Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Live Better, Achieve More and Be Financially Free. Obsession is the Way! First of all, There is no One Way. If anyone ever tells you there is, run in the other direction. Obsession, though it may not be the answer for all of you, has been the answer for me in life that has led to my biggest wins and achievements. There are, I’d guess, a few things that have powered my life: Curiosity Learning Obsession...
7 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, here's a word from this week's sponsor: On Pessimism and Optimism Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, and Courage Under Fire by James Stockdale are both...
14 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. A Call for Peace For a lot of us, the last two weeks have been tough. I've been thinking of what to write. If to write. Ultimately, I think it's the right thing to do. A few months ago, I wrote about taking the moderate path, and tonight I want to dive into the concept again, given what's happening around the world and specifically here in Canada and...
21 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...
28 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...
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. 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. 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...
about 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. 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 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. 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...
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. 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...
2 months ago • 3 min read