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...
3 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. Efficient and Effective - James Clear and Dwight Eisenhower I came into the bedroom after work with my shirt and socks in my hand, jeans undone and watch on my opposite wrist. My wife was sitting in the bed working on her laptop and looked at me and said why are you already half naked. The answer, I told her, was simple: I was being efficient. I like...
10 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. 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...
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. Out of the Shadows I've been thinking about this newsletter a lot the last few weeks. It's an idea from one of my favorite quotes the last ten years, which is Carl Jung, Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Ed Latimore earlier this week on the Growth...
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. A Birthday Newsletter As you read this, I turn 47, though, in reality, nothing feels different than 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40...Okay, that's where it ends, and reality sets in, it has changed since my 30s, but, what's changed the most, my perspective. Something we all forget. We create our own reality from our perspective. What we believe tends to...
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. Through the Darkness I've discussed some of the health challenges I've been facing in several of our newsletters over the last six months. What I haven't shared is how hard this last year has been, in general. Bottom line, it's been the worst year of my life, personally, professionally and financially. But, and maybe this is just the way I'm wired, I...
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 It's a Simple Life that will help you decrease your spend. That was the biggest takeaway from my trip to Colorado last summer. I was hanging out with the Financial Independence and Early Retirement (FIRE) crowd, and we didn't talk about money at all. We didn't need to. You could see how the habits of financial independence were built into...
about 1 month 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. The Seconds The seconds, the minutes, the Precious Moments This post hits home for me, as most of them do. It’s about my time as a father, my children, and it’s so much more than that. Before we dive into that, though, let’s hear from this week’s sponsor: Sponsored by: HubSpot Turn AI into Your Income Engine HubSpot’s groundbreaking guide "200+...
about 2 months 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. Consistency Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. - Dwayne Johnson But first, a word from this week's sponsor: Sponsored by: The Rundown AI Start learning AI in 2025 Everyone talks about AI, but no one has the time to learn it. So, we found the simplest way to learn AI...
about 2 months ago • 6 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 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. Before we dive into my thoughts on this, here's a word from our wonderful sponsor this week - HubSpot:...
2 months ago • 4 min read