“Impact Venture Capitalists!”

Hello Team…

SUPER BOWL & COMPETITION

I briefly spoke about this before, “Impact Club is a Game.” When we compete we push ourselves to be our best. Further, when you have friendly camaraderie, competition can inspire and motivate.

As you watch the Super Bowl today, you will see that.

Regular men who have pushed themselves, both internally and externally, to be world class athletes. And because of that, have earned the right to play in sports biggest Game! The Super Bowl…

As most of you know, I have an equity interest I multiple businesses. In one of those businesses, I had to make the tough decision to fire someone this past month, because that person saw tracking her productivity as a condescending insult. I explained to her, “I am not timing you,” at this point, “to compare your time vs. my time.” I am simply interested in understanding “how long this task takes you to complete,” so that we can work to improve it over time.

Like driving from Portland, OR to Seattle, WA – it’s 173 miles.

That’s a measurement.

No traffic, doing the speed limit, it takes 2 hrs 45 minutes.

But a beginning driver, who is not confident and has never driven from Portland to Seattle, who may take a wrong turn here or there. Who may choose a departure time that leads them to being stuck in rush hour…

That 2 hr 45 minutes, can quickly become 4+ hours.

Similarly, someone who has driven that route many times. Their experience may lead ’em to shave 17 minutes off that average drive time. Maybe they found a shortcut. Maybe they traveled during non-carpool hours. Maybe they drove quicker, having more confidence in their ability to exceed the speed limit by 5-10 mph…

My point is.

If you don’t find a way to track & measure progress. Using a stop watch. Through competition. Or by ascending to different levels as new skills are acquired, it’s damn hard to know if you’re improving.

This brings me to Impact Club. And let’s go back to Brittany. I honestly don’t know if she inspired 3 new members to join Impact Club Temecula or 12 new members. But I bet she wishes we knew…

So do I.

Because if we can define “The Game of Impact Club.” And if we can track & measure the progress of the players having the greatest Impact. Then we can learn from those people to make an even greater Impact.

As I’ve stated:

“Impact Club™ is Crossfit® for those who want to make a difference. We are Impact Venture Capitalists. There are local and national leaderboards. We compete. We use our intelligence, connections, propensity to solve problems, committed hearts, and unrelenting conviction to turn small donations into huge impact.”

That graphic above is the concept sketch that I’ve been working on with my development team. Like developing Crossfit® from scratch. Certainly it wasn’t easy. And Impact Club hasn’t been easy either. By far, the hardest project I’ve ever worked on. A few weeks ago, I felt like quitting…

But…

I’m no quitter.

Back when I was 23, I quit on myself once. I drank 5-6 nights a week. For about 6-months I threw myself a pity-party, because for the fourth year in a row, I was again, and again, and again, rejected from medical school.

Poor me, right?

But I was 23, that was the biggest thing in my life at that time. I was young. And because I felt like a failure. I drank. Partied. I was good at it too. Then one day that childish stupidity almost cost me my fiance…

Now my wife.

Now the mother of my two kiddos. (Jackson & Zoey)

But as I looked in the mirror that day, hungover, pathetic, eyes sunken into my skull. I looked like hell. I vowed to never again quit on myself. Nor on anyone, or anything that I cared about.

As my friend Tim Murphy said to me years later, whose daughter battles Type-1 Diabetes, “I hear you say quitting…” in reference to a podcast that I did, talking about my hate for people who quit, because of how I quit on myself. “Quitting in the world of juvenile diabetes means quitting on my own flesh and blood; my baby. Quitting in the world of juvenile diabetes means potential brain damage, loss of limbs and even death. Quitting is a word the “Murphy Family” doesn’t use, or even know exists.”

Then made the statement:

“Tim Murphy is NOT, has NOT and will never be a F#@king Quitter!”

I’ve never forgotten that statement. And perhaps it resonates more strongly with me than others, I don’t know. But it reminds me to keep up the fight. Developing the back-end of Impact Club has been a bitch…

But in the grand scheme of problems, it’s not a big problem.

Time and money will solve it.

And when built…

Impact Club: The Game – will give Impact Club members an even better vehicle to Impact those in our communities that have REAL problems – as competition and camaraderie serve to inspire! – to push us…

Enjoy the Super Bowl my friends. I hope it’s a great Game!

KEEP INSPIRING OTHERS!

-Ryan Fletcher

Co-Founder, Impact Club – forever Grateful.

PS: Encourage everyone you know to learn the Language of Story. If they do, life, business, fundraising, relationships, the attraction of opportunity, clients, money, love, etc. will be much easier for them.