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...
3 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. 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...
10 days 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,...
17 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 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...
24 days 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...
about 1 month 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. Reconciled Yesterday, in a Twitter DM, someone asked me what’s one piece of advice you often share to help others achieve financial freedom and live a fulfilling life? It's a simple answer. I've been teaching it to my boys since they were 9 and 6 years old and will never tire of sharing it: Know what you want Understand what it takes Do the work. Day...
about 1 month 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. What's Your Moat Tonight's a fun one, for me. It's a short one, because I'm out of town on a business trip - we're in Victoria visiting with trades, consultants, other developers and people I've met on social media. While here, I had a great conversation with another developer about Our Moat and I can't wait to share what we discussed and how it...
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. Laziness is a Superpower I've always said I'm Lazy. From the outside, people say I'm very productive and when I hear them talk about what I've achieved personally, professionally and financially, I guess they're right: CFO Father Ironman Ultramarathon Wrote a 1st novel Launched a Podcast 29-Year Relationship Achieved a high net worth Started a real...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and become financially free. Last week, we were in Las Vegas. While we were there to watch our son's basketball tournament, I did manage to sneak in one of my favorite hobbies, poker... As someone who believes in growth, learning, competition and pattern recognition, poker is something I LOVE. It has so many life lessons. Whenever I play, I learn something and file it away....
about 2 months 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. Big Picture Thinkers You hear it a lot. I'm a Big Picture Thinker. The problem is, it's bullshit, when they say it. What I really hear is I don't want to deal with details. I've talked about it in the past, and I'll continue to talk about it until I'm blue in the face - you need to pay attention to the Forest AND the Trees. Not one, not either. BOTH....
2 months ago • 5 min read