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  • What Type of Person Are You?

    Have you ever thought about what type of person you are? Have you ever thought about how you want to show up in this world? If you’ve never thought about this, don’t worry, most people haven’t. However, I believe asking and answering this question about yourself is absolutely imperative to success in life. There’s a…

  • Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog Review

    I just finished Phil Knight’s memoir, Shoe Dog. If you do not know who Phil Knight is, a quick Google search will reveal he is the co-founder of Nike. The book is incredibly entertaining. Phil had a burning desire, his Crazy Idea, as he called it, to sell shoes. In one of his final semesters…

  • The Comfort of Mild Discomfort

    As of this writing, I am 35 years old. That’s 35 years of life. 35 years of experience. In these 35 years of existence, I have learnt something very interesting about the human body and by executing on this knowledge, great things can happen. What is this very interesting thing you ask? Mild discomfort, in…

  • Answers to “What If?”

    I’m going to be very open in today’s blog post. I have a vision to own multiple tooling manufacturing companies through a holding company and eventually take this holding company public. I am shooting to go public within 10 years of the first acquisition. I have over 12 years of manufacturing experience, and 5 of…

  • Choose Your Path Wisely

    I have a friend who is constantly sending me different business ideas. “You know, if we were to target this specific demographic of people by providing this service…” There is never a day I am with him, where he doesn’t think of some business idea. I’m often pretty skeptical about most of the ideas he…

  • Alter Ego Creation and Labeling for Success

    Successful individuals often create alter egos as a psychological strategy to enhance their performance in various aspects of their lives. From sports to business and everything in between, the “Alter Ego Effect,” allows individuals to adopt different personas that embody the traits and characteristics they aspire to exhibit in specific situations. David Goggins calls on…

  • The Achievement Equation

    Courage + Consistency + Confidence = Goal Achievement You want to achieve. We all do. The question is, why do we fall short of our goals? Why is it that when we first start off on the path towards a goal, there is so much momentum, but then overtime, this momentum dissipates. It eventually feels…

  • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Review

    I spent the last few days reading Michael Lewis’ Going Infinite and this is my review of that book. First off, this book is very well written. Michael Lewis does a fantastic job of explaining the character who is Sam Bankman-Fried. Page after page, I was enthralled at the story. From the millions of dollars…