience. With his most recent volume, Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark, Noë joins the distinguished line of American philosophers who have embraced the national pastime.

Many of the essays in this diverse collection draw on Noë’s columns from the NPR website, 13.7 Cosmos and Culture, now sadly defunct. A longer opening essay frames recurring themes: baseball as a juridical sport, the questionable urge to reduce it to a game of numbers, and the puzzles raised by performance-enhancing drugs. But the book ranges widely, from joint attention to the magic of the knuckleball, from instant replay to Beep Baseball for the vision impaired

The essays are short, sharp, and attractively written, colloquial but profound. You can read them in the breaks between innings of a baseball game and pretend that you are watching it with Noë. As he writes in a piece about baseball and language, “the thing baseball folks do more than anything else, even during a game, is talk about baseball.”

I talked to Noë before Opening Day.

KIERAN SETIYA: Your parents were not baseball fans. How did you fall in love with the Mets?

ALVA NOË: I grew up in Greenwich Village. My parents were “alternative,” you could say. They were artists and most of the people in our lives were artists — potters, painters, musicians, etc. This wasn’t a sports or fan culture, and professional baseball, professional sports in general, was something sort of beyond the horizon; it showed up mostly by way of transistor radio as a kind of window onto the straight world. My dad was also an immigrant, a Holocaust survivor who’d arrived from Eastern Europe at the war’s end. So I think at least part of baseball’s appeal for me, and for my brother, must have been that it was so very normal, so much a part of a larger culture that felt both strange but also comforting. Safety and comfort were a factor for me — as a child, I would listen to games at night under the covers. I associate that with security and pleasure. At the same time, I guess I’ve also felt that I needed somehow to serve a bit as an ambassador from baseball, or maybe from the wider culture, to my family. Why do I love baseball? What is it I love? How can I make sense of this to people for whom baseball is, well, unimportant? In a way, that’s what this book is about.

As for the Mets, well, it was over-determined that I became a Mets fan back in the early 70s. The Mets were actually the better New York team back then. They’d won the World Series in ‘69. I was too young to be aware of that — but I vividly remember watching Tom Seaver and Tug McGraw lead the Mets to the Pennant in 1973. They weren’t just better than the Yankees, they had the better story, or at least the story that made sense to me. The Mets were pretty good, but they were always the outsiders and the underdogs. They were the team for city kids, for Jews and Puerto Ricans. To me, they represented aspiration rather than entitlement and establishment, as with the Yankees. The Mets were summer barbecues in the park; the Yankees were upstate, White, and Republican. I’m not saying it’s true, but that’s how it felt. I could no more support the Yankees than I could support Richard Nixon. And although my parents were not baseball fans, they were enthusiastic opponents of Nixon. So there is a sense then in which the Mets were the closest I could get to an embrace of a kind of Americana.

Of course, it’s important that I didn’t consciously choose to be a Mets fan. That’s not really the kind of thing you choose. Just as you don’t choose to be born here or there. But there’s not choosing and not choosing. I think there is a way in which you do choose what team to love.

Here’s a comparison: Why does anyone have a New York accent? Why are there even accents? You might say that people simply grow up speaking the language of those around them. This is obviously true to a degree. You don’t grow up in New York speaking Cockney English. And yet, crucially, there is variety to the ways people talk and not everyone ends up talking just like those they grew up learning to talk with. I suspect that finally the only way to explain this is to recognize that there is a sense in which we do choose how we talk. Not quite explicitly, to be sure. But we find ourselves talking, roughly, the way we think ‘people like us’ are supposed to talk. New Yorkers as a group tend to talk the way they think they are supposed to talk. And I suspect this is true for other categories of identity.

In particular, I suspect it is true of being a fan. I didn’t choose to be a Mets fan, nor is it something I inherited like a nationality. But I think at some level I chose to be the kind of New Yorker who would be a Mets fan, and my parents did in some ways raise me to be that kind of person.

That comparison speaks to me! I lived in England until my early 20s and first encountered baseball – at a Mets game – during graduate school. But I love it now in a way I’ve never loved another sport. As it happens, I’ve also acquired what I like to describe as a “trans-Atlantic” accent. I sound dubiously American to British friends.

This leads me to a question about being a fan. At the beginning of your book, you cite a puzzle from one of Plato’s dialogues: are things good because we love them or do we love them because they are good? You argue that we don’t love baseball because it is special; it is special because we love it; and we love it because we grew up with it. It’s an endearingly unsentimental view, especially coming from the author of Infinite Baseball. But it made me wonder what you think of fans like me, who didn’t grow up with the sport. I don’t think baseball is objectively better than other games, but I do think it is objectively special. Am I wrong about that?

You are right. Baseball is objectively special, but not objectively better. For me this is like Tolstoy’s thought about unhappy families, that they’re all unhappy in their own way. Well, baseball is special, but so is American football, and so is soccer. But they’re all special in their own way. The point generalizes. For instance, there is something special about languages. French, German, Yiddish, but also Classical Chinese or Hausa. These are special languages. Not more special. And certainly not better. But special, yes. Objectively so.

There is a joke in Wittgenstein somewhere about a French General who marvels at the fact that in French, alone among all the languages, there is a perfect correspondence between the structure of the sentence and the structure of the underlying thought. The general is the butt of the joke. Wittgenstein’s point is that there is no external standpoint from which we can say that one language rather than another is better at expressing thought. But notice this leaves open that there is an internal standpoint from which it can feel mandatory to say just that. For someone inside a language, language fits meaning like a well-worn glove. If you are French, it seems as if the very way we join words together matches something essential in the way we think. And in a way that’s right, not wrong.

And so with baseball. It is special. But to understand why, you need to take up the standpoint from inside baseball.

I do think the whole question of an immigrant’s love of the game is a fascinating one. Sometimes being an outsider affords the opportunity for a special kind of appreciation. Think Hemingway and the bull fight. Or the British and their passion for American (especially African American) music. And then there’s the fact that it is one of the stories that baseball likes to tell about itself that it has served an important role in the American melting pot. People of different national origins as well as classes come together at the ball park. Children of immigrant fathers and their fathers become American at the ballpark. So your affection for the game taps into important themes.

This connects to another idea in Infinite Baseball. I say that to know baseball’s objective specialness, you need to take up the stance inside baseball. But baseball also reminds us, I think, that the inside stance is also always an outside stance. To play baseball is always at once to think about baseball. Maybe that’s even more pronounced in the experience of a convert such as yourself. You love the game, you take up the stance inside, but you remain, and probably always feel, like an outsider, at least to some extent. That’s true of me, too.

I like the idea that baseball is distinctively reflexive or that it thematizes reflexivity in a distinctive way. In your book, you call it a “forensic sport.” Could you say a bit about what that means?

A curious and unremarked fact about baseball is its preoccupation with questions of agency, credit, blame, liability, and the like. In baseball, it is typically not what happened that matters, but rather who is responsible for — who deserves the credit or blame for — what happened. Actually, it’s more subtle than that. What happened, in baseball, is in good measure determined by facts about liability and responsibility.

To see what I mean, consider the law. A person eats poison and dies. This description of the facts leaves open what actually happened. Was this a suicide, a murder, an accident or a misjudgment? To answer the question what happened? you need to decide, roughly, who’s responsible. That is, you need to ask what I call the forensic question. Did she eat the poison on purpose? Did someone slip it into her sherry? Did she squeeze the dropper too many times when preparing her sleeping draught? One can only know what happens when one makes decisions about what she or other persons did. And this is because what happened is actually made up out of facts about who’s responsible, about whodunnit.

Forensics, as we all know from police shows, is the science of whodunnit. More generally, it is the domain of the law and legal responsibility. And more generally still, “forensic” just means, roughly, having to do with agency, and so with responsibility, that is to say with warranted liability for praise and blame.

Baseball events, like legal ones, are, in this sense, forensic in nature. It isn’t the material facts — hitter swings bat, ball flies to right field and lands uncaught — that fix baseball reality. What we want to know is did the batter get a hit, do we credit him with driving a run home and advancing the runners? If so, then we can blame the pitcher for giving up the run. But if the batter reached on an error — if the fielder bungled the ball — then we don’t credit him with reaching base and driving in a run and we don’t blame the pitcher for letting it happen. In that case, something else happened. Yes, a run scored. But it was unearned.

In baseball, you need constantly to adjudicate questions of this forensic sort. That’s how you understand what’s going on. That’s how you tell the game’s story. Even something as basic as balls and strikes comes down, finally, to a judgment about who’s to be held praiseworthy or blameworthy. If you can’t hit what the pitcher is throwing, but you should be able to, then that’s a mark against you, it’s a strike. But if you couldn’t reasonably be expected to hit a pitch, well then, that’s not your fault, it’s the pitcher’s fault. That’s what a ball is. One of the big mistakes we make about baseball is that we think the strike zone is a physical space. Actually, it’s something more like a zone of responsibility.

Baseball reality, then, depends on our attention to these questions of agency and responsibility. To be a fan, or a player, that is, to care about and know what’s going on, you need to be an adjudicator, which is to say, a thinker. This is what makes baseball such an intellectual game.

There is something deeply right about this. If you compare the MLB rules with those of the NBA and the NFL, “judgment” comes up a whole lot more: 5 times in the NBA rules, 6 times in the NFL’s, 62 times in the official rules of Major League Baseball. It is a matter of judgment whether something is a wild pitch or a passed ball, a stolen base or defensive indifference. The definition of a strike makes this explicit: “A STRIKE is a legal pitch when so called by the umpire, which — (a) Is struck at by the batter and is missed; (b) Is not struck at, if any part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone; (c) Is fouled by the batter when he has less than two strikes; … etc.”

As a philosopher, I love that peculiar self-reference: “when so called.” At the same time, advocates of baseball analytics are prone to complain about some of the phenomena that implicate human judgment: about the arbitrariness of fielding errors and umpires’ shifting strike zones. What do you make of those complaints?

Great question! I love the job played by judgment in baseball. Its what makes the game so vital. Baseball highlights the fact that you can’t eliminate judgment from sport, or, I think, from life. Sure, you can count up home runs and strikeouts and work out the rates and percentages. You can use analysis to model and compare players’ performances. But you can’t ever eliminate the fact that what you are quantifying, what you are counting, that whose frequency you are measuring, is always the stuff of judgment — outs, hits, strikes, these are always judgment calls.

We as a culture are infatuated with the idea that you can eliminate judgment and let the facts themselves be our guide, whether in sports or in social policy. Baseball reminds us that there are limits. You can’t take the judge out of baseball any more than you can take him or her out of the court room. And that’s not because there aren’t facts of the matter, or because there aren’t precise rules. It’s because no rule is so precise that there are no hard cases. And hard cases demand good judges.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for trying to get it right. If slow-motion replay lets you see what really happened during a close play at home plate, then I’m in favor of it. But the use of instant replay doesn’t eliminate judgment, it only highlights the role it plays. It is umpires at a remote location who make their call on the basis of the videotape. The tape doesn’t read itself and issue a decision.

And if it did — if down the road we replaced the umpire by some kind of AI — that would either spell the end of baseball, or, more likely, it would shift the locus of dispute, adjudication, and judgment. To my mind umpires aren’t measuring devices. They are participants in the game. The idea that you might replace them with machines makes about as much sense as the idea that you might, in the interest of improving the game, get rid of the players themselves.

Maybe underlying all this is the worry that judgment, of its very nature, is subjective and so arbitrary. But a good judge — which means not only someone with good eyes and knowledge of the rules, but an experienced and fair judge who understands what’s going on and who knows where to position him or herself to make the call — is anything but subjective or arbitrary.

I don’t disagree with any of that: as you say in the book, it is a mistake to suppose that “baseball somehow bottoms out in quantitative analysis.” On the other hand, I’m not sure how prevalent this mistake is in baseball analytics, a lot of which aim to improve our judgment or assessments of credit and blame. The problem with errors, for instance, is that fielding percentage is unfair to fielders with greater range. (The strike zone is a more difficult case.) It is easy to abuse numbers in baseball, but some of the prime examples – obsessing about the radar gun or how a batter performs against curveballs on a 2-2 count in the seventh inning – are ones I associate with scouts and TV commentators, not with Fangraphs or Baseball Prospectus. I guess I am hoping for a union of wise judgment with forensic science.

I agree that numbers have been and continue to be a crucially important way to understand what’s going on in baseball, to tell the story, and also yes, in my sense, to assign praise and blame. There is no “in principle” opposition between the judge and the forensic scientist. Indeed, in some ways the history of the game can be tracked as evolving conceptions of how to use numbers to understand the game.

But baseball analytics threaten to change the game in ways that may not be for the good. To give an example I don’t discuss in the book, consider the way pitching has changed in recent decades. When I was a kid, you had starters and relievers. Starters were better pitchers than relievers and the idea was that a reliever was brought on basically only when the starting pitcher got into trouble. (Although there were great relievers, like my beloved Met, Tug McGraw, or Rollie Fingers of the A’s.). Every starter aimed at a complete game. Things have changed so much now. Starters, middle relievers, set-up men, and closers. But the direction we are really headed in — and you are beginning to see this already — is an erosion of the very distinction between starter and reliever. Increasingly what we are moving toward is “pitching by committee.”

Now from a tactical point of view, this makes good sense. Pitchers are always fresh, you can manipulate righty-lefty match-ups to your heart’s content, and you can use each pitcher in a surgical way to perform just the task he’s good at. Some people complain you slow the game down with all the pitching changes, but that doesn’t bother me. I don’t like this development for another reason. The new approach conceptualizes pitchers as if they were, well, a special kind of instrument for delivering the ball. You’ve got different ball-machines — “arms” — for different occasions. But pitchers didn’t used to be just arms; they were team-leaders, generals, and much of the game’s saga had to do with the challenges faced by the pitcher to find ways to enable dominance, not just over an inning or two, but for a whole game.

Remember the case of Matt Harvey and the fifth game of the 2015 World Series. He’d pitched eight scoreless innings against the Royals. Terry Collins, the Mets manager, wanted to pull him for a closer in the 9th inning. But Harvey said he was strong and he wanted it, he needed it — he’d only thrown 101 pitches — so Collins left him in. The rest is history. The Mets went on to lose. The question is: did Collins make a mistake?

If you are an analytics guy, that’s an easy call. Collins listened to his gut not his head. It was time for the 9th-inning specialist.

But if you think of baseball as about the arc of the pitcher’s struggle — or rather, of the arc of the team’s battle as embodied, in part at least, in the overcoming and achieving of its leader, its pitcher — then it’s much harder to say that Collins made a mistake. He took his pitcher’s feelings, his needs, his wants, into account.

And that, finally, is what worries me about the new “moneyball.” It eliminates players as agents, players as human beings who are on a team and working together for an outcome, and views them, instead, as mere assemblages of baseball properties that are summed-up by the numbers.

Is a person an assemblage of statistically describable habits and propensities? Or is there something more to a person than that? In a way, what makes baseball special is that it is a setting in which this very question, a fascinating and important question, can be asked.

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And so with baseball. It is special. But to understand why, you need to take up the standpoint from inside baseball.

If you are an analytics guy, that’s an easy call. Collins listened to his gut not his head. It was time for the 9th-inning specialist.

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KIERAN SETIYA: Your parents were not baseball fans. How did you fall in love with the Mets?

And so with baseball. It is special. But to understand why, you need to take up the standpoint from inside baseball.

If you are an analytics guy, that’s an easy call. Collins listened to his gut not his head. It was time for the 9th-inning specialist.

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You might find this hard to believe, especially if your struggles right now sound a little something like this:

I don’t even know which niche I should be targeting. How do I brand or present myself? How do I choose a good photo for my profile? How do I build a website? How do I get a logo designed? How do I grow my social media followers? Do I need to invest in advertising? What kind of advertising? Do I need a contract? What’s in a typical contract? How do I set up powerful, structured packages? Where can I find clients? How do I get clients when I don’t like sales? What’s the best way to sell a one-on-one coaching session? How are group coaching sessions different? Should I be giving out free 30-minute sessions? How do I secure monthly retainers? Should I be running workshops, or is it too soon for that? What do I need to do to keep clients engaged? How am I going to get all of this done?! Chances are, you probably have a whole lot more questions, struggles and fears (yes, it can feel like an endless list!). But don’t worry.

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By the time you finish reading this, you’ll have the answer to all these questions (and more). You’ll be fired up and ready to start your journey when you realize your dreams of freedom, income and impact as a coach is soooo close within your reach.

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You’re overwhelmed. There’s a wealth of information and expert advice out there. Yet you have no idea where to start, what to even do next, or how to prioritize all the things you need to do to build a thriving, sustainable coaching practice. You’re doing it alone. You don’t have a coach or community who will call you out on your excuses and help you get past your internal blocks. Without this support, you end up losing motivation and drive over time. So just imagine if you had for your coaching business:

A proven 12-week action plan outlining exactly what you need to do to, week by week, to grow your coaching business to a stage where you consistently reach $5,000 in revenue a month (or more). The tools, resources, systems and templates you need to actually get things done, move to the next action step of the plan, and build a thriving, sustainable coaching practice. The stellar support of a world-class coach who has a track record of helping new and struggling coaches move past challenges, setbacks and internal blocks, so you can grow in confidence and skills while increasing revenue and impact. Would you like to have all of these?

Then let’s meet the Master Coach who can make it happen for you, right now.

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About Christina Berkley

Christina Berkley is a life coach and speaker whose clientele include moms, politicians, celebrities, musicians, activists, entrepreneurs, and other coaches.

In her early years as a coach, Christina struggled. She was living under the poverty level in New York City. She couldn’t afford new boots and endured wet socks and frostbite during winter. Her roommates gave her food because she couldn’t afford food either.

After muddling around on her own for over three years, she managed to acquire clients and was even holding events and giving talks as a coach. But in reality, she was tired, burned out, had no life, and had only just enough money.

After six years of struggling, Christina discovered how to completely shift the way she approached her coaching practice. She immediately put what she learned into action and created more income, impact, and freedom than ever.

Combining this new mindshift with all the personal lessons she learned from six years of trial and error as a struggling coach, Christina has since helped many new and struggling coaches overcome the common challenges of a coach’s journey and accelerate their success.

To reach more coaches, Christina carefully integrated all her best strategies, tools and resources into a step-by-step action-oriented plan designed especially to help aspiring, new and struggling coaches become successful.

This action plan is now available — exclusively here on Evercoach — as a comprehensive 12-week video mentorship called, “The 5K Project: 12 Weeks to Ignite Your Coaching Business to Generate $5,000/month”.

Introducing The 5K Project

12 Weeks to Ignite Your Coaching Business to Generate $5,000/month

The 5k Project

In this 12-week video course with Christina Berkley as your mentor, you’ll:

01Know exactly what you need to do to consistently achieve a monthly revenue of $5,000, or more

This 12-week video course will guide you, week by week, with the exact action items proven effective to reach a sustainable income, easier and faster than you ever imagined. No more information overwhelm. No more figuring things out on your own. Just an exact action list to make sustainable progress, every single day. 02Have exactly what you need to achieve each task on your action plan.

This isn’t just a long list of homework without support. Christina will guide you to understand each part of the process and how to adapt it to fit who YOU are. Plus, you’ll also have the exact list of tools and resources you need to complete each task, week by week, so you won’t have to struggle figuring it out alone. 03Develop success mindsets to stay balanced

Christina has coached so many coaches to build sustainable, thriving coaching practices, that she knows at exactly which point of the journey a coach will face an internal block or struggle. That’s why this 12-week path also coaches you with success mindsets to combat common struggles, as they come up week by week, so you’ll be taking care of yourself as much as you’re taking care of your business. 04Packed with challenges to help you achieve fast results

Many new coaches spend way too much time being “busy” tweaking their logo or website, sometimes for weeks! In addition to success mindsets to combat the fears keeping you stuck in these menial tasks, you’ll also have weekly challenges to accelerate your momentum, push you forward, and achieve fast results 05Grow your confidence and coaching skills as you grow your revenue and impact.

You can’t have business growth without personal growth. This 12-week action plan is packed with lessons and challenges that will help you rise up to become a better coach as you build your coaching business in parallel. This is a return on investment that can’t be measured in numbers! 06Have marketing techniques tailored for coaches

Most programs for coaches teach you how to coach, but not how to build a business or create clients. On the other hand, most business growth programs don’t know how to address the specific emotional and mental challenges of a coaching business! This 12-week action plan has been integrated with exact marketing techniques proven to work specifically for coaches. 07 Have worksheets, documents and resources of everything you need to make administration a breeze.

Everything you need to successfully grow and run your coaching practice without stress, from tools and resources to build your website, to 1-on-1 coaching templates and contracts. 08 Unlock the freedom to live your best life

Have the financial and lifestyle freedom you’ve always dreamed of. Spend more time with loved ones. Strike off your bucket list. Create more impact through philanthropic works. And passionately pursue every other way your heart and soul wants to soar. 09Never be alone.

You’ll enjoy Q&A support and a community of other coaches going through the same 12-week process together. 10Have ridiculous amounts of FUN

You’ll have a big goal. An actionable game-plan. And exciting challenges. Bring it on! Course Information

Here’s exactly what you’ll experience in the 12-week action-oriented video course, “The 5k Project: 12 Weeks to Ignite Your Coaching Business to Generate $5,000/month

Week 1-2

All about YOU

Learn how to authentically craft your vision and mission so you can connect deeply with your ideal client Rewire your money mindset to bust through your fears, self-sabotage and overwhelm, and set you up for business growth Discover the different types of packages you can create to bring in $5,000/month and the art of setting your rates with the “Happy Price” strategy Everything you need to run your business smoothly, including templates of contracts, agreements, discovery packs, pre & post forms, and tracking sheets PLUS: 8 exciting challenges that will make you ready to show up, be visible online and in the world, and begin creating clients! Week 3

Building Your Community

Understand the true purpose of having a community and what your goals should really be (It’s not what many social media specialists tell you to do) The top 3 best practices for creating a community that is a safe space for everyone to grow and enjoy the camaraderie Master how to answer the tricky “What do you do?” question with truth, vulnerability and impact to establish yourself as a leader Tools you can use right away to create your community (it’s not just Facebook) ACTION PLAN: 5 fun challenges to establish yourself as a leader and build up the positive energy of belonging in a community Week 4-5

Creating Clients

A proven model to CREATE your ideal client (and why it’s crucially important you don’t try to “attract” clients) The 2-part strategy to give prospects a powerful experience of YOU Tips on where to find your ideal clients (the answer will surprise you!) How to embody the power of the “Campfire Effect” to deeply and powerfully connect to anyone you talk to — even strangers ACTION PLAN: 6 daring challenges to dial up your confidence and make you magnetic to your ideal clients Week 6

Powerful Coaching

Tools vs. Intuition: Understand the differences and the role each plays in your coaching 11 essential tools and principles for basic coaching to help your clients break through their blocks and get unstuck Go deep into the tools and principles for deep coaching with Inner Child work to help your clients to heal destructive or self-sabotaging behavior 8+ recommended books to take your coaching skills to powerful levels of mastery ACTION PLAN: 4 bold challenges to establishing your authority as a coach in your niche Week 7

All About Meetups – Building Your Tribe

Discover how you can leverage the power of meetups, workshops and intensives for dynamic group coaching 8 steps to design a powerful meetup which deeply engages your participants, motivates them, and helps them experience breakthroughs How to gently guide your participants from a breakthrough to wanting to work with you (it’s a sales process that feels so natural, you’ll simply FALL IN LOVE with it) How to end your meetup, workshop or intensives with a memorable spark ACTION PLAN: 4 sensational challenges to create exciting packages which will deliver the impact the world needs from you Week 8

Powerful Proposals

How to develop the “Wealth Warrior” mindset and start proposing your packages 3 tips to boost your confidence to pitch a proposal and close a sale 5 steps to make powerful proposals your prospects are magnetically drawn to How to counter the 3 most common objections prospects say ACTION PLAN: 2 courageous challenges to secure your first client, and the next, and the next… Week 9

Optimize Your Life

Go deep into achieving balance in 5 key areas of your life: Mind, Body, Spiritual, Business & Relationships 4 tools and daily rituals to continually train your mind and keep it at optimum levels of performance The importance of fitness, nutrition, and spirituality to boost success and happiness\ Strategies, journals and other tools to reduce stress and increase JOY in your business ACTION PLAN: 5 personal challenges to push your boundaries and propel your growth Week 10

Be Outrageous!

The secret truth behind the success of a crazy big idea How to activate your system to increase your performance as a coach 3 success mindshifts to make you resilient to rejection and criticism, so you can relentlessly move forward with motivation Inspiring examples of things you can do to be BOLD and break through your comfort zones ACTION PLAN: 7 outrageous challenges to spur business growth, increase your revenue and create outstanding impact Week 11

Shape a Powerful Mindset

Discover the 14 common mindsets of a coach’s journey Go deep into each mindset to shift your thinking and propel past what keeps you stuck What to do when you feel like a fraud (don’t worry, you’re not the only one who feels this way) Habits and tools to continually sharpen your powerful mindset ACTION PLAN: 5 exhilarating challenges to establishing relationships and networks crucial to your ongoing success as a coach Week 12

Light the Grid Game

Learn how to create a game that keeps you moving forward Peek into “Light the Grid”, an exciting game tailored to build a fun, thriving coaching business See how you too can play the “Light the Grid” game to motivate yourself, push forward, and create quality clients Insights and actions from “Light the Grid” to ultimately provide massive service to your clients ACTION PLAN: Reach 10,000 points on your “Light the Grid” game See how other passionate people like you fulfilled their coaching dreams under Christina’s mentorship

CASE STUDY 1 “Got back ROI in just 2 weeks” Greg was an exceptionally talented man who wanted to change careers and become a coach. He really wanted to work with Christina to launch his coaching business, but he didn’t have the money. So he borrowed the money from his grandmother and hired Christina.

Within just two weeks of working with Christina, Greg created clients for his business and had enough money to pay back his grandmother. His business and revenue only continued to grow from there, but most importantly, Greg found fulfillment and joy in being able to coach full-time and create impact.

CASE STUDY 2 “Consistently earned $20,000/month” Shannon had a rough childhood and grew up around guns and mafia. Determined to become better, he began exploring business opportunities. Coaching was a no-brainer for him because he loved working with people to help them improve their lives, just as he had. However, he was struggling to get clients.

Shannon turned to Christina for help. She immediately spotted the fact that Shannon’s website was not powerful. Although his website was beautiful, it was not authentic. Christina coached Shannon to emerge from behind the wall he was creating and be himself. A few months later, Shannon told Christina that he had earned $20,000/month in revenue, for the past 3 months straight. Even better, he achieved this without a website!

CASE STUDY 3 “From corporate job to full-time coach” Elizabeth had a regular life and a regular corporate job. Although life was good, she craved for something more and knew the path she wanted to take was to be a coach. With a strong corporate background, however, Elizabeth didn’t know much about business. So she hired Christina to guide her.

Christina provided Elizabeth with the tools and strategies to build a coaching practice from scratch. Elizabeth learned how to design her coaching packages, how to promote herself, and how to create clients. Within just a few months, Elizabeth had a sustainable coaching practice giving her a full-time income and she could finally leave the corporate world behind her!

What Students Say

And here’s what other coaches have said after working with Christina

“Closed two annual customers at $25,000 each”

After our conversation, I reevaluated what I was doing as a coach and claimed my space for myself. Well, yesterday, after doing 3 meetings of two hours with extremely interesting people, I closed two annual customers at $25,000 each. And tomorrow I’ll have two more conversations that probably will end up the same way. I have no words to thank you for everything you did for me… Thank you!”

Bruno Strey Vilela Coach

“I’ve developed more of a sense of ease”

I’ve worked with Christina for one year. We did 6 months in [group coaching] and we did 6 months privately. That first investment was scary for me. It was the first high-end coach that I ever hired. And I actually replaced [that first] investment before the group even began just based on the first few conversations that Christina and I had. I got my first long-term paying clients. And over this last year, I’ve replaced my income from my [previous] consulting job. But more importantly, I’ve just developed more of a sense of ease.

Greg Dobson “Radically transformed my business and life for the better”

Before I started working with Christina I was struggling hand-to-mouth in my coaching and teaching business after leaving academia, and my personal relationships were not so hot either. I was scared to sign up with another coach because I’d spent money before on coaches who ultimately didn’t help me much.

Within 6 months of starting to work with Christina, I radically transformed my business and life for the better. I now have a thriving 6 figure (soon to be 7 figure!) online teaching business, have spent the winter living in Bali (about to tour Europe!) and now enjoy a much better caliber of relationships in my life.

This amazing, rapid transformation came about in large part through Christina’s wisdom and encouragement and through her absolutely not buying into my limited notions about myself. I highly recommend applying for a first session with Christina. If she agrees to coach you, you’re very lucky indeed.”

Carolyn Elliot World Traveling Entrepreneur, Writer, Coach

“She said YES!”

“After an amazing preparation coaching session with Christina, the next day a new executive signed on for my first six-month coaching engagement – from a FORTUNE FIVE company no less. This time I was authentic, vulnerable, and boldly gave her “homework” straight-away, whether she picked me or not – and she did. Thank you Christina – crazy good coaching.”

Susan Greene Transformational Leadership Coach

“I tripled my rates”

“Before working with Christina I had zero clients, no online presence, no website, and just a strong desire to get my coaching business flourishing and absolutely zero results yet with a whole lot of obstacles. Upon working with Christina, I tripled my rates, charging rates I never even dreamed was possible. I have a full clientele load. I now coach full time. I have a strong online presence and website. I began writing for online articles. I got my writing published in journals. And I led my first workshop. All within six months of working with her.”

Leah Petrusich Life Coach on Sex, Intimacy & Relationships

Let’s Get Personal: Why is Coaching Important to You?

Why do you want to become a full-time coach?

How would it feel to quit your job and heed the calling of your heart and soul? How would this peace and fulfillment feel like?

How would you redesign your lifestyle if you knew you could consistently earn $5,000/month — or more? When you’re no longer bound to someone else’s office and working hours, how would you spend the extra time with your partner, kids, friends or family?

Where would you live? Where would you travel? What would you strike off your bucket list?

Why is it important to you to have this transformation and finally call the shots to how you want to live?

And how much is achieving this worth to you?

Most importantly, if the opportunity arises to propel you to realize your dream, do you want it badly enough to take it without hesitation?

Well, today, such an opportunity lies before you.

Before today, having Christina mentor you for three months would cost you at least $12,000. Without a doubt, you’d make your return on investment. However, not everyone can come up with this upfront cost. In fact, some of Christina’s past clients have had to borrow money to invest in her mentorship.

And even if you had the money, Christina may not have the available time. She is in such high demand, she has to turn down a lot of people who need her coaching.

Today, all of that has changed.

With the “The 5K Project”, Christina has made her knowledge and mentorship to build a sustainable, thriving coaching practice accessible to everyone, at a ridiculously low price for the actual value you’re getting.

Why?

Because like us, Christina wants to make it easy for aspiring, part-time or new coaches like you who are just starting out, succeed without struggling. We want to do this because we personally believe in the transformational work you do and so we want to help you succeed, increase your impact, and contribute towards a better world.

That’s why it’s not going to cost you anywhere near $12,000 or even half of Christina’s usual coaching fees. We could still easily charge $3,000 or $2,000 and give you lots of value, but we want to make it even more affordable than that.

Which is why we have made “The 5K Project: 12 Weeks to Ignite Your Coaching Business to Generate $5,000/month” available at a standard price of just $995.

Just making your first $5,000 month will pay for the course, multiple fold. And this system doesn’t just bring you that one-time revenue. We’re talking consistent revenue.

Which means after a year, you could have made $60,000 in revenue… that’s a 10,000% ROI for investing in this 12-week action plan with Christina as your mentor.

$995 Investment In Your Business

$60,000 Annual Revenue

6,000% ROI for investing in this 12-week action plan

For even more value, you’ll also get these personal bonuses from Christina to support your 12-week journey to coaching success:

Exclusive Bonus: Exclusive Facebook Community & Fortnightly Q&A with Christina (Valued at $1,200)

You’ll be part of an exclusive Facebook community with other passionate coaches in “The 5K Project”. At any time, you can post your questions to Christina in the Facebook group. Every two weeks, Christina will answer 10 of the most pressing questions from the community via web video or email. This ongoing support will help accelerate your learning even further and smoothen your journey.

How is “The 5K Project” different to other coaching programs?

01You’ll get a 12-week action plan and not just theoretical concepts.

Telling you that you need to eat less and exercise more to lose weight is the theory you already know. Giving you the exact meal plan and exercise videos to do, day by day, is showing you how. . Similarly, “The 5K Project” doesn’t just say you need to build a website, create a community, set up contracts, and create clients. It shows you HOW to execute each element without overwhelming you by giving you clear, bite-sized action steps. If you take action on each step, you will make tangible progress to build a sustainable business foundation which can set you up to earn $5,000 in revenue, consistently every month. 02You’ll learn real-life lessons that have worked for many other coaches like you.

Christina’s style is not dry textbook stuff. She shares real-life lessons and strategies which have worked for her and other coaches, so you too can achieve real results Christina is also powerfully vulnerable in revealing all her past mistakes and all the course corrections she took, so you can avoid the same struggle and accelerate into enjoying the financial and lifestyle freedom you’ve always dreamed of. 03You’ll be in a strong community of powerful coaches.

Let’s face it. As a coach, we give our energy to people a lot. And if we don’t take care of ourselves, if we don’t have community support we can lean on, it’s hard to continue the journey and to keep moving forward. The effects of this can be devastating upon you and your family. With “The 5K Project”, you’ll enjoy Q&A support and a community of other coaches going through the same 12-week process together. Nothing is more energetic than feeding off people who are in high vibration. When you connect to our community, you’ll be connected to others who are lit up and unapologetic to better themselves and serve others. You’ll get supported in excelling with your own lifestyle, develop yourself at such a deep level, and you’ll do it with camaraderie. A 100% risk-free opportunity to make your coaching dreams come true with our 30-day guarantee

We stick by our claims. If for any unlikely reason this training doesn’t live up to any of these promises, drop our team an email and you will be refunded 100% of your investment up to 30 days from your date of purchase.

Where do you want to be 3 months from now?

Do you want to be enjoying life as a full-time coach, sharing your unique gifts and creating impact?

Do you want to be creating more impact and be more confident about generating revenue… so confident you can make coaching your full-time job?

Do you want to be making enough money to thrive as a coach without working crazy hours or burning out…

So you can also really serve your clients powerfully without coming from an energetic space of being clingy or dependent on them?

If you do, the good news if you have everything you need to achieve this in as little as 12 weeks.

All you need to make this happen is to TAKE ACTION and challenge yourself to commit to “The 5K Project”.

Nothing will happen if you don’t take action, except remaining stuck in your status quo. You’ll continue experiencing the same results and frustrations for a long time. And even if you stick it out long enough to learn through painful trial and error, who knows what all these mistakes could actually cost you in the long run in terms of your emotional, mental and physical health.

So don’t let inaction hold you back from where you can really go.

Commit to “The 5K Project” and create an amazing new future ‘you’ as a full-time, thriving, and happy coach.

It’s going to be a LOT of fun, growth, and fulfillment!

The Mindvalley Advantage

As head of Mindvalley’s Customer Support, it’s my goal to ensure you get the best experience with this program. We consistently rank among the top 2% of all American companies using NiceReply. You can always reach me and my team directly at [email protected]. On top of that, enjoy peace of mind with Mindvalley Academy’s triple satisfaction guarantee listed below:

Advantage 1 You are about to be blown away by the sheer quality and attention to detail of every exercise, session and meditation in this program. Advantage 2 Your growth is our biggest passion. This program and everything else we do is designed to get you the results you deserve. Advantage 3 If for any unlikely reason this training doesn’t live up to any of these promises email us and you will be refunded 100% of your investment up to 30 days from your date of purchase.

Kristi Anier Customer Happiness Team Lead Click the ‘Add to Cart’ Button Now And Experience This Instantly

Here is what you get when you join “The 5K Project” today:

Week 1-2: All about YOU Week 3: Building Your Community Week 6: Powerful Coaching Week 7: All About Meetups – Building Your Tribe Week 8: Powerful Proposals Week 9: Optimize Your Life Week 10: Be Outrageous! Week 11: Shape a Powerful Mindset Week 12: Light the Grid Game PLUS: Action plan for each week with fun challenges to make continuous progress PLUS: Worksheets, documents, and resources for each week Bonus: Exclusive Facebook community & fortnightly Q&A with Christina (Valued at $1,200) Payment Plan Option Flexible payment option for you to get access to the program risk-free

($339 billed monthly for 3 months for a total of $1,197)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why can’t I do this on my own? + How is this different to other coaching courses and business building courses? + What if I don’t like it? Is there a money-back guarantee? + Warning: You Only Get Out What You Put In

There’s nothing like the feeling of having your first $5k month – but understand this: No one…absolutely no one can claim they have a magic wand which will generate thousands of dollars for you without work. We don’t claim that either.

The 5K Project is called so because of the intention we want to lead with. Because you’re getting a blueprint for making $5,000 a month as a coach. You will still have to go through the program. You will have to take action. You will have to be in the right market. You will have to have the right mindset. Always keep that in mind. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, despite what some less scrupulous online marketers will try to tell you.

However…if you are willing to do the work and bring that change in your coaching business, go ahead and try The 5K Project. We stand behind it with a 30-day guarantee, because we know if you work, it works for you.

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