Build Business, Wealth & 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.
I woke up in the middle of the night fighting for my life…in my dream of course kakaka. In the dream I was surrounded — a slow, relentless horde closing in, and a group of us beating them back with whatever we had in our hands. They didn’t tire. They just kept coming. I remember … Read more
When I was selling MLM products years ago, I made sales. Real ones. Money changed hands. My uncles bought. My aunties bought. Friends bought. And every sale felt like proof. Years later I understood what had actually happened, and it’s one of the more uncomfortable things I’ve had to sit with: they didn’t buy because … Read more
Outwork the competition. Outlast them. Out-grind everyone in the room. …was trying harder. You’ve heard it. I didn’t just hear it — I built my early years on it. When I was younger, I was certain that breakthroughs were a function of force. Work harder. Pray more. Push, and push, and push again. Out-hustle every … Read more
(Previously called “When Love Dies Before The Body Does” I wanted to blame something external. A child abuse and in the end, the kid (Megan) passed away…and the details that came up in the papers…the kind that lodges in you and won’t leave. I’m not going to retell it. The details aren’t the point, and … Read more
The first reason is spiritual — I’m a Christian before I’m anything else. The rest is the bill coming due in this world. Let me start where this actually starts for me — not where it’s easiest to defend in a meeting. I’m a Christian before I’m anything else, so the bedrock reason I don’t … Read more
(Previously named The Battle To Finish) There are two ways to never finish — and they look like opposites. Everyone celebrates the start. You announce the business and people cheer. You launch the thing, open the tab, pitch the idea, plant the flag. Starting feels like progress, and it photographs well. Almost nobody throws a … Read more
(Previously titled: If You Don’t Kill This Voice, It WILL Kill Your Calling and Fire) The most dangerous voice in your head isn’t wrong about your work. It’s wrong about you — and you keep believing it. There’s a voice in your head. You know which one. It doesn’t shout. It waits until you’re tired, … Read more
(Previously called “Centipede’s Dilemma) Thinking is my edge. So I had to learn exactly when to stop. There’s an old parable about a centipede who walks perfectly well — until a frog asks her which leg she moves first. She stops to think about it, and never walks again. She analyses herself into paralysis. Most … Read more
(Previously titled “11th Year Without Dad: Why I Chose a Different Path”) It’s been eleven years since my dad passed away. Honestly, it still hits me. Some years more than others. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like grief — it feels like he just went away on a long holiday and I’ll see him again … Read more