How many times do we blame others?  When things don’t go as planned, something is missing or broken, finances are out of whack, and the list goes on.  The funny thing is - the blame game is so commonplace that we’re looked at as an alien if we don’t partake in the blames.  Putting the … Continue reading 71. Blame Game

“Someday I’ll be happy”  This is what most people say - we tell ourselves we’ll be happy when we get out of debt, get our business off the ground, that promotion, retire, or anything else that we say.  Then we get frustrated where we are at - the days become a slog,  but someday we’ll … Continue reading 70. Happiness is the way

Pay ourselves first  We hear all the time people live paycheck to paycheck And another - people don’t have a retirement plan.. They’ve missed this one key concept in life And if they made it a habit, they would live a drastically different life in the years to come.  The key concept is paying ourselves … Continue reading 69. Pay ourselves first

Summit  Imagine hiking a mountain range The point is to get to the top of each mountain So we start at the bottom, climb up, reach the summit, climb back down and repeat until we complete all the mountain summits.  Notice the rhythm → climb up, summit, climb down.  It’s not summit, summit, summit.  Life … Continue reading 68. High, Low

A tree starts out as a seed Then grows deep, strong roots - a solid trunk - and some big branches.  Then even smaller branches grow - leading to twigs and leaves  Imagine if the seed tried to start growing with the leaves and twigs first, then the big branches, then the trunk and finally … Continue reading 67. How do you learn?

What do we want our life to look like? The CEO of a billion dollar company?  To live on an island in a small off grid bungalow? To live in a small town with 10 kids? To snowboard down every peak in the world? There’s so many possibilities and we’re limited only by our imagination.  … Continue reading 66. Lifestyle by design

The weather is cold and rainy  I forgot my paperwork for my speech  My back is killing me  These are all different situations but we can pull something out of them, Situations are never ideal. There’s always going to be something that comes up or that needs to get done So instead of trying to … Continue reading 65. Take the leap, the rest will follow

80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 2 hour work weeks  Which weekly hour input is most productive?  Well that depends on the individual.  Elon musk works 80+ hours a week and is massively productive with those 80 hours.  The average person? (myself included) there’s a lot of lag time. 80 hour work weeks may adversely affect … Continue reading 64. Busy V. Productive

Life’s not fair and that’s okay... because no one said life was supposed to be fair. That wouldn’t even be possible for life to be 1,000% fair. So why do we waste time and energy complaining about how life isn’t fair? Instead, let’s use what we have. Our resources, experiences, and anything else we have … Continue reading 63. Life’s not fair

We all want results right now.  And maybe we get discouraged when the results aren’t here yet.  If a recipe calls for a cake to be baked at 350 degrees for 30 minutes We can’t just double the temperature to 700 degrees for 15 minutes  It doesn’t work like that and neither does life. Time … Continue reading 62. Bake the cake at 700 degrees