Some people accused former President Donald Duck of treating the presidency as a side hustle to his other main hustles — The idea of side hustles has become wildly popular. Peak popularity hit in 2020 when some accused former President Donald Duck of treating the presidency as a side hustle to his other main hustles. I don’t do politics so I’ll let you decide. The point is, are side hustles really…

The marketplace doesn’t care how old you are — I’m clearly not 50. But my body feels like it might be. And the lines on my face are getting clearer. I’m closer to 50 than I am 21, although I lie and tell myself I’m Peter Pan. As a finance guy on the internet, I get lots of questions…

“Doing ten reps beats learning ten steps.” — The devil isn’t Elon, the Donald Duck former president, or religion. It’s unrealized dreams. It’s delayed goals. It’s dying with a whole lot of wisdom inside of you that never gets released. Procrastination in some forms can be valuable. I procrastinate before I write because it helps me lean into…

There’s a hidden upside that makes it all better though — I’m not about to go all doomsdayer on your ass. I don’t believe in kicking people when they’re down or destroying another person’s hope. This article is about how the American Dream has vanished (with stats to prove it) and what this means for you. First, we need to define…

This is one of my all-time favorite stories. It makes me emotional writing about it. — Yukio Shige prevented 789 su!cides. Most people have never heard of him. Yukio worked as a police officer. He spent his days plucking dead bodies out of the sea. Right before he retired from his police job, he met a husband and wife at the Tōjinbō cliffs in Japan. They…

#1 — Empty your bank account so your safety net is gone. — The fear of losing what you’ve built is one of the greatest limiters of potential. As we get older, we fight harder to keep whatever empire we’ve created. Often, though, we’ve built the wrong empire. Or we’ve built our empire on someone else’s land and they’re taking advantage of us. …

A contrarian mindset is a wealth enabler — The headline makes me vomit. Who am I? What sort of knobhead writes made me a millionaire? I realize it’s cringy but it is what it is. It’s a fact and there is value in sharing one’s wealth journey and path to financial freedom. Your journey will likely be different…

An emotional story that may make you shed a tear — It’s rare that I get emotional about writing. Well, it happened today. I was teaching a writing class. We came to the end and I decided to take one final question. A student requested to ask their question on Zoom by unmuting themselves instead of typing it in the chat. …

Successful writers never write alone. They write together in packs like wolves. — Writing online doesn’t need to be hard. Writers make it hard because they don’t have an updated view as to how the game works. Many members of my writing community have built a writing career online in 12 months or less that pays their bills. …