The Gap — one short email a week, from Terry Gormley
The Gap
By Terry Gormley · every week · free

One short email a week, for business owners who take their own development seriously.

Something to think about. Something to reflect on. One thing to do. That's every issue: 400 to 600 words, a two-minute read, and never a list, never a plan.

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The Gap
Every issue, four questions
  1. i.
    Where do you want to be, and by when? A destination without a date is a direction, not a gap.
  2. ii.
    Where are you now? The honest look. This is where the weight of it sits.
  3. iii.
    What's in the way? Not the distance. The obstacle. Rarely the one you think.
  4. iv.
    The one thing One action for the week. Never a list, never a plan.
What it's about

The gap is the space between where you are and where you want to be.

Every business owner has one. A number you haven't hit. A version of the business, or of yourself, you can picture clearly but aren't living in yet. Most people glance at that space occasionally, feel the weight of it, and look away.

The Gap works on it weekly. Each issue takes one honest look at the space: where you're heading, where you actually are, what's really in the way. Then it leaves you with exactly one thing to do about it before the next issue lands.

It's the same thinking Terry teaches inside the Mindshaper Academy, in its smallest possible dose. A couple of minutes with a coffee, once a week, that keeps you pointed at the thing that matters.

Where you want to be. Where you are. What's in the way. One thing to do about it.

Not a link round-up

No "ten articles worth your time". One idea, worked properly.

Not a sales letter

It's free, and the email is the product. Nothing to buy at the bottom.

Not homework

Never a list, never a plan. One action for the week, small enough to actually do.

A two-minute read

400–600 words. Written to be read, reflected on, and acted on the same week.

Terry Gormley
Who writes it

Written by Terry. Actually written by Terry.

Terry Gormley has been in business since 1998, with four seven-figure acquisitions along the way, and has taken hundreds of business owners through Mindshaper since 2012. The Gap is where his week's thinking lands: the patterns he sees in the owners he works with, and the one move that helps.

"The limit of every business is the limited imagination of its leader."

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