Three question have changed more lives in my coaching work than almost any strategy, framework, or breakthrough moment:
1. What story am I telling myself?
2. What emotion am I avoiding?
3. Who am I when I remove pressure and performance?
Simple questions, BUT brutally difficult answers.
The answers are not hidden at all, BUT we have often spent years building identities designed to protect us from finding them.
This un-authentic and un-genuine story gives us fake certainty.
That specific avoided emotion keeps us moving - probably not into the direction, which is aligned with your pure soul.
The pressure and performance give us a pity role to play.
And, eventually this fake role becomes so convincing that we forget it is a role at all.
This is why self-reflection is both beautiful and frustrating.
It's extremely hard to see behind your eyes, to hear your own blind spots, and to distinguish between what is true and what has simply become familiar.
But, if you're wiling to sit with these questions long enough, something unique & remarkable begins to happen.
The fake story softens, the emotion softens and beneath the pressure, beneath the performance, beneath the fake identity you have worked so hard to maintain!
You finally start to meet your genuine self, your authentic soul!
That's exactly where the real work starts.
And, it's almost always much easier when someone can sit with you in a clean, steady space and reflect back what you've been unable to see on your own.
A $2 trillion stock that has been public for four days gets options on Tuesday. The desks that have to price them cannot figure out how to hedge it.
Start with the float. About 4.25 percent of SpaceX trades, roughly $90 billion of stock against a $2.1 trillion company. Everything else is locked. Onto that sliver you stack a brand new options market, six leveraged ETFs already swinging the stock 2X in both directions, and index buying still weeks away. The options open with no earnings, no trading range, four days of price history, nothing to anchor a single strike.
So the people writing them are pricing blind. One options veteran told CNBC it is the hardest hedging problem in almost thirty years. Back in 2000 you could hedge a hot IPO with a basket of similar names. Here there is no basket. As one trader put it, what are you going to do, short NASA? No proxy, no correlated stock, no way to offload the risk. So they price wide, charge a fortune, and hedge in the only thing they can, a stock that barely trades.
That is where it turns reflexive. When dealers have to buy and sell a 4 percent float just to stay neutral, the options can start moving the stock instead of the reverse. A stack of bets at one strike can pin it, or rip it loose, on volume the float was never built to hold. Add the leveraged ETFs resetting every afternoon and the tail begins to wag the dog.
And none of this is the real test. That comes in August, when the first insiders can finally sell.
Friday was the easy money. Tuesday adds the leverage. The piece works out whether it holds.
Three question have changed more lives in my coaching work than almost any strategy, framework, or breakthrough moment:
1. What story am I telling myself?
2. What emotion am I avoiding?
3. Who am I when I remove pressure and performance?
Simple questions, BUT brutally difficult answers.
The answers are not hidden at all, BUT we have often spent years building identities designed to protect us from finding them.
This un-authentic and un-genuine story gives us fake certainty.
That specific avoided emotion keeps us moving - probably not into the direction, which is aligned with your pure soul.
The pressure and performance give us a pity role to play.
And, eventually this fake role becomes so convincing that we forget it is a role at all.
This is why self-reflection is both beautiful and frustrating.
It's extremely hard to see behind your eyes, to hear your own blind spots, and to distinguish between what is true and what has simply become familiar.
But, if you're wiling to sit with these questions long enough, something unique & remarkable begins to happen.
The fake story softens, the emotion softens and beneath the pressure, beneath the performance, beneath the fake identity you have worked so hard to maintain!
You finally start to meet your genuine self, your authentic soul!
That's exactly where the real work starts.
And, it's almost always much easier when someone can sit with you in a clean, steady space and reflect back what you've been unable to see on your own.
A problem-free life doesn't exist!
But the way how we handle our problems shapes the life we end up living.
If we keep choosing what feels easy over what is right, we end up building a harder future for ourselves!
Women have cheated on billionaires.
Women have cheated on celebrities.
Women have cheated on men with everything - looks, money, status.
If you think you are an exception, then you are a fool..
Your partner will affect your nervous system, your choices, your sleep, and your beliefs. If they don’t take responsibility for the energy they bring to the relationship, you won't have peace in your life.
A telltale sign of an ignorant leader is failing to read books.
Fiction builds empathy and imagination. Nonfiction boosts concentration and critical thinking. Not reading fuels mental stagnation.
Leaders who “don't have time to read” are leaders who don't make time to learn.
The older I get, the more I realize the power of always having something on the calendar you're excited about. It can really be anything. Difficult physical challenge, big project, fun trip, ambitious goal, whatever. It creates energy and gets you through the lows. Life hack.
You broke the cycle. Don't let the people you've outgrown convince you that you betrayed them. And don't let stagnant people guilt you into shrinking to keep them comfortable. Keep growing unapologetically. They'll either catch up or become a lesson in your rearview mirror.
Financial power and love are one and the same.
The evolution of a man, his progress and financial power, depend upon the conditions of his inner being.
Happiness and financial power depend upon inner integrity, and the level of integrity is determined by the quality of your being in this very instant.
Anger feels like fake power when we feel powerless, fake clarity when we feel confused, fake significance when we feel invisible.
Certainly it is much easier to be angry than to sit silently with the tender vulnerability beneath it!
Financial power and love are one and the same.
The evolution of a man, his progress and financial power, depend upon the conditions of his inner being.
Happiness and financial power depend upon inner integrity, and the level of integrity is determined by the quality of your being in this very instant.