I own a wealth management company called MedCapital. People are terrible at buying life insurance, even though it’s the bedrock of a solid wealth strategy.
We struggle to focus on the future.
We’re good at the ‘now’.
This is because, when we buy the ‘future’ we’re actually buying how it makes us feel right now.
If you want someone to make a smarter decision about their future, you need to figure out how to make them feel it right now.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.