08/28/2024
Who do you trust?
Do you trust your boss?
Do you trust your spouse?
Do you trust your friends?
Consider...
We trust people to be who they are.
Do you get upset when a liar lies to you?
Do you get upset when someone that is always late is late?
It sounds silly when we look at it like this...
Because we know who they are.
What I have discovered is the foundation of all great relationships is trust.
I can trust all of the people I have deep and meaningful relationships with to be who they are.
That doesn't always mean we agree on things...
But it does mean I can trust them to do the right thing.
What is the right thing?
Well...
That depends on the situation.
Learning what your princples and values are and then finding people who align with your princples and values will help you figure this part out because you need others in your life.
Cheers to finding your tribe and living an inspired life!
07/23/2024
I have learned...
You can’t sell education.
Someone has to buy it.
What is the difference?
It is the choice of the person taking the education.
They have to want something enough to raise their hand and say...
I am ready.
Ready for what?
Ready to take responsibility for their life...
And do what it takes to get what they want.
And this is why we never sell anything...
We simply ask...
Are you ready?
And if you are…
We get you started in our masterminds.
Which is the next step after you get educated.
But not some crazy expensive mastermind.
These are $97 / month masterminds...
Because you aren’t ready for the really expensive masterminds yet.
This is coming from someone who has helped thousands of people over the last 15 years.
You can spot patterns in the winners...
And the ones who quit.
There is a process that you have to go through to create success.
Just like you were to get a personal trainer that gives you a workout schedule...
You need to understand what it takes to win the game you are playing called...
Life.
However...
If you want to be sold a program there are plenty for you to buy.
If you are ready to take on your life...
In a Community of like minded people...
Then join our free community and get access to all of my masterclasses...
And my finance software for free.
See what we are about and...
Let us know if you are ready for the next step.
Cheers to being ready!
07/08/2024
The pain is the medicine.
Have you ever had someone tell you something that stings...
But is true?
That is what I call the...
Medicine.
Just like I used to hate taking nasty cough medicine as a kid...
I used to hate hearing the truth about me.
Because it meant I couldn’t blame anyone else...
And that meant...
I had to do something...
Which was scary.
Or...
Even worse...
I saw that I was actually the jerk and needed to apologize.
Having a great life requires that you take your medicine.
And eventually you will get used to it...
And it will become like vitamins that keep you healthy.
Cheers to living a healthy life!
12/02/2023
You can’t hate and understand someone at the same time…
Because if you understood them you couldn’t hate them.
You would understand why they are doing what they are doing.
You would see their point of view.
You would have compassion for what they have gone through to make them do what they are doing.
And…
That doesn’t always justify their actions.
And…
That doesn’t mean we have to tolerate their actions…
But it helps us understand them to help figure out a resolution.
I have personally found that the biggest thing we can do to resolve a conflict is to listen.
Listen to what they are saying without inserting your personal opinions.
Listen to understand not to respond.
Listen to what they are saying beyond words.
Listen so you can make the person communicating feel heard…
Because if they don’t feel heard one of two things will happen.
They will get louder and louder until someone listens to them…
Or…
They will silence themselves and live a disempowered life.
I have personally experienced both.
There are instances when I am not being heard and I get louder and louder.
And others where I say something like “why am I wasting my time as it will never change”.
When we silence someone, we take away something special from people.
When we interrupt and talk over each other we are not listening or having a conversation…
We are fighting to be right and making the other person wrong.
And we all know where that leads to.
If you want to have a better quality of life,…
Consider learning how to listen better.
Take all those thoughts you have going through your head and put them aside.
Listen to the words they are saying.
Then listen even deeper to hear their commitment.
And finally, the most powerful part of listening which is…
Recreating them.
Share with them what you heard in a way that they know you listened because…
Most people can’t fully articulate what they are feeling so if you can help them articulate what they want to say they will feel understood at a level most people have never experienced.
And that will change everything for everyone involved in the conversation.
And we want you to know…
We hear you and we understand what you are going through…
And we send you all our love.
Cheers to another amazing day!
11/30/2023
Stress = when what is shouldn’t be
Once I started to understand this concept life was totally different.
I used to try and bend reality to my point of view…
Which hardly ever works because…
People are people…
And people do irrational things.
This would make me upset, angry, and even resentful which wasn’t a fun place to live in.
And then I started to understand human emotions and saw…
That most people react to things instead of responding.
They live life based on how they “feel” and let emotions drive decisions…
Instead of looking at the facts and making a rational decision.
We as people are not naturally able to articulate the emotions we feel so we end up taking it out in anger and say things like…
“It shouldn’t be this way”
“That isn’t right”
“They are wrong”
Or any other version that we use to make others wrong.
If you are like me and find yourself getting upset when things don’t go your way…
Or people don’t do things that you think they should do.
I have a question for you.
Where does it say that?
Where does it say that other people “should” act or be a different way?
Where does it say that other people “should” act the way you think they “should”?
Where does it say that people should be “polite”?
Where does it say that people should be “kind”?
Where does it say that people should “help you”?
I am 38 years old, and I have yet to find anywhere that says this is “the way people should be”.
I have traveled the world and found that what is accepted and praised in one country is frowned upon in other countries.
I have seen the impact of how this way of being affects nations…
And that is where the beauty of all of this comes into play.
We are blessed to look back at history and understand the impact of people’s actions.
There is no right or wrong way to do anything.
There is only an impact to someones actions.
For example…
If someone were to steal from someone they would probably end up in jail.
If someone kills someone they will probably end up in jail.
What I have observed is that there is a set of principles that help guide us in our development to achieve joy and happiness.
You can see it in religion with things like…
The 10 Commandments
The Five Pillars
The Yamas and Niyamas
You can see it in Philosophical concepts such as…
Stoicism
Confucianism
You can find it in Government concepts such as…
U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
I could go on and on with this but what I wish for you to understand is that all of these are insights to living a happy and fulfilled life.
It isn’t “the way”…
However, it is “a way” to achieve what we are all looking for.
And I believe that is to be happy and have a life full of joy.
These principles help guide us when we start thinking things “shouldn’t be this way”.
They help us understand ourselves so we can understand others…
And once you understand yourself you can create a life full of joy and happiness.
Then you can bring that joy and happiness into the world and make a huge impact on others.
And I have found that making an empowering impact on others is one of the principles to living a life full of joy and happiness.
I am not saying this is “the way”…
But it works for me 😊
So my question to you is…
What are the principles you live by?
What guides you in your decision-making process?
And if you don’t have any consider using some principles of people you admire and want to be like.
They have already figured it out and want to share with you.
Because the better you are…the better everyone is.
Cheers to an amazing day and…
And amazing life!
