Grant Botma

Two-time Best Selling Author & Founder of a two-time Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Company @stewardship_pro. I tweet about money, business, and leadership.

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You may have experienced some difficulty in your week. That's okay.
Extraordinary results typically come from overcoming difficult things.

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These 2 things will help you build wealth.

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@notgaetti What should horrify you is that a game focused on children, where players have a significant influence on young fans (as mentioned by your post below), has leadership that chooses to celebrate private sexual behavior. It’s baseball. Leave sex out of it.

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It’s just a matter of time before you start seeing the home run pimpjob antics escalate to this level among impressionable kids. Josh Naylor is really not taking his duties as a highly visible role model very seriously at all.

We are doomed as a society.

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20 years! What they say is true. It goes by fast.

While celebrating our 20th anniversary at dinner, we talked about a lot of things. One of them was the advice we would give younger couples about marriage. Things to do and mistakes to avoid.

Mistakes to avoid:
Not responding with humility. Things rarely go well when one of us chooses pride over humility.
And then avoiding hard conversations. Eat the frog. Have the hard conversation as soon as possible. Trust each other. Love each other through it.

Advice to follow:
There are some obvious ones that are incredibly important. Put God at the center of your marriage. Follow Him with everything you’ve got. Prioritize your spouse over your kids.

But the two less obvious ones we discussed are these:
Choose to love each other through the changes. I am not the same man Jodie married, and she is not the same woman I married. We change. As we should if we are pursuing God each day. Life changes us too. Choosing to love, appreciate, and even fall in love again with the person your spouse has become and is becoming is a big deal. And honestly, it’s a lot of fun.
Laugh instead of taking offense. We laugh at ourselves a lot. Those laughs have been a gift. So many situations that could have created distance instead became inside jokes. Rather than an offense driving a wedge between us, laughter has often pulled us closer together.

Twenty years in, I’m more convinced than ever that a great marriage isn’t built by finding the perfect person. It’s built by two imperfect people choosing, day after day, to love, forgive, laugh, grow, and follow Jesus together.

Praise God for 20 years. I can’t wait to see what the next 20 hold.

p.s. Our actual 20th anniversary is still several days away. We chose to celebrate early because we will be serving together at high school church summer camp on our actual anniversary. Which leads to some more advice - serve together!!!

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Behind the scenes of a real estate transactions. There are typically two timelines playing out simultaneously.

[AZ Women of Action @AZWomenofAction]

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One common denominator in building your net worth. Consistent investments in real estate through a mortgage payment.

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A culture is in severe decline when condemning a sin is viewed as a greater sin than the sin itself.

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This was one of my takeaways when I visited Boston for the first time.

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Whenever I'm in the USA, I am shocked by how many 'churches' have giant rainbow flags hanging outside of them.

It's like a sign of conquered territory.

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I used to think Teslas were for rich people. Reality is they are one of the most economically wise vehicles to own.

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

Home charging + FSD Supervised + almost no maintenance

= exceptional bang for buck for less $$$ than your gas car

Gas car at 25 mpg & $4.53/gal nationwide: $210/mo

Model 3 RWD at 18¢/kWh & FSD Supervised: $149/mo

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In the hands of the right people, with the right values, AI is possibly the most important tool for human flourishing ever devised.
- @JeremyDBoreing

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Public schools only close for two reasons. They are being mismanaged or parents are choosing to pull their kids out in mass.

So, is the argument that “vouchers” are causing public schools to be mismanaged? Or is the argument that parents simply no longer want to send their kids to those schools? Why would parents no longer be content with public schools???

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@jeffmetcalfe How, specifically, are "vouchers" abusing public schools?

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@CaptTuttle2215 The teachers’ union doesn’t seem to care about the kids or the educators.

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This is one of the reasons why I am an advocate for ESAs in Arizona. Teachers’ Unions HATE the ESA program

[The Free Press @TheFP]

A new report claims teachers’ unions are operating more like Democratic funding machines than groups advocating for their members. https://t.co/djDaYRdjju

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Get life insurance first. Then consider disability insurance.

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@repngutierrez The parent is the ultimate authority in a child’s education. They are the only test or safety measure needed.
NOTE: in the last 10 years public schools in AZ have over 100 cases of employee sexual misconduct and reading and math scores are worse.

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Nostalgia is a thing. Makes you wonder how many other businesses could be opened doing something similar.

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We're so back.

An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

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@Garrett_Archer So a guy posted a technically factual statement to push a narrative, but it lacks context/integrity? And others are using his post to keep pushing the narrative? Where have I seen that before? https://t.co/gvyddFjjjH

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

NEW: Arizona's Auditor General find a 34% error rate in the Department of Education's ESA transaction review process.

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@JoeDanaReports @DeAngelisCorey @12News They only hurt public school systems if parents remove their children from public schools and choose another option. Why would parents, like Mark, choose to remove their children from the public school system?

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Across roughly the last decade, hundreds of Arizona public‑school employees have faced discipline for sexual misconduct, compared to only a few recorded cases tied to private‑school employment. I'm not sure @AZHouseDems really wants to start making these comparisons. It won't go well for public schools.

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Arizona’s out-of-control ESA program is justifiably under fire by the Auditor General. But did you know that private school employees aren’t subjected to the same fingerprint clearance as public schools? Public funding should come with the same safety requirements.