What if I told you that the fastest way for you to start making more money is by making money the least essential part of what you do and why you do it? The common denominator when it comes to successful businesses and individuals alike, is their capacity to give to others. How much you give…
Confidence isn’t always acquired, sometimes its discovered. Sometimes the only way in life is to support yourself. Confidence is, “with-fidelity.” After everyone and everything else in your life falls short of what’s required for you to excel, the final option is to have fidelity in and with yourself. You must support you. Sometimes that does…
Life is a flow. You are part of that flow. How life flows and how you flow are symbiotic. Your connections are meaningful. Your disconnections are meaningful. The nouns in your life are the byproduct of the flow of life flowing to you. Life gives you what gravitates to you. What gravitates to you is…
Keeping hope alive is a materially ineffective pursuit. You may recall this phrase from civil rights activist and presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson. What contributes to the impotency of keeping hope alive is the nature of hope itself. Hope is passive. Typically said in finance in reference to trading the market, but also used elsewhere,…
What fires you up? What creates a sense of urgency in you? When you act on what matters to you, you are exhibiting determination. Being determined is a life essential. It’s a posture of purpose. When you apply determination things get done. This can be an off-putting reality about effort. When you apply yourself you…
You are you. In fact you are so you that there will never be another you. You are unique in that everything that makes you, you can’t be replicated. Imitated, sure. Derived from, probably. But one to one, apple to apple, and orange to orange is impossible. One time I had this friend of a…
In psychology there is a human behavior identified as projection. Projection is when a person instead of admitting to and owning their feelings, emotions, and beliefs blame or abdicate that responsibility to some other noun. For example, let’s say you wear your hair a certain way, and someone you know almost always has some type…
Support starts in the family. A family is the built in support system of life. That’s where your sense of self starts. If support wasn’t important nature wouldn’t have made it our natural disposition. Support lends itself to your survival in a number of ways. Having the right support can be the difference maker between…
This week has been pretty significant for the highest court in the land in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States on the week of June 25, 2023, effectively ended Affirmative Action and blocked President Joe Biden’s Student loan forgiveness plan. These two rulings are following their 2022 decision to overturn Roe…