The things that actually create 10x outcomes for normal businesses:
1) New offer/pricing
2) New acquisition channels/formats
3) Time
That’s about it. Everything else is good & additive, but those are the big guns.
7 rules to wealth from King Solomon:
Work harder than you complain.
Save and build reserves while others consume.
Never go all in diversify and protect your ecosystem.
Chase wisdom, not status.
Stay away from quick money and get-rich-quick schemes.
Guard your name and who you surround yourself with.
Put GOD first in everything you do.
The world teaches debt, consumption, and distraction. Solomon taught ownership, discipline, stewardship, and patience.
Wealth is not built overnight. It is built through thousands of quiet decisions, years of consistency, and the courage to think differently while everyone else chases the next trend.
Build in silence. Protect your family. Honor GOD. Let time do the heavy lifting.
A very successful friend of mine once told me he won't take anyone seriously who doesn't have an assistant.
I thought that sounded elitist.
Then he said: "If they don't put extreme value on their time, how are they going to value mine or my money?"
Incredibly powerful reframe.
Let's be clear about what this actually is.
Index providers didn't change their rules out of goodwill. They changed them because SpaceX is too big and too politically connected to exclude. A $1.5 trillion company going public and not landing in passive funds immediately would be embarrassing for the index industry.
But the consequence is real: $30 trillion in retirement money gets forced into SpaceX at whatever valuation Elon and the bankers set. No price discovery. No earnings track record requirement. No seasoning period to let the market find fair value.
The rules that protected passive investors since 2002 were waived in weeks.
If SpaceX is overvalued at IPO, every 401k in America owns it at the top.
Last night someone climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and was prepared to end their life.
Brave NYPD officers not only scaled the bridge, but spent an hour talking to the individual and convinced him not to jump.
God bless the NYPD 🙏🏼
The people who succeed most in life can do one thing for extraordinary amounts of time without needing immediate reward.
You don't lack self-esteem, you lack self-control.
.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:
“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”
“I never take in any negativity.”
“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”
🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...
...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY
He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."
His name is Rishi Sharma.
He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.
He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.
He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...
...FOR FREE
So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.
Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.
He does it out of pure gratitude.
In his words:
"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."
As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:
"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."
THAT is America.
250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...
God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸