Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Choose Your Hard Today, I had a hard conversation. One of the hardest conversations I've had. When you have one of these conversations, a lot of things happen: Anger Sadness Frustration Emotional overload Relationship endangerment No wonder we never want to have these conversations. But... We need to ! Give me a minute, and I'll explain, after this...
5 days ago • 4 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Today's post is inspired by a few tweets I wrote this week, which were spur-of-the-moment thoughts. We're going to talk about: Starting where you are Give yourself six months to succeed Before I dive in, though, a message from this week's sponsor. The Growth Guide Surprise You're not surprised, though. This newsletter is brought to you by me. Each...
12 days ago • 3 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Persistence This quote has always stuck with me: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Calvin Coolidge My whole life, this has been one of my...
19 days ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. The Optimists Die First Entrepreneurship is hard. Real estate development is hard. If you’re an Eternal Optimist, you won’t last. The Optimists Die First… Before I take you further, though, I want to apologize for missing last week. I mostly had this newsletter written in my head, but with my son’s hockey draft (I’m a coach and we drafted teams this...
26 days ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. This one seems obvious now. I wonder how I could have missed it for so long. As an accountant, auditor and leader, I've always appreciated this quote: What gets measured gets managed. - Peter Drucker But I haven't measured what matters in my life. Not closely enough. What matters to me is simple and I'll explain it to you as we go through. Before we...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. A Simple Life I can't stop thinking about Colorado. The experience was eye-opening in so many ways. Before we dive into the Simple Life and Lessons Learned, though, I want to share a note from our sponsor, Sidebar, which you won't want to miss: My recipe for financial independence is simple: Increase earnings Decrease your spend Invest simply in index...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Consistency Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. - Dwayne Johnson Consistency compounds. Whether it’s positive or negative. James Clear illustrated this by comparing someone who improves 1% every day versus someone who’s 1% worse: You may be wondering how you can get...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Getaway Time This last six days has been amazing. My friend, B, put together an amazing group retreat. I won't share too many details to respect each person's privacy, but I will say it was one of the best experiences I've had: Pickleball Daily exercise Healthy eating Relationship building Shadow work, Men's work and life lessons The culmination of the trip was an epic mountain climb today to the top of Quandary Peak: Seriously, we were up high with the goats! The round trip was ~ 6.75 miles,...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. The Three Truths We're out of town for our second week, relaxing and recharging as a family. It's nice to be at our cottage, unplugged, spending time together. We'll often have extended family up with us for a period of time and spend some time with just the four of us. It's also wonderful that some of our closest friends have a cottage in the same...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Expectations I'm on vacation this week, and this has been on my mind. I see it in my children, my wife, and me and in people we interact with. I see the impact expectations have on how someone feels more than the event itself and it's something more people should be aware of. The problem is multi-fold. You often don't realize you have expectations You...
2 months ago • 4 min read