79% of millionaires are self-made.
No inheritance. No trust fund. No connections.
They just refused to quit before the money showed up.
Stop blaming your starting point.
You will spend about 80,000 hours of your life working. You better damn enjoy what you do. That's one third of your entire life. If you hate your job, you hate one third of your existence. No amount of money is worth that. Find something you're curious about, something that energizes you, something that doesn't feel like work. Because suffering through 80,000 hours for a paycheck is a prison sentence, not a career.
Dear Heavenly Father, as I stand at the doorway of 2026, I come before You in the name of Jesus Christ. Before this new year fully unfolds, I place my life, my family, my work, and my future into Your hands. Go before me, and destroy every plan of darkness set against my life.
By the authority of Jesus, every curse that tried to follow me from previous years is stopped here. Every negative word, every repeated pattern, every hidden plan meant to delay my progress or steal my peace is cancelled now. What was sent to weaken me will not enter 2026 with me.
Cover my home with Your presence.
Guard my steps with Your wisdom.
Order my days with Your peace.
I declare that 2026 will not be marked by struggle, but by direction; not by heaviness, but by freedom; not by curses, but by the blessing of God.
Lord, I will not keep this prayer to myself. I promise to share this prayer with at least one person today. In the victorious name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Type “God is great” to disappoint the enemy!
The Untrained Eye
Work in a technical field for any length of time and it’s incredible how quickly you normalise weird looking things.
You can look over a bunch of radically different systems and you start to recognise all the subsystems and components just as easily as other people recognise the animals in a zoo.
“Pump”, “valve”, “gauge”, “motor”, “shaft”, “bearing”, “seal”, “housing”, “fixing”.
What the majority of people probably don’t understand is that this is actually really very accessible.
It doesn’t take many hours of learning at all (maybe 5-6 hours?), and you can recognise every component, in every engine bay, of every car.
And if you’re really curious, you just keep learning, and eventually the whole world around you starts to become as familiar and as recognisable to you as your childhood bedroom was.
Eventually you start to get an even more sophisticated eye.
You start to recognise design styles and design preferences. You start to recognise equipment by its nationality and eventually by the manufacturer and you might even start to recognise the work of individual inventors / designers in much the same way an art historian does.
Engineering is the highest form of art, and for the discerning, the whole world is a gallery.