Marissa Brassfield

🚀High-Performance Strategist | Marissa Brassfield
✨Ridiculously Efficient | Future-Ready Mindset
🤖AI & Tech Tools | Elevate Work-Life Alignment

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Your calendar is a mirror, and most of us don't love what it's reflecting.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

If you're into this, check out #76 of the MaxLife Podcast - I had the most incredible chat with Ben Laws.

https://t.co/beW7EnQLy8

https://t.co/6Ch3eK0cVB

https://t.co/nUQhQvCyuO

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Overwhelmed about AI because you think you need to learn prompting before they can use it? You don't.

If you want to try something fun (and helpful) with AI that doesn't overhaul your life or your systems... This is it.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Plenty of people are using AI to find more hours in the day, offloading the work they don't want to do, then turning around and filling that cleared space with more work.

Instead… Use tech to make your human life better, not just your work life faster.

Lighten the household stuff. Automate the groceries instead of running that endless "we're almost out of..." loop in your head and having an outburst when nobody else noticed we're out of toilet paper.

Make work easier too. Let AI scrape the document, update the Notion, and finally turn that meeting that should've always been an async update into one.

The time and energy you free up? That's yours. Do whatever you want with it

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

"maybe in another lifetime"

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

https://t.co/beW7EnQLy8

https://t.co/6Ch3eK0cVB

https://t.co/nUQhQvCyuO

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Every role I've held in the last 20 years didn't exist 20 years before that.

We got into what that means for everyone panicking about AI right now (and a whole lot more) on Ben Laws' Max Life podcast.

Links in the comments!

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Every day is a chance to make new choices!

I realized a few months ago that I didn’t have any hobbies that I wasn’t monetizing. So I got into container gardening and then plant propagation.

It’s so enjoyable to see growth after optimizing their environment (sun, soil, water, nutrients). And propagating plants has taught patience. Both are a delightful antidote to the AI-accelerated work I do.

There are so many fun and fulfilling ways to spend time beyond work.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

If all of your eggs are in a basket you don't own, it's not crazy for that to keep you up at night.

The only thing that protects you is your name on the business.

I learned this after co-creating something that became an 8-figure acquisition.

I helped build something irreplaceable. I also had no legal claim to any of it.

It wasn't behind my back, but I also didn't even get a vote when it disappeared.

What's actually in writing has to match what you think you're building. That gap, between what you feel and what's on paper, is where a lot of women lose years.

Check the details. Fight for the ownership. Don't wait.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Your calendar is a mirror.

Every block on it is a reflection of something. Fear. Priorities (some you didn't intentionally choose). Beliefs about what saying no would cost you. Other people's lives filling the hours you meant for your own.

The version of yourself you wanted to become… still waiting for the time you keep handing somewhere else.

The women who get out of this start small. Building muscles long forgotten (or never worked in the first place). A new block on the calendar just for them. A real lunch. A no they should have spoken up about last year. Each one a line in the sand.

The question worth sitting with is how much longer your body is willing to keep covering for you while you push through.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Common beliefs I hear in coaching:
"I have to earn it by suffering for it."
"If I have more, someone else has less."
"It could disappear anytime."
"Money corrupts."
"Generational wealth is for other families."

Each one creates pressure. The pressure has to go somewhere.

If you want out of the cycle, you have to name yours. Specifically.

That's where the healing starts.

P.S. I wrote more about this here:
https://t.co/w0fap3L0v0

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

If you've gotten a significant raise and barely felt the shift, that's worth looking at.

As you earn more, is it going toward what matters, or is your money getting absorbed into the supplements and convenience services and Sunday delivery orders you're using to keep yourself functional?

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

I learned mine in my parents' kitchen long before I learned to balance a checkbook. Money was scarce. Spending it required justification, and saving it required virtue. The belief I absorbed: wealth isn't safe for people like us.

That belief drove decisions I didn't know were decisions. Underpricing my work. Apologizing for invoices. Building my business around scarcity-level clients when I could have been building it around abundant ones.

The belief operates in the dark until you turn the light on.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

(It doesn't unravel, by the way. It reorganizes. And usually into something better than what you could've planned.)

I hold the space for that reorganization. That's the work.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Most people assume I help clients figure out their next career move.
That's part of it. But honestly, it’s the smallest part.

[Marissa Brassfield @efficient]

Because the career question is almost never really about the career. It's about who you've become inside a structure that no longer fits, the guilt of wanting something different when you "should" be grateful, and the fear that changing one thing makes everything else unravel.