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Processes Over Affirmations

I’m starting to favor processes over affirmations. Here’s why – when I write an affirmation like “I am an amazing athlete” and yet I’m overweight, smoke a bunch of cigarettes and drink every night, it just seems like bullshit. It’s actually not congruent with my behavior, and I explicitly think it’s untrue (I think “I […]

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Need a startup idea?

Here are a bunch of start up ideas for the people who need some! https://www.oppslist.com/

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100% Returns with Option Trading

This guy gets 100% returns doing option trading:

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Book Notes: “The Millionaire Fastlane” by MJ Demarco

For the one minute summary: There are three “lanes” (these are the equivalent to financial “velocities”): the side walk the slow lane the fast lane The side walk: those who live paycheck to paycheck. They often are in debt they blame everyone else, expect others to help them. the world owes them something. Slow lane: […]

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Books Recommended by David Lindahl, Multifamily real estate guru

Dave Lindahl is a real estate guru/investor, specializing in multifamily properties. M1 recently had a Monday night call with him, and he mentioned the following books as being transformative and inspirational for him (disclaimer: these are affiliate links):             Dave has also written a bunch of books himself:      

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Ryan Holiday and Noah Kagan

Definitely worth checking out.  Ryan Holiday is specifically talking about books, but I think greater lessons can be learned for any creators & entrepreneurs.  Here are some of the more interesting things covered: What to create vs. what you love to do. Marketing Doing things that don’t scale Stoicism & giving up control

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Book Notes: Seth Godin “The Dip”

Figured I’d write some notes on this book.  This is my “cliff notes” version for anyone who is too lazy to read the book (or just wants a refresher). This book hits home to me as I’m currently trying several entrepreneurial journeys (I’ve started two LLCs in the last month) and the idea of when a project […]

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Reading One Book Per Week

It seems as though the wealthiest read at least one book per week. Why? They have an insatiable curiosity and look to books to solve their problems They have structured their time so that they can have leisure to read.  Warren Buffet, for instance, spends most of his day reading. With this in mind, I’m […]

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How I’m reducing my budget by $1k this month.

Are you spending wayyyy to much money and not sure where it is going? That’s the situation I found myself in this last month. I have a monthly plan to review my credit card statements, but after the end of last month I had the question: “Where did it all go?” What Doesn’t Work (for […]

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Income/Financial Freedom Report – April 2017

Big changes this month: I’ve moved $10k more into my trading account.  Since my trades have been going swimmingly, I’ve decided to double down on credit spreads.  I’m trading a very, very simple strategy which I’ll have to tell you about in a later blog post.  What’s amazing is the capital invested in this is: […]