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The Impact Documentation System
Making Your Contributions Impossible to Ignore

Your biggest client just ghosted you after 8 months of amazing results. Your audience forgot about that viral post you created last month. That investor who was "super interested" hasn't returned your emails.
Sound familiar?
Here's the brutal truth: people forget your wins faster than you think. Research shows that without reinforcement, 50% of information is forgotten within one hour, and 70% within 24 hours. Your clients, audience, and potential partners are drowning in information. Unless you systematically document and remind them of your impact, you become invisible when it matters most.
Undocumented wins don't just disappear - they cost you renewals, referrals, and rate increases.
Most entrepreneurs and creators make the same mistake - they do incredible work, get great results, then move on to the next project without capturing the story. Six months later, when they need testimonials, case studies, or proof of their expertise, they're scrambling to remember details or asking clients to recall wins they've already forgotten.
Think about the newsletter writer who lands a brand partnership but can't prove their open rates drove actual sales. Or the consultant who saved a client $50k but only has a casual "thanks" email to show for it. Or the course creator whose students get amazing results, but the success stories live scattered across DMs and comments.
The successful ones? They have systems. They document everything. They turn invisible work into undeniable authority - and cash flow.
Why Your Wins Disappear
Three things kill your impact visibility:
The Recency Bias: People remember what happened last week, not last quarter. Your amazing Q1 results get buried under Q2 problems.
The Attribution Problem: In collaborative environments (teams, agencies, partnerships), credit goes to whoever tells the story best, not necessarily who did the work.
The Platform Volatility: Algorithm changes, account suspensions, platform shutdowns can erase years of documented success in one day. Ask anyone who lost their LinkedIn network or had their Instagram account suspended right before a product launch.
Most people think documenting wins is about ego or bragging. Wrong. It's about survival in a money-making world where attention is currency and memory is short.
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