1: “Greg Sloan was on the fast track,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
“Just into his early thirties,” he notes, “he had risen to become a vice president at Goldman Sachs, one of the most prestigious financial institutions in the world, and he served as a trusted financial adviser to a long list of well-known corporate … continue reading

1: “Think of a pleasant wine-tasting memory,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World.

What is it that is underneath every thriving vine?

A trellis.  “A structure to hold up the vine so it can grown and bear fruit,” John Mark notes.

A trellis is to a vine as structure is to … continue reading

1: “I live right on the edge of downtown Portland in this fun micro-urban neighborhood,” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.

Early in the morning, as John Mark sits and prays while enjoying his first cup of coffee, his neighbors are filing out the door to do a sunrise run.

It’s “a house full of single people who are essentially a walking advertisement for Nike,” … continue reading

1: “To create anything of value—whether it’s a product, a company, a society, or a life,” Ron Shaich writes in his powerful book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, “we must push through our default settings.”

How do we do that?

“By living consciously and deliberately, by making the hard choices, and by using tools … to discover what will really matter, again and again.”… continue reading

1: Growing up, billionaire  Charlie Munger learned an important lesson from his father.

His dad was a lawyer.  “One of his best friends, Grant McFayden, Omaha’s Pioneer Ford dealer, was a client,”  Charlie writes in Poor Charlie’s Almanack.

“He was a perfectly marvelous man, a self-made Irishman who’d run away uneducated from a farm as a youth because his father beat him,” he notes.  “So he made his own … continue reading

1: Billionaire Charlie Munger was once asked: What should a young person look for in a career?

“I have three basic rules—meeting all three is nearly impossible, but you should try anyway,” he writes in  Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger.

Rule #1: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself.

Rule #2: Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire.

Rule #3:… continue reading

1: It was a warm California evening in May 2021. Sahil Bloom and an old friend sat down for a drink.  

“As we settled in at our table, he asked how I was doing,” Sahil writes in The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“I gave him the standard response that we’ve all grown so accustomed to: ‘I’m good. Busy!'” he recalls, “with … continue reading

1: Something significant occurred 350 years ago.

When the English arrived in America, they settled in “clumps,” the historian David Hackett Fischer writes in Albion’s Seed, as referenced by David Brooks in his book How to Know a Person.

“People from eastern England tended to settle in New England,” David writes, “people from southern England went to Virginia, people from the English Midlands went to Pennsylvania, and the … continue reading

1: “Sorry I’m late. My other meeting ran over.”

How many times have we heard these words?

How many times have we said these words?

The message we are sending is: “Don’t blame me. If my previous meeting had finished earlier, I would have been on time,” Fred Kofman writes in his book The Meaning Revolution: The Power of Transcendent Leadership.

There may be truth to our statement. And … continue reading

1: Michi, Fred Kofman‘s then seven-year-old daughter, saw him packing for a business trip.  

“Please, Daddy, don’t go,” she begged.

“I was tempted,” Fred recalls in his book The Meaning Revolution, “to give her a perfunctory and dismissive response like ‘I wish I could, sweetie, but Daddy has to work.'”

But that’s not what he said.  Fred paused for a moment.  He would be traveling to the headquarters … continue reading