Hard things first

The task you keep avoiding (because other things come up each day) is charging you interest.

Difficult conversations and uncomfortable decisions become heavier when we postpone them. 

Courage early in the day can free you for anything that follows.

I do the hard things first.  Often, they are the “legacy projects” that will make tomorrow better.

I save the afternoon for the easy calls, meetings, and transactional stuff.

Is there something important you have been putting off because you “don’t have time”?

Create some breathing room

Prosperity isn’t just having more; it’s needing less than you have.

In business or personally, you need to create some “margin”.

When every dollar, hour, and resource is already committed, one surprise becomes a crisis. It causes stress. 

Build space between what comes in and what goes out.

Financial margin creates freedom, patience, and better decisions.

Do you have some space in your time and budget?

The tide that lifts all boats

“Capitalism is the tide that lifts all boats.” – Johan Norberg

Free markets and free people are the most powerful anti-poverty forces in human history.

Everyone today lives better than King Louis the 14th and has access to more information than Ronald Reagan.

Thank you for being part of it.

Leaders – Ask more questions

Ask more questions.  

Ask follow-up questions.

Ask the right people.

Ask more people.

Ask about your problems.

Ask the reasons.

Listen.

You must become mentally rich before you can be physically rich

From the inner, the outer.  

That’s how it works.

Watch what you put into your most valuable instrument (your brain) through its intake ports (your eyes and ears).

Build yourself into the kind of person who can solve problems and create value for others.

Otherwise, outer results will not come.