Nobody will say this, so I will:
School spent 12 years teaching you how to get a job. Zero hours teaching you what to do with the money once you had one.
That's not an accident. It's a curriculum designed for employees, not builders.
The financial habits that actually matter, paying yourself first, building assets, knowing your number, you had to find those on your own.
Most people find them too late. You don't have to.
What's one money lesson you wish someone had taught you at 16?
@Dwriteway Why? Because you've got to believe in yourself.
Yes, don't turn down the opportunity to give us options to choose from. We need your flavour.
Never live your life trying to please everybody. It’s never worth it. The price is too high for the prize you seek.
There are people who will never like you. There are people who will never see the good in you.
You can walk on water, and some people will say it’s because you can’t swim. Essentially there are people you can never please, and who will never respect you, no matter what you do.
Don’t let it bother you.
Even jollof rice has miserable people that hate it. And you are not jollof.
Be yourself. Live life to honor God.
And never let the applause of people determine the path of your life.
Happy weekend.
Every person who wants to make a difference at some point has to decide whether they care more about the peoples lives they’re changing or the peoples opinions they’re offending.
Why is improvement hard?
Part of the issue is everyone wants to improve, but nobody wants to destroy. Change often requires destruction. Or, at least, unlearning.
Let's call it gentle elimination. You may have to leave little habits, update current beliefs, eliminate comfortable patterns. When you want better outcomes, your daily norms may need to change. The process of improvement is not just about adding things you like.
Sometimes habits and patterns belong to who you were, not who you are trying to be. If you'd like something better, then a routine you are comfortable with may have to die.
"People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures."
- F. Matthias Alexander 
A powerful truth.
F. Matthias Alexander (the man behind the Alexander Technique) understood something most people miss: the future isn’t decided in dramatic moments or big declarations. It’s quietly assembled, day after day, through the small, repeated patterns of how we use ourselves—how we sit, stand, speak, think, react, and move.
Your habits are the operating system running in the background. Most of the time we don’t even notice them. We think we’re choosing our path, when really we’re just running yesterday’s software on repeat.
The genius of Alexander’s work was showing that these habits aren’t fixed. With awareness and a different kind of attention, we can interrupt the automatic and choose something better. Not through force or willpower, but through conscious inhibition and redirection.
So the real question the quote leaves us with is:
What habits are you currently rehearsing that are quietly building the person you’ll become?
Because you’re not just living your habits…
you’re becoming them.
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14. "Boring industries have little competition, since most people are seeking status in glamorous new fields. Find an old industry and solve an old problem in a new way."
15. "Instead of making a key, then looking for a lock, find something locked, then make its key."
11. "The world needs more boldness. Refuse the comfortable addiction of a steady paycheck."
12. "Instead of thinking of customers as leading to a sale, think of each sale as leading to a life-long relationship with a customer."
How broke people buy:
→ “Will I be able to afford this?”
How rich people buy
→ “Will this solve my problem?”
Completely different sales conversation for the same exact product.