How many times do we try “quick fixes” on things  It could be anything  Repairs to a house, a car, cleaning...  A quick fix is cutting corners  “Instead of reeling the hose in, i’ll just throw it on the ground”  “I won’t make my bed today because I’ll just sleep in it tonight“ These things … Continue reading 217. If ya gonna do it do it right

Asking questions is such a powerful way to find information out  Because we never know  We never know who someone knows, what someone does, where someone has been, what they've gone through  Or what is and isn’t allowed, what have we been told that’s a lie And even better  Asking better questions gets better answers  … Continue reading 216. You never know

Karma, what goes around comes around, here’s a story  They (Corie) nicknamed me bucket.  We were looking at this property More of a dump that squatters lived in at some point.  Wall crumbled in the back, trash filled rooms everywhere.  We could barely walk around let alone stand the stench to stay in there.  No … Continue reading 215. Sure as shit

"Hold on for dear life"  An acronym for investments  Hodl is a strategy.  Another strategy is to time the markets - buying low and selling high daily.  It’s important to have strategies because it's how we do something  But strategies are only effective if we know what our ultimate goal is.  Because if our goal … Continue reading 214. HODL

There’s so many decisions to make Where to live, who we spend time with, what to eat, how we move,  what to do at work, at home, at school, with our kids what we think about, how we’re going to make a living  And within those decisions, there is an exponential number of choices  Philly … Continue reading 213. Not choosing is still a choice

Life is a battle, filled with challenges, problems, situations  Ups and downs  It’s not rainbows and unicorns but we can sure look for them, taking the positivity out of every situation vs the negative Learning from situations instead of being emotional  There’s a slight but powerful difference there.  And life’s problems may seem insurmountable  Like … Continue reading 212. How do you eat an elephant?

How do we know if we like something if we don’t ever do something? Instead we opt to read about something, learn about it, never actually doing it  And we miss that little part - the doing it.  But here’s the thing - we can do anything we want To me, I wish I could … Continue reading 211. Just try it

How many times do we think “now my days ruined”  Or even better - “the whole vacations ruined”  When we make these claims, we’re forgetting that each moment is new  That what happened in the past is the past and we can move on, even if it was just a second ago. Something prevalent these … Continue reading 210. Don’t throw the day away

 Someone who’s been playing basketball for 20 years is going to be a lot better than someone who is first trying it out  Or the 40 year ceo of a company who knows the in’s and out’s vs the first time ceo  This concept goes with everything… The biggest factor?  Putting in the time to … Continue reading 209. We can have anything

Some people want the end, the result, the glory  But nobody wants to do the work  Over the weekend I ran a 50 mile race with a week notice  I’ve put in the work beforehand though and that’s why, I believe, it turned out to be a successful event for me, finishing my first 50 … Continue reading 208. Doing it