Na wa o, @MobilePunch You can’t afford the picture, can’t contact the photographer, so you simply crop out the watermark and post it. What a shameful way to run a newspaper. 🤦🏽♀️📸
Here is a truth nobody tells you early enough.
The real reason to chase more money is not the cars or the clothes.
It is time.
Money, spent wisely, buys back your hours.
That washing machine gives you back a Saturday morning.
The dishwasher hands you an extra hour with your kids.
A good fridge lets you cook once on Saturday and eat well all week, instead of standing over a pot every single night.
Hiring help for the tasks that drain you is not laziness. It is buying back your one life, piece by piece.
So do not just work to afford things.
Work to afford time.
Time to sleep. Time to rest. Time to be happy. That was always the point.
I jokingly replied to this the other day, but I haven't been able to get it out of my mind because as someone who has spent an enormous amount of time isolated and disconnected from corporate life and has experienced this myself, I do actually have some serious tips. A thread.
The starting point of transformation is disruption!!!!
Disrupt your thinking; then you can change your life.
Your usual thinking got you here; a change in that will take you ‘there’.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
yesterday while I cooked dinner for my son, he was so mature and said, "one day i’ll help you with bills, groceries, and expenses."
my eyes teared up
he’s a 33 year old crypto trader
The only way to stay sane and happy as an adult is to have something to look forward to daily.
Workouts, time with loved ones, a favorite series, work goals, travel, a good book, adventure, hobbies etc.