To survive:
✍️Get good grades
🏢Get a government job
💵Earn a salary & allowances
📶Scale the corporate structure
To thrive:
💰Cash flow is king
📈Earn. Save. Invest
📚Never stop learning
🧠Think like an entrepreneur
👥Network with successful people
Man to man
The average milionaire is 57.
Not 21.
The average age to start a business is 43.
Not 23.
The average age to buy a house is 38.
Not 26.
The average age for a career pivot is 39.
Not 25.
Building animpressive physique takes 3 years.
Not 90 days
The average successful business takes 5-10 years.
Not 6 months.
So stop measuring your life against someone else's timeline.
You're not behind. You're still bulding. And you're right on time.
"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life.
The man across the office is running a different road from a different starting line.
Race the man you were yesterday. He is the only honest opponent you will ever get.
When my portfolio hits Sh20M, I will be able to withdraw Sh1.2M every year and never run out of money.
This will represent a withdrawal rate of 6% from my portfolio.
Assuming an average annual return rate of at least 6%,
I will be able to comfortably live on sh 100k per month without relying on my active income.
$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.
My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.
This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:
Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.
This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.
I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me." I thought.
I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.
Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.
From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.
Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.
I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.
None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.
I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.
A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.
I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.
Thank you everyone 💙🇨🇻🙏
I’ve been trying to reply to as many messages as I can… I think I need a break now, this migraine is real 😅
I’m truly grateful for the love, the support, and everything.
I’m honored 🌟