Building business, wealth, and family by design.
The thinking behind the thinking — frameworks, mental models, and how I actually reason through hard calls, biases and all. Not the smartest in the room; just willing to show the working.
There’s a particular kind of person I’ve spent real time around, and the pattern is always the same: the harder they feel something, the more certain they become they’re right. The intensity alone is the proof, to them…JUST BECAUSE they feel it strongly — therefore to them, it’s real and true, therefore you owe them, … Read more
Early in my career, a manager decided I should go. Not fired — pushed. Pressured to back down or get out. Around the same period of my life, joint ventures with a couple of friends flipped over, a few times. A business stint went sour. None of it gradual — the kind of news that … Read more
Here’s an evening nobody ever chose. Get home. Eat. Sink into the couch or scroll into the phone. Three hours pass without registering — no memory of time, no awareness of thought, hand moving snacks to mouth on autopilot. I know this state personally. In my TV years I didn’t watch television so much as … Read more
By every rule of the early-retirement genre, I’m doing this wrong. The genre says you build the assets, hit the number, and exit. The whole point of the machine is to stop needing to work. And yet here I am — past the point where work is compulsory, opening two new clinics this year, by … Read more
In 2019 I wrote a post about how to stop complaining. I just reread it, and the strangest thing in it is one word I used without noticing where I’d taken it from. I wrote that repeated negative thoughts become “strongholds” in your mind. That’s not a self-help word. It’s Paul’s word — and I … Read more
In December 2019 I wrote a post about happiness with one genuinely good idea buried in it. Here’s the passage, lightly cleaned up — it was the most alive thing I wrote that whole year: If you have a toothache. You can watch a movie, buy a phone, hang out with someone — whatever — … Read more
In December 2019, I wrote a post and pinned it to the top of every page of my website. I just re-read it. Ugh. I’m going to show you parts of it, because it’s the most honest “before” picture I have — and because I wrote it, I can tell you exactly what I was … Read more
If a patient walks in with a fractured bone and you strap a plaster over it, the photo looks fine. The patient looks treated. Everyone in the room gets to tell themselves something was done. And the fracture goes right on being a fracture underneath — quietly getting worse — until the day it announces … Read more
A few months back, a friend put it out on Facebook: they needed proper outpatient therapy, the kind that doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket. I’ve been in this industry since 2005. So I reached out. Told them what we do, how we could help. And because I always want people to use insurance … Read more
When the business hit its usual seasonal trough, the people who’d acquired it lost their nerve. I didn’t. Not because I’m calm by temperament. Going through quieter sales / rougher times…is still rough on my soul lol. But it’s precisely because I’d seen this exact dip before, every year, and I knew what it was. … Read more