Is It Time for a Financial Wake Up Call? Are You Ready for the Financial Equivalent of an Ice Bucket Challenge?
Apr 30, 2018
Being honest drives us to improve and grow. Refusing to look at the truth keeps us stagnant and stuck in a rut. This is true for every area of life, and it's especially true for finances.
So why do we keep lying to ourselves? Why are we hell-bent on living in a dream state when it comes to our financial situations? The answer is simple: We're afraid of facing our feelings of inadequacy, self-judgment and the false (but powerful) belief "we can't succeed."
How a Healthy Work Ethic Can Overhaul Your Life
Apr 12, 2017
In my last blog post, I talked about how people ask themselves the "wrong question." That question is "What do you want to do?" instead of "How do you want to live?" Hopefully, you've started to answer that question in your life. If you haven't, spend a quick 30 minutes thinking about it. Write down everything you'd do if money weren't a factor and you weren't chained to a 40-hour workweek.
Where would you live? How and where would you travel? What charities would you support? What schools would your children attend? How would you take care of your family? And so on and so forth.
Doing this activity can be intimidating because people think attaining the things they want isn't possible. Fortunately, that's not true at all, but that's a topic for a later date! Today, we're going to talk about work ethic. One of the most critical factors in achieving your goals, work ethic gives you the "oomph" you need to live the life you've imagined.
Life's Wrong Question: How You Live vs. What You Do
Sep 15, 2016
I was six years old when life first asked me "the wrong question."
I was at my grandmother's house in Huntington, NY. We were sitting at the table playing cards. Grandma was in the process of beating me for something like the 100th time, when she asked me that confusing, intimidating, larger-than-life wrong question: "What do you want to be when you get older, Tony?"
"What do I want to be?" I repeated to myself, bewildered.
I panicked. I didn't know how to answer the question. In my six-year-old mind, I knew that I wanted to do whatever would be the most fun. But I simply responded, "Um ... a firefighter?"
As the years went on, I would cringe whenever someone asked the question. Over time, I started lying to give the people who asked it some type of answer.
I would say, "I'm really interested in the medical field."
Yeah, right.
