Harrison Ford’s “Carpenter Trick”

Before he was Han Solo, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.

While every other actor in Hollywood was hustling, auditioning back to back, doing whatever it took to get their big break tomorrow...

Harrison Ford looked around and thought: this is going to take a while.

So instead of burning himself out chasing a lucky break that might never come, he learned a trade. He taught himself the skill of carpentry and began using to pay his bills. And as a result, he was able to taken auditions on his own terms.

If it didn’t pay more than what he was already doing, he could easily turn it down if it didn’t feel like a big leg up for his acting career.

So while everyone around him was running on fumes and desperation, he just kept showing up. And a few years later, a director named George Lucas, maybe you’ve heard of him, he was casting a space movie nobody thought would work.

And Harrison Ford, “the carpenter to the stars”, landed the role of a lifetime.

He was working late one night on a facade where George Lucas was hosting some script reading sessions, and Harrison Ford was simply asked to sit in. There was no indication this would become a gig for him.

That is, until George Lucas never stopped calling him back.

And the writers, thought leaders, and educators who last aren't the ones working the hardest or trying to go viral overnight. They're the ones who build a system that lets them show up day after day without burning out on the stuff that doesn't matter.

All to say… I was on a mastermind call the other day and one of the minds present said something that stood out to me.

She's got inbound messages piling up, content to write, offers to manage, all of it.

And what she really wants isn't to work more hours.

She wants more time to analyze what's actually working instead of spending her days drowning in manual copy-pasting and the operational noise that's typical to any information or education related business endeavors.

And I thought to myself…

Over the past two years, I've been doing a little carpenter trick of my own.

Being an former home builder and all, I built a system in Notion that brings all your content, emails, clients, ideas and all their metrics into one place. That way, anytime you want to create something: an offer, a custom GPT, a piece of content, and email, everything you need is in reach.

With a click or a simple voice command.

No copy-pasting documents. No downloading PDFs to upload somewhere else. No switching between twelve different tools to find what you need.

Just say what you want to make, and the context is already there.

If that sounds interesting to you, and you like the idea of adding automations to your business that free you up from the menial tasks that you don’t like to do, so you can focus on the higher leverage stuff in your business, then I want to hear from you.

What’s the thing you wish was “magically” created or automated for you with the power of AI?

Talk soon,

Kevin Hood