Let me start with what I don’t like about July. It’s hot, every city is congested, and business damn near comes to a complete stop. You know what I mean. Clients are on vacation, prospects are ghosting, inboxes are quiet, and your momentum feels like it got caught in TSA. You can fight it or you can recognize the opportunity in it. When everyone else is coasting, you can be planning, refining, and planting seeds that are going to explode in the second half of the year.

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