Some people in your life have never seen you at full capacity. They met you in a hard season, a transitional moment, a version of you still being built. Donโt let their limited experience of you become your ceiling. You are more than the chapter they witnessed.
@Jonny_Dutch For years we said โyou think Mike was the greatest basketball player to walk earth? Realistically the real guy probably never got a chance to prove itโ
Now you surprised some people just might have that abilityโฆ.
Children don't read because their parents don't read. We'll soon be led by an entire generation that has never cracked open a book. Not a single book in the home. This frightens me more than the idea of nuclear threat or a foreign power attacking us. We're imploding from within.
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
Star quality is still a thing. Thereโs some people that just have that โitโ factor and those people can move at whatever pace they want because the world waits for them. It canโt be manufactured.
Everything is energy.
When you donโt have the money, you must become the money.
Be active enough to get some motion.
Money follows the motion by law.
Donโt sit still.
this is actually your sign TO NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. do the thing you love when you can. try the thing that scares you cause of how much you want to achieve something. you can never know how your life turns out, maybe the success you dream about is right around the corner.