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Carma Spence (Authority Consultant)

@carmap

Authority consultant for coaches, consultants & experts. ⚡ Grow your influence with books, content & the savvy use of AI. ⚡ Bestselling & award-winning author.

 Hastings, MN
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Joined July 2008
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The task you keep putting off is rarely too big. It’s usually too vague. What’s one thing on your list that needs a clearer first step, not more willpower?
Quote card with the text: Clarity removes resistance faster than discipline will.

ALT Quote card with the text: Clarity removes resistance faster than discipline will.

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You know you’ve explained it before. A podcast, an article, a client call. What do you do when you need it again: search your files, or write it from scratch?
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This cat has the costume and the bucket. You have one almost-done project. Which one are you finishing before Saturday night?
A tabby cat in a pumpkin costume holds a jack-o’-lantern candy bucket at a front door on a moonlit night, with the text “Candy’s for kids. Finished projects are for grown-ups.”

ALT A tabby cat in a pumpkin costume holds a jack-o’-lantern candy bucket at a front door on a moonlit night, with the text “Candy’s for kids. Finished projects are for grown-ups.”

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A voice document teaches AI how you sound. It doesn’t teach it how you decide. So you get a draft that sounds like you and makes the calls of someone who has never met your ideal client.
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Most of the drain happens before the first word, when you picture the finished version and measure yourself against it. Decide what “done” means first. What has to be true for this to go out?
Quote card with a Nosferatu theme reading, “Perfectionism is like the Nosferatu of writing. It drains your energy even before you start.

ALT Quote card with a Nosferatu theme reading, “Perfectionism is like the Nosferatu of writing. It drains your energy even before you start.

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My AI chief of staff ranked filing the conference folder below speaker outreach. Logical, except that folder held my outreach templates. He couldn’t have known. I supplied the one missing fact, and the plan made sense.
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1/ A detailed prompt still can’t fix a generic draft. Three things it can’t carry: 👇
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4/ Continuity: the correction you made yesterday, still true today
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5/ When the draft keeps landing flat, fix what the AI has to work from before you rewrite the request.
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What’s one thing about how you work that your AI has never been told? Not your tone. The call you make without thinking, the line you’d never cross, the task you do first for a reason.
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Bold Kitty has gazed into the crystal ball and seen your drafts. The one at 80 percent. The email with no next step. Pick one and finish it before Monday.
A tabby cat in a starry purple cloak rests its paws on a glowing crystal ball in a candlelit, Halloween-themed room. Text on the image reads: “The crystal ball says: finish the thing already!”

ALT A tabby cat in a starry purple cloak rests its paws on a glowing crystal ball in a candlelit, Halloween-themed room. Text on the image reads: “The crystal ball says: finish the thing already!”

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Content that attracts clients does five jobs, in order: 1. Problem recognition: “That’s me.” 2. Relevance: “This is for someone like me.” 3. Authority: “She can actually solve this.” 4. Buying intent: “Why now?” 5. Next step: “Here’s what I do next.” Most content does two or three. Which job does yours skip?
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Most content isn’t broken. It’s unconnected. If you can’t draw a line from a post to the offer you most want to sell, a stranger can’t follow one either.
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The post stuck at 80 percent usually isn’t a writing problem. Somewhere in it, a decision hasn’t been made. Which one is yours?
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Years of useful posts, and almost none led to a client. The gap wasn’t in what I published. It was in what I never published. What does your ideal client need to believe before hiring you that your content has never said?
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Saved, shared, praised. Still nobody asks to work with you. That’s the Helpful Expert: generous teaching, no reason to act now, no clear next step. Does that sound like your content?
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Tell the witching hour you'll send one paragraph tonight. The rest can arrive after sunrise.
A gray tabby cat in a witch hat holds an old black rotary phone receiver in a candlelit, cobwebbed study, with text reading "The witching hour called. It wants your finished manuscript."

ALT A gray tabby cat in a witch hat holds an old black rotary phone receiver in a candlelit, cobwebbed study, with text reading "The witching hour called. It wants your finished manuscript."

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The person about to hire you may already feel sure. Then they have to explain the choice to a partner, a bookkeeper, or their own inner skeptic. If they can't put it into words, the yes stalls. Often it isn't doubt. It's a missing sentence.
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