Amateur to Pro

In last week’s podcast — The 3 Steps to Creating Money — I left you with a question to explore. The question was: How can we practice serving rather than selling without being taken advantage of? The answer lies in understanding the distinction between giving fiercely and giving selflessly. One of these behaviors leads to creating more prosperity, not only financially, and the other leads to endle...

In my work, limiting beliefs around money are some of the hardest to unearth and transform. Most of us are still carrying around our great grandparents’ beliefs about money and allowing them to decide our present day to day actions. To create prosperity, consider my simple, but far from easy, three step invitation. 1. Change your mindset. 2. Understand two major facts (which no one talks about). 3...

Being part of a community that brings joy and fulfillment, for me, is to be part of one that is based on shared values. And to be honest, I wasn’t able to find one that matched mine. So I went ahead and created it. I call it The Wisdom Circle.

Some people have interesting lives. And some have happy lives. So, what’s the difference?

So many of us believe that if we slow down our thinking, we will come to a dead stop or fall off the cliff — a la The Coyote in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons! Or maybe we’ll just lie on the couch all day and lose the thread of our lives forever, intoxicated by Netflix and chips! I’m here to tell you the contrary.

If you describe yourself as driven, high-achieving and ambitious, then you’ve probably drunk the Kool-Aid. If you’re in your late thirties or above (depending on when you started drinking full out) you’re dealing with a hangover that never seems to go away.

Is it true that 80% of our decisions need to be made and only 20% need to be made right?

Power is not a title, an army or a bunch of strategies for controlling others. Power is not forceful, loud and brutal. Power is not something we acquire or inherit. It’s a state of being and a delivery system for impact. That’s it. But the journey of cultivating power in order to increase our impact begins with an essential precondition I call, Fierce Presence.

It’s the beginning of the last quarter of the year! Imagine yourself on the morning of January 1st 2023. You’re holding a cup of your morning potion of choice as you sit or stand in your favorite spot. Reflecting on the last 4 months of your life, you are overcome with thoughts and feelings of deep gratitude and pride. I put it to you that who you are and how you feel on January 1st 2023 is not a...