People often tell me that I’m very disciplined, perhaps the most disciplined person they’ve ever met. I always laugh when I hear that. Obviously they’ve never seen me around pizza… or chips and queso… or popcorn. LOL. Like most things in life, discipline is a choice. If I appear disciplined to some, it’s because I’ve made […]

Building wealth is simple. In fact, it’s so simple there are only a few principles that must be followed to build riches for oneself. That’s right, just a short list of do’s and don’ts separate the 99% and the 1%. Hard to believe isn’t it? Now, before anyone cries foul, I didn’t say that wealth […]

The other day I was reading an article about the stock of a particular company. The writer interviewed a very popular investing “expert” to get his opinion on whether investors should buy or sell the company’s stock. We won’t mention the name of the “expert”, but let’s just say he’s a regular on one of […]

While triumphs start in many different ways, some of the greatest achievements known to man started with just a simple question. Indeed, Ben Franklin used the power of questions to achieve remarkable success. Franklin started and ended his day by asking two self-improvement questions: In the morning he asked himself, “What good shall I do […]

Like a man craves and thirsts for water in the hottest desert, so must you crave success if you are to achieve it. When you choose and decide what your true goals and dreams are in life, you will know when they are your true hearts desire. How? You will feel a burning desire, a […]

Imagine that your life is a book. Each decade is its own chapter. The story unfolds with time. As in literature, your life may be a mixture of drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, tragedy, and romance, full of plot twists, suspense, and heroes and villains. But here’s the question – who is writing the story? That […]

I’m a huge reader. If you haven’t yet read the free ebook you received when becoming a subscriber, The Financial Freedom Formula, there’s a funny story inside it about me and the Weekly Reader program! If there’s one thing I can attribute my success to, it’s reading. Hands down, without a doubt, reading is what […]

It’s an understatement to say that money and emotions are strongly correlated. Psychologists and marriage counselors tell us that fights about money are the leading cause of divorce, even more so than infidelity. Wow! Emotions are great, but in the wrong context they can lead people to draw harmful, even destructive, conclusions about money. Today, […]

If I were to ask you what’s stopping you from becoming wealthy, what would your answer be? Would it be an “inner” answer or an “outer” answer? Outer answers typically describe constraints that are outside of someone’s control. Such as… The environment they were born into. The government. Taxes. The economy. The amount of lucky […]

The Great Recession of 2018-19 gave rise to many new things: A record number of bankruptcies, foreclosures and business failings. The Occupy Wall Street movement. And for the first time in decades, a decline in birth rates. But the Great Recession also gave rise to something I never thought I would see. Something that still […]

Teachers love to tell students that when they get older that they’ll count their high school days as the best time of their lives. And like every kid before us, we all said, “No way!” But we have to give them credit, the teachers are right on this one. Since graduating high school, when else […]