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From day one we’ve aimed to build a successful for-profit business & develop better human beings along the way. Better Me + Better You = Better Us @charlieykim

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Even on an offsite-- our senior leaders are baking in oscillations-- deliberate periods of stress and recovery to access more intuitive thinking. @charlieykim #futureofwork #betterthinking #intuition

[Charlie Kim @charlieykim]

Part of our leadership recovery journey (aka victory trip). Hot sculpt yoga with our @nextjump senior leaders.

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We start outsourcing our judgment before we've developed it.

Judgment is the mother of all taste.

The ability to tell right from wrong.
Short term from long term.
The right thing to do from the easy thing to do.
A lifelong journey.

Use AI for perspective.
Fight harder to preserve your own thinking.
@charlieykim

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Mission Monday: Stop Gathering. Start Going.
Most smart people fall into the same trap.

Big mission in front of them — the one that would actually move the needle — and instead of attacking it, they disappear into research mode. Gather data. Weigh pros and cons. Wait for certainty.

That's not strategy. That's stalling with extra steps.

Bottom-up thinking ends in paralysis and maybe. Top-down thinking starts with a decision: "I will win."

Not "I think I can." Not "pending further review." A real, declared choice — before you have all the answers.

Then you find the support. Then you fix the problems. In that order.

Choosing is a muscle. Most people don't develop it because choosing means exposure — to criticism, to failure, to being wrong. So they stay in the comfortable fog of "still evaluating."

Your hardest mission this week doesn't need more analysis. It needs a decision.

What's the "I will win" you've been postponing?
Make it today.
@charlieykim
#missionmonday

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The #1 indicator of Resilience is Playfulness
Not toughness. Not discipline. When things get hard, the people who can still play are the ones who recover faster, think more creatively, and perform better over time.

It’s a root in our Training Partner framework—inspired by our original TP’s Co-CEO’s @charlieykim and @MeghanMess

Leading by example for over 20 years of
“collab-a-tition” -- a playful kind of competition via challenge + support that raises both performance and creativity especially in the face of difficulty.

Play isn't the reward after performing.
It's what makes performance sustainable.

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Human Skill: Noticing

Most people want the solution.
What should I do?
What’s the fix?
What’s the strategy?

But solutions by themselves usually don’t work.

You can add good habits.
You can try to reduce bad ones.

But before any of that works,
you have to notice the pattern in real time.

That’s the real unlock.

Because when you notice something while it’s happening, it slows down just enough for a choice to appear.

And choice is where change actually starts.

You can’t change what you can’t see.

Join us for Leadership in Practice Thursdays at 11am EST: https://t.co/F3o00ZXkBb

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#humanskills #selfawareness #growth

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A cool summary of the last 50 community events we created @nextjump. Thursday is the new Sunday where we bring our community together. We invest in what we believe to be important, the future of work/ life/ play…being human IRL.

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Your brain naturally makes instinctive judgements by processing past & current information. However, mental chatter often drowns out this natural ability.

Good judgement requires you to be a strong bouncer 🛡️💪

You need to be aggressive in PROTECTING your intuition from overwhelming mental chatter.

This is a SKILL (which means it’s trainable),
but it requires daily PRACTICE

How often do you talk yourself out of something?

NOTICING is the first step…stay tuned for tomorrow’s post on this... @charlieykim
#humanskills

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What if the most important skills for the next 10+ years have nothing to do with tech?

30 years. Thousands of people. One obsession: what actually makes people perform at their best?

At Next Jump, we've never stopped believing that the best results come from people — not despite AI, but alongside it.
AI is a tool. People are still the root.

We're kicking off a new series: The Human Skills. The habits, mindsets, and behaviors that separate high performance from average in today’s world.

Real practices built from 3 decades of testing on ourselves first — because practice is miles from theory.
Follow along. First drop later today.
@charlieykim
#humanskills #futureofwork

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Notes of support from the Next Jump community continue to come in—sharing a couple more...❤️💪
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[Charlie Kim @charlieykim]

So many heartfelt notes pouring in. Thank you for all the love and support.

Sharing one of them:
“What made this especially hard to watch was knowing the kind of people you are and how much of your lives have been dedicated to helping others grow. Through all the leadership training, conversations, and experiences we’ve shared together, I’ve seen firsthand how deeply both of you care about people and how much energy you pour into helping others become better versions of themselves. That’s why seeing you go through something that felt so unfair was honestly heartbreaking.

What honestly moved me the most was that even while suffering yourselves, you still continued showing up for others. You still kept doing LIP, coaching people, supporting others, and helping community grow. I genuinely do not know how you found the emotional capacity to keep pouring into other people during such a hard chapter of your own lives, but you did. And that says so much about who you are.”

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After 32 months of a grueling nightmare defending ourselves against the U.S. Govt and DOJ, yesterday after an 11 day jury trial in DC Federal Court, we were acquitted on all counts. Not guilty on: conspiracy, bribery and gratuity.

When Judge McFadden said: “You’re free to go” everyone was sobbing. Still surreal, to finally get our freedom back. 🇺🇸❤️💪

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MISSION MONDAY: Why, Because.

Most people set goals at the surface.

"I want to grow the business." "I want to get in shape." "I want to lead better."

Fine. But that's not your mission. That's your answer before you've really asked.

There's a practice from yoga nidra — where before you drop into deep rest, you set an intention. They call it a Sankalpa. A seed planted in the deepest part of your mind.

Here's how it works:

You state what you want.
Then you ask: Why?
Then you answer: Because...
Then you ask why again. And again.
Until you hit something that actually moves you.

Not the revenue number. Not the growth metric. The thing underneath. The thing that's been driving you the whole time.

Most of us are running hard toward a goal that's a proxy for something deeper — and we've never stopped long enough to ask what that deeper thing actually is.

This week's practice:

Before you sprint into your to-do list — spend 5 minutes with this.

→ State what you're working toward.
→ Ask why, because at least 3-5 layers down.
→ Write it. Don't just think it.

See what comes up. You might be surprised.

Follow @charlieykim for more posts that keep you tackling your hardest work.

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The future of work? Networked elite teams of 2.
We call them Training Partners (TPs).

Working with SEALs, one lesson hit hard: terrorist cells — small, autonomous pairs with a shared mission — ran circles around massive, better-resourced forces.

Not because they had more resources. Because they didn’t wait. They moved. Fast. In sync.

That same dynamic is reshaping the best organizations in the 21st century. Less hierarchy. More autonomy.

Smaller units with real ownership.

Why pairs? Math doesn’t lie.
2 people = 1 line of communication. 5 people = 10 lines. 10 people = 45 lines.

Communication gets exponentially harder. Elite orgs figured this out: the team of 2 is the basic economic unit of high performance.

A Training Partner (TP) isn’t just a buddy — it’s a structural superpower.

Follow along @charlieykim — all week we’re breaking down TPs and what they look like in practice.

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Most people think they need more mentors.
More advice.
More guidance.
More answers.

But what actually changes you?

Someone who:
• challenges your blind spots
• sharpens your thinking
• and gets better with you

That’s a Training Partner (TP)

Follow along @charlieykim for more on TP's - the best set-up for high performing teams

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You've heard of accountability partners. Mentors. Coaches. Advisors...
This is none of those things.

A Training Partner (TP) is the relationship most high performers don't know they're missing.

Not a cheerleader. Not someone who fixes you. Someone who sees you clearly enough to tell you the truth — and who's in the arena just as hard as you are.

The smallest economic unit isn't an individual.
It's a pair.
@charlieykim

Follow along this week, we're going deep on TPs + what they look like in practice.

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Dreaming is not the same as VX.

Dreaming feels safer because it's non-committal.

VX requires you to describe the end state vividly enough that you can work backward from it.

If it's still fuzzy, you're dreaming. If you can see it, feel it, and describe it — that's VX.

Without it, activity is just staying busy.
#MissionMonday
@charlieykim

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Just wrapped First Thursday: Maker Studio. 🛠️

Hands-on creation reduces cortisol, boosts dopamine & can lower cognitive decline risk by 45%. It hits different when you do it with the right people.

5 years building what we believe will be the #1 community in the world. Looking for the right co-creators. ✨

Shoutout to our session leaders:
@trishgiagirl
@rvagy
@AvalahBeauty
@resumadecastro

We're just getting started. Follow the journey. @charlieykim

#FirstThursdays #Community

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Most leadership advice sounds good.
It just hasn’t been tested by who is teaching it.

We have a simple rule:
If WE haven’t tried it, failed at it, and iterated on it…
we don’t teach it.

Because what sounds “right” in theory,
often breaks in reality.

#LeadershipinPractice with @charlieykim

[Charlie Kim @charlieykim]

Single biggest insight in human performance:

You are the single biggest impediment to high performance.

Likewise, you can train yourself, upgrade yourself…so that…you can become the single biggest difference maker to success.

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Better Me + Better You = Better Us is our history—it’s in everything we’ve done, in every investment we’ve made… it’s how we’ve accumulated our knowledge in human skills and it’s how we continue to pay it forward.

And we’re not even close to done…
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