Managing Your Money
If someone offered you an extraordinary business opportunity, could you come up with $5,000 to do it? Do you always carry a few hundred dollars (or euros, pounds or whatever) of folding money around with you in case of emergency? If you needed $1,000 tonight for a hospital bill, could you handle it, or would you have to do an Easter egg hunt for it?
Working Hard to Stay Broke
If you live in the first world, you have to work really hard to remain poor. (Which often infuriates people when I say that.)
Affirmation for a Prosperous Day
After two days, mostly spent lying on the floor in excruciating back pain, I need a positive affirmation for a new day today. And just in case you do as well, let me share mine with you.
Seeking Wisdom and Confidence
I believe wisdom comes from discussing ideas, questioning premises and staying curious. I created this blog so we could hang out together and do just that. I don’t post here to provide you with answers, but to influence you to discern what answers you might provide yourself.
Your Peak State
You know the state I am speaking about. When you feel eight-feet-tall and bullet proof. You’ll try just about anything then. And you feel so confident that you usually accomplish it.
Counterfeit Breakthroughs
We sometimes have a reflexive tendency toward denial about things that make us uncomfortable. These counterfeit breakthroughs and delusions are the way our insanity keeps reinventing itself.
Tripwires to Success
Most people want to achieve more, tackle an audacious goal, and become successful. What does that success process look like? There are a few important but little-known parts of the equation. They’re tripwires to success, since people trigger them because they’re unprepared for them.
How You Get a Competitive Advantage
You too, will have a lot more success if you work to create a competitive advantage for yourself. So how do you do that? What are some powerful sources of competitive advantage?
The Formula for Self-Mastery
But self-mastery, like mastery of any kind, means excelling above most others, achieving the highest levels of effort, practice and execution. Being willing to sacrifice to be the best. And once you attain this kind of mastery, it shows.
The Path of Self Mastery
You will build a reputation as a person with integrity, one who can be counted on. And you will find your opportunities will continually expand and evolve. That is the real journey to self-mastery.
