Ran deep @DraftKings $5 PGA GPP. First week of @RotoGrinders premium access paid off INSTANTLY. Big s/o to @Tour_Junkies@ThePME@Hondizzzle & all the other contributors...if only I listened & faded C.T. for...literally anyone else, I'd be $99k richer!!!!! 15 spots away #sigh
@tyromper Spot on take ���� To make things worse, you can even play slots now on these apps! God help us all, especially the real addicts & Degens 🙏🏼
There are women right now paying $2,000 a month for someone else to raise their kids so they can go make $2,400 a month at a job they hate.
That's $400 to miss your kid's first words.
Somehow someone convinced an entire generation of women that this was freedom. Crazy.
The most dangerous pandemic of this century may not be a virus.
It is the “One Child Pandemic.”
One child carrying the pressure of two parents, four grandparents, and an entire bloodline’s expectations.
One child growing up in silent homes instead of noisy childhoods.
No sibling fights.
No shared secrets.
No built-in best friend for life.
Just screens, perfection pressure, loneliness, and emotional isolation dressed up as “modern comfort.”
Earlier generations grew up with less money but more people.
Today’s generation grows up with more gadgets but fewer human bonds.
A single child becomes the family’s hope, retirement plan, emotional support system, and legacy all at once.
And when that child breaks mentally, the whole house collapses quietly.
Human beings were never designed to grow up emotionally alone.
A society survives not only on economy and technology.
It survives on cousins, siblings, chaos at dinner tables, shared responsibilities, and people who stay after the parents are gone.
The real tragedy is not declining birth rates.
It is declining human connection.
We are slowly creating generations who know how to use every device…
but do not know how to share grief, tolerate differences, protect relationships, or carry family together.
A crowded house was never poverty.
Sometimes, it was civilization itself.
⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.
Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.
Great guy, I'm happy for him.
But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.
What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.
Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.
Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.
Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.
Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.
Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.
Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.
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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.
Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.
@Codie_Sanchez I’m struggling in a couple of ways after starting my construction biz a couple of months ago & I really needed to read this at this very moment to help me stay focused! 💯
35 lessons from selling three businesses before I turned 35:
1. Your first business will likely fail.
2. All your money gets made after that.
3. Most people give up too fast.
4. You'll outgrow almost everyone.
5. If you get distracted, you'll get beaten.
6. It will not happen between the hours of 9 and 5.
7. Late nights, early mornings, repeat.
8. Emotions can be cancer.
9. If you think you should fire them, do it.
10. Not in writing? Didn't happen.
11. Never be embarrassed for not knowing.
12. Bigger the problem, bigger the $$.
13. No one ever charges enough to start.
14. Your favorite words have 3 letters: CPA, COG, CAC, P&L
15. Be selfish with your f*cks.
16. Protect your energy, it's real.
17. Someone will steal from you.
18. Sales beats everything.
19. If they're not better than you at something, they're not for you.
20. You want it, cross it off the to-do list.
21. Everyone lies and they believe themselves.
22. Be your own motivational speech.
23. It's gonna suck... often.
24. Yet you'll wish you could do it again.
25. You won't win if you're not obsessed.
26. Balance is seasonal.
27. Ignore talk, believe skin in the game.
28. Leave money for a rainy day.
29. You can't eat net worth, cash is king.
30. Don't swerve in too many lanes, you get hit.
31. Work like a lion, not a cow.
32. Who... not how. Always.
33. You're one person away from your win.
34. Dream so big you outdream others.
35. You'll only regret not starting earlier.
@Codie_Sanchez I love this & their entire story. I, too, just opened a construction business & this was very eye opening & got my gears going. Despite my slow start, this was inspirational & is helping me keep my ideas flowing for the future. Keep up the great work, Bobby!!!
Meet Bob. From software engineer to making $15M a year selling shipping containers.
He turns containers into homes, bars, bathrooms, Airbnb rentals (whatever people want out of them).
They're built 3x faster and cheaper than traditional construction.
His first year? $1.5M.
What's genius about his biz is that he runs the construction company like an e-commerce store - set products, clear pricing, easy checkout. When someone orders a custom build, he turns it into a new product on the menu. That way every unique job becomes a scalable offering.
A lot of his customers buy them as Airbnb investments.
A ~$100k container home rents for $150-$200/night - meaning his buyers are cash flowing in months. He built an ROI calculator right on his site so they can see exactly what they'd make before spending a dollar.
He also shares everything publicly - full DIY information, build specs, all of it. Sounds counterintuitive for a construction company but it builds trust and cuts his QA time because customers actually understand what they're buying.
Bob’s story showed me you can get rich doing almost anything.
One of my favorite interviews of my “Main Street Millionaire” series.