CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy

Saving founders, business owners and entrepreneurs from burnout and 60 hour work weeks. Treble your income not your stress in 90 days

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

At 29 I was earning £22k in a job that was slowly making me invisible.

No degree.
No clear path.
Watching family celebrate cousins who took the conventional route I'd quietly rejected.

I wasn't lost.
I was honest...
...honest enough to know I didn't know what I wanted yet.

Most people don't get that distinction until it's too late.

So I did the only thing that made sense:
I treated my career like a business problem.

Identified where the value was. Moved toward it. Changed direction when the data said to.

No degree.
No mentor.
No perfect moment.

10 years. 3x income. Still employed but building the exit.

Here's what that decade taught me about business that nobody talks about:

Most founders build backwards....

They start with the product. Then the brand. Then the audience.

And somewhere at the end, almost as an afterthought, they ask:
"Does this actually improve someone's life?"

The businesses that last answer that question first.

Not because it's noble.

Because it's the only thing that compounds.

Value over vanity.
Substance over performance.
Maslow over metrics.

That's what I build. That's what I help founders build.

If you're building something real, something that improves lives, follow along.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for your business, my DMs are open.

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@IAmSteveHarvey What other people think

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@anatelorenzen Reading and enjoying it is seriously underrated

I listen to those I can’t read whilst driving haha

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@micheal_ws18 I did it a few years ago doing 5/3/1, was before the twins though, and elbows bein fucked

would love to get back there

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@martin_valchev_ Perseverance over despondency

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@RyeMcKenzie What happened at 25 Ryan?

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@KevinSzabo14 Focus on getting people what they want and you’ll never be out of business

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@andrehaykaljr 16 days old wow, so new and exciting

The time flashes by in an instant, is this your first Andre

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@heyizmadz @KevinSzabo14 Third world brokies

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@_friendsthat Just women?

That sounds like a lot of men I know, including me

But my shift occurred when I had the twins and I put it down to 30% priority shift 70% mental exhaustion hah

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@RepByRepX It’s the same protein and no offense to literally almost everyone including me, but they’re not bodybuilders

They have a fitness and lifting hobby

The difference to normies is negligible

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@CliftonSellers I can’t imagine how tough that must have been

Makes you hold your loved ones all the tighter i’ll bet

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

Morning folks!

What’s the plan today?

Shipping, building, learning?

Whatever it is, enjoy

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@wealthrewired8 Yep wished I’d never done it, but it domino effected many of the years after that which led to know….so you know, never wish your past away

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@james_xond Me

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@avivafashion11 You should so do an insta story saying ive noticed you noticing me and im here giving you notice of my notice

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@LeonardoFreixas Best thing I’ve read all day

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

@avivafashion11

[CJ Marsh | Common Sense Consultancy @ItsCJMarsh]

This is a goddamn hard workout tonight

Music and the need to tear something down and make it stronger is getting me through

Hatebreed - “How can I change tomorrow if I can't change today?”