Split Test https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec20_Post.mp3 Compare two situations. Two identical people. Same jobs, same incomes, live in the same type of neighborhood. Only one difference. One guy uses credit cards like there is no tomorrow. The other guy ONLY uses his debit cards. Or to make this metaphor even sillier, imagine […]
Flip Your Money Switch
Before The Sun https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec18_Post.mp3 I’ve always been a morning person. I like to get up early, and get things done. And get them done as quickly as possible. One thing I DO NOT like is having obligations later in the evening. I very much prefer to grind on through so I […]
The Greatest Skill
Slow Is Better https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec17_Post.mp3 They say that inch by inch, life’s a cinch. But yard by yard, life is hard. What the heck does this mean? Consider this through the lens of weight loss. Inch by inch would be doing simple exercises every day. To keep up consistency. To […]
Become A Financial Genius
Hard Times Coming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec16_Post.mp3 One of my hobbies is economics. I’ve read tons of books on economics. I read several blogs on economics daily. And one thing most writers and economists agree on is that harsh times, if they are not already here, are on the horizon. Or that more and […]
Solve The Money Riddle
Chaos Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec14_Post.mp3 Money is a mystery to most people. Which is a shame, since it’s pretty easy. Make no mistake, GETTING money is a never ending puzzle. Perhaps closely related to our always evolving purpose. But money itself, how it works, is very simple. Only, they never teach us […]
Sharpen Your Thinking Skills
Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Dominate Crowds
An Educated Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun16_Post.mp3 One of my favorite movies is Tombstone. And one of my favorite scenes is the scene in the casino. When Johnny Ringo was trying to show off by twirling his gun around. And then Doc Holiday countered by twirling his drinking cup around. But then they started […]
Always Better Now
Inside Your Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr02_Post.mp4 No matter where you go, there you are. This is a quote from Buckaroo Banzai. Maybe not from him, but whoever wrote the book. Or maybe not from him, something he heard, as it’s a pretty common idea. We are always somewhere. Wherever we are, there […]
Your Secret Competitive Advantage
Lucky Read https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15_Post.mp4 Once I was playing flag football with some buddies. I was on defense. My job was to count three Mississippi’s and run in at the QB. But when I got to three, something felt a bit off. So I just stood there, not sure what to do. […]
Become A Master of Time
Slow People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13_Post.mp4 The transition from hunting to farming was very, very slow. At least 5,000 years. The last ice age ended about 11,000 years ago. The very first pre-Sumerian cities didn’t pop up until about 5,000 BC or so. What took them so long? The lifestyle of a hunter-gather […]