• Life Lessons

    Doing the Hard Stuff

    Doing the hard stuff. “The trail is offroad, with a good mix of forest jeep and single track. We will be spending most of our time running under the forest canopy as we navigate our way through the indigenous forest within the Table Mountain’s National Park.” Analzying this Airbnb experience description after the other participant stated the narrative was precise. I think they left a few words out to describe this run. Allow me to list a few: hard, difficult, challenging. I presume I was a bit overzealous. I recently hiked 3 hours one way to the highest waterfall in West Africa. Evidently, I did not envision the description as…

  • Money

    I Wanna Be Rich

    “I wanna be rich” by Calloway is ringing in my ears, “I want money, lots and lots of money.” When I was on Facebook I added “Decamillionaire in the Making” to my profile name. I was reminded by so many people my financial goals may not be realized working a regular 9 to 5 unless of course, I won the lottery like so many people desired. I read a lot of financial books and the most common thread repeated in these books are business ownership is the yellow brick road that leads to “lots and lots of money.”  I remember a colleague once stating you will never get rich working…