The church I attend here in the UK:
Service starts at 10AM. Ends at 11AM. Exactly.
No offertory. Not even once. If you wish to give, do so secretly after service.
The pastor speaks like he is having a conversation with you.
I sat there the first time genuinely waiting for the part where things pick up...like speaking in tongues, dancing during praise, loud clapping to break chains etc.
The pastor even prayed for people individually.
Nobody fell.
I'm still not sure if I've been delivered or if I'm missing something. 😭🚶🏾♀️
I have a tenant, a single mother raising three kids on her own.
Over time, I started noticing her routine without even trying. Every morning, like clockwork, she’s backing out of the driveway by 5 a.m. No hesitation, no delay. Just straight into the day. I later found out she’s juggling three different part-time jobs, doing whatever she can just to keep things afloat.
You can see the exhaustion on her face sometimes. It’s not the loud kind, it’s quiet, settled deep in her eyes. But despite all that, she carries herself with this steady determination. In the 16 months she’s lived there, she has never missed a single payment. Not once. And the house? Always spotless. No complaints, no excuses, nothing. Just consistency.
Toward the end of last year, I decided to stop by. When I knocked, she opened the door looking startled, almost nervous. She was still in her work uniform, like she had just gotten in or was about to head back out. For a second, I could tell her mind was racing. She probably thought I was there to increase the rent or bring bad news.
Instead, I handed her a small envelope.
She looked at it, confused. “What is this?” she asked, her voice a little shaky.
“Just open it,” I told her.
Inside was a…
WHEN DID KENYA BECOME UGANDA'S FOOD BASKET?
Hundreds of Kenyan trucks carrying Irish potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes, and mangoes enter Uganda daily. Visit any major food market (Nakasero, Kalerwe, Owino, Banda, etc.), and you will see these trucks in rows...
Uganda is becoming too secretive for comfort
Those massive tunnels at Karuma are they really just for power, or is there more the public isn’t being told? They are similar to Iranian regime tunnels where missiles are hidden.
If you worked at Goldman Sachs, there would be an expectation — unstated but absolute — that you read the Financial Times before client meetings.
That you have an informed opinion about macroeconomic conditions and how they affect your client's sector.
That you show up to every conversation already knowing things the client hasn't told you.
Nobody at Goldman sends a junior analyst into a pitch who hasn't done two hours of prep on the target company.
Nobody at McKinsey presents a recommendation without first developing a point of view based on data the client didn't hand them.
That standard exists because the fees justify it.
And the fees justify it because the standard produces outcomes that cheaper alternatives can't.
Here's the thing: you can adopt that standard right now, regardless of what you charge or who you work with.
Nothing is stopping you from doing the research.
Nothing is stopping you from forming a genuine thesis.
Nothing is stopping you from showing up to every single call having already done work that most of your competitors won't do in the entire engagement.
The difference between a $5K/month operator and a $25K/month operator is mostly not skill. It's this standard applied consistently.
What does consistent application look like?
You invest in your environment because your environment signals your standard.
The background on your Zoom calls, the quality of your camera, how you're dressed.
These aren't vanity — they're signals.
They tell the prospect, before you've said a word, whether you take yourself seriously.
And whether you take yourself seriously tells them whether to take you seriously.
You develop opinions in public.
Not just content — actual positions.
Opinions create status delta.
Opinions attract the clients who want to work with someone who has a point of view, not just a service menu.
You read. Not self-help. Not money Twitter. The industries your clients are in.
The macro forces shaping their decisions.
The regulatory changes, the market consolidations, the competitor moves that are creating urgency or anxiety in their boardrooms right now.
That's the professional standard. And it's available to you today.
In the middle of the night my wife said she heard a sound downstairs and asked me to go check it out. That’s fine, protecting the house is what I’m supposed to do.
I got a little suspicious when she said bring up a cold bottled water when you come back.
THE MONEY MASTERS | HOW INTERNATIONAL BANKERS GAINED CONTROL OF AMERICA
William T. Still
An excellent 3.5 hour documentary on the history of money, The Federal Reserve, the takeover of the Rothschilds & Private Central Banks.
In 1985, Warren Buffett sat down for his most iconic interview ever.
If you want to understand the psychology of wealth, this is 10 minutes of pure gold.
Save this rare footage, you’ll be coming back to it.
"Somebody please explain this to me."
"How is it that after switching to LED lights and solar panels and wind farms... our electric bills keep going up?"
"None of this is about the environment. It's about control over your wallet."